Minnov8 Gang 296 – Too Many Horses!

The show tagline Too Many Horses is all about the intro for Steve’s Security Tip of the Week…or is it?

Instead, maybe it’s Tim’s Budweiser shipment has arrived and he’s unhappy he now has to clean up after the Clydesdales; Phil realizes, like 1930s actor John Barrymore’s famous quote,  there are too many horses, and not enough time; or Graeme is profoundly disappointed that his favorite breakfast cereal actually contains no little horse shapes, just round thingies.

Listen to uncover the truth!

Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins and Phil Wilson.
Music: Jump by Chris Daniels & the King. Brought to us by the podsafe Music Alley.

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Past Week’s Biggest MN Stories

• What Smart Cities Can Learn from Minneapolis
  • Venture funding in state has best year since 2008
• Best Buy
  • Best Buy hands investors a Christmas present, but they see only coal
  • Best Buy’s online sales increase 13.4% during the holidays
  • Best Buy to step up e-commerce amid ‘external pressures’
    • B&H Photo & Video website & catalog apps
• Target
  • Target to exit Canadian market, will shutter 133 stores
  • Analysis: Target’s Canadian Lessons
• Tom Baden named new commissioner of MN.IT
• Microsoft partners with CoCo to support startups
  • About Microsoft BizSpark
• Used tech retailer Device Pitstop expanding in Twin Cities
  • NTY Franchisor
    • About Ron Olson, former CEO of GrowBiz, now cofounder, NTY Franchise Corp.
  • Winmark, formerly GrowBiz International
• A Pono-player review in 11 tweets
  • Pono Player alternative: Fiio X5 Portable High Resolution Music Player and DAC
• Mobile March
  • Keynotes: Billy Jurewicz – Founder and CEO of Space 150 talking about trends, Mark Wilkie, CTO of BuzzFeed on the subject of mobile strategy, and Alex Haley of Present Endeavors to address the topic of Mindfulness in a tech crazy society.
• IoT Fuse
  • Keynotes: Joel Young, CTO of Digi (who owns Etherios) as will Deepinder Singh, CEO of 75Fahrenheit.com

Other Top Stories

• Obama’s proposed laws against hacking will negatively impact cybersecurity professionals, create a cyber police state
  • British Prime Minister Suggests Banning Some Online Messaging Apps
  • F.B.I. Is Broadening Surveillance Role, Report Shows
• Republicans want a net neutrality law, but only if it stops the FCC from handling it
• Google Glass to Leave ‘X’ Research Lab as Nest’s Tony Fadell Takes Over Project
• First HomeKit devices confirm Apple TV’s limited role in home automation
• First look at the Remix Ultra Tablet

Steve’s Security Tip of the Week

• Do not give out your password (or any obvious hints to it)!
  • Jimmy Kimmel gets people to give out their passwords (article | video)
  • Password Management: How to Not Be Hacked in 2015

Cool Thing of the Week

• Phil: Smart Basketball
• Tim: Waytools Textblade keyboard
• Graeme: Apple Wearable Camera
  • Details on Apple’s upcoming Lightning port specs for third-party accessories
• Steve: Flic: The Wireless Smart Button

Upcoming Events

• MIMA Event – Content Strategy 2015: Marketing, Mobile And The Enterprise, January 21st
• GameCraft, January 23-25, UofM
• Date Night: How Data Science Leads to “I do”, February 3, 2015  (tickets)
• MinneDemo 19, February 5th, Guthrie Theater (tix released Jan 27th & Feb 2nd)
• Hennepin County Geo Code, February 21-22
• IoT Fuse (Internet of Things event) March 19th, 2015 (tix here)
• Mobile March, March 26th, 2015
• MinneBar 10, April 11th, Best Buy HQ
• Twin Cities TechPulse 2015 – April 21, 2015