Tag: ELECTIONS

While Barack Obama's election to the office of President has been cause for plenty of Internet celebration, it has also -- indirectly -- been the cause of strife for some Internet users due to a malware attack using the President-Elect's name, Sophos.com investigates. Sophos investigators have uncovered numerous spam e-mail campaigns baiting potential victims with promises of Obama's ...

As newspapers continue to struggle with the tough realities of the Internet age and the media economy, things aren't exactly looking good for the printed news industry. But, yesterday there was an unexpected ray of sunshine left for those still in print: Newspapers nationwide saw a surge in sales as voters sought out something to commemorate this historic election. Many papers in New York, San ...

While folks danced in the streets late Tuesday night into Wednesday morning in celebration of President-Elect Barack Obama's win, pulses danced -- just as vivaciously -- through Ethernet cables across the country, as USA Today details. Videos of celebrants, Facebook notes, MySpace bulletins, Twitters and blogs all kept the party going, while many plugged-in McCain supporters lamented the ...

Twitter has proven its usefulness before, expanding the classroom, reporting on earthquakes and protests in China, and helping one journalism student get out of a Egyptian jail. According to the Silicon Alley Insider, Twitter yesterday continued to prove that it's good for more than just sharing your random thoughts when at least one voter managed to get help at the polls from the Election ...

Outside of that whole Presidential race thing, last night was also notable for a batch of new technologies being introduced by most of the major news organizations. While there's no need to launch a mission to save Alderaan, we did get a healthy dose of a holographic and computer graphics innovation from the cadre of political pundits and reporters at the networks and cable news channels. First ...

Regardless of your political affiliation, there's no denying the historic nature of today's presidential race. Turnout for the U.S. election is expected to reach record numbers. So how do you keep up with the election and gather relevant information without succumbing to the noise and theatrics of the 24-hour-cable news channels? Well, the Internet (and NPR) are here to help offer you more ...

A comedy duo called 'The Masked Avengers' from a Montreal-based radio station pulled off an impressive feat when they managed to get Republican VP nominee Sarah Palin on the phone and convince her she was talking to French president Nicholas Sarkozy. Palin doesn't seem to figure out that it's a prank call, despite obvious clues. The prank caller makes a joking reference that Sarkozy can see ...

While online video has obviously grown exponentially in popularity (especially when it comes to entertainment), a new survey conducted by Cisco shows that it's also become the second most-used resource for more serious matters -- in this case, the presidential election. The survey, which polled 1,832 registered voters, reveals a number of intriguing trends such as Democrats mostly using ...

It's fair to say that behind electing the next president of the United States, playing the living hell out of 'LittleBigPlanet' (LBP) is the number two thing on our collective agenda. In case you've been living under a rock -- or perhaps your Xbox 360 -- for the past year, LBP is Sony's long-awaited platformer/game creator/awesomeness generator, and it just came out for PlayStation 3 this week. ...

With the presidential election just days away now, the list of celebrities busting out the big guns continues to grow. There was Sarah Silverman's The Great Schlep, Matt Damon's blast of Sarah Palin, and the YouVote campaign, which includes more celebrities than an episode of 'Entourage.' Well, that list has now grown to include the latest video statement by award-winning film ('Edward ...

Well, this story has developed quicker than we can draft articles. On Friday, we picked up a story about Ashley Todd, a campaign worker for John McCain, who claimed to have been attacked and disfigured by an Obama supporter at an ATM in Pittsburgh. Before we could even finish the editing process, new details emerged about inconsistencies in her story, and we began reworking our initial report. ...

If you're American, it's nearly time to do your civic duty and pick the lesser of two evils for the greater good... and then to wonder if that vote actually got counted. With Diebold admitting its own machines are utterly insecure, competitor Sequoia is now under the microscope and, after a little quality time with the company's machines, Princeton researchers have filed a 158 page report on the ...

Our sister site, Download Squad (plug, plug), is all over this political stuff -- much like us. One of the greatest pastimes of a political junkie is poll watching, and Download Squad has compiled a list of the best outlets to track the endless number of state and national polls in the presidential election. Our two favorites are FiveThirtyEight.com and RealClearPolitics (RCP). Both ...

It's actually a 'Simpsons' joke -- Homer selects Barack Obama repeatedly, yet the electronic voting machine disregards his choice and racks up votes for John McCain. The joke would be pretty damn funny too, if it weren't actually happening in West Virginia and Ohio right now. In the last few election cycles, the big names in bungled elections were Ohio and Diebold (which has been renamed Premier ...

We've sent people to the moon, learned how to tranmist data at the speed of light, and even mapped the world inside of a browser. But voting electronically? Still working on it. Even more disappointing is the fact that less-developed countries like Brazil have eclipsed our efficiency in voting by several orders of magnitude. Thankfully, we're quick to learn from our mistakes, and reports are ...