Microsoft's Lobbying Budget 'outstripped Enron's'
News According to the chairman of the South Carolina Republican Party this was the largest unsolicited donation ever received. Democratic PACs received $222,100 from the company's employees, compared to the $42,875 for Republican PACs.
[February 12, 2002, 12:06]
How The Democrats' Win Affects Tech
News It was the narrowest of Republican margins in the US Senate that doomed a crucial vote on net neutrality earlier this year. It was a New Jersey Republican, Representative Mike Ferguson, who introduced the legislation for… digital radio two months...
[November 10, 2006, 10:20]
Students Defy DMCA To Post Email Online
News Far from vanishing, the files have appeared on more than 50 Web sites, run mostly by students who claim Diebold has a suspiciously cosy relationship with the Republican Party and that the email conversations demonstrate its election software is...
[November 4, 2003, 8:40]
Dell Admits Indian Mistake
Talkback The Republican Party called and they want their racial slur slinging, Ken Foley ass kissing, "there are WMD in Iraq" pansy back. Jeez, no wonder everyone is fed up with you republican faggots. Hey Dave,
[October 16, 2006, 4:19]
House Rejects Net Neutrality Rules
News In a 269-152 vote that fell largely along party lines, the House Republican leadership mustered enough votes to reject a Democrat-backed amendment that would have enshrined stiff net neutrality regulations into federal law and prevented broadband...
[June 12, 2006, 10:05]
Porn Spammers To Face Jail In US
News An analysis performed by Common Cause for the 2000 election cycle calculated that trial lawyers favoured the Democratic Party over the Republican Party by a 40 to 1 margin for soft money contributions.
[July 9, 2003, 13:27]
Siebel And Ellison: Is This The Happy Ending?
News But he's a major donor to the Republican Party who was regularly hobnobbed with Republican powerbrokers like Marc Racicot, a Siebel board member who three years ago was appointed head of the Republican National Committee.
[September 13, 2005, 15:15]
T.J. Rodgers: It's All About What's Best For Business
News There are a lot of Republican chief executives like that, who believe in economic freedom, free markets, free trade and also don't really buy into the moral-majority part of the current Republican party.
[May 19, 2004, 11:55]
US Presidential Hopeful Spams Voters
News The Democratic Party has been caught spamming, as has Bill Jones, the unsuccessful Republican candidate for governor of California, and Florida Govenor Jeb Bush, a Republican. Howard Dean's presidential campaign acknowledged on Monday that it had...
[August 19, 2003, 16:00]
Congress Isn't Swallowing Carnivore
News Republican Melvin Watt asked FBI and DoJ officials what took them so long to come forward with information about Carnivore. Another committee member, Republican Robert Barr was even more combative in his line of questioning.
[July 25, 2000, 9:01]
Florida Research Raises E-voting Questions
News However, political science professors at Harvard University, Stanford University and Cornell University discounted the theories by pointing out that optical-scan systems are used mainly in rural counties of Florida and that those counties have had...
[November 19, 2004, 8:30]
US Congress Votes For Net Neutrality
News James Sensenbrenner, a Wisconsin Republican who heads the committee. It's backed by Representative Joe Barton, a Texas Republican who heads the House Energy and Commerce Committee, and does not include strict net neutrality mandates.
[May 26, 2006, 9:10]
US Report: E-mail Announces Bradley 2000 Bid
News On the Republican side, former California Congressman Bob Dornan has an unofficial site hosted by an ad-hoc group of supporters. The mailing is "part of the overall process" of assessing the political landscape and interacting with active party...
[December 10, 1998, 9:05]
Limiting Encryption May Open Doors To Criminals
News In response to attacks this month on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, Senator Judd Gregg, a New Hampshire Republican, said he favoured establishing mandatory backdoors in the software used to scramble digital messages and to ensure that...
[September 27, 2001, 10:26]
AIM Add-on Prompts Spyware Concerns
News An anti-spyware bill has been introduced by Representative Mary Bono, a California Republican, to outlaw these programs, and a consortium has been formed to study and define it. It states that all third-party programs are considered part of AIM and...
[March 3, 2004, 17:05]
Hackers Flexing Political Muscles
News And that effective tool may play a part in the Republican National Convention in Philadelphia. And, perhaps most significantly, last December's World Trade Organisation protests in Seattle, coupled with the looming Democrat and Republican National...
[July 17, 2000, 9:02]
Microsoft Must Say Bye Bye To American Pie
Talkback Linux as a cheap political swipe at the Republican party. Is this a story about Linux or just a political editorial? I belive it is the latter and I don't appreciate it on ZDNet. Save the political hot air for Newsweek or some other publication...
[August 21, 2004, 16:50]
US Senate Rejects Extra Funds For ID Cards
News By a 50-44 vote mostly along party lines, the chamber set aside a Republican-backed amendment to a homeland security spending bill that would have spread $300m (£148m) across the states to help them implement the so-called Real ID Act.
[July 30, 2007, 13:05]
Michael Moore Attacks E-voting
News It has been revealed that the company's chief executive Walden O'Dell is a major fundraiser for the Republican Party Controversial US documentary maker and author Michael Moore has lambasted electronic voting machines being used in some US states...
[November 10, 2003, 15:10]
Rollins On Macs, Michael Dell And More
News We asked Rollins about his views on everything from Dell's next move to the Chinese market, Apple, the iPod and the Republican Party. Are you Republican or Democrat? I actually give to both sides but I am probably leaning more towards the...
[January 19, 2005, 12:40]

