Minnov8 Gang 204 – No Signal in the Big House

Changing one’s profile picture anywhere invites Photoshopping abuse and Phil Wilson defaces Steve’s new profile pic. He is, of course, kindly returning the ‘favor’ of Steve basically defacing just about any image of Phil he can find, including a cheesy attempt at humor with this video.

Thankfully we goof off a bit but get in to some serious discussions about tech and innovation moves going on this past week.

Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins and Phil Wilson.
Music: Spy Smasher by The High Fidelics. From the podsafe Music Alley.

The Podcast

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Discussed during the show…

• Best Buy Deathwatch
  • Schulze May Ditch Best Buy Takeover, Instead Buy Smaller Stake 
  • Best Buy Is Losing Its Best Chance of Survival: Jeff Macke
  • Best Buy to make internet price matching permanent to prevent ‘showrooming’
• Steve’s Security Alert of The Week
  • Apple Working on Fix for iOS 6.1 Passcode Hack
• Mobile News Roundup
  • HP To Adopt Android For Upcoming Mobile Devices
  • No “Plan B” for Microsoft’s mobile ambitions: CFO
  • Ex-BlackBerry co-CEO Jim Balsillie dumps entire stake
  • Gartner Says Worldwide Mobile Phone Sales Declined 1.7 Percent in 2012
• Automobiles
  • Before He Died, Steve Jobs Said He Wanted Apple To Make A Car
  • The Tesla Nightmare Shows Why Today’s All-Electric Cars Are (Basically) Dead On Arrival
  • Stalled Out on Tesla’s Electric Highway
  • That Tesla Data: What It Says and What It Doesn’t 
• Posterous
  • Posterous shuttering for good on April 30th
  • Garry Tan and Brett Gibson are setting up Posthaven
  • List of Posterous alternatives is here
  • Migrate from Posterous to Tumblr (or to WordPress)
• Apple
  • Now we know why Apple was leaking iWatch rumors: Samsung’s releasing one
  • Could Apple Be Working On The ‘iBank’?
• OMG! Meteors!
  • Meteor Videos from Russia 
  • While you were working: An asteroid just flew by…

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• Weekly: TechMasters – a Tech Toastmasters chapter
• Wednesday, February 20th: Google for Entrepreneurs Day @CoCo Minneapolis (sold out)
• Wednesday, February 20th: Tap the Cash – MN Angel Network (for accredited investors; startups can apply)
• Wednesday, February 20th: MIMA: “The Future of Blogging” with Rick Webb/Tumblr
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