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REI, Microsoft meet with Obama on health care
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| Local companies REI and Microsoft were among a handful of businesses praised
| today by President Obama for programs designed to make their employees
| healthier and keep down health-care costs.
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http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2009211558_webreiobama12.html
REI CEO Sally Jewell, Microsoft exec meet with Obama on health care
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2009213347_reiobama13.html
Microsoft offers stimulus-tracking software
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| Microsoft Corp. on Monday unveiled a software program that will help
| government agencies track projects funded by the economic stimulus program.
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30567123/
Nothing to do with open, just lock-in:
Microsoft offers free repository for agency data
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| Microsoft has set up a repository in which government agencies may upload and
| store their public-facing datasets so that they can be reused by other
| parties.
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http://gcn.com/articles/2009/05/11/microsoft-public-data-repository.aspx
Making US citizens critically dependent on Microsoft. India too:
New Microsoft software to monitor state projects through Internet
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| Microsoft India is developing a dynamic software framework, which will allow
| Gujarat to track the implementation of various schemes at the touch of a
| button. The project called Darpan, which is under development, works on
| Internet-based technology and would be useful to get important information
| from small villages and remote areas faster.
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http://www.indianexpress.com/news/new-microsoft-software-to-monitor-state-projects-through-internet/455170/
Recent:
Obama Administration Claims Copyright Treaty Involves State Secrets?!?
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| When the Obama administration took over, there was a public stance that this
| administration was going to be more transparent -- especially with regards to
| things like Freedom of Information Act requests. The nonprofit group
| Knowledge Ecology International took that to heart and filed an FOIA request
| to get more info on ACTA. The US Trade Representative's Office responded
| denying the request, saying that the information was "classified in the
| interest of national security pursuant to Executive Order 12958." This is a
| treaty about changing copyright law, not sending missiles somewhere. To claim
| that it's a national security matter is just downright scary. As KEI points
| out, the text of the documents requested have been available to tons of
| people, including more than 30 governments around the world and lobbyists
| from the entertainment industry, pharma industry and publishing industry.
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http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20090313/1456154113.shtml
Obama Names Craig Mundie to Sci-Tech Advisory Council
http://microsoftontheissues.com/cs/blogs/mscorp/archive/2009/04/27/obama-names-craig-mundie-to-sci-tech-advisory-council.aspx
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