Tag: election

Total Results: 21

"The Devil and George Bush" becomes first mobile opera

Published: November 3, 2008

"The Devil and George Bush" claims to be the first opera composed specifically for the Internet and intended for download to MP3 players and mobile phones.

Obama campaign SMS effort suffers outage

Published: November 3, 2008

By Nisheeth Mohan

Sen. Obama's SMS campaign was out of action for almost 14 hours last Tuesday. For that to happen tomorrow, on Election Day, would hurt his get-out-the-vote efforts.

Mobile and the elections: Voting with our thumbs?

Published: October 28, 2008

By Chris Lennartz

A former Webmaster for Howard Dean pointed out in an op-ed in The New York Times the growing importance of text messaging in the presidential campaigns, particularly the Obama campaign.

MTV expands political coverage to mobile

Published: October 14, 2008

In an ongoing effort to bring America's youth coverage of political issues, MTV's Choose or Lose is extending its youth coverage across multiple new media platforms, including mobile.

American youth votes for Obama

Published: October 8, 2008

USA Today and MTV ran a political survey of young people, 78 percent of whom were contacted on their mobile phone, which found that most respondents plan to vote for Barack Obama.

Will mobile help Democrats tip the election?

Published: October 2, 2008

It is puzzling that the Republicans haven't embraced mobile as thoroughly as the Democrats have in what is likely to be the most historic presidential election in a generation.

Obama wins SMS vote at CTIA

Published: September 17, 2008

SMS voters at the CTIA Wireless I.T. & Entertainment 2008 tradeshow in San Francisco have "elected" Barack Obama the next President of the United States.

Google launches mobile site for elections

Published: August 26, 2008

Google has joined the elections bandwagon with a new mobile site dedicated to the elections.

Rock the Vote mobile campaign encourages youth to vote

Published: August 15, 2008

Rock the Vote is once again launching a mobile campaign content series for the upcoming presidential election.

Go2Media debuts presidential election mobile site

Published: February 6, 2008

Mobile content, search and directory service Go2 Media launched go2 Elections '08, a mobile Web site offering coverage of the 2008 presidential elections.