Wisconsin man donates cheesehead hat signed by Obama to historical society for museum

August 4th, 2009 John Quincy Adams tweeting thanks to Mass. societyBOSTON — It seems John Quincy Adams was way ahead of his time.

October 2nd, 2009 Anne Frank museum launches YouTube channelAMSTERDAM, Netherlands — The Anne Frank House museum in Amsterdam has begun airing the only known video of the teenage diarist on a channel dedicated to her on YouTube. The channel also features clips of others, including her late father Otto and Nelson Mandela, talking about Anne, museum spokeswoman Annemarie Bekker said Friday.

May 26th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Reports indicate that US President Barrack Obama is planning to create a "cyber czar," a senior White House official who will have broad authority to develop strategy to protect the nation's government-run and private computer networks. According to a report in the Washington Post, the adviser will have the most comprehensive mandate granted to such an official to date and will probably be a member of the National Security Council.

July 17th, 2009 Obama to have news conference on WednesdayWASHINGTON — The White House has announced on its Twitter page that President Barack Obama will have a prime-time news conference on Wednesday. The White House on Friday said that Obama will meet with reporters at the White House at 9 p.m.

May 8th, 2009 BANGALORE - Indian IT firms would not be impacted by the tax reform proposal of US President Barak Obama, Infosys Technologies chairman and chief mentor N.R. Narayana Murthy told President Pratibha Devisinh Patil Friday.

October 15th, 2009 Auschwitz memorial launches Facebook pageWARSAW, Poland — To try to reach young people around the world, the memorial museum at Auschwitz has launched a page on Facebook, the social networking site usually home to news and photos about friends, funny videos and the minutiae of modern life. The page aims to be a forum for discussion, reflection and learning about the Nazi death camp, and many people have left a simple message in English, Hebrew and Polish: "Never again." Since opening this week, the page has drawn more than 1,800 "fans," who have subscribed, and the number is growing by the hour.

January 10th, 2009 LONDON - Nearly 30 pupils have been suspended from a London high school for posting 'deeply insulting' comments about a teacher on Facebook, the social networking website. The girls at the Grey Coat Hospital School signed up to a Facebook group named The Hate Society, which contained messages attacking the teacher.

May 15th, 2009 LONDON - While most ladies her age prefer to sit quietly, 103-year-old English lady Ivy Bean loves to Twitter, something that has made her the oldest user of the social networking site. Bean, a great grandmother, decided to join Twitter after she got bored of using Facebook, where she had made 4,800 friends.

September 30th, 2009 Secret Service probing Facebook poll on ObamaWASHINGTON — The U.S. Secret Service is investigating an online survey that asked whether people thought President Barack Obama should be assassinated, officials said Monday.

February 25th, 2009 WASHINGTON - In a message that may not be music to Indian outsourcing firms, US President Barack Obama has served notice that he would end the tax breaks for corporations that ship jobs abroad. Giving his first speech to a joint session of the US Congress Tuesday, Obama said: 'We will restore a sense of fairness and balance to our tax code by finally ending the tax breaks for corporations that ship our jobs overseas.' If Obama follows through with the announcement in the budget, whose outline he would present Thursday, the move may hurt India's BPO sector as without the tax breaks, US companies may find it less attractive to outsource jobs to India.

June 7th, 2009 WASHINGTON - If a new, tech-savvy White House is using new social networking tools - Twitter, Facebook and text messages - to spread its message, it is because media in the United States has turned to them in a big way to provide news and instant analysis. As President Barack Obama delivered his historic address to the Muslim world Thursday, the White House's Twitter feed and Facebook page flooded the Internet with a flurry of messages.

May 29th, 2009 Obama setting up better security for computersWASHINGTON — America has for too long failed to adequately protect the security of its computer networks, President Barack Obama said Friday, announcing he will name a new cyber czar to take on the job. Surrounded by a host of government officials, aides and corporate executives, Obama said this is a "transformational moment" for the country, where computer networks are probed and attacked millions of times a day.

September 8th, 2009 Obama advises caution in what kids put on FacebookARLINGTON, Va. — In a pep talk that kept clear of politics, President Barack Obama on Tuesday challenged the nation's students to take pride in their education — and stick with it even if they don't like every class or must overcome tough circumstances at home.

February 10th, 2007 Barack Obama, US presidential candidate, has taken a huge leap forward from his contemporaries by creating his own social networking site, in addition to maintaining his presence in YouTube and MySpace (possibly unofficial) and other places. I just registered and created a blog to test the site.

October 1st, 2009 Secret Service: Facebook poll no threat to ObamaWASHINGTON — The Secret Service has determined that a juvenile was behind the online survey that asked whether people thought President Barack Obama should be assassinated, an agency spokesman said Thursday. No criminal charges will be filed against the juvenile or the juvenile's parents, spokesman Edwin Donovan said.