Tagged: Barack Obama & News
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Interview: John Ashton, CBE, on climate change, politics and leadership News
18.06.2013 John Ashton, CBE, former special representative for Climate Change at the UK Foreign Office, is in Dublin for the Climate Gathering. He spoke to Ann O’Dea about climate change,...Categories: Sustainability, Renewable Energy, Investments, Green Tech, Green, Government, Energy, Education -
Google asks US govt to report full scale of NSA data requests News
12.06.2013 In a letter to the US Attorney General and the FBI, Google’s chief legal officer David Drummond has asked the US government to publicly reveal the full scale and volume of... -
Mozilla, Reddit and 4chan join call for US Congress to stop NSA surveillance News
11.06.2013 Internet firms Mozilla, Reddit and 4chan have joined their voices with 86 other organisations, including Access and the Electronic Frontier Foundation, urging US lawmakers to...Categories: Social Media, Servers, Security, Search Engines, Search, Legal, Internet, Government, Digital Media -
Crowdfunding campaign launched to raise legal funds for Edward Snowden News
10.06.2013 A Crowdtilt crowdfunding campaign has been launched to raise legal fees for the NSA whistleblower and former CIA contractor Edward Snowden, who is currently in exile in Hong Kong. -
US intelligence mines data from nine internet giants, including Google and Facebook News
07.06.2013 Just a day after reports surfaced that the National Security Agency (NSA) in the US interpreted the Patriot Act in such a way as to seek phone records of millions of US citizens...Categories: Web, Software & Web Development, Software, Social Media, Servers, Security, Internet, Data Centre, Computers, CommunicationsTags: YouTube, Skype, AOL, Yahoo!, Microsoft, Apple, Facebook, Google, National Security Agency, FBI, Barack Obama, Cyber security, -
Bruising blow for Apple as ITC grants trade ban on iPhone 4 and other iOS devices News
05.06.2013 Tech giant Apple has expressed disappointment with a decision by the International Trade Commission to accede to Samsung’s requests for a ban on imports of earlier Apple... -
Obama Administration declares war on patent trolls News
05.06.2013 The daft tit-for-tat patent wars may finally become a thing of the past and real innovation may flourish again thanks to bold new steps issued by the White House aimed at...Categories: Intellectual Property, Investments, Legal, Mobile, Mobility, R&D, Research, Science, Wireless Communications -
Viral videos of the week: Cinco de Mayo, Steven Spielberg’s ‘Obama’ and the talking dead News
05.05.2013 We take a look at some of the most-viewed and most-shared videos on the web. This week features dubbed zombies, a tricky question for non-Spanish speakers, another stab at... -
Obama homes in on clean tech in budget proposal for fiscal year 2014 News
11.04.2013 Yesterday, US President Barack Obama unveiled his US$3.8trn budget plan for fiscal year 2014. As part of his budget proposals, Obama is calling for a 40pc increase on spending... -
Obama reveals US$100m research initiative to understand the human brain News
02.04.2013 US President Barack Obama has today revealed details of an ambitious research initiative called BRAIN that will result in an initial US$100m being pumped into research... -
US President Obama plans US$2bn bid to get vehicles off oil News
15.03.2013 US President Barack Obama will today call for the creation of a US$2bn energy security trust fund dedicated to reducing the country’s dependency on oil for motor transport. -
Obama selects new energy secretary and EPA chief News
05.03.2013 US President Barack Obama has announced his nominees to take on the roles of Energy Secretary and head of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Obama has nominated MIT... -
Climate change gathering to take place in the Burren this weekend News
14.02.2013 More than 60 participants, including Harvard professor Daniel Schrag, who is an adviser to US President Barack Obama, will be meeting in the west of Ireland this weekend to... -
US President Obama signs cyber security executive order News
13.02.2013 US President Barack Obama has signed an executive order that will bolster America’s cyber security defences through partnership with critical infrastructure providers. -
Where to watch US President Barack Obama’s inauguration online News
21.01.2013 There is certainly no shortage about where to tune in online today to watch US President Barack Obama’s public inauguration in Washington, DC. -
Michelle Obama joins Twitter – but doesn’t follow Barack’s account News
18.01.2013 US First Lady Michelle Obama has joined the ranks of the twitteratti and opened a Twitter account. So far, she is following 15 people and organisations on the microblogging... -
Wind-energy industry in US gets lift in ‘fiscal cliff’ bill News
02.01.2013 As part of its measures to avoid a US ‘fiscal cliff’ economic crisis, the US Congress has voted to extend tax credits on wind energy for another year in a move that could avert...Categories: Tax, Sustainability, Renewable Energy, Investments, Green Tech, Green, Engineering, Energy, Economy -
75pc of world leaders have presence on Twitter - think tank News
02.01.2013 Three out of four heads of state now have a presence on microblogging site Twitter, an international and non-partisan ‘think tank’ on 21st-century governance has revealed. -
Newsmakers of the year: Barack Obama, Tim Cook, Michael D Higgins, John McAfee and Tupac News
31.12.2012 We recall the top newsmakers of 2012, including Presidents Barack Obama and Michael D Higgins, tech industry leaders Tim Cook and Steve Ballmer, the 3D resurrection of Tupac...Tags: McAfee, Eircom, 4G, ComReg, James Whelton, Facebook, Apple, Tim Cook, Mark Zuckerberg, Barack Obama, YouTube, -
Barack, Bieber and London 2012 - Twitter reveals the top tweets and trends of 2012 News
11.12.2012 Twitter today revealed the top trends and Twitter messages that rocked 2012 – including US President Barack Obama’s ‘four more years’ tweet.