Barack Obama is likely to become America’s first emailing president, as part of sweeping changes to the way the White House uses technology aimed at making his presidency the most open and connected in history.After several months of questions over whether avid BlackBerry user Obama would be able to continue using email while in office, reports suggest that secret service agents have approved the use of a highly protected mobile phone for personal email.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jan/23/obama-white-house-barackobamaBarack Obama to use BlackBerry as president, according to reports
Barack Obama could become the first sitting US president to use email, after reports suggested he may be in line for a new spy-proof smartphone. … But after concerns about security and legal issues, close advisers and government agents have been delaying a decision on whether Obama would be able to use a similar device while in office.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jan/21/barack-obama-blackberry-national-securityObama clings to his BlackBerry [Bloomberg News]
President Barack Obama has overruled the concerns of the U.S. Secret Service and the National Security Agency and will keep his BlackBerry, a spokesman, Robert Gibbs, said Thursday.As president-elect, Obama had lobbied to keep the device over concerns in the intelligence community that it might be a target for spies and arguments from legal scholars that it posed a problem for presidential record-keeping.
http://iht.com/articles/2009/01/22/technology/22bamaberry-414102.phpObama plans to keep his BlackBerry [IDG]
President Barack Obama will keep his beloved BlackBerry, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said on Thursday.”He has a BlackBerry through a compromise that allows him to stay in touch with senior staff and a small group of personal friends in a way that use will be limited and security enhanced to ensure his ability to communicate, but to do so effectively and do so in a way that is protected,” Gibbs said.
http://www.infoworld.com/article/09/01/22/Obama_plans_to_keep_his_BlackBerry_1.html
http://www.pcworld.com/article/158172/.html
Tech-savvy Obama keeps online lifeline
Barack Obama is likely to become America’s first emailing president, as part of sweeping changes to the way the White House uses technology aimed at making his presidency the most open and connected in history.