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• Obama administration expands open data access

  By Grant Gross | 09 May, 2013 17:05

  U.S. President Barack Obama has signed an executive order requiring that government data be made available in open, machine-readable formats, expanding open-access requirements from earlier in his administration.

• Senators want sanctions against countries supporting cyberattacks

  By Grant Gross | 08 May, 2013 17:49

  Two U.S. senators will push Congress or President Barack Obama's administration to pursue trade and immigration sanctions against China and other countries that allegedly support cyberattacks on U.S. government agencies and businesses, the lawmakers said Wednesday.

• US Senate approves Internet sales tax

  By Grant Gross | 06 May, 2013 23:14

  The U.S. Senate has voted to allow states to collect sales tax from online retailers, making it more difficult to buy tax-free products online.

• Dell investigates report of computers sold to Syria

  By Grant Gross | 03 May, 2013 16:09

  Dell is investigating a report that a Middle East reseller has sold large numbers of computers to a Syrian company with ties to the embattled government there, in violation of U.S. export restrictions.

• Obama nominates Wheeler as new FCC chairman

  By Grant Gross | 01 May, 2013 19:19

  U.S. President Barack Obama has nominated telecom trade group veteran Tom Wheeler to be the next chairman of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission.

• US House moves toward passage of CISPA

  By Grant Gross | 17 April, 2013 22:00

  The U.S. House of Representatives moved closer Wednesday toward the passage of the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA), despite concerns that the cyberthreat information-sharing bill will allow Web-based companies to share a wide amount of customer information with government agencies.

• CISPA sponsor compares opponents to 14-year-olds

  By Grant Gross | 17 April, 2013 13:58

  The chief sponsor of the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) in the U.S. Congress has ignited a Twitter storm by suggesting many opponents of the proposed cyberthreat sharing bill are 14-year-olds in basements.

• Tech groups protest anti-China provision in US budget resolution

  By Grant Gross | 04 April, 2013 20:43

  A little-publicized provision in a U.S. government budget resolution that largely prohibits four agencies from using Chinese-made IT products could backfire, several tech trade groups said.

• What Obama's re-election may mean for technology

  By Grant Gross | 07 November, 2012 19:06

  The US presidential election result leaves President Barack Obama in the White House and maintains the balance of power in Congress. In many longstanding technology debates, policy experts see little movement forward, although lawmakers may look for compromises on a handful of issues.

• Tech issues don't make much of an appearance in US presidential campaign

  By Grant Gross | 02 November, 2012 17:37

  With the U.S. presidential election on Tuesday, it's fair to say that technology policy hasn't risen to the top of the agenda in the debate between President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney.

• 10 IT agenda items for the first US CIO

  By Paul Venezia | 10 March, 2009 08:38

  Obama's appointment of Vivek Kundra marks an important first step for rectifying the nation's concerns about IT.

• Obama can't have a BlackBerry. Should your CEO?

  By Ephraim Schwartz | 10 December, 2008 09:27

  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?

• FAQ: Why Obama may give up his BlackBerry

  By Matt Hamblen | 08 December, 2008 09:14

  Could Barack Obama ever expect to continue using his BlackBerry once he officially becomes president?

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

  By Thomas Powell and Joe Lima | 28 October, 2008 12:16

  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

  By Thomas Powell and Joe Lima | 28 October, 2008 12:15

  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.

• Friending Obama

  By Thomas A. Powell and Joe Lima | 28 October, 2008 12:15

  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.