It’s our annual predictions show and, while we cover a handful of Minnesota and other top tech stories this past week, we focus on our “hits and misses” from predicting 2015 and then jump in to our 2016 prognostications.

Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins and Phil Wilson.

Music: Exploding All Over You by East Village Vampire under a Creative Commons License

The Podcast

 

Story Links

Past Week’s Top Minnesota Stories

About the Zoltar machine*

* 2015 JAMF Software Survey: Managing Apple Devices in the Enterprise (download the PDF)

* Samsung builds SmartThings control into every 2016 smart TV

Other Top Tech Stories

* Big Data and computational medicine: Who guards the data?

* NSA Helped British Spies Find Security Holes In Juniper Firewalls

* The CIA Campaign To Steal Apple’s Secrets

* Apple TV Brawl results: Apple solidly wins the 4K debate for now – and here’s why

* CES 2016: our most anticipated products of the show

Discussed During Our Predictions

* List of mergers and acquisitions by Apple

* Brian Krebs: 2016 Reality: Lazy Authentication Still the Norm

Listen to the podcast for our 2015 recap as well as our specific 2016 predictions.

*Zoltar is from the movie BIG with Tom Hanks. Disclaimer: None of our predictions were made using Zoltar or any other fortune teller-like technology, though Phil Wilson may have consulted his magic toad.

Upcoming Events

* The Complete List of 250+ Tech, IT, and DevOps Conferences in 2016

* Only the list as a Google spreadsheet

* MinneAnalytics does Marketing Analytics – again! (MAMA2), January 22, Medtronic

* MinneWebCon U of MN McNamara Alumni Ctr April 25-26