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.

MiTechNews Headlines On WJR’s Internet Advisor

DETROIT - MITechNews.Com Editor Mike Brennan talks top stories in last week's eNewsletters with Internet Advisor Co-Host and Producer Foster Braun. The show is heard live on WJR 760 AM from 4 to 6 pm Saturdays. Hot stories discussed include Bamboo Detroit offering Starter memberships for just $40 a month. Michigan Treasury Departments warns taxpayers

By |2017-03-14T16:25:15-04:00March 14th, 2017|Internet Advisor, Podcasts|

SmartBracket Bonanza For March Madness – Crush Your Office Pool

DETROIT - Patrick Anderson joins our staff with a secret weapon in the never ending pursuit of picking the perfect bracket during the NCAA March Madness basketball championship.  His Lansing based company, Supported Intelligence, discovered that using Artificial Intelligence helped to create a high (95 percent) degree of accuracy in picking winners during the 2016

By |2017-03-14T16:25:15-04:00March 14th, 2017|Featured, Internet Advisor, Podcasts|

MiTechNews Headlines On WJR’s Internet Advisor – AWS Outage, Intelligent Transportation Workforce, Smart Toys Get Hacked

DETROIT - MITechNews.Com Editor Mike Brennan every Saturday is interviewed on the Internet Advisor show on WJR 760 AM in Detroit. On March 4, he discussed several stories that appeared in MITechNews.Com. Those include a report from WIN that said Connected, Automated Vehicle Makers Must Collaborate to Train Intelligent Transportation Systems Workforce. Another on a

By |2017-03-08T16:09:04-05:00March 8th, 2017|Featured, Internet Advisor, Podcasts|

Five Ways To Spot A Phishing eMail

DETROIT - In a 2016 report from Wombat Security, organizations reported that the most successful phishing attacks were disguised as something an employee was expecting, like an HR document, a shipping confirmation or a request to change a password that looked like it came from the IT department. Make sure to scrutinize any such emails

By |2017-03-08T12:22:49-05:00March 8th, 2017|Cyber Defense, Internet Advisor, Podcasts|

Lawrence Tech University Summer Camps

DETROIT - Lisa R. Kujawa, the Assistant Provost for Enrollment at Lawrence Technological University, joined us for the first  hour of the show to highlight the summer camp schedule coming this July at LTU. Over 500 students from all over the state and a few foreign countries attended last year’s camps as commuter campers and

By |2017-02-21T20:18:45-05:00February 21st, 2017|Internet Advisor, Podcasts|

Detroit Institute Of Arts Augmented Reality With Lumin

DETROIT - Detroit Institute of the Arts staffers, Richard Scott, Dir. of IT and Megan DiRienzo, DIA interpretive planner, joined us in studio with Lumin, a device that is designed to add Augmented Reality interpretive information to some of the art displays. To listen, click on http://internetadvisor.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/1704-DIA-Lumin.mp3  

By |2017-02-08T11:10:22-05:00February 8th, 2017|Internet Advisor, Podcasts|

Caston Thomas Explains New Ransomeware Threat

DETROIT - Caston Thomas, CEO of InterWorks, is a noted cybersecurity expert from the Ann Arbor area who has been called the Chuck Norris of Securing and Managing Mobile and Networks.  There are new forms of ransomeware that now lock out your entire operating system unless you pay up. Caston also explained the new wireless

By |2017-02-08T11:10:23-05:00February 8th, 2017|Cyber Defense, Internet Advisor, Podcasts|

Hacking Innovation: Josh Linkner’s Newest Best Seller

ROYAL OAK - To Josh Linkner, creativity and innovation are the lifeblood of all human progress, and as such, he’s spent his career harnessing the spirit of creative disruption. His journey has been non-traditional at every step: he’s been a professional jazz guitarist, 4-time tech entrepreneur, hyper-growth CEO, New York Times bestselling author, venture capitalist,

By |2017-02-08T11:10:23-05:00February 8th, 2017|Internet Advisor, Podcasts|