Minnov8 Gang 384 – ‘Ya, You Betcha: MN Loves the Internet

Did you know that Minnesota is the state with the highest rate of internet usage? We didn’t. Must be the combination of smart people and high number of months each year spent mainly indoors! Hat tip to our friend over at Blandin on Broadband, Ann Treacy, who highlighted this statistic in this post. The Gang chats about this and more on this week’s show.

Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott and Phil Wilson

Music: Buddy Guy Catfish by DJ Ecklectic Mick under a CC by 3.0 License

The Podcast

Past Week’s Top Minnesota Stories

• Proto Labs, Sentera among 2016 Tekne Award winners


• Belden makes public a $380 million offer for Digi International
  
  
  
  • Digi International Board of Directors Confirms Rejection of Unsolicited, Non-Binding Proposal from Belden Inc.
  
  
  
  


• Particle Simplifies Connecting Your Raspberry Pi to the Internet of Things
  
  
  
  • Particle Announces $10.4 million Series A Funding
  
  
  
  


• Overloaded servers don’t keep Give to the Max Day from passing last year’s total


• 3 megamall stores will open on Thanksgiving

Other Top Tech Stories

• New iOS Gmail app no longer supports signatures per account
  
  
  
  • Note: New iOS Gmail app has 1.5 stars and the reviews are universally disliking this “upgrade” 
  
  
  
  


• iPhones Secretly Send Call History To Apple, Security Firm Says


• Apple releases $300 book containing 450 photos of Apple products


• Hulu acquires The Video Genome Project to improve recommendations ahead of live TV service’s launch


• This startup raised $750,000 on Kickstarter to replace your Fitbit — and your eyeglasses

Cool Thing of the Week

• Phil: Snap Spectacles


• Tim: Build your own Raspberry Pi Zero powered DIY NES Classic Mini


• Steve: Riot is the primary Matrix.org client that offers: group chat; VoIP & video calling; file transfer; bridges networks; and quite soon will deliver end-to-end encryption (end-to-end is now in beta).

Upcoming Events

• The Complete List of 250+ Tech, IT, and DevOps Conferences in 2016
  
  
  
  • The list as a Google spreadsheet
  
  
  • 32 conferences for Mac and iOS professionals in 2016
  
  
  
  


• 1 Million Cups – St. Paul: Weekly; Nov 23rd; James J Hill Ctr


• TIES 2016: Dec 10th – 13th, Minneapolis


• IoTFuse.monthly Meetup – Dec 15th, TBA


• Gamer’s Rhapsody 2016, Nov. 18th, Bloomington


• MinneHack, January 28-29, 2017


• DevFestMN 2017 – Google Developer Event, Feb 4th, UST Mpls campus