"John McCain" news, interviews, and features

News about John McCain

• Efforts by US govt's OPM to fix IT security are criticized by auditor

  Senators rip into agency director for data losses from major breach

• Senate delays vote on NSA phone records dragnet

  Section 215 of the Patriot Act expires without a final Senate vote, although lawmakers may act this week

• NSA's Alexander defends surveillance, but calls for better cybersecurity

  The NSA director says the agency is doing what the US residents want it to do

• Apple defends offshore decisions that result in low taxes

  The company pays every tax dollar it owes, Tim Cook tells senators during a hearing

• Senate report: Apple claims subsidiaries with no taxing jurisdiction

  Apple avoids paying billions of dollars in taxes a year through a 'complex web' of offshore entities, the report says

• Senators push for privacy, data security legislation

  Web users need to have more control over what personal information is collected, a senator says

Features about John McCain

• Hot search terms: Joe the plumber, 'lipness test'

  Google Trends provides some great insight into what people are thinking about

• Palin piques the blogosphere

  Blogs probably show the least conclusive representation of candidate support, because there is no way to assess whether such mentions reflect a preponderance of positive ...

• Friending Obama

  Web 2.0 social networking world tilts toward younger, Obama-friendly traffic

• US Election: What's in a domain name

  Domain discovery shows many more sites home in on Obama

• Can the Web predict the next president?

  Analysis of Web traffic and search patterns shows Obama's site more popular than McCain's

• Where the US presidential candidates stand on tech issues

  US presidential candidates John McCain and Barack Obama take different approaches to tech issues.