A handful of important stories are covered this week as well as a goofin’ around reference to someone you may know: Snidley Whiplash. So who IS the real one?
Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott and Phil Wilson (Graeme Thickins is off this week).
Music: Stone Cold Heart Breaker by Texarillo. Brought to us by the podsafe Music Alley.
The Podcast
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Discussed During the Show
Minnesota’s Top Stories
Last Week’s Other Big Stories
- Google I/O 2014
- The Amazon smartphone is here: meet the Fire Phone
- Mention of Scan app for iOS, Android, Windows Mobile, etc.
- Thousands of secret keys found in Android apps
- Apple SmartWatch Rumor
- Ikea
Steve’s Security Tip of the Week
Beware of “Juice Jacking” and why you might need a USB “condom” for your smartphone.
- Juice jacking: Did that ‘free’ charging station just steal your data?
- Gear to Block ‘Juice Jacking’ on Your Mobile
Upcoming Events
- INVESTyR’s Fundraising in the Digital Economy 1st Tue of each month 3:30-4:30pm
- TreeHouse Health: Business Formation and Employment Issues – June 24th
- Cyber Security Summit 2014 Oct 21st
After discovering that three young men under the age of 25 had no idea who M.C. Hammer was (or what ‘hammertime’ was all about) we laughed a bit. Thinking about that more it is interesting how context and the past shape our culture and thinking about many things, including technology. “The Hammerettes” hope to bring that sort of contemplative, deeper thinking to our podcast.
Twitter came out with a 
We have much to discuss this week but probably the biggest story is the meltdown of 
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.
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?
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?
This past week has seen 