When my Gang cohorts and I talk about this podcast, we often wonder why we carve out time early on a Saturday morning to record this show.  The answer is that we genuinely like and respect each other, we love our listeners and get great feedback from you, we all are focused on today and tomorrow’s technology, and frankly it’s fun.

While seeking music for today’s show, I stumbled across this upbeat and light Dixieland jazz tune. It reminded me of barbershop music and a neighbor of ours where I grew up, a guy who was in a barbershop quartet back in the 70s. I always wondered why he loved and devoted so much time to singing with his buddies, and it was only later in life I learned the quartet had two motivations: They wanted to give back and they had fun doing it together. As I listened to today’s music I realized our shared love for technology and friendship is why we continue to record this show week after week. We hope you enjoy our shows as much as we do recording them for you.

Hosts: Steve Borsch,Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins and Phil Wilson.
Music: Black Bottom by The Jazz House under a Creative Commons License.

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Past Week’s Biggest MN Stories

• Food truck explosion in Lakeville
• Apple Watch is coming – but even tech fans aren’t sold yet
• Stratasys Misses Mark On Earnings
  • Who Says Jay Leno Isn’t Cutting Edge? (about his 3D printing of car parts)
• Target
  • Target CEO Brian Cornell is ready to make his mark
  • Target will cut several thousand jobs, sharpen stores
  • What Target layoffs mean for downtown Minneapolis — and what they don’t
• Best Buy’s web sales climb almost 10% in Q4
• Public treadmill workstations get Minnesotans moving

Other Top Stories

• Net Neutrality
  • Netflix executive says the company wanted a lighter approach to net neutrality
  • Internet Pioneers Decry Title II Rules
  • Infographic: Defining Net Neutrality Without the Politics
  • Buyer’s remorse is already setting in for Google and other ‘net neutrality’ proponents
• Wireless Disruption
  • Google Confirms Plans for Wireless Service
  • WSJ: Google’s carrier experiment could launch this month but only for Nexus 6
  • iPhone 6S Is Reportedly Going To Have 2GB RAM And Apple SIM Pre-Installed
  • Google quietly backs away from encrypting new Lollipop devices by default
  • T-Mobile will launch LTE in the Wi-Fi airwaves in 2016
• Apple/Smart Watches
  • Sources offer hands-on Apple Watch details: battery life, unannounced features, and more
  • The new Pebble smartwatch is now the most-funded project in Kickstarter history
  • HBO In Talks With Apple To Be Launch Partner For Coming Web Service ‘HBO Now’
• Etsy Lost Its Soul, But That Doesn’t Matter to Its IPO
• Microsoft launches Office 2016 preview for Mac with full Retina support, OneDrive and SharePoint integration

Steve’s Security Tip of the Week

• TIP: Make end-to-end encrypted voice calls AND (as of this past week) fully end-to-end encrypted text messages!
  • Signal for iOS
  • Redphone for Android
• WIRED: There’s Now A Free iPhone App That Encrypts Calls And Texts

Cool Thing of the Week

• Phil: Runcible – the anti-smartphone
• Tim: iCarus – Multifunctional car computer kit powered by Linux and Raspberry Pi
• Graeme: Coming Soon? 12-Inch Retina MacBook Air
• Steve: Slow, Fast, Slow: Variable slow motion camera app for iPhone

Upcoming Events

• Entrepreneurs Rally IV, March 11th
• MIMA: Brand storytelling in a digital world, March 18th
• IoT Fuse (Internet of Things event) March 19th (tix here)
• Fundraising: What Startups Need to Know, March 24th
• Attracting More Local Customers Even When Your Wheels are Spinning, March 25th
• Mobile March, March 26th
• Tech Cities, March 27th
• MobCon Digital Health, April 8th
• MinneBar 10, April 11th, Best Buy HQ
• MinneWebCon April 13th
• Twin Cities TechPulse 2015 – April 21st
• Ignite Minneapolis – April 23rd
• MedTech Investing Conference, May 6th