Podcast 1349 12/14/13: Gadget Guy Tech Awards and Mateen's Passion

Show Notes:

Gadget Gift Countdown

Rick Broida, renowned Cheapskate and Gadget Guy presents his Tech Awards for 2013.  You might find some of them surprising until you realize that Rick is also the author of The Cheapskate Rules, available now on Amazon.com

Gadget Guy Tech Awards for 2013

1. Best Smartphone: MotoX from Republic Wireless
2. Best Tablet: Amazon Kindle Fire HDX
3. Best Peripheral: NeatConnect (Cloud scanner + monthly service)
4. The Worst Tech Idea: Amazon Prime Air (deliver by drones)

 

A Passion to Help

1 Goal 1 Passion drives Mateen Cleaves to help 1,000 needy families in Michigan this holiday.  Cleaves led a victorious Spartans to the NCAA basketball title in 2000.  Now the Fox Sports Detroit commentator brings that same drive to organizing fellow athletes in this great cause.  You too can be part of fulfilling his passion.  Visit 1Goal1Passion

 

MiTechNews Report

Weekly feature with Mike Brennan, editor and publisher of MiTechNews.com, highlighting technology headlines from Michigan and around the world that impact of our state’s growing high tech sector. This MiTechNews report with Mike Brennan is brought to you by  the Engineering Society of Detroit, representing 16,000 engineers in Southeast Michigan. 

Subscribe to our co-branded MiTechNews Newsletter in collaboration with the Internet Advisor.

 

Hour 2: Answering Listener Questions

Shane Hamelin joins Gary Baker, Ed Rudel, Cal Carson and Foster Braun to answer listener questions.

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