Tag: PRESIDENT OBAMA

The White House has announced that President Obama will hold a Town Hall meeting later this month, alongside Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and company COO Sheryl Sandberg. The event, scheduled for April 20th, will be held at Facebook headquarters and live-streamed via the social network. You can RSVP on the White House Facebook page or submit your questions to the President here. ...

Social networking gives us a cross-section of virtually every political opinion known to man. Are there racists and bigots? Of course. Tree-huggers and granola-munchers? Absolutely. And that's the magic. They may not subscribe to the same worldview or all check the same box every November, but the political masses are here, online, making their presence known. What we have before us is, for ...

After about 30 years of sending U.S. astronauts into space, NASA announced Thursday that space shuttles Discovery and Endeavour will make their last flights, respectively, on November 1st, 2010 and February 26th, 2011. According to Network World, Discovery's 10-day mission will be to deliver logistics carriers, which are basically cargo holds, and other spare parts to the International Space ...

Highlights from this morning's other big tech headlines.... Last fall, YouTube announced that it hosted 1 billion views every day, a total that has apparently more than doubled. In honor of its fifth anniversary, the site released a gratuitous pat-on-the-back blog post which announced that YouTube now "exceeds over two billions views a day." [From: The Guardian] In response to President ...

In an effort to save money and gain support for health care reform, President Barack Obama is calling in the nerds. According to an Associated Press report, Obama said Tuesday that he's hiring a group of private "bounty hunters" to crack down on health care fraud, particularly those cases pertaining to Medicare and Medicaid. They won't be armed with mullets and pepper spray like TV badass Dog, ...

No, this isn't an April Fool's joke. President Obama met today at Buckingham Palace with the Queen, and our forward thinking commander-in-chief brought along a little tech for gifting purposes. Obama presented Elizabeth II with an iPod containing video from her 2007 visit to the States. In return, the first family received what is apparently a standard present for visiting dignitaries to the ...

Vivek Kundra has been named the first Federal Chief Information Officer (CIO) by President Obama. The CIO for the White House is a newly created post that will carry a variety of responsibilities, not the least of which is overseeing how the technology budget is spent by the federal government. Kundra will be responsible for making sure that federal agencies are able to communicate and share ...

It has happened again. Another media outlet has mixed up the name of the President of the United States with that of the most disliked man on planet Earth. The headline of yesterday's Yahoo! article entitled "Science Takes on Terror Hunt" reads, "A geographer uses innovative analysis to narrow Obama Bin Laden's location to three sites." Oops. This has happened before, and it will almost surely ...

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/politics/PROOF_Obama_still_using_a_RIM_BlackBerry'; Guess what? Obama isn't using the Super Phone 6000. He's using the BlackBerry 8830, by Research In Motion (the photo above was taken yesterday) So much for your shot at the big leagues, Sectera Edge. Maybe next time. ...

Certain things should not happen at certain places. For example, an eight-hour, e-mail-crippling server outage should not occur at the White House. Unfortunately for everyone in the new administration, though, that is exactly what happened Monday, reports CBS News. White House aides had just switched over to their official government e-mail addresses when the outage hit and were immediately ...

At Robert Gibbs' first press conference as President Obama's Press Secretary, the most important and heated debate of our time has been put to rest. According to Gibbs, Obama will be able to keep his BlackBerry, though only a limited number of senior staff and personal contacts will have access to his email address, and the data on the handheld will be subject to the Presidential Records Act. ...

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/gadgets/President_Obama_s_official_portrait_the_first_ever_taken_wi'; You're now gazing at President Barack Obama's just-released official portrait -- the first of a U.S. president ever taken with a digital camera. That means we can peek at the EXIF data -- this fine specimen of portraiture was snapped with a Canon EOS 5D Mark II on January 13th, 2009 at 5:38 pm with ...