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Track the election on your iPhone

With polls on the east coast a little more than 12 hours away from opening we turn our attention to the election. Regardless of which side you're on, it's hard not to get swept up in all the excitement surrounding such an historic event. Since a presidential...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Presidential Election, Election, Apple iTunes, Vote4Me, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Jason D. O'Grady

Blog posts 2008-11-03

Recap: Information warfare and the 2008 presidential election

Recap: Information warfare and the 2008 presidential electionInformation warfareThese tactics positively raise the noise level but I'm not sure they're making converts on either side of the political isle. I also believe the internet noise is also contributing to the general lack of civility in our social dialog as...

Tags: Corporate governance, INTERNET, presidential election

Discussion threads 2008-09-29

Recap: Information warfare and the 2008 presidential election

Mudslinging in presidential elections is as old as the American political system. The Internet has increased both the rate as well as the quantity of attack strains. The low cost and accessibility of Internet technology has placed the power to disrupt a presidential campaign in the hands of...

Tags: Presidential Election, Campaign, Internet, Phishing, Cyberthreats, E-mail, Spam, Security, Viruses And Worms, Spam And Phishing, Online Communications, Adam O'Donnell

Blog posts 2008-09-28

X-Box (and Cell Phone) Nation: Election Rests In Digital Hands

The Democratic convention gets started tonight and in the constant quest for the unconventional technological means of getting out the youth vote, the X-Box is today’s “in” device. By itself, this may not be a big deal. There are about 12 million X-Box members around...

Tags: Presidential Election, Phone, Election, Cell Phone, X-Box, Democratic Convention, Cellular Phones, Telecom & Utilities, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2008-08-25

60% of Americans get news about the presidential election from television

60% of Americans say they get most of their news about the presidential election from television (local, cable and network outlets combined), down from 68% at comparable points in the 2004 and 2000 campaigns, according Pew Internet & American Life Project. By this measure, the internet is still a secondary...

Tags: Presidential Election, News, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Internet, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, NB

Blog posts 2008-02-13

Albright on her new book, 'Memo to the President Elect'

From the role the Internet plays in presidential campaigning to American tech companies and their rights abroad, former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright lays down her vision for the future of American politics. CNET News.com's Kara Tsuboi talks with Albright about policy, her favorite gadget, and why she feels she...

Tags: News.com, Internet, E-mail, Strategy, Online Communications, Management, Madeleine Albright, news, presidential election

Videos 2008-01-28

MySpace to hold mock presidential election

MySpace to hold mock presidential electionMySpace to hold mock presidential electionGreat, now we can have 9-16 year olds predicting the next election result.brilliant!To both of the previous posters, both giving negative feedback... expand your minds. Myspace is reaching an age group that is NOTORIOUS for not voting, or participating...

Tags: MySpace, presidential election

Discussion threads 2007-04-04

French Presidential Counter 1.2 (Windows)

This counts down the time until the first French presidential election tour.

Tags: Presidential Election, DI, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2007-03-29

Hack a (fictional) presidential election

Explore some of the most timely and pressing topics in technology and computer security today within the framework of an entertaining fictional scenario in this sample chapter from cyber-thriller The Mezonic Agenda: Hacking the Presidency. Investigate the ins and outs of reverse engineering, cryptography, buffer overflows, and...

Tags: Chapter, Presidential Election, Syngress, Hacking, Security, Viruses And Worms

Book chapters 2006-12-13

Images: Watch six TV shows at once

Dish Networks tried out the feature during the 2004 presidential election and the Summer Olympics.

Tags: TV & Home Theater, Summer Olympics, Dish Network, presidential election, network

Image galleries 2005-08-30

Images: Watch six TV shows at once

Dish Networks tried out the feature during the 2004 presidential election and the Summer Olympics.

Tags: TV & Home Theater, Summer Olympics, Dish Network, presidential election, network

Image galleries 2005-08-30

55.05 mln watched Presidential elections, 89.8 - Super Bowl

Presidential election night coverage among the six major national news outlets - ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, Fox News Channel and MSNBC - totaled a 34.5 rating and averaged 55.051 mln viewers between 8 and 11 pm, according to estimates released late Wednesday by Nielsen Media Research. That places the aggregate...

Tags: Presidential Election

Blog posts 2004-11-04

Sacrifice Chad Ballot map (Windows)

This map was based on the 2000 presidential election. It is a fast-paced and fun map to play.

Tags: Presidential Election, Ballot, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2003-10-24

Additional Resources

A visit to Microsoft's first store

I missed an explanation as to why...I should shop there."Three rows of tables displayed hardware from Dell, HP, Sony and Lenovo."The big chains sell those already. Why would I go to a Windows store to buy Dells, HPs, Sonys and Lenovos, when there are several sources for those same computers...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Operating systems, Microsoft Corp., Apple Inc., 64-bit, Microsoft Windows, computer, GPU, Microsoft Windows 7, hardware

Discussion threads 2009-10-30

Electronic voting: Changing the world faster than a Windows upgrade

no encryption is good enough...Considering the power the US President has to shape US and World Policy, I think EVERYONE will be gunning to crack that nut.Enemies will try to get the worst/weakest candidate. Allies will try to get the guy who most loves them into power. Business...

Tags: SECURITY, Microsoft Windows, e-voting, Windows Upgrade, Changing

Discussion threads 2009-10-20

Uncle Sam: less wasteful?

At first thought, the idea of ......disconnecting elevators to the first six floors sounds like a great idea, but what about the handicapped - there would have to be a way to let them use the elevator ... universal access to all places and all that jazz ...LudoThis blog is...

Tags: Taxes, Free trade, Personal finance, tax, Uncle Sam, dictator

Discussion threads 2009-10-07

The 10 biggest moments in IT history

Despite its relatively short lifespan, IT has had some huge watershed moments. TechRepublic's Jack Wallen followed the tech timeline to identify the most pivotal events. It’s unlikely that everyone will ever agree on the most important dates in the history of IT. I...

Tags: ARPAnet, Information Technology, Operating System, Dot-com, Apple Inc., Wikipedia, COBOL, Napster Inc., Wiki, Linux, Microsoft Windows 95, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, UNIX, Open Source, Online Communications, Software, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-09-21

Apple's future TV: Can Web-based apps replace "channels," kill cable?

AppleTV only called a hobby after its dismal failureTo be sure, Apple did [b]not[/b] call AppleTV a "hobby" when they released it. It was only after they released the dismal sales figures for this piece of garbage that they "apologized" by calling it a hobby.You know what Apple should do...

Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, Network technology, Web, TV, Apple Inc., cable, Apple TV

Discussion threads 2009-08-20

Windows 7: The waiting is the hardest part (for Microsoft)

Windows 7: The waiting is the hardest part for Microsoftleanwhy microsoft isn't shutting down or selling their online and entertainment divisions is beyond me. they invested bilions and billions in both only for having a loss in both devisions for pretty much a decade now. if i were a big...

Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Operating systems, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Corp., netbook, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2009-07-24

To the Moon: The Integrators

The historic Apollo 11 mission in July of 1969 culminated in the first manned moon landing. While many of the proud Americans who were involved in that project are no longer with us 40 years later, the technologies they built still live on, will be further refined, and will return...

Tags: Spacecraft, NASA, Mission, Computer, IBM Corp., UNIVAC, Productivity, Mainframes, Servers, Hardware, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-07-13