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1606 18th Anniversary Special

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Show Notes:

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The Disabled Traveler is Ron and Kay’s personal crusade to help people facing disabilities and/or age related challenges to enjoy America’s …


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Podcast 1510 March 7, 2015: Protecting Your Digital Legacy & Retro Arcade Night

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 Show Notes:

Is your legacy lost in cyberspace?

Dan HoopsDan Hoops, Assoc. Prof. of Accounting and Taxation, Walsh College joins us to give us insights into identifying our digital valuables and advising us on how to make sure your legacy doesn’t die with you.

Prof. Hoops: Estate Planning with Digital Assets

Digital Asset Form

Protecting Your Digital Assets Before You Die

Click Here to Listen to Dan Hoops Part 1a

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Click Here to Listen to Dan Hoops Part 2


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Online Tech Hosts Retro Arcade Night, Thursday, March 19, 3 – 7pm

Shawn Fergus of Online Tech announces a casual, fun networking event for IT pros and other business professional who are interested in the types of products and services they offer. There will be no sales pitching, just more than 20 classic arcade games (the real ‘80s machines), craft brews, food and NCAA tournament hoops on large screen TVS.  Act quickly, reservations are limited.

 Click here to reserve your tokens.

Click Here to Listen to Arcade Night


 

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Don’t Miss the Big Apple Event, Monday, March 9, 10 AM PT (1 PM EST)


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Podcast 1448 Nov. 29, 2014 : Plowz & Online Tech 20th Anniversary

 

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Show Notes

Hour 1

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Your Very Own Snow Plow Service Is As Close As Your Phone

Plowz and Mowz Co-Founder, Wills Mahoney shares the birth of this ingenious service that means you are more likely than ever to be dug out of the next super storm well before your neighbors.  When the green grass returns, you’ll be ahead of the neighbors with a well trimmed lawn, on time, every time.

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MiTechNews Forms Strategic Alliance with ITinTheD

Mike Brennan, editor of MiTechNews and Internet Advisor host Gary Baker were featured guests on the Nov. 24 edition of ITinTheD a new pure Detroit brand of podcast that is taking RawRadioX by storm. MiTechNews has formed a strategic alliance with the geek intensive podcast and will be posting links to their weekly broadcasts in MiTechNews every Friday.

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Walther_RyanMike Brennan and Gary Baker were “chaperoned” by Ryan WaltherIT Risk Manager, Flagstar Bank during their appearance on ITinTheD.  Actually Ryan discussed “the trials and tribulations of  working in the world of IT audit, security and compliance.”

 

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Online Tech Acquires Indianapolis Data Center

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$10 Million Investment Brings Secure, Compliant Cloud Computing to Indiana Market

Indianapolis, Indiana and Ann Arbor, Michigan – May 14, 2014 –

Online Tech continues its expansion across the Great Lakes region with the acquisition of a data center in Indianapolis. The purpose-built corporate facility will deliver the company’s full product line of secure, compliant cloud and colocation services for healthcare, financial services, retail and other companies in regulated industries. Online Tech’s purchase of the property, planned upgrades, and enterprise-class cloud represents an investment of more than $10 million. It will also bring jobs and much-needed computing infrastructure to the expanding Indianapolis economic market.

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Podcast 1414: April 5, 2014: Rick Broida Takes On The World & Happy 20th to Online Tech!

Show Notes:

Hour 1

rick_broidaRick Broida is way too young to be a curmudgeon, but he’s getting there quickly!  In this show Rick, our Gadget Guy and noted Cheapskate columnist takes a common sense, hard-nosed look at:

Microsoft Office… Alternatives to the world’s premiere office suite.

The battle between phone systems, e.g. Apple vs Android.  Worse than the Crusades

Set Top Boxes Battle for Your TV: Amazon Fire vs. Roku vs. Apple TV vs. ???

Click here to listen to Rick Broida

MiTechNews Report

Mike BrennanThe MiTechNews Report is a weekly feature with Mike Brennan, editor and  publisher of MiTechNews.com which focuses on technology headlines and the impact of our tate’s growing high tech sector.

 

Click here to listen to MiTechNews 

keep-calm-and-click-subscribe-2Subscribe to our co-branded MiTechNews Newsletter in collaboration with the Internet Advisor.

 

Randall-PeckProtecting Intellectual Property: Randall Peck, Senior Counsel

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Online Tech 20th Anniversary Yan Ness, CEO

Online Tech, the Midwest’s premier managed data center operator, serves a growing demand for secure and compliant hosting for enterprise organizations with mission-critical applications and data.

Click here to listen to Yan Ness

Hour 2:                Answering Your Questions at 1-800-859-0957

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Podcast 15th Anniversary Special 2/2/13

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Show Notes:

Hour 1:

Emily Hay: Social Media Expert and CEO of Hay There Social Media

Charlie Hopper, Founder Pasty.net Internet for Michigan’s Upper Peninsula.

  Video: Snowy ride to Copper Harbor 

Michael Malone: Author and journalist, has written extensively about Silicon Valley, including The Big Score and The Valley of Heart’s Delight: A Silicon Valley Notebook 1963-2001.

AMERICAN EXPERIENCE’s new Silicon Valley will premiere on PBS.

Hour 2:

Ed Rudel, Cal Carson, and Shane Hamelin:  Internet Advisor Tech Specialists

Rick Broida, The Gadget Guy, columnist for CNet and aka Cheapskate:  Archos Tablets

Aaron Guilimette, VP of IT for Apex Digitalexplains the recent Microsoft announcements about Office 365 Home Premium.

Steve Hyer, CEO of IGD Solutions, host for Internetadvisor.net

Hour 3:

Lauren Baker: One of our first guests at age 5!  Now a U of M coed and busy young, tech savvy lady.

Chris Cristian: Owner, i9 Sports in Ann Arbor talks about his campaign to end concussions in youth sports.

Yan Ness, CEO Online Tech, the place where it all began for Gary Baker

Jason Yaeger, Tech Specialist, Online Tech, here to help answer technical questions …


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Online Technologies Shines in the Cloud

Online Technologies has hosted the Internet Advisor since our first show more than 13 years ago and their  CEO Yan Ness will be our guest on Sat. June 11.  We are proud to announce that they received recognition for their participation in World IPv6 Day this past week and were listed among the Top 25 Cloud Hosting Sites along with big guns like Google.

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Podcast: February 5, 2011

Happy 13th Anniversary to the Internet Advisor with a very special cast of “characters”: Gary Baker, Ed Rudel, Foster Braun and the “Flying Anderson Brothers” Erik Mac Minute Man and Scott the Engineer. Our distinguished guests will include:

Vince Chmielewski representing VC Webdesign wrote the code that makes our homepage work (Members of Inner Circle Media who developed the graphics of our website will visit in the near future.)

  • Jan Gensheimer, President and Diane Durance, Program Committee Chair of New Enterprise Forum which is celebrating 25 yrs. of launching entrepreneurs.

Podcast: February 5, 2011 – Hour 1

Podcast: February 5, 2011 – Hour 2 (Tech Calls)

Podcast: February 5, 2011 – Hour 3 (Tech Calls)


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Podcast: June 26, 2010

Summer is a summer camp time… so why not a tech camp?  This Saturday we preview: Camp Infiniti, a summer camp designed specifically for Metro-Detroit girls by the Michigan Council of Women in Technology Foundation.  The girls will be challenged to design websites and conduct a robot sumo competition this coming week.

Join Foster Braun, Gary Baker and Kurt Hines, our special guest tech expert, as we interview Julie Patterson, Camp Director of Michigan Council of Women in Technology Foundation’s Camp Infinity for the past 5 years, and Marina Reyna who can talk about the camp and speak to why technology is so important for young females.

We also focus on high tech security with Jason Yaeger, from Online Tech and Adam Goslin one of the co-founders of High Bit Security, a company that specializes in helping companies keep their information safe from intruders.  These are the folks who make sure that your information stays safe in other peoples’ hands.

Erik Anderson joins us in studio with The Mac Minute.

Don’t forget, the second hour of the show is all yours.  Call us with your tech questions and we’ll find answers for you. In …


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