Jan 20
Romance Scams
Beware the love rats, impostors, criminals and scammers, looking for love online. Romancescams.com seeks to expose these criminals and warn lonely hearts that have already been broken too often.
Show Notes:
Because we will be on the air until 6 PM there will be plenty of time for your questions about computers and the Internet. Don’t miss your chance, call 1 880 859-0957
Happy Birthday to Ed Rudel!
Podcast: January 21, 2012 – Hour 1
Podcast: January 21, 2012 – Hour 2
Podcast: January 21, 2012 – Hour 3
Jan 13
Gary Baker, Ed Rudel, Cal Carson, Foster Braun, Erik Anderson
Show Notes:
Hour 1
CES 2012
Hour 2:
The Team share emails and call listeners to answer their computer and Internet questions.
Note that during Network shows you can email your question to us by clicking the Contact Us button on the homepage and sending us an email. Be sure to include your phone number and you could be one of the listeners we consult with over the phone during the Network show.
Podcast: January 14, 2012 – Hour 1
Podcast: January 14, 2012 – Hour 2
Jan 06
Gary Baker, Ed Rudel, Cal Carson, Foster Braun, Emily Hay, Erik Anderson
Show Notes
This is our super-sized 2012 predictions show (along with a little accountability for 2011!) Each of our hosts comment on key areas of the Internet and computing for 2012.
Podcast: January 7, 2012 – Hour 1
Podcast: January 7, 2012 – Hour 2
Podcast: January 7, 2012 – Hour 3
Tweet
Dec 16
Show Notes
Mike Wendland
Mike Wendland (aka PC Mike) joins us to talk about his Super Healthy Me campaign. Then as PC Mike he will pull out his crystal ball and tell us what he sees coming in 2012.
Steve Hyer, CEO of IGD Solutions will talk about the role of ISP. Everything you’ve wanted to ask your Internet Provider but never had the chance to.
Podcast: December 17, 2011 – Hour 1
Podcast: December 17, 2011 – Hour 2
Podcast: December 17, 2011 – Hour 3
Happy Holidays and Healthy New Year from the Internet Advisor
Dec 10
- Gary Baker, Ed Rudel, Foster Braun
Show Notes:
- Free Shipping Day: Kendall Perez will explain why businesses organize to give shoppers advantage of no shipping fees for their holiday presents. ***Note to Canadians: Your FreeshippingDay is Dec. 12 visit www.freeshippingday.ca for more information.
- Holiday Computer Shopping Tips: Dave Sawyer, Technical Director Microsoft brings a Santa bag of cool new laptops and tablets running Win7 from razor thin laptops called ultra-books to a two sided/two screen laptops with a virtual Qwerty keyboard from Acer and a 10″ tablet with touch and pen input. Here is a great site called PC Scout that will help you to find the PC desktop or laptop that is tailored to your needs:
- Searching with Bing: Microsoft’s New Search Rivals Google’s Monopoly
Big News
TWO solid hours of call-in questions for the Internet Advisors from 4-6 PM. Don’t miss the chance to get your question answered. Special guest Dave Sawyer from Microsoft will be staying to give us a hand.
Podcast: December 10, 2011 – Hour 1
Podcast: December 10, 2011 – Hour 2
Podcast: December 10, 2011 – Hour 3
Dec 03
Gary Baker, Ed Rudel, Foster Braun
Show Notes:
This episode of the Internet Advisor features the launch of “Cutting Edge”, our newly remastered and updated theme music by composer Steve DeDoes of Ann Arbor, MI accompanied by his son Mattie on the saxophone. Click here to listen to the new musical score and read Steve’s commentary. Steve and Mattie join us in studio to share their musical insights behind the new theme.
Rick Broida, CNet Blogger
We’re also delighted to introduce Rick Broida, a Detroit area resident, who writes the Cheapskate Blog for CNET, the nation’s premier techno information source. Rick will focus on What’s the Best Tablet to Buy?
Podcast Segments
Podcast: December 3, 2011 – Hour 1 Intro Segment
Podcast: December 3, 2001 – Hour 1 Steve and Mattie DeDoes
Podcast: December 3, 2001 – Hour 1 Rick Broida
Podcast: December 3, 2011 – Hour 2
Podcast: December 3, 2011 – Hour 3
Nov 26
Gary Baker, Ed Rudel, Cal Carson, Foster Braun, Erik Anderson
Show Notes:
The ABC’s of Twitter: Emily Hay of Hay There Social Media will conduct a course in the basics of Twitter. She promises to make it simple enough that even a grandpa like Foster can understand! ;-)) Emily will also talk about how to use Twitter effectively in business applications and the crew will discuss the different social media that they use at home and in business including:
- *Twitter’s innovative use for solving customer service issues,
- *Twitter’s impact on live conferences/events,
- *Twitter as an industry research tool,
- *”Twitter parties” for one’s business – collaborative (& even sponsorship) opportunities
Emily Hay
Don’t forget that the second hour of our show is dedicated to answering your computer questions and talking with listeners who have emailed us their computer concerns.
Coming Dec. 3, 2011…Live broadcast on WJR with the newly revised Internet Advisor theme music: “Cutting Edge” featuring composer Steve DeDoes who created our original sound track and now is aided by his talented son Mattie. Both will be in our studios to play live and talk about the new theme for a new decade.
Podcast: November 26, 2011 (Featuring Emily Hay Teaching about Twitter)- Hour 1
Podcast: November 26, 2011 (Answering Listener Questions) – Hour 2
Nov 18
Gary Baker, Cal Carson, Foster Braun
Show Notes:
Tim Bryan, CEO GalaxE.Solutions
Outsource to Detroit: Tim Bryan, CEO of GalaxE.Solutions, Detroit talks about why he brought his successful software company from New Jersey to Detroit and why other companies should do the same.
Internet Usability: what does that really mean? Cynthia Zimber VP, Business Development TecEd, Inc. How to be sure that your customers really love and use your website to its fullest?
Having The Talk with our Kids: Trend Micro’s Natalie Severino, Director, Consumer Product Marketing shares and eGuide that shows you how to talk with your kids about the the digital dangers that lurk on the Internet.
Stick around for our second hour or enjoy it on our podcast when we talk with listeners about problems that they have sent us through the Contact Us form on our home page. There’s always something new to share.
Interview: Tim Bryan
Interview: Cynthia Zimber
Interview: Natlie Severino
Full Show Podcast: November 19, 2011 – Hour 1
Full Show Podcast: November 19, 2011 – Hour 2
Tweet
Nov 12
Ed Rudel, Cal Carson, Foster Braun and Erik Anderson
Show Notes:
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Thailand Floods threaten the iCloud.
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48 Hrs. with Windows Phone 7.5 Mango
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Apple issues a patch for iOS5
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Amazon’s new tablet catches Fire!
Our second hour is dedicated to answering questions that our listeners send on through our Contact Us.
Podcast: November 12, 2011 – Hour 1
Podcast: November 12, 2011 – Hour 2
Gary Baker
Foster Braun
Ed Rudel
Cal Carson
Emily Hay
Erik Anderson
