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Whomever the Republican National Committee taps to fill its top tech post has an unenviable job to do. Politics News Headlines – Yahoo! News Tweet This Post
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RNC Launches New Tech Initiative to Catch Democrats
Posted by admin on May 2nd, 2013
“National Republicans are building a new data-sharing platform as the party moves to close a digital divide with Democrats that became glaringly apparent in the aftermath of the 2012 presidential election,” Roll Call reports. Tweet This Post
McConnell Seeks to Lead GOP Tech Innovations
Posted by admin on April 30th, 2013
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) “has set an ambitious goal for his reelection campaign: to build the most sophisticated Republican digital and data operation to date,” National Journal reports. Tweet This Post
Mitch McConnell Wants to be the Republican Party’s Chief Tech Innovator
Posted by admin on April 29th, 2013
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has set an ambitious goal for his reelection campaign: to build the most sophisticated Republican digital and data operation to date. Politics News Headlines – Yahoo! News Tweet This Post
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No Comments »Budget cuts ripple beyond defense to travel, tech sectors
Posted by admin on April 5th, 2013
By Karen Jacobs (Reuters) – The rustic, 316-room Cheyenne Mountain Resort hotel in Colorado Springs is usually booked solid this time of year, just days before a major national space conference rolls into town. But business is off by about a third this season as NASA has withdrawn from the conference, one of many government [...]
Posted in Breaking News Tags: beyond, Budget, cuts, defense, ripple, sectors, tech, Travel No Comments »The FCC Race to Replace Obama’s Top Tech Wonk Just Got a Lot More Interesting
Posted by admin on March 28th, 2013
The odds of President Obama nominating a woman to head a top federal agency just got much better. Politics News Headlines – Yahoo! News Tweet This Post
Posted in Breaking News Tags: Interesting, just, more, Obama's, Race, Replace, tech, Wonk No Comments »Tech Central: What It Takes To Become a Startup City
Posted by admin on March 5th, 2013
Austin—home to the South by Southwest tech and music festivals, the headquarters for Dell, and an indeterminate number of hipsters–is generally considered the technology hub in Texas. But just 90 minutes south on I-35, San Antonio has been quietly establishing itself as a center for tech industries. The Air Force division charged with waging cyber-warfare [...]
GOP Consultants Plot New Tech Infrastructure
Posted by admin on March 4th, 2013
Time reports on a group of Republicans consultants who believe the the conservative movement does not have what liberals have: “An infrastructure to train and nurture the next generation of campaign operatives and develop cutting-edge techniques. So they decided to take a shot at filling the void, by developing a proposal for a suite of [...]
Battle Rages Over Tech that Got Obama Reelected
Posted by admin on January 22nd, 2013
The Verge: “The tech team behind the 2012 Obama campaign has probably received more attention than any political programmers in history… But in the aftermath of the election, a stark divide has emerged between political operatives and the techies who worked side-by-side.” Tweet This Post
Exclusive: U.S. nuclear lab removes Chinese tech over security fears
Posted by admin on January 7th, 2013
LONDON (Reuters) – A leading U.S. nuclear weapons laboratory recently discovered its computer systems contained some Chinese-made network switches and replaced at least two components because of national security concerns, a document shows. A letter from the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, dated November 5, 2012, states that the research facility had installed [...]
