This morning I did another Minnov8 Gang Podcast guest-host stint, which is always a gas.
I talked Mountain Lion, Nexus 7, Kickstarter-funded smart watches and more with regular hosts Steve Borsch, Graeme Thickins and Tim Elliott. Thanks for having me on, guys.
Phil Wilson was absent due to a death in the family (condolences, friend).
And, as usual, Steve knocked it out of the park with his artwork for the post. More …
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Many thanks to Mike T. Rose and the rest of The Unofficial Apple Weblog crew for having me on my first-ever TUAW Talkcast episode. We talked Mountain Lion and Apple earnings.
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WCCO-AM’s Esme Murphy and I discussed how the smartphone is replacing the credit card for mobile payments via technologies like Pay With Square and Near Field Communication.
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Wowzers, it’s been hot this summer. This is the second triple-digit reading in St. Paul this week (the first was on the Fourth of July).
More …WCCO-AM’s Jordana Green interviewed me about the DNSChanger malware that, as I wrote this, threatened to knock thousands offline.
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#minnericans rule.
SotaRico presents video for Maria Isa’s ”Lowrider Mami’s” (Caddy Lincoln Chevys) off the mixtape “Sip It.” Directed by Twin Films and shot on St. Paul’s West Side.
The Minnov8 Gang invited me to co-host a podcast episode focused on Google’s I/O event in San Francisco this week.
Google showed off lots of software and hardware products, including one that looks … strangely familiar.
When the Nexus Q streaming-media orb was unveiled, I was hardly the only Whovian to blurt out the word “Ood.” (So did this guy.) More …
Whoopsy. Busted.
For a TV interview, I was spiffy only from waist up, thinking KMSP Fox 9 News would shoot me that way. I was also barefoot … and caught that way on camera.
A Fox 9 reporter was interviewing me about the new federal Wireless Emergency Alerts for smartphones. See related post.
John Hines of WCCO-AM and I discussed the new Wireless Emergency Alerts, implemented by the federal government, which will warn smartphone owners about dangerous weather, AMBER alerts and even national emergencies, with the text-like notifications coming from the President himself or herself.
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Sarah Lane of TWiT’s iPad Today plugged a St. Paul Pioneer Press story I wrote about plans to install iPads in public areas at three U.S. airports – including the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport.
One correction: The 7,000 figure in my article refers to the total number of iPads to be installed at all three airports and not just at the Twin Cities facility, which will get 2,500. More …
The awesome Shop Girls (Alexis Walsko and my old Pioneer Press coworker Allison Kaplan) recently had me on their myTalk 107.1 show to talk tech.
We covered a lot of ground, including Apple’s new MacBook Pro with Retina display, locally made cases for iOS devices, Skypecams for TVs, the future of mobile computing and more.
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