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  • Who really was behind the SOPA protests?

    Some critics have blamed Silicon Valley tech firms for the massive online protests last month against two controversial copyright bills. Other groups have trumpeted the grassroots nature of the protests.

  • White House: No comment on call to investigate MPAA for SOPA bribery

    The U.S. White House has declined to respond to a petition calling for authorities to investigate the head of the Motion Picture Association of America for bribery related to comments he made following successful online protests against two controversial copyright enforcement bills.

  • White House CTO Chopra leaving his post

    Aneesh Chopra, who has served for the past two-and-a-half years as the first CTO for the U.S. government, is stepping down in early February.

  • Sponsor: SOPA markup hearing to resume in February

    A hearing to amend and debate the controversial Stop Online Piracy Act should resume in February, its chief sponsor said, even in the face of new opposition to the copyright enforcement bill.

  • Opponents step up pressure against SOPA, PIPA

    The Stop Online Piracy Act and the Protect IP Act being debated in the U.S. Congress still have major problems, opponents said Monday, even after the bills' lead sponsors promised to take out some much-criticized portions of the legislation.

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Features about Barack Obama

  • 10 IT agenda items for the first US CIO

    Obama's appointment of Vivek Kundra marks an important first step for rectifying the nation's concerns about IT.

  • Obama can't have a BlackBerry. Should your CEO?

    The press has been all over President-Elect Barack Obama's addiction to his BlackBerry and the possibility that he might have to give it up for reasons of national security. But no one in the media seems to be asking the most logical follow-up question: Is the cybertechnology that can compromise the future chief executive's BlackBerry also a threat to mobile devices being used every day by thousands of senior executives in corporate America?

  • FAQ: Why Obama may give up his BlackBerry

    Could Barack Obama ever expect to continue using his BlackBerry once he officially becomes president?

  • E-voting '08: Problems, yes, but it could have been worse

    Despite reports all day long about an assortment of e-voting machine problems in several US states, no massive systemic meltdown occurred.

  • Hot search terms: Joe the plumber, 'lipness test'

    Google Trends provides some great insight into what people are thinking about, even if they don't always help us to understand what this insight means in terms of the candidates' positioning.

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