The Wi-Fi Networking News podcast series kicks off with an interview with Ted Morgan, head of Skyhook: Skyhook Wireless drives the streets of 100 cities, combining wardriving data from millions of Wi-Fi access points with coordinates derived from high-end GPS (Global Positioning Satellite) receiver systems. They correlate this data through their in-house algorithms, and in most urban and suburban areas can produce a pretty good fix--often much better than GPS which requires at least three satellites in good line of sight.

I talked to Morgan this morning about the company, its toolbar product Loki that plugs their data right into Web sites, and privacy issues about collecting the information they do.

This is the first in a regular series of podcasts I have scheduled over the next few months. I've started a new podcast-only RSS feed which you can plug into a news aggregator that handles podcasts or a program like iTunes that can handle podcast syndication directly.

I welcome your feedback on the programming and future guests you'd like to hear. I have a few dozen backed up into August, and I'll try to have one to three new programs each week until then.

(Please note that although WNN accepts advertising, and Skyhook has, in fact, been an advertiser, these are not paid podcasts: no money or other incentives are involved in these podcasts. The podcasts may feature sponsorships in the future, but those will be fully disclosed and explained.)

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