Foster Braun

About Foster Braun

Foster Braun has been co-hosting the Internet Advisor on WJR since early February 1998 except for a short time in early 2000. He has been in the Detroit radio market since 1975 where he has worked talk shows for most of his career and started with WJR in 1996. Since 1998 he has gained enough knowledge of computers to ruin some really fine machines and then fix most of them with the help of the other Internet Advisors. In 2008 he crossed over to the Dark Side and started worked exclusively on a MacBook Pro laptop. His wife Ginny uses a Windows PC laptop running Windows 10; so Foster finds himself doing tech support in both worlds! Foster identifies himself as “the voice of the listener” sometimes fighting through the geek-speak to explanations that even he can understand.

“Unmanned Lighthouse” Heroes Become Victims

DETROIT - Sharma Krauskopf is the Executive Producer/Screenwriter of Lighthouse Unmanned, which began its life as a crowdfunding project that we announced three years ago on Internet Advisor.  The movie has finally launched and is currently being screened at a film festival in Toronto, Ont.  Sharma takeS us through how the Internet was used to bring

By |2017-06-13T22:02:09-04:00June 13th, 2017|Internet Advisor, Podcasts|

Zeamster: Making Banking Secure Online

DETROIT - Kevin Shamoun, Founder and CEO and Erica Drozdowski, Director Client Integrations, join us in studio to tell the story of Zeamster.  This Novi based company came to Gary Baker’s attention at the Collision Conference recently where start ups meet interested venture capitalists.  This Michigan based software firm helps small to mid-sized business protect

By |2017-06-07T17:00:23-04:00June 7th, 2017|Internet Advisor, New Products / Contracts, Podcasts|

The Bridge – Unique Commercialization Program For Startups

DETROIT - Alan Boehme, is the Chief Technology Officer, Chief Innovation Officer & Chief Architect at the Coca-Cola Company and the visionary behind THE BRIDGE, a unique Commercialization Program for startups, acting as a bridge between the entrepreneurial community and major global markets including the US, Europe, Africa/Eurasia and the Pacific.  The vision began three years

By |2017-05-17T16:37:57-04:00May 17th, 2017|Cyber Defense, Internet Advisor, Podcasts|

CyberSecurity Headlines: French Election Email Bomb…Computer Apps Eavesdropping…Two Factor Banking Hacked

DETROIT - Richard Stiennon is an internationally recognized security analyst and author with a sharp eye for security weaknesses and trends. He is the Chief Strategy Officer at Blancco Technology Group, former industry analyst and author of There Will Be Cyberwar, a Washington Post Bestseller. He joined the Internet Advisor gang to talk about the biggest

By |2017-05-09T19:37:42-04:00May 9th, 2017|Cyber Defense, Internet Advisor, Podcasts|

Agile And Beyond Conference May 4-5 – Teaching Businesses Agile Principles

DETROIT - Tom Churchwell and Jason Dinkelmann join us to promote Agile and Beyond Conference coming May 4-5 to Ypsilanti’s Eagle Crest Center.  Agile and Beyond is a grassroots, volunteer run conference. It helps people learn about agile principles and practices as well as covers topics that help make people and companies awesome. With approximately 100 sessions

By |2017-04-25T19:52:12-04:00April 25th, 2017|Internet Advisor, Podcasts|

The Resume is Dead…Long live the Resume!

DETROIT - Steve Acho,  VP of Business Development  Solstice Consulting Group has the answer to the question: Why is technology recruiting broken and what to do about it?  He has developed Shortro.com staffing that cuts the time and effort of finding qualified candidates for IT jobs by 80 percent assuring hiring the right candidate with greater accuracy.  Resumes are so 2001;

By |2017-04-19T14:06:59-04:00April 18th, 2017|Internet Advisor, Podcasts|

College Students Beat The Text Book Shell Game With Mobile App Book Cycle

DETROIT - Two Detroit students at Kalamazoo College got fed up with the typical school bookstore hustle: incredibly high costs at the beginning of the school semester followed by incredibly low prices on those same books when the semester is over.  Is there no way to beat this “shell game”? Kalamazoo College Juniors, Darryl Lewis

By |2017-04-12T09:46:51-04:00April 12th, 2017|Internet Advisor, Podcasts, Social Media|

Protecting Privacy Online?

DETROIT - Caston Thomas, CEO of InterWorks Technology, thinks the whole hubbub in the press about Congress giving away our rights to online privacy is overblown.  Plenty of other players than ISP’s have been gathering and selling our information to the highest bidder. That is just the price of being online. To listen, click on http://internetadvisor.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/1712-Privacy-Debate.mp3  

By |2017-04-04T20:30:52-04:00April 4th, 2017|Cyber Defense, Internet Advisor, Podcasts|

Meta Mesh Provides City-Wide Internet Access When Other Networks Go Down

DETROIT - Meta Mesh bridges the Digital Divide through the use of novel wireless solutions wherever they are needed. Meta Mesh, a 501c3 non-profit is mostly known for building the PittMesh Community Wireless Network in its hometown of Pittsburgh. This network now boasts over sixty locations providing open public Internet access. Each device is connected to

By |2017-03-28T14:55:40-04:00March 28th, 2017|Connected Tech, Internet Advisor, Mobile MI, Podcasts|

Sheri Kam Talks Pocket Democracy Apps: Gives You A Voice In Your Politician’s Ear

 DETROIT - Sheri Kam is our social media expert and she joins us Internet Advisor on WJR as a special cohost.  Pocket Democracy is a catchy name for something that has been around the Internet for a while:Applications that keep you connected with what is going on in politics and, more importantly, gives  you a

By |2017-03-28T14:25:34-04:00March 28th, 2017|Featured, Internet Advisor, Podcasts|