Kerry Calls for Investment in Technology
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Invoking the invention of flight and mankind's first steps on the moon, Sen. John Kerry on Thursday pledged to invest in technology and innovation and accused President Bush of slowing scientific advancement.
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WASHINGTON John Kerry is using a new television ad to link the cost of the war in Iraq to problems here at home. In the ad, the Democratic presidential hopeful says the US is spending 200 (b) billion dollars
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LONDON -- Senator John F. Kerry, concluding a trip to Europe and the Middle East, called yesterday for a broader international coalition to stabilize Iraq, fight terrorism, and breathe new life into the Israeli-Palestinian peace process.
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Party leader Alex Salmond says hi-tech industries must take the country out of the economic slow lane.
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Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry picked up endorsements from some 200 business leaders as he sought to boost his standing on economic issues.
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(InfoWorld) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel has called on politicians, business leaders, and researchers to cooperate more closely in helping the country secure a leading position in the global IT sector and pledged money to support collaborative efforts. Speaking at Germany's first-ever IT summit on Monday, Merkel said communications and telecommunications companies need to hook up with the country's traditional heavyweights such as the automotive and chemical sectors and collaborate more intensively in the area of software engineering. Already today more than half of the innovations in the automobile industry are based on software. The Chancellor pledged â¬1.2 billion ($1.6 billion) in grants over the next three years to support innovation in Germany's IT sector. The funds will come from the federal government's â¬15 billion high-tech investment program approved earlier this year. But Merkel was quick to add that in the future, industry grants should be carefully targeted and not simply "poured out of a watering can." Germany has seen its strong tradition of technological innovation steadily wane over the years, due in part to high labor costs that have deterred investment and declining university standards that have caused a brain drain. The country claims a number of IT achievements, including the Zuse, seen by some as the first freely programmable computer, and the MP3 audio compression algorithm. SAP Chief Executive OfficerÂ Henning Kagermann was blunt in his assessment of Germany's IT standing. Although the communications and telecommunications sectors combined employ around 800,000 people and generate annual revenue of around â¬150 billion, making it the country's largest industrial sector, "in a global comparison, we are not a leader and, even worse, we are falling behind," he said. In addition to funds, the government initiative calls for immigration policies designed to attract talented researchers from around the world, and grants to keep gifted students in the country.
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Microsoft chairman urges fixes to immigration law, better math and science education, and more research spending.
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WASHINGTON - Senator John Kerry, Democratic challenger to U.S. President George Bush, would seek more government involvement on issues such as broadband adoption, cybersecurity and spam, while Bush, if re-elected, would continue to take a more market-driven approach to those issues, a panel of Washington, D.C., technology experts predicted Tuesday.
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US Democratic presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry said he would expand the low-income housing focus of mortgage finance companies Fannie Mae and Freddie
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Kerry got a boost. Now, a range of analysts consider what might break the deadlock.
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US Senator John Kerry urged his rival in the 2004 elections, President George W. Bush, to kindle a dialogue with Iran and Syria in a bid to stabilize Iraq.
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Democratic White House hopeful John Kerry promised to help boost US job growth and take a harder line on alleged abuses by China as he touted his economic plan.
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Democrat John Kerry links the cost of the Iraq war to problems at home and vows in a new television ad to both "defend America and fight for the middle class."
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Democratic White House candidate  John Kerry on Wednesday challenged President Bush's decisions  before and after the Iraq war and linked its $200 billion cost  to economic woes in the United States.
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Senator John Kerry exaggerates the potential gains from embryonic stem cell research, and President Bush understates the degree to which he has prevented such research.
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GIRARD, Ohio John Kerry makes a speech today about science, research and innovation and he&#39;ll be joined by the widow of actor and spinal cord research advocate Christopher Reeve.
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The campaign of Democrat John F. Kerry has earmarked $6 million for Democratic committees that support congressional candidates from the sizable surplus left over from the privately funded phase of his presidential campaign.