Journal #11, November 9

http://www.tgdaily.com/html_tmp/content-view-40085-128-1-1.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless (extra research)

Since Barrack Obama is going to be the next president, TG Daily revisited Obama's speeches and highlighted what they thought were the top five most important technology promises. During the presidential race Silicon Valley's cash was behind Obama, in total he collected 1.44 million in donations from employees at the 20 largest companies. A big donation came from Google, they donated almost half a million dollars. Obama seemed to have a greater understanding and use of technology, the Internet was a key role in his fundraising effort. His ads were in Facebook, MySpace and even in video games to try to connect to younger voters. Here are the top five choices. Net neutrality is one and that is to set rules and put laws in place to force service and telcos to allow all applications, services and devices access networks to perform on equal terms. Second broadband penetration and that is to have quicker speeds for the Internet because the US is very slow compared to Japan and South Korea. Third is wireless spectrum, today there is a lack of competition and fair usage rules in it are key obstacles that hold back new innovation. Fourth there is the outsourcing problem, and there are big problems for today because there is so many jobs are going over seas. Then lastly there is privacy and in today's society everyone wants that and our privacy legislation appears to be always one step behind when it comes to high tech and online scenarios. I think that all five of this issues are a big deal for today's society and needs to be looked at and something done about it. For the next four years we will see if these things are looked at and some attempt to fix or help is made. So Silicon is very much backing Obama, so maybe he will help out the technology problems and Internet problems and get the US back to top of technology and research.