Tag Archive | "cloud computing"

Minnov8 Gang 144 – Smartphones & SmartScooters?

Friday, November 4, 2011

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A continued acceleration in all things mobile takes an interesting twist this week with a Best Buy VC investment in electric scooters. We then have on a special guest, Lisa Foote, CEO and Co-Founder of MixMobi (Twitter), to give the Gang and you an “update on all things mobile.” Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins, and Phil Wilson [...]

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Minnov8 Gang 135 – Take a Tablet

Friday, August 12, 2011

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The Gang became aware of the introduction of the brand new WCCO iPad app and we just had to talk with the CEO of one of this State’s premiere mobile development organizations, DoApp, who built that app for WCCO. DoApp is much more than just an app developer (e.g., Mobile Local News strategy with: iPhone & Android [...]

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Minnov8 Gang 128 – Cloud Money

Friday, June 24, 2011

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The 2011 summer acceleration in all-things-tech continues unabated. The Gang discusses the continued explosion in cloud services and how many are driving toward “cloud money” by monetizing their offerings, or offering cloud strategies with the intent of being in-the-game and making money on cloud uses (e.g., Twitter, Best Buy’s Music Cloud, respectively). Hosts: Steve Borsch, [...]

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Minnov8 Gang 124 – No Rain in This Cloud

Friday, May 20, 2011

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The Gang has on Mike Sowada, CEO of VISI. Mike has been a leader in technology management for over 20 years, co-founding Digital North, a leading provider of business-class hosting solutions, as well as a career as a leader at DKS Systems, Net Perceptions, Inc., The Musicland Group, and as he embarked on his career [...]

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Minnov8 Gang 123 – The ‘Table Stakes’ are Rising

Friday, May 13, 2011

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With all of the hoopla surrounding Microsoft buying Skype, Facebook hiring a PR firm to plant negative stories about Google, and the Google I/O conference releasing a lot of new opportunities with their platform technologies, it’s pretty clear that the ‘table stakes’ to be in the internet/web game are rising…quickly. Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, [...]

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Minnov8 Gang 120 – Is the Cloud our Idol?

Friday, April 22, 2011

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Now that Amazon’s cloud computing infrastructure had a catastrophic failure this week and Apple was revealed to be storing location data on iPhones and iPads (see: Apple collecting, sharing iPhone users’ precise locations and our Sen Al Franken asking Steve Jobs what’s up), how can we bet our businesses on the cloud and trust that [...]

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Minnov8 Gang 113 – Facetime Fever Flabbergasts?

Friday, March 4, 2011

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If you own a tablet (e.g., iPad, Xoom) or are considering one, this is the show to listen to now. We cover Graeme’s trip to DEMO and then immediately move in to a discussion of the iPad2 launch. Probing deeper in to some of the intrinsic value of the iPad and Android-based devices (e.g., pent-up [...]

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Minnov8 Gang 105 – 2011 Tech Predictions

Friday, December 31, 2010

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The Gang once again discusses our predictions for the new year. If you listened to last year’s show, you’ll know that Phil predicted we’d see parachute pants make a comeback, but alas they did not and Phil still has to wear much tighter and more restrictive trousers than he’d prefer. Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins [...]

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Minnov8 Gang 104 – We Are All Virtual Now

Saturday, December 18, 2010

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Joining us on this week’s show (a longer-than-usual one but we’re off next week returning 12/31/10) is Julio Ojeda Zapata to discuss his new book “iPad means business.” It documents how the touch-screen device is becoming a lifesaver anywhere people need to get a job done. The book tells the stories of tablet-wielding workers, companies, [...]

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Minnov8 Gang 103 – Surfin’ the Cloud

Friday, December 10, 2010

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The Gang talks Dell buying Compellent; Google Zeitgeist; and much more. Our guest this week is none other than the CTO of Visi, Jason Baker, who talks about becoming the first Tier III design certified commercial data center in Minnesota as well as what’s coming soon with ReliaCloud. Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins and Phil Wilson [...]

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