Show Notes

Hour 1: Our Driverless Future

Attention, (human) drivers! The technology behind driverless cars is quickly advancing, and insuranceQuotes.com is tackling this timely topic by introducing a new editorial series written by Tim Spell, an award-winning automotive columnist who spent more than three decades at the Houston Chronicle. The column explores the future of self-driving automobiles and how they will reshape society and Americans’ attitudes toward commuting, road-tripping and even that quick trip to the market.

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Rich Jaroslawsky is Vice President for Content and Chief Journalist at SmartNews, an international, Tokyo-based news aggregation service. Recently he moved back to the west coast and kept his mobile number only to find himself hounded by RoboCallers.  After some research he hit on the subscription ($2.99/month) based service of RoboKiller.  This is not only effective for stopping the calls, but you can truly mess with their heads with some of the features RoboKiller.

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Show Notes

Hour 2: Online Danger

Dr. Eric Cole is CEO of Secure Anchor, former CTO of McAfee and Lockheed Martin, member of the Commission on Cyber Security for President Obama, the security advisor for Bill Gates and his family, and author of a new book, Online Danger: How to Protect Yourself and Your Loved Ones From the Evil Side of the Internet.

For more information, please visit, www.onlinedanger.com and connect with Dr. Cole on Twitter, @drericcole.

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MiTechNews Headlines March 10, 2018

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Rick Beckers of CloudTech1 joins the conversation to talk about the importance of the upcoming IoTech Connect Conference on April 4th.  It’s Michigan’s first and only IoT conference bringing interested parties from all aspects of industry and technology.  Rates for display booths have recently been discounted.  Rick will have details on this and more like a special appearance by Gov. Rick Snyder.

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Tech Roundtable

 Caston Thomas joins the team as the newest regular Tech Advisor for the show…just in time for our 20th Anniversary. Caston is the founder of InterWorks, LLC and Ed Rudel returns to opine along with Foster Braun.  Meanwhile Gary Baker chimes in with his wisdom from dock side Ft. Lauderdale, FL!

Ed Rudel:

Microsoft end Windows 10s as a separate OS product, the google Chrome OS “Killer”.  But, will include Windows 10s as a Mode (similar to Home, enterprise, Pro editions).