HP’s CTO Phil McKinney has recently posted some nice looking images on Twitter. Well, they would be nice if they did not have those big black boxes over the devices in question. Of course, that is why they are called teasers. That said, the images show McKinney holding a larger tablet sized device and a more »

It looks like Best Buy CTO Robert Stephens has been checking out a Rocketfish branded tablet. The device was noted as having a front facing camera and running Android 2.2 Froyo. Otherwise, we are left to wonder, and while these images have sent a little shock through the tech blogosphere, it seems he has been more »

Hopefully you all read the first post on President-Elect Obama, technology and the future (if not, it is here) in which I started addressing what Obama’s election means for the world of tech. Having looked at how Obama will work for an open Internet, I will now delve into Obama’s plans for a connected democracy and infrastructure.

The first thing that Obama has promised to do is to create a more transparent government, a policy that has probably been prompted by the manner in which the Bush administration has been very secretive. He will attempt to do this by “creating a new level of transparency, accountability and participation for America’s citizens” through the use of technology. Presumably, this will be done by extensive use of the Internet, as well as other technology such as mobile phones, as shown in the selection of Joe Biden as his second man.

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