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Wi-Fi a Contentious Tradeshow Beast

Reporter’s Notebook: How do you bring two of the world’s leading technology companies to their knees? Wi-Fi. At a recent media day, Google provided Wi-Fi in a lecture hall for the 200 or so members of the media in attendance. At least there was supposed to be Wi-Fi. Technical glitches prevented that. “We apologize. We […]

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David Needle

Jun 2, 2006

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Reporter’s Notebook: How do you bring two of the world’s leading technology companies to their knees? Wi-Fi.

At a recent media day, Google provided Wi-Fi in a lecture hall for the 200 or so members of the media in attendance. At least there was supposed to be Wi-Fi. Technical glitches prevented that.

“We apologize. We certainly didn’t do this on purpose,” said Elliot Shrage, vice president of global communications at Google.

It took a few hours, but Google restored access after it rebooted some systems and essentially browned out Wi-Fi access to other parts of its campus to accommodate the press.

Gotta appreciate the effort.

Ironically, Google (Quote, Chart) was recently awarded the contract (with EarthLink) to provide Wi-Fi access to the city of San Francisco.

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David Needle

David Needle is a veteran technology reporter based in Silicon Valley. He covers mobile, big data, customer experience, and social media, among other topics. He was formerly news editor at Infoworld, editor of Computer Currents and TabTimes, and West Coast bureau chief for both InformationWeek and Internet.com.

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