Barack Obama news from FierceCIO

President Obama spoke to a community college in New York State this week where he underscored how his stimulus plan would provide training and job opportunities in emerging technologies. He told a... Read more...

It's no surprise that the United States is No. 1 on many lists, but this one is a painful headache. Security firm Sophos said the United States was responsible for nearly 16 percent of all spam... Read more...

The Department of Homeland Security is seeing an increase in employer use of the controversial program, E-Verify, according to USA Today. In the first six months of this year, 5.5 million checks have... Read more...

President Obama outlined his new cybersecurity plans and how they will impact the federal government last week, but he left the door open as to how the new rules would affect the private sector. Just... Read more...

Microsoft is trying to get tough with Congress in an issue over taxes, of course. Microsoft chief executive Steven Ballmer said Microsoft would move some employees offshore if Congress enacts... Read more...

There's plenty of debate these days over how to keep U.S. jobs onshore and not exported to other countries where the labor is cheaper and the deals are better, especially in technology. This week,... Read more...

Data centers may be facing additional costs under President Obama's "cap-and-trade" plan to impose higher costs on power generators that don't use clean energy sources. Under the plan, the government... Read more...

The economic stimulus package, approved by Congress, includes billions of dollars to spur the creation of electronic health records, with the lion's share allocated as economic incentives for health... Read more...

President Obama, promising to leave no stone unturned, is proposing to tax wireless carriers as much as $550 million per year for the right to hold a spectrum license. Although the fee-per-carrier... Read more...

Today is a pivotal day for the recovery of the U.S. economy and the future of domestic technology. Later this afternoon in Denver, President Barack Obama will sign into law the $787 billion stimulus... Read more...