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The view from the top of IT with TechWorld Editor Rohan Pearce
The efforts of U.S. President Barack Obama's administration to streamline and improve the government's IT systems aren't proceeding as quickly as officials have suggested, a federal auditor said Thursday.
By Grant Gross | 24 May, 2012 18:42
U.S. President Barack Obama has ordered all major government agencies to make two key services available on mobile phones within a year, in an effort to embrace a growing trend toward Web surfing on mobile devices.
By Grant Gross | 23 May, 2012 20:06
U.S. President Barack Obama has ordered all major government agencies to make two key services available on mobile phones within a year, in an effort to embrace a growing trend toward Web surfing on mobile devices.
By Grant Gross | 23 May, 2012 17:58
The U.S. House of Representatives has passed a cyberthreat information-sharing bill that critics say will give U.S. government agencies access to the private communications of millions of Internet users.
By Grant Gross | 27 April, 2012 09:19
As the U.S. House of Representatives prepares to debate a controversial cyberthreat information-sharing bill, a key deal with a vocal digital rights group has fallen apart.
By Grant Gross | 26 April, 2012 12:33
The press has been all over President-Elect Barack Obama's addiction to his BlackBerry and the possibility that he might have to give it up for reasons of national security. But no one in the media seems to be asking the most logical follow-up question: Is the cybertechnology that can compromise the future chief executive's BlackBerry also a threat to mobile devices being used every day by thousands of senior executives in corporate America?
By Ephraim Schwartz | 10 December, 2008 09:27
Could Barack Obama ever expect to continue using his BlackBerry once he officially becomes president?
By Matt Hamblen | 08 December, 2008 09:14
Despite reports all day long about an assortment of e-voting machine problems in several US states, no massive systemic meltdown occurred.
By Todd R. Weiss | 06 November, 2008 08:04
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.
By Thomas Powell and Joe Lima | 28 October, 2008 12:16
Blog mentions are, like search terms, something of a special case. They probably show the least conclusive representation of candidate support, because there is no way to assess whether such mentions reflect a preponderance of positive or negative evaluations of the candidates. Anecdotal evidence suggests that negative mentions of candidate A by blogs supporting candidate B, and vice-versa, are very common indeed.
By Thomas Powell and Joe Lima | 28 October, 2008 12:15
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