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Campaign 2008

November 12, 2008

Wednesday, November 12, 2008 6:07 PM/EST

Google Ups Washington Presence

Google CEO Eric Schmidt may have eliminated himself from the running to be Barack Obama's CTO, but Google is still going full-bore to influence the new administration's technology policy, no doubt to the telecommunications companies' annoyance that theirs is no...

November 7, 2008

Friday, November 07, 2008 9:31 AM/EST

Obama Likely to Quash Lame Duck Trade Deals

The tech sector enthusiastically embraces the president-elect's technology-centric proposals for just about everything that ails America; Barack Obama's insistence that trade agreements include strong labor, environmental and safety standards, not so much so. So much not so that tech is...

November 3, 2008

Monday, November 03, 2008 6:53 PM/EST

10 Ways to Unfairly Influence an Election

In spite of the mounting evidence that has emerged since 2006 demonstrating that voter fraud committed at the polling place is extremely rare, there are still of plenty of ways to unfairly influence an election. Common Cause and the New...

September 26, 2008

Friday, September 26, 2008 4:17 PM/EST

The Obama Girl and Ralph Nader Show

These are not the best of times for Ralph Nader, the perennial and current Independent Party candidate for the presidency. Most newspapers and broadcast outlets have simply refused to cover his campaign. The thinking is that Nader has no influence...

September 19, 2008

Friday, September 19, 2008 10:20 AM/EST

McCain Kicks Media Out of Innovation Event

Ike Brannon, a senior policy adviser to the McCain presidential campaign, will hold a private audience Sept. 19 with AeA (the former American Electronics Association founded in 1948 and soon to be part of the ITAA's orbit). His talk: John...

June 19, 2008

Thursday, June 19, 2008 4:08 PM/EST

Obama, McCain Face Telco Immunity Vote

The best part of having sitting senators as presidential candidates is that on occasion they have to, well, vote on issues. Instead of providing only hollow campaign rhetoric, they have to actually stand up and be counted. As early as...

June 4, 2008

Wednesday, June 04, 2008 6:35 PM/EST

Obama Wins, Tech Loses

With Hillary Clinton sent to the presidential sidelines June 3, Congress can now turn its attention to its most pressing issue: How quickly can lawmakers shut down the 110th Congress? They have campaign trails to hit—both their own and the...

May 29, 2008

Thursday, May 29, 2008 2:57 PM/EST

McCain Flip Flops on Telco Immunity

Let's slap a not so fast label on last week's report that John McCain is against granting immunity to telephone companies that participated in President Bush's warrantless wiretapping of American's telephone calls and e-mails. Chuck Fish, a former Time Warner...

May 23, 2008

Friday, May 23, 2008 1:12 PM/EST

McCain Hangs Up on Telco Immunity

No matter who wins the presidency this fall, telecoms like AT&T and Verizon should expect no White House immunity for the warrantless wiretapping of Americans' phone calls and e-mail. President Bush, by contrast, has promised to veto any legislation that...



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