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Uncle Sam: less wasteful?

President Obama has just solidified his lasting credentials...as being hopeful. He actually is trying to push energy efficiency inside the federal government, America's largest energy consumer. Solar Humvees in Iraq? Fewer limos with their motors running at Dulles Airport? Shut down Washington D.C. in August and...

Tags: President, Barack Obama, Real Estate, Construction, Business Operations, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-10-07

Facebook, Wrong Again!

As it being widely reported, a Facebook poll has caught the ire of the Secret Service for asking whether President Obama should be killed. The Service is investigating the poll and asked the poll be taken down. "The USSS [Secret Service] sent us an e-mail late this...

Tags: U.S. Secret Service, Facebook, Barack Obama, Service, E-mail, Online Communications, Dave Greenfield

Blog posts 2009-09-29

Michael Jackson funeral delivers pop in video streams

Updated: Live video streams of the Michael Jackson funeral are delivering a big jump in activity and some sites are struggling under the strain. According to Akamai's live stream tracker, a handy link of current activity, the Jackson funeral is getting a lot of attention. And anecdotally...

Tags: Barack Obama, Keynote Systems Inc., Video, Video Stream, Michael Jackson, Corporate Communications, Digital Video, Marketing, Personal Technology, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-07-07

Obama picks Bolden for NASA

So, it looks like manned spaceflight may yet have a future at NASA, with the selection this weekend of former astronaut Charlie Bolden to head the troubled agency. Bolden would be the agency's first black Administrator. The LA Times talked to NASA insiders, who said Bolden wouldn't...

Tags: NASA, Barack Obama, Advertising & Promotion, Recruitment & Selection, Marketing, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-05-24

Hey, Wired President. You Wouldn't Tax the Internet, the Cell Phone or the Tweet. Would You?

Maybe it’s just me and my wife. We still put spare change into a piggy bank (a red pig, actually), as we go. Pays for a nice dinner, every now and then. So it floors me, still, when I see the dimensions of the...

Tags: President, Phone, Barack Obama, Wired Inc., Sales Tax, Cell Phone, E-mail, Internet, Taxes, Sales Strategy, Free Trade, Personal Finance, Online Communications, Financial Planning, Finance, Sales, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2009-04-29

Obama counts Mundie, Schmidt, hedge fund founder Shaw as tech advisors

President Obama named Microsoft research chief Craig Mundie and Google CEO Eric Schmidt to his panel of science and technology advisors along with a few other notable characters. The full name of this panel is the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology PCAST and the goal is...

Tags: Eric Schmidt, Barack Obama, Hedge Fund, Advisor, William Press, David E. Shaw, Investment, Financial Services, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-04-27

Moving on offshore

President Obama moved toward more exploitation of America's offshore energy resources. Only this time it's not drill, baby, drill. It's about wind and waves. Obama made his announcement at a former Maytag plant in Iowa, a plant now being turned into a wind-turbine tower plant....

Tags: Offshore, Prosperity, America, Barack Obama, Outsourcing, Recruitment & Selection, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-04-22

Barack Obama's Inaugural Address, 2009 2.0.1 (Mobile)

This application includes inaugural Address of Barack Obama, 2009, second Inaugural Address of Abraham Lincoln, 1865, the Gettysburg Address of Abraham Lincoln, 1863, first Inaugural Address of Abraham Lincoln, 1861, and essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson, including Self-Reliance. Instead of paging, the BeamItDown iFlow Reader scrolls text much like a...

Tags: Barack Obama, Mobile, BeamItDown Software, Scrolling Speed

Software downloads 2009-04-22

Chopra picked as CTO

Virginia official is the new federal CTO. by Richard Koman

Tags: Barack Obama, Zients, Vertical Industries, Government, Benefits, Healthcare, Tools & Techniques, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Management, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-04-20

The new railroad era?

Will Americans become train trained? Europe and Japan have long had high-speed rail systems linking major metro areas. Can America rediscover rails or are we too much in love with the shoeless security probes and two-hour waits at the local airport? President Obama wants to...

Tags: Barack Obama, Mph, Health Care, Speed, Rail, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-04-16

Obama's Google Moderator stats

The White House asked to use Google's moderator program for President Obama's town hall meeting, which garnered huge participation numbers. Vic Gundotra, vice president of engineering at Google, explains to Tim O'Reilly at the Web 2.0 Expo how people were able to not only ask questions, but to vote for...

Tags: Google Inc., Obama, Web 2.0, Channel Management, Internet, Marketing, President, Barack Obama, White House, Google, Web 2.0 Expo, Moderator, questions, voters

Videos 2009-04-03

Obama rolls out help for green tech

President Barack Obama put $1.2 billion where his mouth has been on green technology. At a Monday morning event at the White House Obama announced the availability of $1.2 billion in basic research dollars at Energy Department labs, News.com's Martin LaMonica reported. That money will fund research...

Tags: Green Technology, Barack Obama, Taxes, Free Trade, Personal Finance, Research & Development, Financial Planning, Finance, Business Operations, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-03-23

Obama visits electric car center in L.A.

I blogged earlier this week about China's plug-in car, already in mass production at a sales price of about $20K each. The Chinese electric carmaker, BYD, hopes to sell about 350,000 this year. All in China. President Obama and Southern California Edison SCE...

Tags: Car, Electric Car, Barack Obama, Battery, Plug-in, Southern California Edison, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-03-20

Cyber security chief quits over power struggle with NSA

Cyber security chief quits over power struggle with NSAjust replace windoze with Linuxand cybersecurity is a done deal!UmmLinux stops China from trying to crack government computers????The problem with your analysis is ....... it is too heavy on blaming President Bush and not enough on blaming President Obama. He didn't...

Tags: Bush, cybersecurity, NSA, Cyber Security Chief

Discussion threads 2009-03-09

The case against health care reform

Say hi to Conservatives for Patients Rights, headed by former Columbia/HCA executive Richard Scott. by Dana Blankenhorn

Tags: Patient, Barack Obama, Health Care, Healthcare Reform, Richard Scott, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Taxes, Free Trade, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Financial Planning, Finance, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2009-03-05

Obama names D.C. CTO Kundra as federal CIO

President Obama today named Vivek Kundra, Washington, D.C.'s chief technology officer, to the position of federal chief information officer. Kundra, who previously served as a technology policy adviser for President Obama (and who ZDNet Open Source blogger Dana Blankenhorn considers "Obama's tech daddy"), will be responsible for...

Tags: Washington, Barack Obama, CTO, Vivek Kundra, Government, Cellular Phones, Strategy, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Management, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-03-05

Barack Obama is male, taken, and CC licensed

Barack Obama is male, taken, and CC licensedHello????Over three months have passed.....Anyone here??????

Tags: CC-licensed, Barack Obama

Discussion threads 2009-02-20

Obama: I'm a PC

The "Apple Administration"? Don't hold your breath. Just because Obama's youthful staffers have a thing for Cupertino's favorite company doesn't mean the Commander-in-Chief does. On the tails of news that Intel has committed to spending $7 billion in the U.S. --...

Tags: Barack Obama, PC, Apple Inc., Intel Corp., Desktops, Notebooks, Workforce Management, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Human Resources, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-02-11

The feds may green your next toaster or microwave

Assuming Americans can sometime in the future begin to buy new appliances, the next gen of toaster or blender may be more energy efficient. President Obama has directed the Energy Depatment to issue new efficiency guidelines by August of this year. That first round will cover nien appliances:...

Tags: Appliance, Barack Obama, Microwave, Network Technology, Networking, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-02-06

RIAA, BSA lawyers fill top Justice spots

Obama has filled several of the highest positions in the Justice Departments with industry lawyers with deep connections to RIAA, software publishers. by Richard Koman

Tags: Business Software Alliance, Barack Obama, Hollywood, Webcasting, RIAA, Lawyer, Government, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-01-25