Scobleizer » WiFi http://scobleizer.com Exploring the 2010 Web Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:03:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Look inside Meraki, wifi for cities http://scobleizer.com/2008/11/24/look-inside-meraki-wifi-for-cities/ http://scobleizer.com/2008/11/24/look-inside-meraki-wifi-for-cities/#comments Mon, 24 Nov 2008 11:07:18 +0000 http://scobleizer.wordpress.com/?p=4950 On Friday I visited Meraki. They build wifi devices for cities and businesses. San Francisco’s wifi was built by them. So was Google’s efforts in Mountain View, CA (Google was an investor). I shot two videos of CEO Sanjit Biswas:

1. A look at their new indoor products for businesses (just released last week).
2. A look at their solar-powered systems for light poles and such so a city could put wifi on its main streets.

Interesting business, thanks to Sanjit for showing me around.

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Also car related Ford lent me a Ford Flex this week with Microsoft Sync which is pretty cool. I’ll have a separate video about that on Monday.

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]]> http://scobleizer.com/2008/10/30/make-your-car-a-wifi-hot-spot/feed/ 0 My Fourth of July Present to you: the geeky Congresswoman http://scobleizer.com/2008/07/03/my-fourth-of-july-present-to-you-the-geeky-congresswoman/ http://scobleizer.com/2008/07/03/my-fourth-of-july-present-to-you-the-geeky-congresswoman/#comments Fri, 04 Jul 2008 01:47:03 +0000 http://scobleizer.wordpress.com/?p=4345 Get in a patriotic mood by listening to our conversation with Zoe Lofgren, the world’s geekiest politician (she’s a Congresswoman from Silicon Valley). This is part of our trip to Washington DC.

“We’re boring,” she said, when I noted that Andrew Feinberg chastized me and other tech bloggers for not going to Washington DC more often (Andrew runs the Capitol Valley blog and setup these interviews for me).

After that bit of joking around we got into broadband policy, network neutrality, immigration policy, R&D incentives, and she tells us what geeks should pay attention to in the political world of Washington DC.

Enjoy, and enjoy the Fourth of July with your families. For those of you who aren’t Americans, see ya on Saturday.

Some notable things she said: “it’s ridiculous,” she said, that we’re increasing our prosecution of nannies and decreasing our prosecution of organized crime.

She advocated for a chief technology officer and decried that there are still lots of pieces of the government that are still working on paper.

Regarding advertising, she admitted that the technology is moving faster than Congress can move.

Thank you to Seagate, producers of great storage devices, for sponsoring this show, which makes it possible for us to bring stuff like this to you.

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