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Republicans hire veteran political consultants to modernize digital strategy

| Josh Peterson
Jerry Moran

Email to supporters hails new hires as ‘digital whiz’ and ‘digital-media heavyweights’

Microsoft allies say Facebook Home will give Google more data

| Josh Peterson
APGoogle2

Google’s free distribution of Android ‘predatory,’ says Microsoft

RNC to make hiring CTO a priority

| Josh Peterson
rncreport

Committee’s ‘autopsy report’ unveils highly ambitiousrecommendations

GOP future to include app store, 'culture of data,' and hackathons

| Josh Peterson
Republicans Reince Priebus

‘There’s no one reason why we lost’

Republicans silent on future relationship with Romney digital consultants

| Josh Peterson
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The Obama campaign’s online advertisements dwarfed anything done by the Romney campaign

Future science: Using 3D worlds to visualize data

| Associated Press
APTOPIX 3D Science

“Star Trek” fans might remember the holodeck as the virtual playground where the fictional Enterprise crew relaxed in fantasy worlds.

Google fielding more legal demands for user data

| Associated Press
Barack Obama and Eric Schmidt at Google. Getty Images.

More than 8,400 of the requests came from the U.S. government, more than anywhere else.

Report: Internal analytics gave Obama campaign edge over Romney campaign - TheDC

| Josh Peterson
Mitt Romney taking questions from reporters. Charles Dharapak - AP Photo.

Conservative analysts and pundits focused their anger at the Romney campaign’s political consultants

Facebook updates data use policy to give more info - AP

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Some of the changes give a glimpse of what Facebook might do in the future.

Sprint Nextel to continue unlimited data plan - CNET

| Josh Peterson
Earns Sprint

Hesse believes the decision to stick with unlimited has been a boon for the company

Study: U.S. mobile networks under strain from high data demand - Fierce Broadband Wireless

| Josh Peterson
Verizon Wireless Google

The study also found that end users are apparently willing to pay for better service.

AT&T sets new data usage limit for users - WSJ

| Josh Peterson
AT&T - T-Mobile merger

The company says it is also looking to rein in the heaviest users to improve service for all subscribers.

The deficit: Debating our future, not our past

| Link Hoewing
Debt Supercommittee

“Modernizing is not cutting – it is making things more fair and supportive of a modern, innovation, and investment-based economy.”

Facebook to get a little bigger with construction of $450M data center - AP

| admin

The second U.S. data center for Facebook will take 18 months to build

Crime, punishment and Climategate

| J. Peder Zane

If you want to know what’s really behind the international Climategate scandal you need to know about Greg Taylor. Taylor isn’t a renowned scientist or a powerful politician. He’s a former crack addict who spent 17 years in a North Carolina prison after being convicted of murdering a prostitute. Taylor was released last month when a three-judge panel declared him innocent

Top climate adviser: Be more honest about uncertainty of global warming

| Jeff Winkler (admin)

Scientists should be more honest and open about the uncertainty of predicting the rate of climate change, the Government’s chief scientific adviser said. In astonishing intervention into the climate change debate, Professor John Beddington condemned scientists who refuse to publish the data forming the basis of their reports said they should be less hostile to skeptics