Tag Archive | "Google"

Newsbytes for Tuesday, May 4, 2010

Tuesday, May 4, 2010

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Newsbytes is a collection of links to articles and posts from around the ‘net of interest to Minnov8 readers: Apple sells 1 million iPads in 28 days. Took iPhone 74 days. Plus, Minnesota-based analyst Gene Munster of Piper Jaffray estimated that Apple sold about 300,000 units over the weekend, similar to the 300,000 Apple sold [...]

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Minnesota iPhone App Developers Talk iPad and OS 4

Friday, April 9, 2010

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I’m having so much freaking fun with my iPad, I almost forgot to post this week.  I started asking my developer friends about it almost as soon as I got mine last Saturday, so I’ve had this post brewing for days now.  Then, I’m finally about ready to post it, and Apple goes and holds [...]

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Google’s High-Fiber City: Why Not Duluth?

Tuesday, March 16, 2010

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I can see the signs now as I tool into to town on I-35…Welcome to Duluth, Now With More Fiber! You may not know it but the clock is clicking down to Google’s deadline, March 26th, for nominations of cities interested in being their laboratory for an “ultra high-speed fiber network”. In fact, that clock [...]

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Minnov8 Gang 69: “We don’t need no stinkin’ badges!”

Saturday, March 6, 2010

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Opportunity and growth is all around us and glimmers of it are appearing in the web, mobile and other tech spaces. But are you willing to take the risks, explore and deal with all the obstacles in the way of you seeking riches? In the movie The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, Humphrey Bogart’s character Dobbs, [...]

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Minnov8 Gang 67: Is Google Buzz a Taser or Cupid’s Arrow?

Saturday, February 13, 2010

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This Week’s Show Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott and Phil Wilson (Graeme is off this week)Music by Mean Gene Kelton and the Diehards and the tune is “Running from the Law”. From the podsafe music network Music Alley. + Google Buzz + Greg Litman (WCCO News & Sports producer) post on Arik Hanson’s blog + Juicy Lucy controversy + Phil’s [...]

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Minnesota Apple Watchers React to Steve Jobs’ Rant

Sunday, January 31, 2010

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So, if you haven’t seen the news Wired broke late Saturday (updated Sunday afternoon) about Steve Jobs going off on Google and Adobe at the Apple all-employee meeting, here it is:  Google’s ‘Don’t Be Evil’ Mantra is ‘Bullshit,’ Adobe Is Lazy: Apple’s Steve Jobs. Here’s an excerpt: “After a big public announcement of the sort [...]

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Minnov8 Gang Podcast #48: Pushbuttons & Voice

Saturday, August 22, 2009

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This Week’s Show Hosts: Steve Borsch, Phil Wilson and Julio Ojeda Zapata (Tim Elliott and Graeme Thickins are off today). Music by Chuck Willis from Music Alley, purveyor of podsafe tunes. Discussed during the show notes: + Topics: - The Pushbutton Web ( http://dashes.com/anil/2009/07/the-pushbutton-web-realtime-becomes-real.html ). Is this just a way for people to throw stuff up against the wall [...]

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Minnov8 Gang #46: Addicted to Twitter, Chatter about FanChatter & More

Saturday, August 8, 2009

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On this week’s show we talk about Twitter being down and how people realized they are social media addicts, FanChatter, controversy over iPhone apps being rejected and much more. This Week’s Show Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins and Phil Wilson. Discussed during the show: + Twitter down (and Dragnet’s “Blue Boy” LSD episode); FanChatter; Blog comment addition vendors: Echo [...]

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Minnov8 Gang #43: Tech Stuff & Mobile Trends

Saturday, July 25, 2009

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For half of the show, the Gang discusses several tech topics and then welcomes Lisa Foote, CEO/cofounder of Kwingo.net, the mobile solutions company here in the Twin Cities, to talk about “Mobile Trends to Watch“, a key trend since the I.T. consulting and analyst firm, Gartner, predicts that in 2012, smartphone sales will reach over [...]

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Google I/O Conference Videos & Presentations

Thursday, June 11, 2009

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If you weren’t able to make it to the Google I/O conference in May, they offered 80+ sessions featuring technical content on Google Wave, Android, App Engine, Chrome, Google Web Toolkit, AJAX APIs, and many more. The available session videos and slides from each track are listed on this page and they’ll be updating this [...]

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