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Obama to use Tumblr in 2012 campaign

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The US president, Barack Obama, will turn to Tumblr in his attempts to secure a second term in 2012, following the successful use of other social networking tools in his 2008 rise to power.</div>
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Obama famously used Twitter and Facebook in 2008, and will now look to another blogging platform in Tumblr to boost his popularity with an increasingly tech obsessed and connected nation.</div>
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Using the http://barackobama.tumblr.com/ address, Obama's team are already sending out messages, the first encouraging people to join in and add their own stories during the campaign.</div>
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"There will be trolls among you: this we know.We ask only that you remember that we're people—fairly nice ones—and that your mother would want you to be polite," concludes the post.</div>
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It seems likely that there will also be a Google+ account, although a seemingly official account was deleted from Google+ back in July despite appearing on search engine results even now.</div>
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British politicians are also embracing social media as they look to reach out to voters, although the now quickly fading and much mocked Digital Economy Act perhaps suggests that – with some notable exceptions - understanding of the modern digital world is not at its most complete in the Houses of Parliament.</div>
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Obama to use Tumblr in 2012 campaign

The US president, Barack Obama, will turn to Tumblr in his attempts to secure a second term in 2012, following the successful use of o...

Huawei may win U.S. Cellular contract, also considered for building nation wide public safety network

<div><img alt="huawei Huawei may win U.S. Cellular contract, also considered for building nation wide public safety network" height="268" src="http://img535.imageshack.us/img535/4885/huawei.jpg" title="Huawei may win U.S. Cellular contract, also considered for building nation wide public safety network" width="396" /></div><br/>Chinese infrastructure firm Huawei has been getting a lot of heat from lawmakers in the US because of some paranoid delusions that there’s a plot by the Chinese military to spy on the communications of the American people. Back in 2008 Huawei lost a huge contract to Sprint for those reasons. It’s 2011 now and Huawei isn’t giving up. They’re a finalist for a contract to build a new 4G LTE network for U.S. Cellular, the 6th largest operator in America that boasts over 6 million customers. That’s made Republican Senators Jon Kyl, Saxby Chambliss, Richard Burr, James Inhofe and Tom Coburn, and Republican Representative Darrell Issa a bit jumpy, so they decided to send Barack Obama a letter asking for a “permanent legislative solution” to ban Huawei from ever selling their gear on American shores.<br/><br/>What’s Huawei to do? They’ve offered, on numerous occasions, governments to send officials to their factories to exam their equipment and even comb through their source code. They say that the “falsehoods” they’ve been accused of “have had significant and negative impact on our business activity.” We believe them. In other, more positive news, Huawei is actively working with the U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology to test a 4G LTE network for use in public-safety networks. It’s the first such network that will be deployed on a nation wide scale, so all emergency services (think police, ambulance, fire department) can have access to a high speed network, free of congestion caused by teenagers streaming HD YouTube videos to their phones.<br/><br/>For a country that’s hell bent on promoting democracy and capitalistic values all over the world, we’re a little disappointed that this 21st century version of McCarthyism even exists. Sure, Grandpa is allowed to spit nasty comments about people from other countries because he’s damn near lost his mind, but people in power … what’s their beef?

Huawei may win U.S. Cellular contract, also considered for building nation wide public safety network

Chinese infrastructure firm Huawei has been getting a lot of heat from lawmakers in the US because of some paranoid delusions that there’s a...