AMD: Chip sales rebound after US election. amd chip sales rebound after us election. Computer chip sales have recovered from a "hiccup" caused by anxiety surrounding the Nov. 2 U.S. presidential election, an Advanced Micro Devices executive said on Tuesday. We’ve seen a very quick recovery now that we’re past the elections," Marty Seyer, general manager of AMD’s microprocessor business unit, said in an interview. The elections did cause a little hiccup for about a week."...

Google Earth integrates election info in U.S. map. google earth election info. Adding to Google's slate of filters and views for its widely-used Google Earth software, the Internet giant today unveiled the 2006 Google Earth Election Guide. Mountain View (CA) - Adding to Google’s slate of filters and views for its widely-used Google Earth software, the Internet giant today unveiled the 2006 Google Earth Election Guide. Additionally, when users click on any district, there are links to that state’s official voter registration page as well as a link to the Federal Election Commission’s site on campaign finance reports and data. With the election guide, millions of US citizens have a resource available to give them instant information that most would never otherwise search for....

More than one-third of Americans using the Net to get election info. internet electionc. According to a recent poll conducted by the Associated Press and America Online (AOL), 35% of all Americans are going online to become more informed about the upcoming election. Additionally, 10% spent time on message boards discussing the upcoming election. According to the poll, liberals were the most likely to check online for election resources, with 51% of the polled liberals accounting for the overall participation. Other interesting conclustions from the poll included that the gender line was dominated by males. 49% of males looked up election coverage online, compared to 38% of females....

With talk about the 2008 presidential election already fervently underway, a new site has popped up with an focus on next year's election, which already has more than 20 possible candidates that are known or speculated to be vying for the White House seat.. Fairfax (VA) - With talk about the 2008 presidential election already fervently underway, a new site has popped up with an focus on next year’s election, which already has more than 20 possible candidates that are known or speculated to be vying for the White House seat. The site also compiles one paragraph of information for each candidate and streams news feeds of Election 2008 headlines. 2008 is expected to be the first presidential election to have a strong technological canvas surrounding it, with social sites like YouTube no doubt going to magnify every campaign obscurity. There is already even a video game based on the 08 election, offered by 80soft.com....

The 2008 presidential elections have seen a lot of firsts, one of these being the fact that this election has seen more online activity from both supporters and campaigners than ever before. A recent report from Pew Research Center For The People and The Press showed that 46 percent of all Americans have used the Internet as a source for political news and to share their opinions and views about the presidential elections, compared to 31 percent of Americans in 2004. Research also showed that Obama supporters were more likely to gather political information and updates about the elections via the internet than those backing John McCain. Bringing the election to the iPhone is a smart move from Obama and not something McCain is likely to mimic when research shows not all that many McCain supporters are using the internet to keep up to date on the elections....

On the heel’s of the U.S. federal election, Canadian NDP leader Jack Layton delivers a message on YouTube saying that he fully supports peer-to-peer (P2P) networks during Canada’s own election. On the heel’s of the U.S. federal election, Canadian NDP leader Jack Layton delivers a message on YouTube saying that he fully supports peer-to-peer (P2P) networks during Canada’s own election. Net neutrality is one topic that certainly will get hotter with the results of this year’s election....

While this will no doubt be interesting for the rest of the world watching the election unfold, YouTube claims Video Your Vote will capture “pivotal moments in this historic election” as they happen. In an attempt to combat this problem and select the cream of the crop (to be shown along with PBS’s coverage of the election), YouTube has asked users to who witness or encounter anything problematic at the polls that is hindering the voting process, to tag their clips with "pollproblem." More interesting than viewing user-uploaded footage from the polling stations is the fact that The Video Your Vote channel will also serve as one-stop-shop to view exclusive videos from voter registration experts, election reform activists, and state officials, as well as video footage from the PBS archives for a historical look at voting through the years....

With Barack Obama now the President Elect of the United States, the tech world has one of its two major questions answered. With Barack Obama now the President Elect of the United States, the tech world has one of its two major questions answered. I will set big goals for this country as president - some so large that the technology to reach them does not yet exist," said the President Elect. Along with running the rest of the country for the next four years, President Elect Obama must worry about a national broadband strategy, the potential for a central office for technology R&D funding, the looming battle between the tech industry and Hollywood....