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Would a second Barack Obama term be better for the technology industry, or would it be more prosperous under a Mitt Romney administration? Most technology executives believe Romney’s the better choice, according to a new study. DLA Piper, an international law firm, asked thousands of CEOs, CFOs and other company officers at technology companies, as Continue Reading →

Our democracy is but a name. We vote? What does that mean? It means that we choose between two bodies of real, though not avowed, autocrats. We choose between Tweedledum and Tweedledee. –Helen Keller, in a letter written in 1911 Did you happen to catch the “debate” last week? The monumentally wooden Jim Lehrer spent Continue Reading →

At the end of August this year, the US Department of Transport’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced new standards to significantly improve the fuel economy of cars and light trucks by 2025. Last week, we took a look at a range of recent engine technologies that Continue Reading →

[wpaudio url=”https://media.shellypalmer.com/wp-content/images/usrn/121005_SHELLYPALMER_GEN_BED.mp3″ text=”Click to play … ” dl=”0″] Facebook hit a significant milestone on Thursday: CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that the social network now has over one billion – that’s billion with a B – daily users, with 600 million of those users active on Facebook’s mobile platform. Twitter, meanwhile, set a record of its Continue Reading →

Yesterday, as President Barack Obama and Governor Mitt Romney were preparing to debate how to fix the country’s economic mess, Hewlett-Packard CEO Meg Whitman was delivering a stunning confessional speech at HP’s analyst briefing day, describing how bad things were at HP and making promises to fix them. She projected that the company would continue Continue Reading →

Wednesday night’s U.S. presidential debate in Denver, Colo. was the most-tweeted-about event in American political history, dwarfing records set by this year’s Democratic National Convention and Republican National Convention. In total, the debate between U.S. President Barack Obama and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney generated 10.3 million tweets in 90 minutes — a political-event record, Continue Reading →

Last Sunday on Meet the Press, Chuck Todd said that Chris Christie made an “honest gaffe” by stating that on the morning after the first debate, the game (the upcoming presidential election) would be completely changed. I wondered if the term “honest gaffe” was an oxymoron. In my research, I found that there are indeed Continue Reading →

(This content was originally posted on KellerFay.com.) “Big outside political groups with an unprecedented river of money had appeared poised to be pivotal players in the 2012 elections. So far, these super PACs are looking less than super.” That is the lead of a surprising story, “Super PAC Influence Falls Short of Aims,” that appeared recently Continue Reading →

You can do basically anything online. From booking a flight to securely transmitting medical records to your doctor, from buying groceries to managing your bank account, the web supports all sorts of complex transactions. But one common task has firmly resisted the lure of online convenience: voting. At least mostly. There is actually some online Continue Reading →

[wpaudio url=”https://media.shellypalmer.com/wp-content/images/usrn/121002_SHELLYPALMER_GEN_BED.mp3″ text=”Click to play … ” dl=”0″] 2012 will go down as the year that social media and technology fully took a hold of society. We recently saw the most connected Olympics ever – the Games dominated Twitter and mobile devices across the country for two weeks this summer – and now we’ll see Continue Reading →