9 posts and columns on State of the Union

2012 Is Going to Be the Twitter Election, Says Costolo

in Dive Into Media on January 30 at 7:09 pm PT

Speaking at D: Dive Into Media, Twitter’s CEO says that the service has turned an already quick news cycle into an instant one, pointing to last week’s State of the Union address.
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The State of the Union Gets Live-Tweeted

in Social on January 24 at 11:20 pm PT

Live-tweeting isn’t just for journalists and sports fans anymore — it’s for Rick Santorum, Buddy Roemer and, best of all, Chad Ochocinco.
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Steve Jobs’s Widow Will Join First Lady at State of the Union

in News on January 24 at 12:05 pm PT

Laurene Powell Jobs, widow of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs and longtime community and education activist, will be among the symbolically significant handful of people seated with First Lady Michelle Obama during the president’s State of the Union speech tonight. Also in the First Lady’s box, presumably to illustrate the benefits of immigrant entrepreneurs, will be Brazilian-born Mike Krieger, co-founder of Instagram, and Dr. Hiroyuki Fujita, founder and CEO of Quality Electrodynamics in Cleveland, Ohio.

Obama Administration Promises to Answer Quora Users’ State of the Union Questions

in Social on January 24 at 3:54 am PT

The intelligent discussion site Quora has gotten a nod from the Obama administration on the eve of the annual U.S. State of the Union address.
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Obama's Wireless Broadband Plan: 98 Percent or Bust

in Enterprise on February 10, 2011 at 2:52 pm PT

The president outlines how he thinks the country might pay to cover nearly all of the country with a high-speed wireless network.

Obama Wants a Wireless Broadband Network for Everyone

in Enterprise on January 26, 2011 at 8:00 am PT

Technology references were numerous in the president’s speech to Congress last night. His call for for a national wireless broadband network will reignite a long-simmering debate over spectrum allocation, pitting TV broadcasters against the FCC.

First Oscars Event for "The Social Network": Nominations

in Social on January 24, 2011 at 10:51 pm PT

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on Tuesday will announce this year’s Oscar nominations, which are expected to include the Hollywood version of the founding of Facebook, “The Social Network.”

Cheney’s Kindle and Other Politico/Gadget Pairings

in News on March 18, 2009 at 10:53 am PT

Who knew Dick Cheney was an e-book reader? In an interview on CNN’s “State of the Union,” the former vice president said that he owns an Amazon Kindle and used it to read James McPherson’s “Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief.” He said he also uses a BlackBerry, made by Research In Motion, to keep up with the news now that he’s no longer in office.