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US Politics News Reader
Downloads With US Politics News Reader stay up to date with all the latest news and views on US Politics. The US Politics News Reader is pre-loaded with some of the best political commentary and information blogs available on the internet.
[September 2, 2009, 10:35]
JibJabbing at US politics
News We've always been interested in politics, but in doing this for five years, you start to learn what works on the Web and what doesn't. The California based company JibJab took the Web by storm with its first animated satire about the 2004 US...
[October 19, 2004, 13:00]
Isn't it just SO American...
Talkback Conservative politics in the US are beneath contempt to most external observers. And let’s make no mistake about this, politics is what this is, not law. As such, there may not be such a big difference between the substantive jurisprudence of the...
[October 1, 2007, 2:12]
E-envoy tells government to lay off the Net
News If the Internet can enable us to get more people interested in politics and wanting to play a role, that can only be a good thing. Allan acknowledges the as yet under-developed role the Internet can play in bringing people back to politics.
[June 28, 2000, 12:18]
Fiorina wins role on Schwarzenegger team
News Co-founder David Packard got involved in Republican politics in the late 1960s and landed a role in the Nixon administration, serving as a deputy secretary of defense. Fiorina was asked at a July event whether she would consider a career in...
[October 10, 2003, 9:15]
China bans AltaVista searches
News China regularly restricts Internet usage by prohibiting access to certain Web sites it views as subversive to reigning politics. Just how much they tighten the controls reflects how sensitive they are to the presence of the Internet at that moment...
[September 10, 2002, 9:43]
Software patent war ignites again
News Three political groups in the European Parliament (EP) have warned that software patents are re-emerging into EU politics with an EP vote scheduled for next month. We have had enough of hidden agenda politics, it's time for the Commissioner to...
[September 21, 2006, 13:05]
Red Hat: Open source driven by anti-US sentiment
News Speaking at Red Hat's user conference in Nashville in 2006, Eben Moglen, professor of law at Columbia Law School, said that, far from being communist or anti-business, as some proprietary companies have claimed, the politics of open source go to...
[March 26, 2008, 15:27]
US legislature suggests China Web crackdown
News While the measure is likely to draw support from some politicians from both major parties, no companion version currently exists in the US Senate, and election-year politics could complicate efforts to enact it anytime soon.
[February 20, 2006, 12:35]
US approves billion-dollar cybersecurity bill
News Critics have called CSDRA a combination of pork barrel politics and corporate welfare. The US Congress approved a massive spending programme on Tuesday afternoon that allocates nearly a billion dollars for computer security research.
[November 14, 2002, 7:59]
US Congress votes for net neutrality
News Because the FCC is overseen by Barton's committee, that proposal would effectively cut off Judiciary Committee members from being able to hold hearings on net neutrality antitrust violations, give speeches about corporate malfeasance and solicit...
[May 26, 2006, 9:10]
A Year Ago: US vs MS - the case at a glance
News It's a complicated story, too, involving the law, technology, business -- even politics. Microsoft Chairman and CEO Bill Gates: "What the government is asking would significantly hamper us from competing through innovation and would put everything...
[May 18, 1999, 6:53]
EC seeks to refine Microsoft antitrust remedies
Talkback They might surprise you given how EU goverments think about US software and politics nowedays (project Echelon wasn't the smartest move and so is Passport, Microsoft tax, WRMS and a few other things).
[September 19, 2003, 23:50]
US anti-piracy law gathers strength
Talkback This proposal is yet more evidence of the power and influence of money and corporate interests infesting US national government lawmaking and politics.
[July 22, 2004, 22:14]
US Election 2012 Countdown Free
Downloads An essential item for any person interested in politics. Check how many days remain until the US 2012 presidential election, simply and quickly. Time left until election day is displayed in years, months, days as well as total days.
[November 11, 2009, 14:29]
US Justice Department ready to prosecute file-swappers
News A lot of people think these activities are legal, and they think they ought to be legal," Malcolm told an audience at the Progress and Freedom Foundation's annual technology and politics summit. The US Department of Justice is prepared to begin...
[August 21, 2002, 7:51]
Travel Stockholm, Sweden-guide, phrasebook, and maps. FREE general info and a map in the trial
Downloads Annotations and drawings are also synchronized.Table of ContentsGeneral: About | Tourist Offices | Geography | Economy | Education | History | Demographics | Sleep Maps: Sweden | Metropolitan Stockholm | Stockholm | Districts | Metro Phrasebook...
[May 31, 2007, 8:00]
Google hails vote to open up US wireless spectrum
News As an engineer, I was really gratified to see that the FCC decided to put science over politics," Larry Page, co-founder of Google, said on his blog. Google and other technology companies that have sought access to more free spectrum in the US have...
[November 5, 2008, 8:22]
Travel Munich, Germany - Illustrated Guide, Phrasebook and Maps. FREE general info in the trial
Downloads Annotations and drawings are also synchronized.Table of ContentsGeneral: About | Tourist Office | Climate | Geography | History | Politics | Economy | Stay Safe | SleepMaps: City Map | Boroughs | U-Bahn | S-Bahn | Germany | Germany Detailed...
[November 13, 2006, 7:00]
Travel Ireland - illustrated guide and maps. Incl: Dublin, Cork, Galway and more. FREE General Info
Downloads Use the guide as postcards to show places you visited.Table of Contents Republic of Ireland: General | Geography | Climate | Counties | Name | Religion | History | Respect | Demographics | Politics | Parliament | Architecture | Culture | Church...
[May 24, 2007, 8:00]
