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Obama’s Choice for U.N. Is Advocate of Strong Action Against Mass Killings President-elect Barack Obama has chosen his foreign policy adviser, Susan E. Rice, to be ambassador to the United Nations, picking an advocate of “dramatic action” against genocide. Home > Rss Directory > General > NY Time |
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Early Reactions to Obama's Pick Just as news broke early this morning of Sen. Barack Obama's choice of Sen. Joe Biden as his running mate, Sen. John McCain's campaign sent out a prepared attack ad using a quote from Biden saying that Obama was not "ready" to be president. It was predictable given that the two men were primary oppo Home > Rss Directory > General > Political Wire |
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Lessig considers running for Congress Lawrence Lessig, the cyberlaw author and advocate for free software and online civil liberties, is considering a run for the U.S. Congress, he announced on his blog Wednesday.Lessig, author of books such as "Fre Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Fitting Network TV for a Toe Tag News from Portfolio.com Also on Portfolio Can Jeff Zucker Reinvent Broadcast TV? Best Buy Starts Selling the iPhone What a Former Hockey GM Can Tell the Music Industry Subscribe to Portfolio magazine For 20 years, Ted Ha Home > Rss Directory > General > Wired News |
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Fitting Network TV for a Toe Tag News from Portfolio.com Also on Portfolio Can Jeff Zucker Reinvent Broadcast TV? Best Buy Starts Selling the iPhone What a Former Hockey GM Can Tell the Music Industry Subscribe to Portfolio magazine For 20 years, Ted Ha Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Wired News |
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Cybersecurity report offers Obama some far-reaching recommendations A congressionally sponsored study conducted by the Center for Strategic and International Studies, made public on Monday, recommends everything from the creation of a the National Office for Cyberspace outside the authority of the Department of Homeland Security to ma Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Top 10: Military goods for sale and miscreants aplenty Psssst ... Hey, you over there! Yeah, you. Wanna buy some F-14 components? According to the Government Accountability Office, purloined military equipment can be found online at eBay or Craigslist. Seems like it was a week for wild-and-woolly Internet-related news. SA Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Lessig decides not to run for Congress Cyberlaw author and professor Lawrence Lessig has decided not to run for the U.S. Congress after briefly flirting with the idea, he announced on his blog Monday.Lessig said last week he was considering a run fo Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Progress buys Iona for SOA wares Progress Software is buying fellow SOA infrastructure vendor Iona Technologies for about $162 million, or $106 million net of cash and marketable securities.Iona's board has already unanimously approved the deal Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Obama Hopes To Revitalize U.S. Economy With Help Of Timothy Geithner As Treasury Chief (AHN) (AHN) - President-elect Barack Obama has picked Timothy Geithner, head of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, to be his Treasury secretary, as Geithner is believed to be a strong advocate of government intervention in the troubled economy. - Sat, 22 Nov 2008 12:32:50 GMT Home > Rss Directory > Business > AllHeadline |
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Groups push for net neutrality in Obama administration Advocates of net neutrality rules in the U.S. have called on President-elect Barack Obama to act quickly to prevent broadband providers from blocking or impairing access to Internet content of customers' choice. Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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PPIC: Obama Holds Large Lead in California The latest Public Policy Institute of California survey shows Sen. Barack Obama leading Sen. John McCain in the nation's most populous state, 50% to 35%.Key findings: "Obama is the choice of men, women, and Latinos, while whites are divided (43% Obama, 41% McCain). McCain has strong sup Home > Rss Directory > General > Political Wire |
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Kucinich Urges Supporters to Back Obama on Second Ballot If he doesn't make the 15% cut in the first Iowa caucus ballot on Thursday, Rep. Dennis Kucinich urged his supporters to vote for Sen. Barack Obama as their second choice. Said Kucinich: "I hope Iowans will caucus for me as their first choice this Thursday, because of my singular posi Home > Rss Directory > General > Political Wire |
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Update: Microsoft beats forecasts for Q2 Microsoft beat Wall Street expectations for both revenue and EPS (earnings per share) for its fiscal 2008 second quarter, attributing its strong quarter to sales of core client products, such as Windows Vista and Office 2007, as well as Exchange and SharePoint server Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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McKinnon Confirms He'll Leave McCain if Obama Wins The National Journal runs an interesting interview with GOP media strategist Mark McKinnon who says he still leave Sen. John McCain's campaign if Sen. Barack Obama wins the Democratic nomination."Well, this goes back to a memo that I wrote to the campaign when I came aboard more than a Home > Rss Directory > General > Political Wire |
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Obama Sharpens Attacks on Clinton Sen. Barack Obama "sharpened his tone" against Sen. Hillary Clinton "as the six-week Pennsylvania primary contest raced to a close, with the rivals marshaling extensive resources in a battle for undecided voters and delegates that could determine whether the Democratic nominating fight carries on," Home > Rss Directory > General > Political Wire |
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Obama To Hold Rally Tuesday Night Senior political officials tell the Politico that Sen. Barack Obama is likely to hold a huge rally Tuesday night in the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul, the site of the Republican National Convention from Sept. 1-4. "Tuesday is the night of the final Democratic primaries, and the ch Home > Rss Directory > General > Political Wire |
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U.S. official lays blame for India attacks India has blamed "elements from Pakistan" for the attacks that killed 179 people in Mumbai and is renewing demands for its neighbor to hand over wanted militant leaders. "The government expects that strong action would be taken against those elements, whosoever they may be, responsible for this out Home > Rss Directory > General > CNN |
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Memo Gives Canada’s Account of Obama Campaign’s Meeting on Nafta Barack Obama’s campaign rebutted a report that a senior campaign official had soft-pedaled to Canadian officials Mr. Obama’s tough talk against Nafta. But a memorandum now disputes that rebuttal. Home > Rss Directory > Business > NY Time |
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Votes roll in for ballot on OOXML standard Ballots are rolling in for the final ballot to decide whether the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) adopts a file format based on Microsoft's Office Open XML (OOXML) as an international standard. Countries previously against adoption or abstaining, Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |