• Obama administration expands open data access

  U.S. President Barack Obama has signed an executive order requiring that government data be made available in open, machine-readable formats, expanding open-access requirements from earlier in his administration.

• Senators want sanctions against countries supporting cyberattacks

  Two U.S. senators will push Congress or President Barack Obama's administration to pursue trade and immigration sanctions against China and other countries that allegedly support cyberattacks on U.S. government agencies and businesses, the lawmakers said Wednesday.

• US Senate approves Internet sales tax

  The U.S. Senate has voted to allow states to collect sales tax from online retailers, making it more difficult to buy tax-free products online.

• Dell investigates report of computers sold to Syria

  Dell is investigating a report that a Middle East reseller has sold large numbers of computers to a Syrian company with ties to the embattled government there, in violation of U.S. export restrictions.

• Obama nominates Wheeler as new FCC chairman

  U.S. President Barack Obama has nominated telecom trade group veteran Tom Wheeler to be the next chairman of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission.

• What Obama's re-election may mean for technology

  The US presidential election result leaves President Barack Obama in the White House and maintains the balance of power in Congress. In many longstanding technology debates, policy experts see little movement forward, although lawmakers may look for compromises on a handful of issues.

• Tech issues don't make much of an appearance in US presidential campaign

  With the U.S. presidential election on Tuesday, it's fair to say that technology policy hasn't risen to the top of the agenda in the debate between President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney.

• 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?

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