Internet Advisor

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”12585″ img_size=”large”][vc_separator color=”black” border_width=”3″][vc_cta h2=”Listen to this week’s full two hour podcast as heard on WJR 760-AM “]

Clicking on the link at the bottom of this page…

Subscribing to Internet Advisor Podcast Feed at iTunes or with  your favorite podcast app or

Finding our shows at Podcast Detroit each week

[/vc_cta][vc_separator color=”black” border_width=”3″][vc_column_text]

Show Notes

Hour 1: WWDC, Microsoft/LinkedIn and Renewable Energy Fair

[/vc_column_text][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]

Cal Carson reports on the huge wave of OS changes announced at the recent Apple World Wide Developers Conference, held last week in California.  No big new gadgets wowed us but there was a BIG change in the OS platforms supporting those Apple devices.

Click Here to Listen to Cal’s Apple Run Down[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]

Gary Baker is our enterprise guru and he has some insights into the recent acquisition of LinkedIn (Facebook for business) by Microsoft.  Is this going to be for good or just another excellent site being absorbed and forgotten?

Click Here to Listen to Gary Microsoft Commentary

Click here to listen to connecting on vacation[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]

Allan O’Shea, President CBS Solar and Co-Chair Michigan Renewable Energy Fair announces a triple play for renewable resources coming to Mason, …

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”12537″ img_size=”full”][vc_separator color=”black” border_width=”3″][vc_cta h2=”Listen to this week’s full two hour podcast as heard on WJR 760-AM “]

Clicking on the link at the bottom of this page…

Subscribing to Internet Advisor Podcast Feed at iTunes or with  your favorite podcast app or

Finding our shows at Podcast Detroit each week

[/vc_cta][vc_separator color=”black” border_width=”3″][vc_column_text]

Show Notes

Hour 1: AARP TEK Android Training

Lisa Whitmore Davis, AARP Michigan Associate State Director for Community Outreach,describes the AARP TEK Android Smartphone workshops being offered across the state of Michigan this summer and other tech offerings for seniors.  To find out more about the upcoming AARP TEK free seminars near you, call 866 591-8105 or visit www.aarptek.aarp.org  Classes will be forming in the Jackson, Lansing, Grand Rapids and Metro Detroit areas all throughout this summer.  Don’t forget that AARP TEK also has a wide range of online services that it offers from webinars to online tutorials.

Click Here to Listen to Lisa Davis with AARP TEK[/vc_column_text][vc_separator color=”black” border_width=”3″][vc_column_text]

Comcast Internet Essentials and Hotspot Roll Out

[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]

Michelle Gilbert, Vice President Public Relations, Comcast Cable Heartland Region, returned to talk about Internet Essentials, a low cost (less than $10/mo) internet connection …

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”12498″ img_size=”full”][vc_separator color=”black” border_width=”3″][vc_cta h2=”Listen to this week’s full two hour podcast as heard on WJR 760-AM “]

Clicking on the link at the bottom of this page…

Subscribing to Internet Advisor Podcast Feed at iTunes or with  your favorite podcast app or

Finding our shows at Podcast Detroit each week

[/vc_cta][vc_separator color=”black” border_width=”3″][vc_column_text]

Show Notes:

Hour 1: Rick Broida, the Gadget Guy and Cheapskate

[/vc_column_text][vc_separator color=”black” border_width=”3″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Rick Broida is a frequent co host on the Internet Advisor.  He brings a keen wit and discerning eye to the world of digital gadgets that constantly bombard our consciousness.  This month he will be helping us with gadgets for the digital dad  in your life! Father’s Day is coming soon; listen for some good gift ideas.

Click Here to Listen to Rick Broida Part 1

Click Here to Listen to Rick Broida Part 2

Rick always has some great bargains to share with us since he is the official Cheapskate of the Internet!  ;-D

Here is an example: Universal Ballpoint

Do It Yourself Cardboard Virtual Reality

[/vc_column_text][vc_separator color=”black” border_width=”3″][vc_column_text]

Show Notes:

Hour 1: Rick Broida and Dave Johnson: Battlestar Recaptica

[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]

Battlestar Galactica Crew (2003-2009)

 

 

Rick Broida …

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”12470″ img_size=”full”][vc_separator color=”black” border_width=”3″][vc_cta h2=”Listen to this week’s full two hour podcast as heard on WJR 760-AM “]

Clicking on the link at the bottom of this page…

Subscribing to Internet Advisor Podcast Feed at iTunes or with  your favorite podcast app or

Finding our shows at Podcast Detroit each week

[/vc_cta][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_separator color=”black” border_width=”3″][vc_column_text]

Show Notes:

Hour 1: Meet the Winners of MCWT Scholarship Awards

[/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=”11608″ img_size=”large”][vc_single_image image=”12489″ img_size=”full”][vc_column_text]The WJR studios were packed with bright young women this past Saturday, May 28. The guests were winners of the Michigan Council of Women in Technology 2016 Scholarship awards.

Rajani Sinha, Scholarship Chair for MCWT, helped to moderate the discussion. Ms. Sinha is Business Relationships Manager for IT at Fiat-Chrysler Motors.

 

 

 

Ariel Magyar, second year student at Grand Valley State University in Western Michigan won the Undergrad Scholarship of $15,000 over three years. This summer Ariel is interning at Disher Design and Development in Jenison, MI.

 

 

 

Rhea Singh, recently graduated from Northville HS and will be attending the University of Michigan to major in computer science.  Rhea won the High School Scholarship award of $20,000 over 4 years.

 

 

 …

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”12434″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center”][vc_separator color=”black” border_width=”4″][vc_cta h2=”Listen to this week’s full two hour podcast as heard on WJR 760-AM “]

Clicking on the link at the bottom of this page…

Subscribing to Internet Advisor Podcast Feed at iTunes or with  your favorite podcast app or

Finding our shows at Podcast Detroit each week

[/vc_cta][vc_separator color=”black” border_width=”4″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]

Show Notes:

Hour 1: Deciding Which Kind of Computer Is Best For You

[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]

If there is one question that dominates our email and our listener call ins, it is “What kind of computer should I be buying?”  When Gary and Foster started the program back in 1998, the answer tended to presume that you meant, “What kind of PC should I be buying?” and the usual group of name brands from Dell to HP were trotted out.

Ever since 2010, when Steve Jobs launched the category breaking iPad, the answer to that question has gotten more and more complicated.  As desktops become more and more niche market devices, laptops, ultrabooks, tablets, and hybrids are offering a wide variety of options and price points.  Nonetheless, the most important basic question to decide is: “What will you be doing with your new device?”  …

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_cta h2=”Listen to this week’s full two hour podcast as heard on WJR 760-AM by…”]

Clicking on the link at the bottom of this page…

Subscribing to Internet Advisor Podcast Feed at iTunes or with  your favorite podcast app or

Finding our shows at Podcast Detroit each week

[/vc_cta][vc_separator color=”black” border_width=”3″][vc_single_image image=”12426″ img_size=”Large”][vc_column_text]

Show Notes:

Hour 1: E- Waste Scam Exposed by BAN and Transforming MiTechNews.com

[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]BAN or the Bazel Action Network is a non-profit with a mission to champion global environmental health and justice by:

ending toxic trade

catalyzing a toxics-free future

campaigning for everyone’s right to a flourishing environment.

Focusing on electronic waste and old ships, BAN fulfills its mission using interrelated policy, market solutions, and public engagement strategies that create systemic change.

[/vc_column_text][vc_separator color=”black” border_width=”3″][vc_video link=”https://youtu.be/O5JssN0sN9o”][vc_separator color=”black” border_width=”3″][vc_column_text]

For most of our history, the Internet Advisor has been proud to recommend Global Tech Ministries led by Stephen Beck as a recycling resource for  your major e-waste.  As with any kind of “ministry” this has been an uphill struggle to find funding and this December is another one of those deadlines beyond which the future of Global Tech Ministries is very unclear.  If you want to …

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”12371″ img_size=”Full” alignment=”center”][vc_cta h2=”Listen to this week’s full two hour podcast as heard on WJR 760-AM by…”]

Clicking on the link at the bottom of this page…

Subscribing to Internet Advisor Podcast Feed at iTunes or with  your favorite podcast app or

Finding our shows at Podcast Detroit each week

[/vc_cta][vc_column_text]

Show Notes:

Hour 1

MERIT and the founding of the Internet 50 years ago

[/vc_column_text][vc_separator color=”black” border_width=”3″][vc_column_text]Joe Sawasaky, Pres. and CEO of Merit, joins the Internet Advisor to both reminisce about the remarkable history of this pioneer organization and the new directions in which it is heading.  

 

 

Dr. William J. “Joe” Adams, leads Merit’s R & D program aims at performing ground-breaking research that would benefit Merit’s Members, Michigan and the society. The group currently focuses on Internet measurements that provide insights into the evolution of the Internet and the adoption of new protocols, on network security, and on the development of tools that can help network operators better monitor and secure their networks.

 

Cyber Ranges are the new thrust of Merit and Joe will detail how they are helping private and public sector groups beat the bad guys at their …

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”12361″ img_size=”large” alignment=”center”][vc_cta h2=”Listen to this week’s full two hour podcast by…”]

Clicking on the link at the bottom of this page…

Subscribing to Internet Advisor Podcast Feed at iTunes or with  your favorite podcast app or

Finding our shows at Podcast Detroit each week

[/vc_cta][vc_separator color=”black” border_width=”3″][vc_column_text]

Show Notes:

Hour 1

Helping America’s Farmers With Immediate, Unbiased Data

[/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=”12339″ img_size=”full”][vc_column_text]Jesse Vollmar graduated from Saginaw Valley University with two passions: continue the 5th generation of family farming and creating a set of tools that could help other farmers win the battle with the elements and the markets. In 2012 Jesse and Brad Koch founded Farmlogs with offices in Ann Arbor, MI and outreach across the fields of North America. During our interview, we were joined by Chad Kulman, a satisfied Farmlogs customer from Nebraska and Ben Carpenter, family farmer from Adrian, MI.  BTW if you thought that farming was all about a dying breed of aging American farmers, check out the mugshots of the nearly five dozen 20-30 something members who make up Farmlogs team. (There are a FEW gray hairs ;-))

If you are interested in following Farmlogs more closely, check out their …

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”12323″ img_size=”Medium”][vc_cta h2=”Listen to this week’s full two hour podcast by…”]

Clicking on the link at the bottom of this page…

Subscribing to Internet Advisor Podcast Feed at iTunes or with  your favorite podcast app or

Finding our shows at Podcast Detroit each week

[/vc_cta][vc_separator color=”black” border_width=”3″][vc_column_text]

Show Notes:

Hour 1

Stirring up new tech business in Michigan from east to west!

[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”12289″ img_size=”full”][vc_column_text]

Southeast Michigan

Tom Kelly is the COO and director of entrepreneurship for Automation Alley, Michigan’s leading technology business association, connecting companies and organizations with talent, resources and funding to accelerate innovation and fuel Southeast Michigan’s economy.

Q1 Highlights:

     Wrapping up an IT training program that helped to address Southeast Michigan’s IT skills gap by training more than 1,300 local employees

Investments in six local tech startups

Helping to attract Chinese plastics company Kingfa to Canton, Mich., creating 50 high-tech jobs

Click Here to Listen to Budding Businesses Automation Alley Open

Click Here to Listen to Budding Businesses Part 1 Tom Kelly[/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=”12328″ img_size=”medium”][vc_column_text]

Southwest Michigan

Sandra Cochrane is a full-time Technology Business Consultant for the MI-SBDC. In this position she assists start-up and early-stage high-tech companies. Services she provides to clients …

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]

 

[/vc_column_text][vc_cta h2=”Listen to this week’s full two hour podcast by…”]

Clicking on the link at the bottom of this page…

Subscribing to Internet Advisor Podcast Feed at iTunes or with  your favorite podcast app or

Finding our shows at Podcast Detroit each week

[/vc_cta][vc_separator color=”black” border_width=”3″][vc_column_text]

Show Notes:

Hour 1

“The Bloody Truth about Living and Working in Panama”

[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”12263″ img_size=”medium”][vc_column_text]EJ Rolfstad has lived and worked in Panama for the past 10 years.  He has been an eye witness to the money laundering process that has been revealed to the world as The Panama Papers.  11.5 million pieces of information were stolen from a law firm in Panama that allegedly specialized in, among other things, laundering vast amounts of money for world leaders and underworld figures.  EJ is writing a book entitled “The Bloody Truth about Living and Working in Panama” about the inner workings of the process.  Visit EJ’s Homepage to follow the serialized unfolding of this story.

Click Here to Listen to Panama Papers

First chapter of EJ’s book.[/vc_column_text][vc_separator color=”black” border_width=”3″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”12264″ img_size=”medium”][vc_column_text]Kathleen Norton Shock has been a frequent contributor to the Internet Advisor for nearly 15 years.  She has worn …