blog.wired.com - 12/5/2008
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Barack Obama won't be taking the mantle of Zune Brother No. 1 from Bill Gates after all.
In a stunning reaction that suggests the President-elect's ability to quickly turn around difficult public relations problems, an advisor has officially rejected the earlier suggestion that he used a ...
Barack Obama May Get To Keep Has BlackBerry After All
rimarkable.com 11/26/2008 — In a recent Barbara Walters interview , President Elect Barack Obama hinted that he may get to keep his BlackBerry after all .
WALTERS: How are you going to get along without your Blackberry?
OBAMA: (Laughs). This is a problem. I, you know, one of the things that I’m going to have ...
Obama Hopes for BlackBerry
intomobile.com 11/27/2008 —
U.S. President-Elect Barack Obama had a lengthy interview with ABC’s Barbara Walters earlier this week, touching on all the important political issues, like the economy and foreign policy, as well as adapting to the presidential life with ...
Video: O, Obama, what ever will you do without your BlackBerry?
crunchgear.com 12/1/2008 —
It seems people still watch the ABC network, specifically Good Morning America. I guess that’s why President-elect Obama agreed to a Barbara Walters interview. He addresses a whole bunch of “stuff,” but all we really care about is, What will he do without his BlackBerry?
This ...
Out With The Old, In With The Chu
ecogeek.org 12/11/2008 —
Dr. Steven Chu, President-elect Obama’s recent choice as the next Secretary of Energy, is going to have a lot of responsibility on his shoulders. Obama has made energy a top priority, and it is going to be largely up to Chu to help figure out exactly HOW to develop our renewable ...
Energy Efficiency Leads Obama's Economic Plan —
Eco Geek Latest
In this week's YouTube address, President-Elect Obama outlined some more specific points of his economic recover plan. I suppose he could give a me another check for $200 and call it quits. But instead, it looks like he's going to use that money in the way that energy advisers have been ...
Obama Not a Zune User After All —
Digital Trends
Of all the nasty rumors President Elect Obama could have faced in the weeks leading up to his taking office, the most attention-grabbing seems to have centered on his choice of MP3 player. The Web lit up with commentary this week after one reporter claimed to have seen ...
Zunegate! OMGBBQ! —
Mobility Site
A couple days ago, Neal Santos on his blog at the Philadelphia City Paper reported a close encounter he had with President Elect Barack Obama and his security detail in the gym that morning. He included the following information in his post, slipping it into the middle of the prose quite ...
Barack Obama Uses a Zune —
Wired: Gadget Lab
Photo: Radiospike photography/Flickr
Barack Obama has applied his bipartisan approach to his choice of gadgets. It's well known that the President-Elect is a dedicated Crackberry addict, and the fact that he uses a Mac notebook leads us to expect he'd team it up with an iPod. But, ...
The President Elect is a Zune User —
The UberReview
I must say that it comes as something of a surprise that the president elect of the United States, who is reportedly a Mac user, plays his MP3s on a Zune. Sure, I don’t care what music gadgets people use, but the Zune has been languishing and has not seen too many personal endorsements ...
Obama and ZuneGate —
Geek In Disguise
[ The Insider ] Does he or doesn’t he? A post titled Cardio with Obama set pulses racing today not because Neal Santos was racing on the treadmill with the president elect but because he apparently spotted him using a Zune. What? How could that be possible? He posted an update with ...
And In UFO News Today… —
Geeknews
Will Barack Obama open the X-Files (UFO investigations) to the public? [Examiner] - The Extraterrestrial Phenomenon Political Action Committee is gathering signatures in the days leading up to President-Elect Obama’s inauguration in an effort to get the new President to disclose military ...
The Cartoon Cabinet —
Boing Boing
DATELINE TOONTOWN. President-elect Bam Bam has announced a slate of Cabinet appointments, declaring that "this new generation of leadership" will mix a few popular characters from the past along with "many less familiar faces who are getting their first opportunity in a leading role." At a ...
President Obama to Keep His BlackBerry? —
Mobilewhack.com
A while ago we told you how President-Elect Barack Obama will have to give up his famous BlackBerry handset. It looks like now he's trying to keep it.
Here's what he said in an interview with Barbara Walters:
One of the things that I'm going to have to work through is how ...
Obama wants to hang on to his BlackBerry —
textually.org
US president-elect Barack Obama is trying to work out how he can hang on to his beloved BlackBerry once he moves into to the Oval Office next year. The Sydney Morning Herald reports.
In an interview with Barbara Walters , Obama also said he was trying to keep his BlackBerry or find another ...
Verizon Employees Eyeed Obama's Cell Record —
Digital Trends
Though the entire country would probably like to peek at President-Elect Obama’s cell phone given the chance, a handful of Verizon employees actually took advantage of their jobs to do it, and may lose them as a result. Last week, Verizon announced that it had placed ...
Obama's "Change" Inspires Controversy in Arab Online Media —
Boing Boing
Palestinian journalist and blogger Daoud Kuttab has an interesting essay up today about cultural ripples from Obama's election throughout the Arab world.
It seems like an appropriate enough cartoon. The depiction of the president elect Barack Obama with the US flag behind him and the ...
Verizon Employees Eyed Obama's Cell Record —
Digital Trends
Though the entire country would probably like to peek at President-Elect Obama’s cell phone given the chance, a handful of Verizon employees actually took advantage of their jobs to do it, and may lose them as a result. Last week, Verizon announced that it had placed ...
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