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Minnov8 Gang 251 – A Lego® Phone?

February 1, 2014 By Steve Borsch

lego-phone-mainNo, Lego® is not making a modular phone…but Motorola has Project Ara and that is one of the topics we discuss on this week’s show!

Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott and Phil Wilson (Graeme Thickins is off).
Music: Any Town USA by George Thorogood & the Destroyers. Brought to us by Music Alley
Photo credit: Motorola.

The Podcast
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Discussed During the Show

Minnesota Stories

  • Social Media Breakfast (SMBMSP) & Beta.mn recaps
  • Software firm Kinetic Data buys Twin Cities app developer
  • Minnesota has more work to do for statewide broadband
  • Analyst sees Target data breach costs topping $1 billion

Other Stories

  • Google
    • Lenovo to Acquire Motorola Mobility from Google
    • Google to keep Motorola’s Advanced Technology group, including Project Ara modular phone
      • Phonebloks: A competing modular smartphone concept
    • Nest Team Will Become Google’s Core Hardware Group
  • Microsoft Board Set to Meet This Weekend — Just Not During Super Bowl — With CEO Choice Coming Next Week
  • My $50,000 Twitter Username Was Stolen Thanks to PayPal and GoDaddy

Steve’s Security Tip of the Week

  • Excellent page of tips from the United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team

Upcoming Events

  • INVESTyR’s Fundraising in the Digital Economy 1st Tue of each month 3:30-4:30pm
  • Border to Border Broadband February 4th – 5th, RiverCentre St. Paul
    • Blandin on Broadband blog (a must-read for MN’ers about internet)
    • Blandin Foundation ‘Broadband Communities Program’ 
  • Foundry Group’s Seth Levine on Startup Communities February 5th
  • An Update on Mobile Marketing in MN February 6th, 8-9:30 am
  • Minneapolis Public Schools STEM Expo – Tuesday, Feb 12th
  • MinneDemo 16, Thursday, February 13, 2014 @ 5:30 pm
  • CoCo Google Happy Hour and Pitch Event February 21st
  • SMBMSP #63 Behind the Firewall: Social Networking for Employee Collaboration, February 21st
  • Capitol Code: An Open Data Jam • February 22nd
  • She’s Geeky-Minneapolis – February 22-23, Central Library
  • Mobile March – March 20th – Tickets on sale now!

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