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US Election 2004: The year the Web came of age
News As the clock ticks down on the 2004 presidential race, the candidates have increased efforts to stay in touch with supporters and reach out to undecided voters, and the Web remains a primary weapon to do so.
[October 28, 2004, 16:29]
Web hits US election jackpot
News But the confusion and uncertainty surrounding the presidential race results could raise the profile of the Web once again, truly making this the "Internet Election". The presidential candidates took months to consider Web advertising, Internet...
[November 9, 2000, 8:04]
Could Internet voting have saved the day?
News The uncertainty and controversy surrounding the US presidential election has prompted some UK pundits to suggest a move towards Internet voting. Online voting was even tried out for the US presidential election by a one Web site, Votehere.net...
[November 9, 2000, 13:17]
Belated objections may scupper US e-voting
News Some states are raising last-minute security concerns over e-voting technology, as much of the country prepares to switch over from mechanical to electronic ballots in time for the upcoming US presidential election.
[December 8, 2003, 12:05]
Tech shares dive amid Presidential uncertainty
News Investors stayed away from trading, keeping volumes low, as they awaited the delayed outcome of the US presidential election. With Florida preparing for day two of a recount to determine who won the state's make-or-break 25 electoral votes, the US...
[November 9, 2000, 14:27]
FBI unplugs candidate copycat site
News The success of fund-raising efforts on the Net during this presidential election cycle has given indications that political campaigns have begun to tap into what has, to date, been thought to be a generally apathetic attitude toward organised...
[February 21, 2000, 9:34]
Ten key moments that shaped IT
Comment It was even instrumental in the 2008 US presidential election, when the candidates' wiki pages became the top hits for voters seeking information. These presidential wiki pages became as important to the 2008 election as any advertisement.
[October 2, 2009, 14:34]
US Constitution
Downloads Town Compass presents the US Constitution Pocket Directory Database.Useful information for every US Citizen, containing:US Constitution, including Preamble, Article I (Legislative Branch), Article II (Presidency), Article III (Judiciary), Article...
[October 30, 2001, 6:00]
US voters turn to the Web
News People flocked to the Web sites of both US presidential candidates on Monday, according to the latest report issued by ComScore Networks. US voters flocked to the Web on Tuesday, as news sites pulled out the stops on Election Day coverage, offering...
[November 3, 2004, 7:33]
Spam gets political
News But other spammers are well aware of the power the presidential election affords them and are abusing supporters' willingness to back their man with a number of cleverly crafted scams. BlackSpider's Cheney warned it is a sign of things to come and...
[October 8, 2004, 17:10]
Internet voting gets stamp of approval
News The only US presidential contest in 2004 to use Internet voting was completed without a hitch, the Michigan Democratic Party said on Monday. Michigan's caucus, in which nearly one-third of the votes cast arrived through the Internet, gave...
[February 10, 2004, 10:30]
E-voting 'risks fraud'
News The report comes as the US Department of Defense prepares to launch the Secure Electronic Registration and Voting Experiment (SERVE), a system that will let absentee military voters in 50 counties in seven states place their votes; the...
[January 22, 2004, 7:15]
The UK's first socially networked election
Blog We saw Twitter's power during the US election, but also during the presidential inauguration earlier this year, and I've already had one prospective parliamentary candidate follow me on Twitter. What's more, judging by what happened in the US last...
[May 13, 2009, 20:39]
US abandons Internet voting
News The inauguration was to have been in South Carolina's presidential primary on Tuesday. The US Department of Defense on Thursday backed off plans for a large-scale test of a voting system designed to let Americans who are overseas cast ballots in...
[February 6, 2004, 8:55]
Divining Bush's views of the tech industry
News As George W Bush clinches victory in the hotly contested US presidential election, a new research paper has concluded that the Texas governor will assume a hands-off approach to the Internet and technological initiatives.
[December 14, 2000, 13:19]
Google dismisses Viacom copyright claims
News Handling Google's defence in the lawsuit are Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati in Palo Alto, California, and Bartlit Beck Herman Palenchar & Scott in Chicago, which represented president Bush in his appeal before the US Supreme Court that stopped...
[May 1, 2007, 9:51]
SCO sues IBM over Unix, Linux
News Representing SCO is David Boeis of Boeis, Schiller and Flexner, the attorney who prosecuted the US Justice Department's antitrust case against Microsoft and represented Al Gore in the vote-counting controversy in the presidential election.
[March 7, 2003, 7:33]
Tech firms go on a legislative offensive
News For more, click here.election, those PACs gave $7.1m to politicians, a total that rose to $8.6m by the next presidential-election cycle, four years later. Growth in lobbyist spending was inevitable because "we have been in a period in which it's...
[March 28, 2006, 16:20]
The Day Ahead: Will Amazon hit its sales targets?
News EToys blamed a "harsh retail climate driven by concerns over the economy, the current disfavor of Internet retailing, and a consumer population meaningfully distracted by the presidential election and its aftermath".
[December 18, 2000, 13:37]
Online voting can't be trusted on standard PCs
News The physical systems used for in-person voting and mail-in absentee balloting don't provide perfect levels of these three categories of security, as proved by the 2000 US presidential elections. However, election fraud on a mass scale is difficult...
[March 8, 2004, 11:35]
