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Minnov8 Gang 345 – Your Pet is Calling

January 9, 2016 By Steve Borsch

pets-calling_mainBig week with the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in full swing with twenty-two Minnesota companies in attendance showing their wares, one of which is a Burnsville company PetChatz, makers of a device for pets and owners to video chat. Question is, will your pet answer when you call?  😯

We cover other CES stories, and much more, on this week’s show.

Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott and Graeme Thickins (Phil Wilson is off).
Music: Island Cafe by Twisterium under a Creative Commons License

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Story Links
Past Week’s Top Minnesota Stories
  • TCMediaNow – Classic Minnesota news stories
    • TCMN’s classic clips related to the Vikings
  • Imation is leaving Minnesota
  • Best job markets for 2016, Twin Cities made the list
  • Stories about Minnesota Companies at CES
    • Holy tech, Batman! Check out the MN companies at CES
    • Minnesota On The CES Floor
    • Samsung is adding SmartThing hubs to its 2016 HD TVs to control connected devices
    • Woof! Chat for pets among local tech at Vegas electronics show
    • Minnesota at CES: Sleep-coaching beds, 3-D printed urns, filters to stop snoops and more

Minnesota Companies at CES

  • 3M
  • Afinia
  • Audio Research
  • Bel Canto Design Ltd.
  • Brackerton
  • Cima NanoTech Inc.
  • Comply
  • Danville Signal Processing Inc.
  • Digital River
  • Ergotron Home
  • Exosite, LLC
  • Hema Imaging LLC
  • Honeywell International
  • Hydreon Corporation
  • MEM-CE
  • NUU Mobile
  • PetChatz
  • Polaroid
  • SANUS
  • Sleep Number
  • UnitedHealthcare
  • Zivix, LLC
Other Top Tech Stories
  • CES
    • Presenting the Best of CES 2016 winners!
    • The Verge’s CES Coverage
      • All stories posted during CES 
    • BGR: The 12 most innovative things we saw at CES 2016
    • WIRED: Best of CES 2016: Our Favorite Gadgets From This Year’s Show
    • Fast Company: The 7 Best Ideas From CES 2016
    • Kodak Goes Retro With New Super 8 Camera
    • Ford is finally adding CarPlay and Android Auto to its cars
    • Fitbit’s new wearable is a fitness watch called Blaze
    • If I Had This Robot, Maybe My Editors Wouldn’t Have Sent Me to CES
  • Apple
    • Apple Registers ‘Apple.car’ and Other Auto-Related Domains
    • Apple buys emotion-detecting AI start-up
      • General Motors, Gazing at Future, Invests $500 Million in Lyft 
    • Apple reportedly scaling back iPhone production
    • It’s Now: Apple is a Screaming Buy
  • Longer Tweets Said to Be Coming Soon to Twitter
Steve’s Security Tip of the Week
  • TIP: Prepare for a high risk of ‘phishing‘ this tax season so you’re not ripped off. This week’s tip comes courtesy of the United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) regarding their warning to taxpayers: IRS and US-CERT Caution Users: Prepare for Heightened Phishing Risk This Tax Season


Cool Thing of the Week
  • Tim: Polaroid Snap Camera with Zink
  • Graeme: Apple AirPods
  • Steve: Zolt Laptop Charger Plus: “Power your laptop, phone and tablet at the same time.”

Upcoming Events
  • The Complete List of 250+ Tech, IT, and DevOps Conferences in 2016
    • Only the list as a Google spreadsheet
  • MinneAnalytics does Marketing Analytics – again! (MAMA2), January 22, Medtronic
  • MinneWebCon U of MN McNamara Alumni Ctr April 25-26
  • IoT Fuse, April 22nd, University of St. Thomas, Minneapolis campus

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