Minnov8 Gang 216 – Passwords? We won’t need no stinkin’ passwords!

Hosts: Steve Borsch, Graeme Thickins and Phil Wilson (Tim Elliott is off this week).
Music: Don’t Walk Away from Smoke Ring Days. From the podsafe Music Alley.

The Podcast

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Discussed during the show…

• Minnesota Stories
  • Spark is crushing it on Kickstarter
  • Phil’s First 10 days with the HTC One
    • Good sales of HTC One lead to a second month of sequential growth for HTC
    • Fargo Roadtrip: Midwest Mobile Summit
  • Target partners with Facebook to push its digital Cartwheel to shoppers
    • Facebook Scam Alert – What Really Happens When You “Like”
  • Dell Acquires Enstratius
• Internet Sales Tax
  • A guide to the Internet sales tax bill, and what it will mean for you 
  • Internet sales tax: What you’ll pay, and when
• Steve’s Security Tip of The Week: We won’t need no stinkin’ passwords!*
  • Apple buys biometric security company AuthenTec for $356 million
  • Apple Invents Biometric Features for e-Commerce & Security
  • NSA on Biometric Security Considerations (PDF)

Upcoming Events…

• Looking for Start-Up Capital? Monday May 13th, Carlson School UofMN
• Exploring Big Data and Scaling Social Wednesday, May 15, 7:30am
• Visualizing Neighborhoods/A Hackathon for Good, Saturday, May 25, 9:00am – 6:00pm
• National Day of Civic Hacking MN, Saturday, June 1st – Sunday, June 2nd
• EyeO Festival, June 5-8, Walker Art Center
• Cyber Security Summit 2013, October 22-23

*Reference to the quote “Badges? We don’t need no stinkin’ badges!” (actually a misquote) from the movie, “The Treasure of the Sierra Madre.” (15 second clip from the movie here).