Consolidation in the wireless industry risks shifting the balance of power away from Silicon Valley toward the much less innovative wireless carriers.

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They illustrate her wide-ranging interests (from e-commerce to wireless electricity), as well as her throw weight in Silicon Valley (not everyone gets to co-invest with Andreessen Horowitz or to back Jack Dorsey).

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Silicon Valley entrepreneur and CEO of Wi-Fi equipment maker Ruckus Wireless Selina Lo, 52, learned some tough lessons from her father Bokong Lo, 77.

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After Alberto Herrera , chief executive of fledgling wireless-sensor network company Medida , pitched his firm to a panel of four top-tier Silicon Valley venture capitalists--in front of a standing-room-only crowd of some 350 people-- Josh Stein of venture capital firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson was so impressed that he asked Herrera to set up a meeting.

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The new meters send electricity and water usage reports via wireless network, but in Santa Clara, a city of 118, 000 in the heart of the Silicon Valley, they also have an unusual separate channel that provides free, outdoor Internet.

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