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  • Hackers leverage Obama win for massive malware campaign

    Posted November 5, 2008 - 4:47 pm

    Hackers have seized on the results of the U.S. presidential election to launch a major malware campaign that tries to trick users into installing an update to Adobe's Flash, but actually plants a Trojan on unprotected PCs, security experts warned Wednesday.

  • E-voting '08: Problems, yes, but it could have been worse

    Posted November 4, 2008 - 8:56 pm

    Despite reports all day long about an assortment of e-voting machine problems in several U.S. states, no massive systemic meltdown occurred.

  • Nov. 4, 2008: What could possibly go wrong?

    Posted November 3, 2008 - 9:40 pm

    E-voting technology has come a long way since the 2000 U.S. presidential election, when voting equipment problems erased an estimated 1.5 million votes during one of the closest elections in U.S. history. But progress has zig-zagged.

  • Election '08: Tech highs and lows

    Posted November 3, 2008 - 11:32 am

    Technology has played a greater role than ever this election year. And on this US election eve, e-voting security issues remain a concern. In this roundup, some tech highpoints and lowpoints (and funny points too).

  • E-voting groups are watching a handful of states

    Posted November 3, 2008 - 10:11 am

    "This is an election that will sort of stress-test the [election] systems," said Pamela Smith, a longtime critic of electronic voting machines. "Any problem that's going to come up is going to be amplified."

  • Ed Felten on e-voting: What can go wrong

    Posted November 3, 2008 - 9:56 am

    Voting machines of all stripes have remarkably similar flaws and though geographically scattered, inaccurate tallies of votes are not likely to flip a whole presidential election, there is a "nightmare scenario" that could.

  • Top 20 Election Day Web sites and online tools

    Posted November 3, 2008 - 9:49 am

    Ready for election day? The Web is brimming with interactive tools -- everything from widgets to mobile alerts -- that can help you stay on top of the presidential vote and keep you informed, no matter where you go. Here are some of the best resources the Web has to offer.

  • Top 10: Best viral videos from the 2008 election

    Posted November 2, 2008 - 7:50 pm

    The 2008 presidential election generated some very funny viral videos. Here are the 10 best.

  • Election equipment companies boost Election Day tech support

    Posted November 2, 2008 - 2:24 pm

    Voting system manufacturers say they don’t expect major equipment glitches to disrupt voting and vote tallying on Nov. 4. Nonetheless, the leading companies that develop election machinery are boosting their technical support operations – largely from reduced levels – in the run-up to Election Day.

  • Out-of-this-world election: NASA astronauts vote from space

    Posted October 31, 2008 - 3:06 pm

    Think the long lines, cooling temperatures and legions of political sign holders will make voting a hassle on Tuesday? Well, try voting from 220 miles above Earth while traveling at 17,500 miles per hour.

  • Supporters lay out tech reasons to vote for Obama, McCain

    Posted October 30, 2008 - 7:29 pm

    Supporters of Barack Obama and John McCain debated tech policy, discussing topics like universal broadband, H-1B visas and business taxes.

  • Contractor suspected in 'Joe the Plumber' privacy breach

    Posted October 29, 2008 - 8:35 am

    The Ohio State Highway Patrol has identified a suspect in a criminal case involving illegal access to information in a state government database about Joseph Wurzelbacher, the plumber made famous by Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., during the Oct. 15 presidential debate.

  • Hot search terms: Joe the plumber, 'lipness test'

    Posted October 27, 2008 - 7:58 pm

    Google Trends provides some great insight into what people are thinking about, even if they don't always help us to understand what this insight means in terms of the candidates' positioning.

  • Palin piques the blogosphere

    Posted October 27, 2008 - 7:37 pm

    In a striking example of this news-driven nature of blog postings, both presidential candidates were completely eclipsed, beginning in late August, by blog mentions of the their respective running mates -- with relative-newcomer Palin, in an echo of the spike in popularity of her name as a Google search term, being far more widely mentioned than Biden during this phase.

  • Friending Obama

    Posted October 27, 2008 - 7:31 pm

    When you take a close look at the traffic patterns within the Web 2.0-based community, the popularity gap between the two presidential candidates increases. Obama's favored by a 4-to-1 margin compared with the 2-to-1 margin when we looked at other Internet Web traffic trends.

  • Election '08: What's in a domain name

    Posted October 27, 2008 - 7:16 pm

    The tale told by other Internet traffic trends (see Internet traffic tracking favors Obama), also rings true when taking domain registration into account. Using DomainTools to query for domains, we saw 2,357 domains for Obama and 1,431 domains for McCain.

  • Can the Web predict the next president?

    Posted October 27, 2008 - 7:12 pm

    Traffic analysis can be applied to the Web to understand a wide range of behavior patterns ranging from social media networks to suggestion systems in e-commerce to even the current hot topic: the presidential race.

  • Estimate Your Taxes Under Next President With Online Model

    Posted October 27, 2008 - 4:54 pm

    There's a lot of issues that impact voters' decisions, including taxes. A business-school professor and a business modeling software developer have teamed up to help voters evaluate, side-by-side, the tax proposals of Senators Barack Obama and John McCain.

  • Open source: How e-voting should be done

    Posted October 27, 2008 - 12:54 pm

    In the past eight years, elections in the United States have taken on the guise of a TV game show, with the elections themselves not quite as compelling as watching voting mechanisms fail across the country, especially in key battleground states such as Florida and Ohio. Pols and pundits from both sides of the aisle are quick to place most of the blame on faulty electronic voting systems. But until we set a technical policy that favors open voting systems, as Australia did in 2001 with its open source eVACS (Electronic Voting and Counting System), we have only ourselves to blame.

  • Google offers its maps to help voters find polling places

    Posted October 22, 2008 - 8:15 pm

    As Election Day nears, Google Inc. has created a Web site to help voters find the location of their polling places by typing in an address and clicking a search button.

  • Voters allege e-voting machines switching votes

    Posted October 22, 2008 - 3:39 pm

    A handful of early voters in West Virginia have complained that electronic voting machines there switched their votes, but voting officials and the e-voting vendor discounted the problem.

  • Cash, cups, clicks: Techies back Obama

    Posted October 21, 2008 - 2:14 pm

    In every state that has a large tech employment base, Barack Obama is winning by large margins in 7-Eleven coffee cup selections (7-Eleven customers can pick either an Obama or John McCain coffee cup). New Jersey is the exception, with Obama having only a slim cup-edge over John McCain.

  • Election deception: The Web's 12 dirtiest tricks

    Posted October 20, 2008 - 7:43 pm

    Political campaigns in the United States are notorious for inspiring dirty tricks and nasty tactics. Now, in the most tech-attuned presidential race to date, the dark art of misleading voters is growing even more malignant than it was in the past.

  • Where the candidates stand on tech issues

    Posted October 20, 2008 - 2:52 pm

    Here's a look at the candidates' stances on five issues of interest to the nation's IT leaders: telecommunications, national security, privacy, IT jobs and innovation.

  • Overall, YouTube a kinder, gentler place for Obama

    Posted October 17, 2008 - 3:06 pm

    When I talk to people about this year's presidential election, sooner or later a video on YouTube will be referenced. Over the past month, if you have any interest in the race at all, you've been sent to (or linked to) YouTube to watch videos like the tirades of Obama's ex-pastor Jeremiah Wright, McCain supporters calling Obama a terrorist, claiming he's Moslem or screaming "kill him," any of the dozens of "McCain Gets Angry" videos, Katie Couric's interview with Sarah Palin (aka Caribou Barbie), or any of the often-brilliant SNL send-ups of this year's candidates. But overall it seems like YouTube is a friendlier place for Obama than it is for McCain.
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