This Halloween marked the Mindovo First Annual Halloween Kids Costume Contest. We had a special treat bag that included all natural candy, flash drives, iTunes, iBook, and Amazon gift cards. Participation was free and open to all ages. The event had a strong turnout and there were so many great costumes for our judges to …
Mindovo Shadow Day with Trevor Talbot
Every day students and parents of all ages are learning about a new professional option for their sons and daughters interested in technology – a career as a Mindovo Advisor, the missing technology professional! In this brief video meet Trevor Talbot …
Mindovo Fellowship Program Kicks Off
This month marks the official kick off of the Mindovo Fellowship Program organized in conjunction with Michigan Technological University. Our inaugural fellows are Eric Johnson (left) and Adam Wenneman (right). Both MTU students receive college credit for working at Mindovo during their …
Mindovo Turns 11!
Yesterday, August 10th, Mindovo turned 11 years old! As always, we’re celebrating with freely flowing chocolate milk and birthday cake at our office in Winnetka. Having just completed the first full year of our second decade, Mindovo is on a rapid growth trajectory as we continue to …
Playing with a Bloggie at Lollapalooza 2010
Last week we headed out to Lollapalooza 2010 to take a break from all of the world’s technology and enjoy some good music, food, and friends. But that darn technology followed us! It’s everywhere these days. In the middle of a hot, humid, and sun baked day Sony’s dark, air conditioned tent filled with shiny …
What We Learned by Spending a Month with Google’s Android Phone
Following Apple’s release of the flawed iPhone 4 we took a very close look at Google’s competing Android platform by testing the new HTC EVO 4G available from Sprint. The first thing most people say when we tell them we’ve tested the “Google Android HTC Sense EVO 4G on Sprint” is “what!?” …
Amazon Announces New Kindle 3
Yesterday, Amazon announced the upcoming August 27th release of its new Kindle 3 reading device. The “Kindle” is one part hardware (the Kindle device) and one part cross platform software (Kindle apps). This means you can use the Kindle software running on …
Mindovo Founder Attends TEDGlobal in Oxford
Earlier this month Mindovo founder and TEDxChicago curator, Tony Mars, attended the TEDGlobal conference in Oxford. He was out and about working hard to learn the ways of TED first hand in order to bring the best of TED’s unique culture and experience back to Chicago …
Consumer Reports Can’t Recommend iPhone 4
Consumer Reports has now joined Mindovo in declining to recommend the iPhone 4 until the widely documented “design flaw” in the antenna is fixed by Apple …
Mindovo Welcomes Kaari Nevanen
Mindovo is excited to welcome Kaari Nevanen to our fast growing team of technology advisors. Kaari was originally scheduled to start with Mindovo in late September of this year but our continued growth required her arrival a full four months early …