Tag: ALGORE

We're sure Al Gore is drafting his thank-you letter to CNN right now as we speak. The 24-hour news channel carelessly revealed the former Vice President's e-mail address to the entire Web-viewing public. In an article covering the announcement of Al and Tipper Gore's separation, the network linked to a PDF copy of the e-mail announcing the break up. While CNN took care to black out the text of Al ...

Everybody's favorite vice president and climate-change decrier Al Gore is asking YouTube users for some help this month. According to Mashable, Gore and his organization, the Alliance for Climate Protection, are asking people to create videos that both describe the importance of going "green" and urge political leaders to change current climate policies. On Earth Day, which falls on April 22nd, ...

Highlights from this morning's other big tech headlines.... AT&T has been under siege from consumers and competitors over its network coverage, particularly for spotty and inconsistent iPhone service in major metropolitan areas like New York City and San Francisco. The company has vowed to address the issue, and has pledged $2 billion to improve its coverage over the next year. [From: ...

Since leaving public office and embarking on a quest to raise the public's awareness of climate change, Al Gore has been a part of an Oscar-winning documentary and received a Nobel Peace Prize. According to Mashable, the former Vice President is now embarking on a campaign with the Sierra Club, Surfrider, and other eco-organizations to make the Net a greener, more environmentally friendly ...

Nobel Peace Prize winner and 45th Vice President of the United States Al Gore graced the mobile phone and wireless industry today with his presence at the 2009 CTIA Wireless convention in Las Vegas. As the final day's keynote speaker, Gore presented an abbreviated version of a modified 'Inconvenient Truth'-style spiel mashed-up with insert-wireless-comment-here-type generalities. The highlights ...

Al Gore may not agree, but this week marks the anniversary of the birth of the Web. 20 years ago, on March 13, 1989, Tim Berners-Lee, a researcher for the European Organization for Nuclear Research lab outside of Geneva, Switzerland, proposed an idea to counter data-loss at CERN due to personnel turnover and incompatible computers. In the proposal, Berners-Lee described the predicament by stating, ...

Twitter, while fun and useful, has become a breeding ground for hacks who dream of becoming the next Fake Steve Jobs. Lance Armstrong, Britney Spears, and Al Gore have all recently joined the microblogging service and have had to reclaim their online identities. Last month, Britney launched a new blog style site and snatched up therealbritney on Twitter. Now, Al Gore has been forced to act on ...

Conservative or liberal, Republican or Democrat, we all know the frustration of computer bugs and unanswered pleas for tech support. Case in point: conservative radio talk personality Rush Limbaugh made a public plea to Apple CEO (and Democrat) Steve Jobs on his broadcast last week for help with a problem he's encountered with his collection of networked, high-end Mac Pro computers. "El Rushbo" ...

Al Gore's blog -- in which the former presidential candidate-turned-celebrity environmentalist posts updates on global warming and the documentary 'An Inconvenient Truth' -- has been hacked. But it's likely you'd never know it by looking at the thing. That's because most of the hack work is hidden. The hackers in this case gained access to the site through a security hole, then inserted hidden ...

For a politician who supposedly isn't running for the U.S. Presidency, Al Gore is certainly getting a lot of time in the spotlight. He most recently won over the hearts of Mac fanatics everywhere with a picture of his office seating in front of a sweet triple 30'' Cinema display setup. He has also managed to win over the heart of the biggest Mac fanatic of them all: Apple's Steve Jobs. Jobs ...