Minnov8 Gang 273 – Happy Days are Here

Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott and Graeme Thickins (Phil Wilson is off this week).
Music: I’m on Board by The Ride Theory. Brought to us by the podsafe Music Alley.
Image: Postcard scan by Don “The UpNorth Memories Guy” Harrison of this Ely MN Vintage Canoe Card. Used with permission under Creative Commons 2.0 license

The Podcast

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Discussed During the Show

• Visiting, and about, Ely, Minnesota
  • Sigurd F. Olson – Instrumental in the BWCAW Act
  • Listening Point Foundation
  • Steve’s blog post about visiting Listening Point

 Minnesota’s Top Stories

• Target
  • Target app lets shoppers snap photos of ads to buy online immediately
  • Dinkytown’s tiny Target test store taps into a trend
• U of MN
  • Congrats to University of Minnesota for winning Esri Climate Resilience App Challenge
  • About Esri
  • U of MN winning app site
• Car2go goes metrowide with St. Paul startup
• Eden Prairie’s Amcom Software is Now ‘Spok’ – But Don’t Add an ‘e’!
• TruScribe and Weird Al Yankovic Take a Shot at Corporate America
  • Who is “Weird Al” Yankovic? 

Last Week’s Other Big Stories

• Apple
  • Apple Reports $7.7 Billion Profit on Strong iPhone Sales
  • Forensic scientist identifies suspicious ‘back doors’ running on every iOS device
    • Apple reaffirms it has never worked with any government agency to create a backdoor in any product or service
    • Those “Backdoors” in Apple’s iOS: What You Need To Know
    • iOS: About diagnostic capabilities
  • Apple granted comprehensive ‘iTime’ smartwatch patent with in-strap circuitry, arm gesture support
• Josh Topolsky of The Verge Is Joining Bloomberg
• How Hackers Hid a Money-Mining Botnet in Amazon’s Cloud
• A Call Answered: Unlocking America’s Cell Phones

Steve’s Security Tip of the Week

Using Two-Step Verification (also called Multi-Factor Authentication) for sites such as Gmail, Apple iCloud, Facebook, Twitter, Dropbox, PayPal, Microsoft accounts, Yahoo Mail, LinkedIn, WordPress, and others, can make you much more secure than using a password alone.

– Google Authenticator app for your smartphone: Android; iOS.

The Gang’s “One Cool Thing of the Week”

• Tim: Overcast, a new podcast app for iOS
• Graeme: Square app with new offline mode
• Steve: Nextiva, a hosted phone system in the cloud. (Why I made the change: Open Letter to Vlad Shmunis, CEO, RingCentral)

Upcoming Events

• INVESTyR’s Fundraising in the Digital Economy, 1st Tue of each month 3:30-4:30pm
• MinneDemo 17, July 31st
• Bitcoin Bash, August 4th, 6pm at CoCo Minneapolis (Grain Exchange)
• Mobile Twin Cities – Everything iOS8, August 11th, CoCo Downtown Minneapolis
• Minnesota Cup Life Science/ Health IT Division Finalists Reception – August 12th
• MinneDemo 18, September 11th
• MHTA Tekne Awards Finalist Announcements, Wed Sept 17th
• Cyber Security Summit 2014, Oct 21st