Content Tagged: Politics
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Last year, tech luminaries across the internet lent their power and influence to a massive online protest against the Stop Online Piracy Act bill, or SOPA.
Posted: 12/19/2012 6:48:59 PM
Earlier this year, a raging controversy blew across the Web when it was reported that some organizations were threatening disciplinary action if employees and job candidates refused to hand over their...
Posted: 9/28/2012 10:53:02 AM
Legions of unhappy iOS 6 upgraders have been complaining about the operating system's buggy new Maps feature; now, it appears that Apple engineers may have dropped the ball on time, too, and not just ...
Posted: 9/21/2012 10:48:11 AM
With the 2012 Presidential Election fast approaching, so is the time to reveal who Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney's running mate will be. In a sign of the smartphone-obsessed times, t...
Posted: 8/4/2012 1:31:42 PM
President Barack Obama on Friday (July 20) used the Wall Street Journal editorial page to urge the Senate to pass the revised Cybersecurity Act of 2012, which would set security standards for critical-infrastructure industries.
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Posted: 7/23/2012 11:59:41 AM
Don't let the breakneck speed of the ubiquitous 24-hour news cycle make you throw up your hands and tune out this year's election. You can follow what's happening on the campaign trail right fro...
Posted: 6/13/2012 9:14:45 AM
Move over QR codes. A new competitor in the get-more-here space is getting real. In fact, it's getting really real, through some technical augmentation from VoterView. This free iOS app boasts being "...
Posted: 5/9/2012 1:55:19 PM
This week at the Personal Democracy Forum, the Sunlight Foundation -- a non-profit that uses technology to make government more transparent -- unveiled a new tool for Gmail that will allow citizens to...
Posted: 6/11/2011 1:03:14 PM
President Obama sent a major piece of cybersecurity legislation to Congress this morning (May 12), asking lawmakers to beef up and streamline existing regulations.
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Posted: 5/12/2011 3:25:58 PM
Yesterday the reports started coming in that the Egyptian government, in an effort to stop the unmediated flow of information regarding the week-long protests against them, effectively turned off the ...
Posted: 1/28/2011 4:26:07 PM