Bitdefender, a software application developer, has released an anti-malware program for Twitter users. The app, SafeGo, is designed to protect Twitter users from spam and phishing scams, as well as malware, by alerting them with a direct message when a security threat is detected. The company already has a similar offering available for Facebook. READ MORE
The rash of patent spats has evoked a range of opinions—but patent litigation is no joke. And in the smart phone arena, the battles among major companies in the mobile space could get “out of whack,” unless President Obama intervenes. At least that’s what Verizon’s chief counsel, Randal Milch seems to thinks. READ MORE
Former Microsoft executive Steven VanRoekel will become the next chief information officer for the federal government, the White House announced today. READ MORE
DrChrono, a start-up that produces an electronic medical records application for the iPad, has officially received approval for a Certificate of Meaningful Use by the federal government. In short, when doctors choose to switch over to the app, they will be given incentives and reimbursements up to $44,000. READ MORE
In American political life “the Culture War” refers to the conflict between conservative traditionalism and liberal progressivism that began in the 1960s. The Culture War transformed political discourse into an exercise of picking sides, and cleaved the Baby Boomer generation into two easily identifiable and highly calcified political categories. When political writer Andrew Sullivan endorsed Barack Obama in The Atlantic Magazine in 2008, he did so because he believed that Obama was the one candidate that could transcend that conflict: READ MORE
If you haven’t taken your business to Twitter yet, you might want to jump on the bandwagon. After all, even the White House is now using it as a serious medium to communicate with constituents. President Obama sat down Wednesday to publicly answer a bunch of tweets posed to him using the hashtag “#askobama” in an event moderated by Twitter’s co-founder Jack Dorsey. More than 169,000 tweets were posted and the president answered questions about jobs, the budget, taxes, education, and housing. According to TechCrunch’s MG Siegler, the event “seemed like the logical evolution of the townhall format. READ MORE
Unless you’ve been completely bewitched by the Casey Anthony trial, you know by now that some hackers celebrated Independence Day by hacking the Twitter account @FoxNewsPolitics and putting up six posts describing how President Obama was shot to death in Iowa restaurant while he was actually enjoying a barbecue. A hacker group called Script Kiddies supposedly claimed responsibility, according to a single student journalist who’s the only one to have received the claim. READ MORE
Targeting the nation’s youth, technophiles, and Silicon Valley heads, The White House has arranged another social media town hall meeting. According to BetaBeat, President Obama will hold his first-ever Twitter town hall on July 6 at 2 p.m., the White House fittingly announced today on Twitter. READ MORE
Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey revolutionized mobile payments with Square, which made credit card transactions over mobile devices simple and cheap for merchants and small business owners. The San Francisco-based start-up announced via its Twitter account yesterday it had received more investor love, raising $100 million in its Series C Financing round led by veteran VC firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. READ MORE
