Bill Clinton

Bill Clinton Highlights Global Cellular Success Stories as CTIA 2012 Wraps Up

Ina Fried in Mobile on May 10 at 12:56 pm PT

Addressing a techie crowd in New Orleans, the former President talked about ways he is seeing technology, especially cellphones, creating new opportunities across the globe.

Seven Questions for Cisco Systems CEO John Chambers

Arik Hesseldahl in News on February 9 at 1:50 pm PT

In an AllThingsD interview, Cisco Systems’ CEO talks about the company’s turnaround, the hurdles ahead and how badly he wants to bring his company’s cash home.

Microsoft Teams With Former President Clinton on Education

Arik Hesseldahl in News on September 20, 2011 at 7:39 am PT

The software giant wants to get one million low-income students using the Internet, and is teaming with the former president’s philanthropic organization to do it.

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Egypt, Al Gore and the .XXX Domain–Bill Clinton Keynotes ICANN in San Francisco

Drake Martinet, Associate Editor, All Things Digital in News on March 17, 2011 at 1:34 am PT

Former President Bill Clinton addressed about 800 attendees last night at the 40th meeting of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, ICANN, at the Westin St. Francis in San Francisco. Luckily, the protesting porn stars aren’t due until today.

Weekend Update 3/20/10–The Broadband Plan Edition

Beth Callaghan in News on March 20, 2010 at 8:13 pm PT

BoomTown traveled to Washington, D.C., this week for festivities surrounding the 25th anniversary of the registration of the first .com domain name, and while in our nation’s capital, lugged a giant binder containing a paper printout of the National Broadband Plan to various historic spots for educational opportunities.

President Clinton Talks About His Internet Legacy (BTW, He's an iPhone Dude, While the GOP's #41 Is a BlackBerry Teen)

Kara Swisher in News on March 18, 2010 at 12:38 am PT

Here is a video I did of former President Bill Clinton talking at an event related to the 25th anniversary of the first .com registration. Clinton gave a speech first–which was, inexplicably, about health-care legislation and global warming. But after Clintion was done, he sat down with VeriSign CEO Mark McLaughlin to talk about a range of Web-related topics, in a very amusing exchange.

BoomTown in D.C. to Say Happy 25th Birthday to .Com and Wary Hello to Broadband Plan

Kara Swisher in News on March 15, 2010 at 7:54 am PT

Last night, I jetted east to Washington, D.C., for an unusual confluence of events: The 25th anniversary of the .com Internet domain name and the Federal Communications Commission’s release of the National Broadband Plan. Both are set for tomorrow in the nation’s capital and both concern the impact of the Web on the United States in the past and the future. And after a quarter-century, let’s hope the federal government finally starts to take the Internet seriously.

YouTube Nabs a Sit-Down With Barack Obama

Peter Kafka in Media on February 1, 2010 at 7:39 am PT

Yet another tie-up between Google and the White House: A one-on-one interview between Barack Obama and YouTube. The crowd-sourced questions are a sort-of novelty, but it’s worth nothing that this is yet another live-streamed event for the clip site.