Twitter lit up with activity during last night's State of the Union address as users, including journalists and politicians, turned to the social network. President Obama, in his fifth State of the Union address, touched on hot topics ...
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President Barack Obama is expected to issue a cybersecurity executive order in the days after his Feb. 12 State of the Union address. The long-expected executive order will create a voluntary program that will call for companies in ...
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In his second inaugural address, President Barack Obama on Monday argued with certainty and forcefulness about the dangers of climate change and the role of technology in fighting it. It wasn't just a moral point for Obama, but a jobs ...
Verizon's attempt -- unsuccessful so far -- to secure a patent for a so-called 'snooping technology,' which in this case would let television advertisers target individual viewers based on what they're doing or saying in front of their ...
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Computerworld-The 2012 Republican Party platform adopted this week calls for a more aggressive U.S.cyber deterrence policy for dealing with security threats against government and civilian targets. The platform,which lists the GOP's ...
The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) is set to host the first of several meetings seeking input for its effort to develop new codes of conduct for handling private consumer date on the Internet and mobile ...
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A subcommittee in the U.S. House of Representatives will hear testimony on Friday about whether the FCC followed its own rules when it gave LightSquared conditional approval for an LTE network early last year. LightSquared wants to build ...
Nebraska's Department of Environmental Quality could issue as early as next week its final evaluation on the Keystone XL project to the state's governor, a DEQ spokesman said Thursday. "Right now it's looking like early January, but I ...
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Energy.gov reported that senior Advisor in the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Mr Gil Sperling joined local officials and company representatives for the ribbon cutting ceremony and tour of the ArcelorMittal steel ...
House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner's"Plan B"to limit income-tax increases to the wealthiest sliver of the population appeared likely to pass the House on Thursday evening after it narrowly cleared a procedural hurdle in the ...
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The Obama administration "strongly supports" a new cybersecurity bill scheduled to be debated on the Senate floor soon, even though some of its provisions are watered down from earlier legislation, the White House Office of Management and ...
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Colorado Republican congressman Mike Coffman managed to tie together a popular video game, US President Barack Obama and rare earth mining in an op-ed published in The Washington Times last week. Even by the not very high standards of ...
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Monday marked the start of the 2013 federal fiscal year, and with it the release of a new batch of H-1B visas. The 85,000 H-1B visa cap, including the 20,000 visas that are set aside for advanced degree graduates with STEM (Science, ...
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Trade Arabia reported that crude oil output from the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries declined 90,000 barrels per day to 31.08 million barrels per day in November. This follows October production of 31.17 million barrels per ...
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