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AT&T Is Present at the 2008 Democratic National Convention

The 2008 Democratic National Convention has just debuted in Denver, offering a perfect occasion for AT&T, North America's largest mobile carrier, to encourage young Americans to go vote at this year's US presidential elections (which will take place on November 4). The blue carrier has partnered with Rock...

26 August 2008
09:54 GMT

Yahoo! Investors Consider Annual Vote Results Inaccurate

The investors/directors' annual meeting at Yahoo! didn't bring any changes in the board of directors. Despite the fact that some of the officials who played an important role in the rejection of the Microsoft proposal were criticized by investors, they still got an average of 80% positive votes. This caught...

5 August 2008
06:58 GMT

Yahoo!'s Board of Directors Is Safe and Sound

All of the 8 executives who signed up for a new commission in Yahoo!'s board of directors were reelected yesterday. Although this year's elections were regarded with great uncertainty, as stockholders could have chosen to dismiss the team that rejected a promising offer from Microsoft, everything turned out...

2 August 2008
04:15 GMT

Exhaustive Online Image of the Presidential Elections

Perspctv is a website created by an independent developer who wanted to make available a tool to forecast all the developments on the political scene and to render an exhaustive image of the moment. The website offers charts that illustrate people's preferences three months before the presidential elections. The...

30 July 2008
08:23 GMT

Iran Pulling the Plug on the Internet

The 14th of March will come hammering down a huge decision from the Iranian Government, that to shut the Internet down as a whole. Being ranked fourth in the top of press freedom infringing, after Turkmenistan, North Korea and Eritrea, Iran won't have any type of online covering of the elections day. The governm...

4 March 2008
15:16 GMT

YouTube's Pakistan Ban Related to Election Fraud Videos?

The Pakistan ban that knocked YouTube unconscious to the floor, for almost two hours, might not be as religious related as the state officials initially hinted. Some local users believe that the blocking of the site was actually closely connected to some footage proving election fraud in the South Asian country. With...

27 February 2008
15:56 GMT

First Ever Online Primary Has Obama on Top of Hilary

Politics is a bitch, but if you treat her right it will pay you back tenfold. That's the underlay of all the thoughts in every politician's mind, I think, and that's why they are up there making decisions and I for one am here writing about it. They knew how to capitalize on their dreams and are going ...

22 February 2008
07:36 GMT

Microsoft, Google and Yahoo!, all for the Democrats

Donations to presidential candidates' campaigns have been all over the news in the past months, sums reaching an all-time high online in January, when Illinois Senator Barack Obama was sent 28 million dollars over the Internet. The big names in the web industry, such as Google, Yahoo! and Microsoft, have all joi...

6 February 2008
07:31 GMT

Oh, Lord! The Politics and GodTube… Gimme a Break!

If you always thought that religion is one of those areas where everybody finds inner peace in his/her own way, having a personal connection to whatever God he/she is praying to, you must not be a fan of Mike Huckabee. The Southern Baptist minister and Republican presidential candidate has just had the idea to go for...

29 January 2008
11:46 GMT

Google Advertises Presidency Candidates

Cashing in on all opportunities, that's the Google we have all gotten to know and love. If there's money to be made and a chance to rise a bit higher in the White House's eyes, you can bet that the Mountain View-based company will want a say in it.The 17th of January was the day that Google opened its ...

29 January 2008
07:21 GMT

YouTube Proves to be Window to Chaos in Kenya

Following the news from all across the globe, you must have come across some information regarding last month's Kenya elections and the protests and riots that erupted when the results were finally released. As you might have gathered, they weren't the satisfactory ones for a lot of people and that led to s...

17 January 2008
06:06 GMT

Some More Maps for Politics

Don't get me wrong, there's a world of meaning in taking interest in what is to happen to your future as a country and this deserves all the media hype surrounding it. However there's a big difference between knowing what there is to know and creating a map on top of another, polling and graphing every...

15 January 2008
03:54 GMT

Google News Going Political

I'm already tired of all the products coming out on the market in order to get a slice of the election cash pie. I wish that they would just have a meeting and come together one day and decide something like "a week from now, at 12 o'clock, we'll all release our election gadgets, pages and anything els...

27 December 2007
04:43 GMT

Yahoo! Broadens and Makes Its Elections Site More User Friendly

Despite already having a very good in depth site that treats the 2008 elections very seriously, the people over at the Sunnyvale based company have chosen to open up even more to the public and bring figures in an interesting way, rather than the classic polls.The new part of the site that was launched was dubbed "Da...

17 December 2007
10:37 GMT

Hackers Could Meddle With the Voting Campaign

Hackers are known to have a taste for sites that attract a lot of visitors, and next year is election year in the United States. Malicious users could take advantage of the traffic electoral sites are going to get, for their own inscrutable purposes, as pointed out by security experts on Symantec's website. Now...

11 October 2007
14:41 GMT


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