I have the feeling we’re going to see Barack Obama appear in lots of stories related to technology issues in these first four years of his presidency. And we’re going to particularly see him linked to his favorite phone, the BlackBerry.

Today we hear that the President receives a prayer every morning form the White House faith director Joshua DuBois straight to his smartphone. That’s a habit he picked up during the campaign and he certainly likes it enough to continue with it. Would anyone create a BlackBerry app which would automatically deliver prayer to the President? Would he be allowed to install apps on his Berry?

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Active Media unveils another unique USB drive, this time pertaining to U.S. President Barack Obama. The device is an 8GB USB drive which contains pre-loaded with President’s Obama’s Inaugural Address. It also comes preloaded with 80 MB of free bonus materials that include:

• High resolution photos of President Obama and the First Lady
• Over two hours of landmark speeches in MP3 format including the Inaugural Address and the Victory speech
• Text of 35+ speeches that track the President from 2002, to Senate addresses, the campaign trail, Presidential addresses and college commencement addresses in PDF format

All Obama USB drives will also come with smiling rubber Obama charms that fit on a keychain. The drive itself is an impressive product. The waterproof drive features a chrome plated steel pivot-style lid that is adorned with a holographic image of the President.

Measuring only 40 x 14 x 5 mm, the drive is exceptionally small and lightweight. The Obama drive is USB 2.0 compliant and works in any computer.

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It’s not everybody that can return from work and brag about how he or she interrupted a presidential speech with a stupid quack quack ringtone. That’s what a White House reporter did while Barack Obama was talking about gay rights. We can’t help but wonder why that phone wasn’t muted but we also have to admire the way the President responded to it. It’s not every day that we see a government official act that way when interrupted. So how about you? How stupid is your ringtone?

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Well that’s certainly not going to happen anytime soon. The President’s cell phone choice is clear and everyone in the business knows how Obama loves his BlackBerry. But from there to trying to sell a phone by using the President it’s a long way to go. The ad reads:

Obama have BlackBerry, I have BlockBerry.

Better get yourself a BlackBerry instead of this BlackBerry Storm wannabe. The phone has features like a 460MHz processor, a 3.2-inch touchscreen, WiFi, Bluetooth, GPS, 3G and EDGE connectivity and Windows Mobile 6.1. How much would one cost? About a dolla’? Not that anyone is buying…

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By now every BlackBerry lover out there knows that President Obama’s favorite phone is his good old BlackBerry which he went to great lengths to keep. What nobody did know, at least until know, is that the president’s Berry was hacked and now all the content is available for everyone to see. And we mean calls, chats, SMS messages… everything! I don’t know how that happened with all the security around it! You’ll be surprised to find out how those important people use mobile technology to handle important matters of the state. Just check the screenshot above to see what kind of hidden details you’ll be able to find in Obama’s BlackBerry. And follow the link to get your copy at once!

This is a fictional humorous book with absolutely no relation to President Obama’s phone and its content. The First Berry is safe.

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The boycott of everything Cuban has been going on for a very, very long time. Well, now that Fidel Castro has been replaced and Barack Obama has assumed the position of President, the times are changing.

It was recently announced that Barack Obama is now allowing United States telecom, television, and radio companies can now apply for licenses to be allowed to operate in Cuba.

Hopefully with this new market opened up the United States economy will slowly start to get better. Let’s just hope that Cuban Cigars are allowed Stateside sometime soon.

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As you already know by know, President’s Obama made his first official appearance in Europe. In England he met with the Queen of England and during the meeting he gave her an iPod filled with videos from her 2007 visit to the USA. The Queen gave Obama the standard royal gift, a silver-framed photo of the Queen and her husband. Will the Queen ever use the iPod? Is she ready for the technology age? President Obama is more and more interested in technology. We have followed his interest in his BlackBerry and now we see him giving iPods and other gadgets to various dignitaries he is meeting with.

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Instead of making everything in their power to transform the Storm into the smartphone it should be without all those OS bugs, RIM’s Co-CEO Jim Balsillie went ahead and told everyone that smartphones are buggy which indirectly means that everyone should deal with that. Not to mention the fact that RIM has received a major, presidential image boost which should help them sell Berries to people who didn’t know what a RIM was yet. We’re assuming that people who don’t know what that RIM name means in the cell phone business do exist, right?

It looks like smartphone makers are under pressure to deliver those smartphones and hence, the bugs in the OS. And we, as customers, should simply accept them and wait for the first firmware available to correct all the problems? We’d rather wait longer for a smartphone to be released right people? After all we are paying for a device which we think will offer us everything the carrier and the manufacturer said in those fancy press releases or commercials.

Oh, and guys, we don’t mean just the Storm here! The competition isn’t doing that great either and we still have firmware issues and other problems with various new smartphones out there.

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Will Barack Obama be forced to use that Sectera Edge we’ve shown you? According to some reports he will have to revert to the Edge for all state maters and according to other reports he won’t use the only NSA approved phone. Well in case you were wondering how the Sectera Edge actually works then you should check out this video. Although I doubt people will start buying Sectera Edge smartphones tomorrow. They might buy more RIM handsets on the other hand.

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It’s funny how we’re thinking about the President’s cell phone issue instead of other, more important matters at hand. Luckily we have a conclusion. Obama will carry his BlackBerry in one of the pockets of his full bulletproof suit. It’s intended for personal use with only a limited number of senior staff and personal contacts to have access to his email address. The Sectera Edge is nowhere to be found around the president for now.

Robert Gibbs, President Obama’s Press Secretary had this to say about the Berry:

The President has a BlackBerry through a compromise that allows him to stay in touch with senior staff and a small group of personal friends in a way that use will be limited and the security is enhanced to ensure his ability to communicate, but to do so effectively and to do so in a way that’s protected.

In case it makes you feel any better, the President’s data on that Berry will be subject to the Presidential Records Act. Once again RIM, you’d better profit from this huge endorsement. Who’s the next President to buy a BlackBerry?

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All the talk at the moment is the presidential inauguration of President-elect Barack Obama. A record crowd is anticipated to witness this event and hence advanced solutions to efficiently cover the Obama inauguration is a must.

Powerwave, the global leader in end-to-end wireless coverage and capacity solutions, has been contracted with the task, enabling attendees to talk, text and transmit the sights and sounds of this historic event around the world.

Powerwave has deployed hundreds of indoor and outdoor wireless coverage systems around the world, including deployments for the Olympic Athletic Center of Athens; the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA); the Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino in Las Vegas; the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport; the Alberta Children’s Hospital in Calgary, Alberta, Canada; the Moscone Center in San Francisco; and Torre Mayor, the largest sky-scraper in Mexico.

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Imagine RIM’s future commercials as President-elect Barack Obama will be allowed to use his beloved BlackBerry. He will only be able to use his Berry for personal matters, but when it comes to government issues he will be forced to use the only approved phone by the NSA, the Sectera Edge. The phone isn’t as cool as a Berry but as long as it’s the only secure option, that’s what the President will use for matters of state.

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After the White House clearly stated that it doesn’t support the free nationwide wireless Internet idea, the FCC has decided to cancel its December 18th meeting. The vote has been clearly delayed and we have no information on when the FCC will meet again for the free spectrum. All we know now is that the Bush administration has rejected the idea so everyone might be waiting for the Obama administration to change things around. Probably January will bring us more information but I wouldn’t expect free Internet any time soon.

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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 to break through the isolation, the bubble that exists around the president. And I’m in the process of negotiating with the Secret Service, with lawyers, with White House staff … to figure out how can I get information from outside of the 10 or 12 people who surround my office in the White House. Because one of the worst things I think that can happen to a president is losing touch with the struggles that people are going through every day.

We’ll keep you updated on this particular BlackBerry user! He might be a President that likes to modify the Presidential Records Act.
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If you happen to work for any cell phone carrier don’t assume you can simply go through anyone’s cellphone accounts whenever you feel like it. And if you happen to stumble upon Barack Obama’s records, simply kill your urge to take a look. It will get you fired! That’s what happened to some Verizon employees which looked at the personal cellphone accounts of the latest President-Elect. And they got canned for it. Here’s what Lowel McAdam, Verizon Wireless President and CEO had to say about the whole thing:

This week we learned that a number of Verizon Wireless employees have, without authorization, accessed and viewed President-Elect Barack Obama’s personal cell phone account. The account has been inactive for several months. The device on the account was a simple voice flip-phone, not a BlackBerry or other smartphone designed for e-mail or other data services.

All employees who have accessed the account – whether authorized or not – have been put on immediate leave, with pay. As the circumstances of each individual employee’s access to the account are determined, the company will take appropriate actions. Employees with legitimate business needs for access will be returned to their positions, while employees who have accessed the account improperly and without legitimate business justification will face appropriate disciplinary action.

We apologize to President-Elect Obama and will work to keep the trust our customers place in us every day.

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Want to have you speech delivered? Well simply win the elections and then get yourself a good speech writer and a good Internet collection. YouTube will do the rest. President-Elect Barack Obama has delivered its first weekly YouTube message. Unemployment insurance, Congress and people’s involvement in coping with the current economic reality are just some of the points of the three-minute speech.

YouTube is the smart way to go. Any president could use it to address its country and the world. Current smartphones can play YouTube videos. Which means that future smartphones will also be able to do it. And leaving presidential messages aside, we’re waiting for faster network to appear so we can make the most of YouTube and other similar video websites.

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Barack Obama is one of the tech-savviest presidents ever but he might just have to give up its BlackBerry once he moves to the White House. Due to strict email laws and traditions and due to that Presidential Records Act which requires that all official correspondence to be made public, Obama might have a hard time working on its famous BlackBerry emails. Maybe it’s time he switched to a full time laptop which might fit perfectly on a certain desktop in a certain roundly shaped office.

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President-elect Barack Obama is going to choose a person to manage the transition at the FCC and this man might be former lobbyist and FCC Commissioner, Henry River. One major element of his agenda will be diversity or how to help minorities when it comes to telecommunications and media. That should be done no matter who’s president wouldn’t you say?

Besides applying those diversity principles in everything related to technology we’re hoping that the FCC will approve a whole lot of diverse mobile phones during the whole Obama presidency.

via ArsTechnica

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