Viodi View – The Bridge Between the Heartland and Silicon Valley

  • The First White Space Device

    The First White Space Device

    People in Wilmington, NC are lucky, as the FCC announces that their area will be the first to be able to use the newly, FCC-approved device from Koos Technical Services. This device will use the Spectrum Bridge white spaces database for frequency coordination. The FCC writes that they, “Will expand nationwide pending completion and activation…

  • Viodi View – 12/21/11

    Viodi View – 12/21/11

    Viodi produced and posted over 110 videos for ViodiTV in 2012 and yet that is only a partial list of our work. Many of our interviews, event reports, and recent documonials are on other sites and in some cases in our archives awaiting for an accompanying a story. We traveled from the Sierra Nevada of…

  • Deutsche Telekom (DT/ T-Labs) Briefing with Partner Companies: Jan 24, 2012 in Palo Alto, CA

    Deutsche Telekom (DT) will brief our IEEE ComSocSCV group on their latest Silicon Valley activities January 24, 2012 in Palo Alto, CA. Louis Schreier, VP of /T-Labs Division will will provide an outline of DT’s current mission in the U.S. and describe several important activities they are engaged in. Three DT partner companies- Mozilla, Nicira…

  • Silicon Valley Power’s Smart Grid Network & Free WiFi in Santa Clara

    That’s the title of the Dec 14 IEEE ComsocSCV Meeting in Santa Clara, CA. In addition to two presentations and a spirited panel discussion, there will be a short award ceremony preceding the talks. Here’s a brief description of each talk: 1. Fiber enables Santa Clara’s “Smart” Wireless WAN Larry Owens of Silicon Valley Power…

  • Engineering Our Wireless Future at the UC Berkeley Global Leadership Conference, November 18, 2011

    Abstract With more than 5 billion users of mobile devices, the world has gone wireless in a big way. Wireless technologies are transforming communications, commerce, healthcare, energy use and other domains at an unprecedented rate. At this mini conference, two very high profile wireless industry leaders (Paul Jacobs and Arun Sarin) described the ubiquitous, reliable,…

  • Viodi View – 11/23/11

    Viodi View – 11/23/11

    If Innovation is the driver of economic growth, then what is necessary to spark innovation?  Is there a recipe that a society can use to create a culture of innovation?  Do apps count as innovation or is innovation associated with breakthroughs in basic research?  Silicon Valley has been a center of innovation for decades and…