Talk:WiPower

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This article should be tagged for coi issues, as the creator and primary author is apparently an employee of WiPower. This may help ease the content dispute with Frost and Sullivan (User:FS2009) as well. Gigs (talk) 01:36, 5 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Do you have any evidence of the conflict of interest? &mdash; Martin (MSGJ · talk) 12:18, 5 June 2009 (UTC)
 * FS2009 has pointed out that Henoch Senbetta is "Chief of Business Development & Co-Founder" of Wipower. User:Hsenbetta is surely this person. Gigs (talk) 12:57, 5 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Okay, ✅ &mdash; Martin (MSGJ · talk) 13:00, 5 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Every line in the article is cited. Please identify any uncited and bias claims and remove as you see fit.  Lastly, if I were trying to be biased, I would have registered under a slightly more inconspicuous username &mdash; Hsenbetta (talk)
 * [comment cut off] agrees with the previous updates which was taken down by Hsenbetta and DatWiPower twice. Comparing a wireless power system with a wired system is definitely biased. In addition, based on Henoch Sebetta Linkedin account he is still with Deloitte and has no engineering experienced. Based on their Linkedin account again, the other co-founder/VP technology Ashish Gupta joined WiPower only in June 2008. How can he be a co-founded when he joined the company in 2008 when it was founded in 2004? Finally, what has "IT Team Lead for Windows and Cisco Infrastructure and systems for the Manufacturing Environment." got to do with wireless power technology. Based on my 20 years of engineering experience, it seems that the company is merely using Wikipedia as a sales tool and the information provided are not accurate which defeats the spirit of Wikipedia. EngineerMentor talk) 18:35, 5 June 2009 (UTC)
 * (to Hsenbetta) It is important to note that the COI tag merely serves as a warning that there might be a neutrality issue with the article, since one of the contributors had a conflict of interest. Gigs (talk) 18:03, 5 June 2009 (UTC)
 * (to Gigs) Completely understood - and no issue with this. In accordance with wikipedia guidelines, each statement is cited to a reliable media outlet and factual.  Again, if you feel there is anything that cannot be reference and appears biased, please feel free to remove it immediately. &mdash; Hsenbetta (talk)
 * (to EngineerMentor) The company was founded by three engineers, Ryan Tseng, Ashish Gupta, and Henoch Senbetta while they were at the University of Florida (in several of the cited articles, you'll notice that the company is called a "UF spinoff"). Upon graduation the company leveraged the University to continue R&D under the guidance of Dr. Jenshan Lin.  Ryan pursued his MBA at MIT, Henoch pursued consulting at Deloitte, and Ashish a job at Anheiser Busch.  Over the last two years, the three reunited and continued pursuit of the venture, securing funding and hiring a CEO, Rahul Razdan, and a team of engineers. Also, for the record, Henoch received his degree in Industrial Engineering at UF Class of 2006 (this is publicly available information).  Also, the comment I removed was not referenced and negative/biased in tone - if it were cited, I would not have done so. Also, my apologies - I have not had a chance to update my social networking sites in some time.  I will do so as soon as I get a free moment. &mdash; Hsenbetta (talk)
 * (to all) My intentions here are clear - to set the foundation for others to provide accurate, cited information about wireless power systems and WiPower as a company. Again, if my intentions were otherwise, I could have easily done so with a more discrete username.  I'm a firm believer in Wikipedia as a source of reliable and factual information, and encourage others to add such content to the WiPower page. &mdash; Hsenbetta (talk)  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.38.93.194 (talk) 18:30, 5 June 2009 (UTC)

Content Dispute between WiPower and Frost & Sullivan
To All Admins.

In the WiPower reference section, specifically reference #10 pointing to the Business Report publication for North Central Florida also references Frost & Sullivan's information as provided by WiPower's CEO, Ryan Tseng, without Frost & Sullivan's permission.

As of this morning, I contaced Kevin Ireland who is the publisher of that publication and they will be removing any reference to a Frost & Sullivan Award to WiPower from their article until such time that WiPower enters into a license agreement with Frost & Sullivan to allow the public display of information from our copyrighted research.

Since WiPower's CEO Ryan Tseng declined to enter into the license agreement with us, we also ask that any reference to Frost & Sullivan, our research, Awards, consulting, or any other intellectual property be removed from WiPower's Wikipedia page until such an agreement can be reached by both parties.

FS2009FS2009 (talk) 19:03, 5 June 2009 (UTC)
 * What intellectual property are you talking about here? No one needs permission to cite references. Gigs (talk) 19:25, 5 June 2009 (UTC)

The intellectual property I am referring to is the "Frost & Sullivan Award" that WiPower is referencing in the history section of WiPower's Wikipedia page and in the Flordia Business Journal (reference #10 in WiPower's reference section.) That publication is being edited by their Publisher, Kevin Ireland, and will reflect the changes soon.

The Award being referred to comes from findings of primary, analyst research conducted by Frost & Sullivan. The research was fully funded, conducted, and is owned by Frost & Sullivan as intellectual property (business intelligence research) that Frost & Sullivan sells to our subscribers and it is not meant for public usage.

The research comes from primary sources and is copyrighted by Frost & Sullivan and protected under section 106 & 107 of the 1976 Copyright Act as an original work of authorship as well as being an original intellectual work.

We do not allow companies to leverage our research or its findings in the general public without a license agreement, this is something Mr. Ryan Tseng, WiPower's CEO, declined to do. Yet, he and his Business Development guy, Mr. Henoch Senbetta who appears the user who is authoring this page, is publically using Wikipedia as a publicity platform to boast about our research findings without our permission.

By listing this on their Wikipedia page, WiPower is trying to benefit their company and technology by leveraging our analyst work without our permission and are using Wikipedia as a platform to do so.

Again, I am not asking that his Wikipedia page be removed, or that they be banned, only that the one statement about the Frost & Sullivan Award be removed and not allowed to be displayed until WiPower and Frost & Sullivan can enter into a legal license agreement for use of our intellectual property (research findings).

As noted previously, Ryan Tseng was made aware of this and has chosen to ignore. I tried contacting Mr. Senbetta to also discuss but was unable to find contact details for him. All messages left for Mr. Tseng after Dec. 19th 2008 have not been returned. I have records of my e-mails and calls to WiPower about this as well (All dating from Sept. 2008 - Dec. 2008).

FS2009FS2009 (talk) 19:44, 5 June 2009 (UTC)


 * This was not my understanding of the award, nor my interpretation of the article that cited it, however I agree, the comment should be removed until the situation is resolved. &mdash; Hsenbetta (talk)  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.38.93.194 (talk) 19:50, 5 June 2009 (UTC)

Hello Mr. Senbetta. I would be more then happy to discuss this with you but have never been able to find a contact number for you. If you are available at the WiPower main phone line I can call you to discuss. Or if you want to post a phone number on your talk page I can call you directly.

FS2009FS2009 (talk) 19:56, 5 June 2009 (UTC)
 * If there is consensus for a change to the article, then use followed by what you want to change. Gigs (talk) 20:02, 5 June 2009 (UTC)

The part we're requesting be removed is: WiPower won the 2008 North American Technology of the Year Award from Frost & Sullivan, a growth partnership company.

Thanks FS2009FS2009 (talk) 20:28, 5 June 2009 (UTC)


 * Okay, I've done it. Let me know if there are any problems. &mdash; Martin (MSGJ · talk) 21:20, 5 June 2009 (UTC)

Thanks Martin.

FS2009FS2009 (talk) 16:37, 6 June 2009 (UTC)