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- San Francisco's green plans
- At the Green: Net '09 Conference in San Francisco, Mayor Gavin Newsom lays out the city's future plans for reducing emissions even further. He explains the city's current electric-car project, and the coming green initiatives of wave technology and tidal-flow generators--a steady stream of energy, he says, that will...
- Tags: San Francisco, Green
- Videos 2009-03-25
- Judge refuses to reduce 'rogue' admin's bail
- Breaking news: A San Francisco judge just refused to lower Terry Childs' bail from $5 million, the SF Chron reports. Prosecutors said that by rigging the network so that key programs were held in memory so that they would be deleted when the network was shut...
- Tags: Bail, Administrator, Network, Sheriff, Prosecutor, Networking, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-07-23
- SF mayor gets back to the keys to the city
- "The first thing I want you to know, Mr. Mayor, is that when you walk out of this room, you will have the computer codes." So spoke Terry Childs, San Francisco's jailed network administrator, to Mayor Gavin Newsom, in a spur-of-the-minute jailhouse meeting, according to SF Chronicle...
- Tags: City, Lawyer, Computer, Productivity, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-07-23
- Working with the wind
- San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom and CNET News.com�¢??s Kara Tsuboi tour a home that gets 40 percent of its power from the wind. After the homeowner installed a 45-foot-tall turbine in her backyard, not only was she the talk of the neighborhood, but her home was named one of the...
- Tags: News, kara tsuboi, gavin newsom, wind, solar, green, san francisco, environment
- Videos 2008-04-11
- Harnessing the power of waves
- San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom believes tapping into tidal and wave power is a swell idea. But how feasible and realistic is this new renewable-energy technology? CNET News.com's Kara Tsuboi sits down with the mayor to find out.
- Tags: kara tsuboi, gavin newsom, tidal power, golden gate bridge, bay, san francisco, waves, ocean, beach
- Videos 2008-03-21
- Singularity Summit 2007: How the artificial intelligensia thinks ahead
- Guest post: This weekend I am at the Singularity Summit 2007 in San Francisco at the Palace of Fine Arts. About 800 people showed up to hear about the issues related to a future in which humans won't be the driving force in delivering scientific and technological innovations, eclipsed cognitively...
- Tags: Face, Chris Matyszczyk, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-09-08
- Newsome takes SF Wi-Fi plans to the voters
- With the city's Wi-Fi initiative seemingly stuck, San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom is trying to turn up the heat by putting the proposal for an ad-based free Wi-Fi network to the voters, the Associated Press reports.The measure is nonbinding so passage wouldn't oblige the government to build the network but...
- Tags: EarthLink Inc., Wi-Fi, Newsome, ZDNet Government
- Blog posts 2007-08-08
- Photos: San Francisco fuels up on biodiesel
- Mayor Gavin Newsom helps celebrate station opening and launch of effort to get all city vehicles running on biodiesel by year's end.
- Tags: biodiesel, San Francisco, photograph
- Image galleries 2007-04-24
- Highlight reel from the D conference
- The D: All Things Digital blog posts here put on by Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher with help from WSJ was a rare event. Of course, the venue (Four Seasons, Carlsbad) and food were good for those who cared, and the attendees included a strange assemblage of well-heeled personalities. The...
- Tags: Sony Corp., Al Gore, Howard Stringer
- Blog posts 2006-06-01
- Google Dearth: Google's Mountain View Wi-Fi may need more transmitters
- Google Dearth: Google's Mountain View Wi-Fi may need more transmittersMuni WiFi for Google/San FranciscoWell San Francisco Muni Wifi is going to be even a bigger challenge - We got hills, we have a much higher coverage requirement of 95% outdoors, 90% indoors and we have old buildings with lead and...
- Tags: Google Inc., Google Dearth, Mountain View Wi-Fi, transmitter
- Discussion threads 2006-05-04
- Google + free + Wi-Fi = You guessed it.
- So why exactly is Google going to provide muni broadband to San Francisco? The better to serve you ads, says the Financial Times. Google aims to be able to track its users to within 100-200 feet of their location through new wireless networks in order to serve...
- Tags: advertisement, Google Inc.
- Blog posts 2006-04-07
- SF mayor girding for lawsuits over Wi-Fi plan
- San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom is expecting lawsuits to stop the city's Wi-Fi plans from opponents with deep pockets. There is a "very organized effort to stop this," Newsom said at a press conference Monday, the San Francisco Chronicle reported. [He] described the opposition as disgraceful...
- Tags: San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom
- Blog posts 2005-10-06
- Google citywide San Francisco Wi-Fi : one giant leap for AdWords, AdSense
- Funny, I thought something was up when I noticed a photo posted of Google's Wi-Fi service in and around New York City's Bryant Park. I even blogged about it.Now here I am on Saturday night, and a story crossed the AP wire about Google being one of the bidders to...
- Tags: Google Inc.
- Blog posts 2005-10-01
- San Francisco shoots for universal wireless service for all residents
- San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom yesterday announced plans for a Wi-Fi network, called TechConnect, to cover all 49 square miles of the city. The city announced a request for information and comments PDF on how to build the network, estimated to cost $10 million to $18 million dollars. In a...
- Tags: TechConnect, Wi-Fi
- Blog posts 2005-08-17
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