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White House privacy rights bill is a beginning, not an end

Posted February 23, 2012 - 1:59 pm

Free at last? Not exactly. A consumer privacy bill of rights is long overdue, but anything real will require Congressional action -- an oxymoron if ever there was one.
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Best theories about Obama and Google

Posted August 11, 2011 - 3:36 pm

Theories abound about the role politics is playing in the FTC's antitrust probe of Google.
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White House to host 'Will you legalize marijuana?' town hall on Twitter

Posted June 30, 2011 - 2:19 pm

President Obama should expect plenty of questions about marijuana legalization from Twitter users on July 6.
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8 tech-related facts about bin Laden's death and its aftermath

Posted May 3, 2011 - 4:49 pm

Some ways in which technology played a part in the Osama bin Laden story and its aftermath.
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'Free Subways' and other bin Laden-related Internet scams

Posted May 2, 2011 - 3:16 pm

The cyberscammers are out in full force to take advantage of interest in the death of Osama bin Laden.
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Call Trump's investigators! Groupon to stop running ads on 'Apprentice' website

Posted April 29, 2011 - 12:14 pm

Deal of the day website Groupon promises to prevent its ads from running on the homepage of NBC.com's 'The Apprentice.'
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Inventor of web really wishes Twitter would 'stop foaming at the mouth'

Posted April 28, 2011 - 4:03 pm

The guy who literally invented the World Wide Web is somewhat troubled by the crude level of discourse found on microblogging site Twitter.
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The IT implications of a government shutdown

Posted April 8, 2011 - 12:52 am

With no deal reached between the White House and congressional leaders as of late Thursday night, there's a very good chance the federal government will shut down on Saturday.
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NYT: Former Obama spokesman courted by Facebook

Posted March 28, 2011 - 12:08 pm

Facebook is considering hiring former Obama White House spokesman Robert Gibbs as part of the social networking company's communications team, according to the New York Times.
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Twitter put on double-secret FTC probation

Posted March 14, 2011 - 4:46 pm

Under a settlement with the Federal Trade Commission, microblogging service Twitter has agreed to implement a better information-security policy following separate, successful hacks into user accounts in 2009.
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Growing concerns about Steve Jobs

Posted February 18, 2011 - 7:22 pm

One of the first things I did Friday morning when I saw coverage of President Obama's meeting with tech leaders in California Thursday night was search for pictures or video. Not of Obama, or Mark Zuckerberg or Eric Schmidt. I wanted to see how Steve Jobs looked.
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Socialist computer overlord to control army of surveillance hummingbirds

Posted February 18, 2011 - 1:26 pm

Fox Network personality Glenn Beck has been warning of a secret plot between the U.S. government and tech companies, particularly Google, to bring the "change that the Washington elites have designed."
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Obama, technology leaders to discuss secret plan for mobile-apps-based Muslim caliphate

Posted February 17, 2011 - 6:14 pm

Someone is on to the liberal conspiracy between the Obama Administration and search giant Google, and that someone is Fox Network star and American hero Glenn Beck.
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White House wants to police Internet privacy

Posted November 12, 2010 - 2:06 pm

After years of watching Internet companies (yes, I'm looking at you, Google, Facebook, Microsoft, etc.) take increasing liberties with personal data they collect from online users, the government finally has concluded that some concrete regulations might be a good idea.
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Top tech execs call on Obama to consider open-source

Posted February 10, 2009 - 11:04 am

A group of prominent open source industry executives have issued an open letter to President Obama highlighting the critical role open-source software could play in the government sector.
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The White House Goes Web

Posted November 10, 2008 - 12:41 pm

If you ever doubted the power of new marketing models using the Web, e-mail, and text messages, get over that now. The Washington Post reports in their story â€œUnder Obama, Web Would Be the Way,â€ how the president-elect will continue to use the huge mailing list developed during the campaign to connect directly to supporters. Previous presidents could only use expensive direct mail to speak to their supporters without going through the traditional media, but Obama plans to keep open the direct communication link that served him so well during the campaign.
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