In an off the record interview with CNBC, an ABC reporter, Terry Moran tweeted:”Pres. Obama just called Kanye West a “jackass” for his outburst at VMAs when Taylor Swift won. Now THAT’S presidential.” The tweet was quickly deleted. However, Twitter caches all tweets and doesn’t delete deleted tweets from said cache immediately. Now, many will look at the issue on the surface — that is, that a tweet supposedly quoting the President of the...
Just because I can! To hell with Yahoo and Flickr! You may or may not know the controversy surrounding the whole Obama/Joker image and the removal of said image from Flickr. The last couple of days has seen an outpouring of angered individuals across the internet accusing Yahoo and Flickr of trying to sensor the internet and such. Yahoo has rebutted with a DMCA violation take-down notice they received saying that they cherish free speech but the law made them do it. ...
When you hear the words “Cybersecurity Czar”, what do you think of? Do you think of some nice older guy sitting at a computer desk sifting through countless emails and stack of paper? Or, do you think of some greedy lifelong politician who cares more for his pocket than the outcome of his decisions? Both are possibilities with Obama’s suspected latest creation at the White House – a Cybersecurity Czar. The position, rumored to be announced...
Throughout Obama’s campaign, he and his supporters used technology extensively in their promotions, everything from email, social networking sites such as Facebook, to SMS/text messages. They are by far the biggest user of technology ever in a presidential election. So you can understand their complete and utter shock when they realized just how low tech and outdated the White House really is. Once the team was inside, they found numerous problems ranging...
The vigilant fight Obama is putting up to keep his Blackberry looks bleaker everyday that passes. Gizmodo has supposedly received images of one of the several “approved” presidential smartphones. Sadly it is running WinMo 6.1 inside of a housing that looks like it was made in 1980. It is comical to look at and imagine someone using it as an actual phone and not a more obvious tool such as….a paperweight. Now onto the hardcore specs: CDMA/GSM...
