About 10 percent of Americans today don’t have access to high-speed Internet service. The rest of us are pretty much stuck in the granny lane—on average, we get broadband speeds of less than 5 megabits per second, 10 to 20 times slower than what people in many other countries enjoy.
A group of prominent open source software vendors have written an open letter to the Obama administration encouraging broader adoption of open source software.
hargrand writes “President Obama has found the cyber tsar to head his new White House office of cybersecurity. According to US press reports this morning, an announcement expected later today will confirm Melissa Hathaway is to come in as cyber chief, after being cyber coordination executive for the director of national intelligence.”
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Video game developer Swamiware was surprised to see its latest iPhone app rejected by Apple, and so are we. The application was a harmless game that let you select a known U.S. politician (both republicans and democrats) and have him/her jump a virtual trampoline.
A non-profit coalition of mainly liberal economists is planning a conference (“Thinking Big, Thinking Forward”) to argue for a bailout of around .2T, and has invited Vice President Biden to give the keynote address. No word yet if he will accept. This is no fringe group – it is headed by John Podesta, an influential Obama adviser.
President Obama’s pledge to seek a worldwide ban on weapons in space marks a dramatic shift in U.S. policy while posing the tricky issue of defining whether a satellite can be a weapon.
Pictures of a jacket-less Obama in the White House seemed to signal a more informal culture. Thus did an ironclad rule of the Bush administration — coat and tie in the Oval Office at all times — fall by the wayside. Bush was also inflexible on starting his meetings on time. He even locked Colin Powell out of a meeting for being a few minutes late.
An Ohio man who was suspended as the drum major of a band for giving President Obama a nod during last week’s inaugural parade is calling it quits.”We had gone over and over time and again with everyone in the band that this was a military parade,” Engle told the newspaper.
The plan by Obama and congressional Democrats to revive the economy is taking shape. Here’s what we know so far.
The new president has been in office one week and already the clock is ticking as to whether or not he can get a lot accomplished in the first 100 days of his presidency. Did I miss the memo? I thought the presidency is a four-year term.
