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Obama aide: White House tech is 'like going from an Xbox to an Atari.'
Joystiq [Xbox] —
... After running what can only be considered a very technology dependent campaign, it looks like the Obama White House is running into some problems. According to the Washington Post (via MSNBC), the technology at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue is all hopelessly ...
Obama administration makes big tech adjustments, no more BarackBerry?
Obsessable News Feed —
... It looks like a bumpy road ahead for the tech fans in Obama's administration, as they begin to learn that the ins and outs of White House regulations for secrecy, record keeping, and disclosure aren't exactly compatible with what the team is used to from its time on the road campaigning. While social networking played a big role in winning the election, much of those social sites are going to fall by the wayside now, as restrictions on how messages are sent keep things like announcements on ...
Obama Takes Office, Video Game Analogies Start To Flow [Politics]
Kotaku —
... obsolescence and what better way to express their frustrations than with a video game analogy? "It is kind of like going from an Xbox to an Atari," Obama spokesman Bill Burton said of his new digs. Can you imagine how blown their minds would have been had they went from an Xbox 360 to an Atari 2600? Alright staffers. If any of you are reading this blog, it's time you start hitting us up with more gaming gems from inside the White House. Come on, we need our gaming Deep Throat. New staff find White House in tech Dark Ages [Washington Post]
New job challenges in the White House
CrunchGear —
... sites can get approval in order to bring the White House into 2009.
The lethargic beast that is the Federal Government certainly doesn’t instill in me a lot of confidence that they’re using the best technology available to them (remember, it wasn’t long ago when Senator Stevens described the Internet as a series of tubes!), or using whatever technology they do have to the best of its abilities. Hopefully President Obama gets that house in order.
Via MSNBC
Does the White House Have Wi-Fi?
Fast Company - Technology —
We've been told Barack will need to part with his BlackBerry. Is the White House more of a museum than a working office? Does it even have WiFi? MSNBC has reported that on their first day on the job, Obama's White House staffers suffered from downgrades on every front. During the campaign and the transition, Obama's team was a Mac shop; they arrived in the White House to find six-year-old Windows PCs and a mess of disconnected land-line phones. (Windows! The horror! ) Not only that -- staffers were forbidden from accessing outside email accounts or chatting online, too. MSNBC ...
Four short links: 23 Jan 2009
O'Reilly Radar - Insight, analysis, and research about emerging technologies. —
... New Staff Find White House Tech in Dark Ages - they've gone from a startup to The Enterprise (not Star Trek, alas, just a big company) and now are learning the pain of IT rules that are bigger than they are. ...
Particle Debris (Week ending 1/23) Governments Struggle with Tech
The Mac Observer —
... it denied approval to "iBoobs" which deals with cartoon breasts -- calling it "a marvellous display of double standards." (A marvelous, perhaps unintentional double entendre .) Everyone will have a differing opinion in this one. While the Obama-Biden campaign apparently used healthy doses of Macs and iPhones, once the president elect was sworn in, he found that the White House system of antiquated PCs and regulations made it all but impossible to communicate effectively. MSNBC this week wrote about how Barack Obama and his staff have been stymied by PCs with six year old ...
White House Tech More Tired Than Wired
Wired: Gadget Lab —
... The White House's computers are running six-year-old versions of Microsoft software, reports
the Washington Post. Supposedly, the White House's reasoning for
stalling on upgrades is to maintain security and preserve documents
held under the Presidential Records Act. ...
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