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Obama mobile-phone records improperly accessed
News US president-elect Barack Obama's mobile-phone billing records were improperly accessed by employees of Verizon Wireless, CNN reported late on Thursday. Obama's transition team was informed of the breach by Verizon Wireless representatives on...
[November 21, 2008, 7:53]
Obama, McCain campaign PCs compromised
News Last summer, Barack Obama's presidential-campaign computers came under cyberattack from an "unknown entity". The Obama attack was initially thought to be a piece of malware downloaded from a phishing site.
[November 6, 2008, 9:19]
Obama election-win sparks rise in malicious spam
News Within hours of the US presidential-election results, spam seen worldwide began incorporating the name and image of Barack Obama, according to various security vendors. Sophos reported 60 percent of all spam seen by the lab on Wednesday was in some...
[November 6, 2008, 10:21]
Obama appoints tech execs to transition team
News President-elect Barack Obama has named technology executives from Google.org and InterActiveCorp to his transition team, according to reports. Genachowski attended law school with Obama, and helped stress the importance of hi-tech issues in the...
[November 7, 2008, 8:31]
Obama Wikipedia page under possible security attack?
Blog Barack Obama’s web presence may have come under some pressure today as his Wikipedia page appeared to show signs of malfunction for a period between midday GMT and 12:45pm around the time of this blog posting.
[January 22, 2009, 11:52]
Obama and team set to make their mark on tech
News When Barack Obama becomes US president in January, he'll have the chance to mark a new path for the country — and that includes the tech industry. Obama's team has already shown itself to be committed to technology, while the Bush administration...
[November 7, 2008, 16:49]
Obama to appoint US cybersecurity co-ordinator
News President Obama on Friday said the US government is "not as prepared" as it should be to respond to disruptions caused by computer or internet attacks, and announced that a new cybersecurity co-ordinator position would be created inside the White...
[June 1, 2009, 14:46]
Obama/McCain Poll Tracker
Downloads Stay on top of the very latest tracking polls with Obama/McCain Poll Tracker as the days count down to the election! The up-to-date information and quick access to the most recent data makes Obama/McCain Poll Tracker much easier than wading through...
[November 6, 2008, 8:15]
Obama's search for a national CTO
News By naming technology executives to his transition team — especially former InterActiveCorp executive Julius Genachowski — president elect Barack Obama is signalling that he's likely to follow through with his proposal to appoint a chief technology...
[November 7, 2008, 10:49]
Obama CTO site lets users vote on tech priorities
News Using an application from UserVoice, Seattle-based programmers have launched a website, Obama CTO, which allow citizens to list and vote on what should be the top technology priorities for the new administration.
[November 13, 2008, 14:33]
Obama Compass
Downloads The Obama Compass shows what direction your android phone is pointing and displays a picture of Obama in the center. The Obama Compass displays North, East, South, West and varying degrees. Also shows your heading.
[January 16, 2009, 6:00]
Obama team takes on more tech execs
News More members of president-elect Barack Obama's transition team were named on Wednesday, including some veterans of the technology and communications sectors. The transition team announced its agency review teams on Wednesday — groups of advisers...
[November 14, 2008, 11:27]
Obama talks tech policy
Blog Obama said that US citizens will also be able to track federal grants, contracts, earmarks and lobbying contracts, and participate in government forums in real time. A video released on Sunday, shows Barack Obama speaking to an audience of Google...
[November 5, 2008, 13:49]
Hacker's mother makes plea to Brown, Obama
Video Janis Sharp makes an appeal to Barack Obama and Gordon Brown to step in to stop her son Gary McKinnon being extradited to the US to face charges of hacking military systems.
[August 6, 2009, 12:22]
Hacker's mother makes plea to Brown, Obama
News Janis Sharp makes an appeal to Barack Obama and Gordon Brown to step in to stop her son Gary McKinnon being extradited to the US to face charges of hacking military systems.
[August 6, 2009, 12:25]
Obama Or McCain Polls
Downloads Obama Or McCain Polls is a an application that displays live Poll results for people using this application. The application would split the results over different categories so that users will be able to break the results based on the following...
[November 5, 2008, 8:29]
Barack Obama's Inaugural Address, 2009
Downloads 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...
[April 22, 2009, 10:51]
Saved by Obama
Talkback I guess if McKinnon can hold off long enough, it lowers his chances of wearing an orange jumpsuit as Obama might have delivered on his promise to shut-down Gitmo by then.
[January 21, 2009, 8:30]
Verizon staff fired for Obama phone-records breach
News Verizon Wireless has fired the workers tied to the breach of records for a mobile-phone used by Barack Obama, according to CNN. The breach was publicly reported on Thursday; president-elect Obama's transition team was informed a day earlier.
[November 24, 2008, 14:52]
What the Obama presidency means for tech
News When Barack Obama becomes US president in January with a strongly Democratic Congress, he'll have the chance to push a technology policy that relies more on government subsidy and regulation than that of his immediate predecessor.
[November 6, 2008, 11:15]
