Yesterday,we reportedthat President Barack Obama will begin tweeting (on occasion) from the@BarackObamaaccount personally. The announcement was made in a blog post on the Barack Obama 2012campaign site. Obama for America staff will now be managing both accounts, posting daily updates from the campaign trail, from Washington, and everywhere in between. You’ll be hearing from President Obama regularly, too; on Twitter, tweets from the President will be signed “-BO.” President Obama has widely been credited as a technologically savvy candidate who was elected in part because of his aggressive stance towards using the Internet and technology to reach voters....

Programming in the 1960s had a big problem: computers weren’t that powerful yet, and somehow they needed tosplit the capacitiesbetween data structures and procedures. This meant that if you had a large set of data, you couldn’t do that much with it without pushing a computer to its limits. On the other hand, if you needed to do a lot of things, you couldn’t use too much data or the computer would take forever....

The size of Amazon’s cloud storage business is reflected today in new statistics released by the company which show that the number of objects stored onAmazon Simple Storage Service(S3) has nearly doubled during 2011 so far. At the end of Q4 2010, Amazon says that it held 262 billion objects on S3. As of the end of Q3 2011, that figure stands at 566 billion, according to information sent to us by the company today....

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Followingthe passingof Apple’s former CEO Steve Jobs on October 5th comes a new holiday in the state of California held in his honor. According toa tweetby California Governor Jerry Brown: This Sunday, October 16, will be Steve Jobs Day in the golden state. Also held on the same day will be a memorial service by Apple Inc. where the luminaries of Silicon Valley along with a few tech elite are being invited to celebrate the life of Steve Jobs, as well as those personally close to the technology visionary....