Anything internet remains central to today’s technology and our always on, always connected lifestyles are seeing us all demand more and more bandwidth. As such we talk this week about Google Fiber and Steve being the recipient of some CenturyLink evangelical fiber salespeople. As always, we cover the tech that matters to you too.
Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott and Phil Wilson (Graeme Thickins is off this week)
Music: If This Guitar Could Talk by Mean Gene Kelton and The Die Hards. Brought to us by Music Alley
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The Podcast
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Discussed During the Show
Minnesota’s Top Stories
- Mobile March agenda
- Target Taps Into Gaming With 6 Planned Mobile Apps
- MN Ranks Highly For Female Entrepreneurship, Well-Being
- The Business Of Tom Barnard (KQRS host and a guy reinventing podcasting?)
- Steve Perlman: pCell’s wireless tech is real, and it will change the world
- Minnesota’s Young Millionaires (including Rob & Ryan Weber)
Other Top Stories & Mentions
- Microsoft Said to Cut Windows Price 70% to Counter Rivals
- Facebook to Acquire WhatsApp
- Google Fiber chooses nine metro areas for possible expansion
- OwnCloud
- Steve Jobs will appear on a US postage stamp in 2015
- Bruce Schneier at CNN: It’s time to break up the NSA
Upcoming Events
- INVESTyR’s Fundraising in the Digital Economy 1st Tue of each month 3:30-4:30pm
- TiE MN Chapter – 4th Annual Entrepreneurs Workshop – Wednesday, February 19th
- CoCo Google Happy Hour and Pitch Event February 21st
- She’s Geeky-Minneapolis – February 22-23, Central Library
- SMBMSP #63 Behind the Firewall: Social Networking for Employee Collab., March 3rd
- Mobile March – March 20th – Tickets on sale now!
- Minnebar, Saturday, April 12th. Details to come…
- Overnight Website Challenge, April 12th-13th
The biggest story of the past week surrounds Comcast/Xfinity and their merger with Time Warner Cable. Will this place the combined company in a position to wield unprecedented control over the internet pipe in to our homes and businesses?
Minnesota’s oldest and best attended mobile event,
Don’t panic! Comcast’s Xfinity is setting up home Wifi routers to let the public use your data connection but everything will be OK. In addition, NBC is scaring any-and-all Sochi Olympics attendees to think that, if they even turn on their smartphone or computer and connect to Wifi, they will be instantly hacked. Should you worry?
No, 
This past week has seen 
