Tag Archive | "politics"
US Senators ask Apple to remove apps that alert users of DUI checkpoints
Concerned with a growing number of iPhone apps that work to alert users as to the presence of DUI checkpoints, a group of four US Senators penned a letter to Apple’s Senior VP of iPhone software, Scott Forstall, asking that the apps in question be removed. “With more than 10,000 Americans dying in drunk-driving crashes [...]
Continue reading...Hungarian politician Jozsef Szajer using an iPad to draft new constitution
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
Comments Off
Network World reports that the new Hungarian constitution is being drafted by an iPad. Jozsef Szajer, a Hungarian politician and member of the European Parliament, wrote an enthusiastic blogpost last week detailing how he’s using Apple’s tablet device to flesh out Hungary’s new constitution, the country’s first since 1949. As a point of interest, Hungary [...]
Continue reading...House of Lords okays use of iPads, iPhones and more for a 1-year trial basis
Sunday, March 13, 2011
Comments Off
The House of Lords, which serves as the upper house of the Parliament of the UK, will now allow smartphones and tablet devices to be present during debates on the condition that they remain silent. The about face was formally expressed in a new report from the Lords Administration and the Works Committee who said [...]
Continue reading...The BBC’s “royal microphone” from the 1930s
Sunday, March 6, 2011
Comments Off
BBC writes: Anyone who has seen the film, The King’s Speech, will know that the microphones used for broadcasting by the Royal Family in the 1930s didn’t look anything like those used by ordinary mortals. That’s because the BBC designed special “royal microphones”, in ornate art deco cabinets.
Continue reading...Former UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown blocked knighthood of Steve Jobs
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
Comments Off
The Telegraph is reporting today that former UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown blocked an initiative to knight Apple CEO Steve Jobs because Jobs had previously rebuffed an invitation to speak at an annual Labour Party conference. The proposal to Knight Jobs was set in motion to honor the Apple co-founder’s impact and service to technology. The [...]
Continue reading...Apple celebrates Black History Month on iTunes
Monday, February 14, 2011
Comments Off
Apple currently has a special section up on iTunes dedicated to celebrating Black History Month. Over 400 years of tragedy and triumph, an epic journey that began with the Middle Passage and ascended to the Oval Office, the African-American experience is the soul of America itself. It’s the field hollers that rang out under weight [...]
Continue reading...How Egypt turned off the Internet
Sunday, January 30, 2011
Comments Off
Egypt is in turmoil as protests against the Hosni Mubarak led government continue. Looting is rampant, hundreds have died, numerous rapes have been reported, and there’s no end in sight. In an effort to quell mounting public demonstrations last week, albeit unsucessfully, Egypt turned off the Internet for its citizenry, preventing data from going in [...]
Continue reading...Egypt shuts off the Internet
Thursday, January 27, 2011
Comments Off
Renesys report that Egypt’s attempts to quell rising strife within its borders have taken a disturbing turn: Confirming what a few have reported this evening: in an action unprecedented in Internet history, the Egyptian government appears to have ordered service providers to shut down all international connections to the Internet. Critical European-Asian fiber-optic routes through Egypt [...]
Continue reading...Gabrielle Giffords recovery references iPad use
Monday, January 24, 2011
Comments Off
In an extremely odd headline that DF’s John Gruber aptly described as Onion-esque, Reuters reported earlier last week that wounded US Representative Gabrielle Gifford was doing better after having been shot in the head by a 22 year old deranged lunatic named Jared Lee Loughner. Just 12 days after she was shot in the head, [...]
Continue reading...Steve Jobs kicks WikiLeaks out of the iTunes App Store [Video Animation]
Friday, December 24, 2010
Comments Off
Apple earlier this week removed a $1.99 WikiLeaks app which housed, among other documents, all of the U.S diplomatic cables that generated waves of controversy upon their release just a few weeks ago. But it’s not as if those documents are impossible to read on the iPhone. Indeed, the iTunes App Store is filled with [...]
Continue reading...National Organization for Marriage calls Steve Jobs “Big Brother”
Wednesday, December 22, 2010
Comments Off
After an app created by the National Organization for Marriage was booted from the app store for being “offensive to large groups of people”, the organization decided to strike back, so to speak, with the following video which could easily pass as an Onion production. They also issued a press release, which reads in part: [...]
Continue reading...Former President Jimmy Carter an iPad and iPod user
Wednesday, December 15, 2010
Comments Off
Former President and famed peanut farmer Jimmy Carter is apparently quite the Apple fan. We’ve become increasingly addicted to consumption of goods that we don’t produce ourselves, and a lot of the manufacturing has gone overseas…When I was in office, we had the pre-eminent position in the production of alternative sources of energy—windmills, and photovoltaic [...]
Continue reading...iPad shows up in the House of Representatives
Friday, December 3, 2010
Comments Off
Politico reports: If you were watching C-SPAN on Tuesday, your eyes weren’t deceiving you: That really was an iPad on the speaker’s podium in the House of Representatives. The owner was Rep. Henry Cuellar, a Democratic congressman from Texas and an admitted tech-geek. “I’ve always considered myself a techie,” Cuellar told POLITICO. “I’m always looking for [...]
Continue reading...And then Obama met with Steve Jobs…
Thursday, October 21, 2010
Comments Off
What a crazy week for Apple news, and one topped off with a report from Bloomberg noting that President Barack Obama recently met with Apple CEO Steve Jobs to discuss all things education, energy, and economics. “They discussed American competitiveness and education, especially reforms such as the president’s Race to the Top initiative,” White House [...]
Continue reading...Ronald Reagan’s son goes off the deep end, calls Apple email “liberal”
Tuesday, August 3, 2010
Politics aside, you can’t deny that this is sheer and utter lunacy. Michael Reagan, son of former President Ronald Regan, is starting a new Reagan.com email address that will allow users to fly their conservative colors high and proud. People who believe in true Reagan Conservative Values are unwittingly supporting the Obama, Pelosi and Reid [...]
Continue reading...Obama demos Healthcare.gov using a MacBook Pro
Monday, August 2, 2010
Comments Off
President Barack Obama may still use a BlackBerry, but when it comes to hardware, he’s a Mac man. In fact, when Obama and his team moved into the White House, his staffers, used to using Macs, were shocked to see a setup of old PC’s running 6 year old Microsoft software. In a recent video [...]
Continue reading...
Thursday, March 24, 2011
Comments Off