Barack Obama has been the most tech savvy President we have ever had. Living in an age of technology, this is increasingly important and with a new directive this week, he has proven how serious he is about the issue: U.S. President Barack Obama has ordered all major government agencies to make two key services […]
Data mining the social and purchasing trend of online users has been a growing practice and one that has a very eerie “big brother” feeling. The FTC has just concluded a report into the practice and is pushing for tougher laws to allow users to opt out of such practices: The agency, the Federal Trade […]
Just got home from a day of running errands and saw this: The Department of Justice announced Thursday that it has conducted a major action to shut down MegaUpload, a popular file-sharing site widely used for free downloads of movies and television shows. After receiving indictments from a grand jury in Virginia for racketeering conspiracy, […]
This is something I never thought of, the stronger hand of our government, at the behest of the Patriot Act, actually hurting us on the tech front. It turns out that is exactly what is happening: Cloud computing is a gold mine for the U.S. tech industry, but American firms are encountering resistance from an […]
I wanted to put this in my last post, but decided it merited its’ own. A big story on the tech front this week was news that next year we will see internet prices go up because of streaming movie services like NetFlix and HuLu. Time Warner Cable Inc. and U.S. pay- TV companies, weighing […]
A new post from Tea Party Nation founder, Judson Phillips, was just posted. In it Phillips shows the kind of archaic thinking the Tea Party has and why it is the kind of thinking that will keep America behind in a 21st century economy: (subscription required). The remaining roughly $27 million was used to connect […]
Overnight a new tropical depression got its act together, pulled in tighter and became our next hurricane, Katia. The storm is still way out in the Atlantic, but it’s moving very fast and predicted to become a major hurricane by Sunday, as seen on the 5-day probability cone: Compare this to the 5-day cone from […]
Just before dawn this morning the space shuttle Atlantis landed marking the end of the 30 year old space shuttle program. Here’s the video of the final landing: I still remember the first launch like it was yesterday. It’s really sad to see this program disappear given it’s iconic stature in American culture. Hopefully the […]
The problem with electric cars has been the low life cycle of a battery charge and the time take to re-charge. It makes for really bad longer trips. Well those headaches could be a thing of the past, thanks to MIT: A new battery design developed by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology could […]
Sen. Al Franken is still on a rampage over the recent news of Apple iOS devices recording their users every moves and now he will be holding a hearing: Senator Al Franken (D-MN) has stepped up his pressure on Apple CEO Steve Jobs, announcing on Monday that he will hold hearings on the recent revelation […]