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- DOD turns off access to YouTube, MySpace, Pandora
- Soldiers stationed overseas wont be watching their favorite YouTube videos anytime soon. The Department of Defense has announced it will begin blocking 12 popular websites in order to protect information and reduce drag on the departments networks, reports the Associated Press. "This recreational traffic impacts our official DoD network...
- Blog posts 2007-05-14
- Bloggers' eye view of the war isn't pretty
- After announcing new regulations censoring the content of all electronic communication written by soldiers, the U.S.Army retreated somewhat by saying it would not enforce the new regulations, reports Slate.com The Army instituted the new rules after stating that there were reports of terrorists groups who were using the Internet...
- Blog posts 2007-05-11
- Pentagon, VCs get together to search for startups
- The Defense Department and Silicon Valley entrepreneurs may not seem like natural partners. The perception of the military is command and control; that of venture capitalists, driven self-starters with a penchant for gambling on the Next Big Thing. But, The New York Times reports, the two groups are getting...
- Blog posts 2007-05-07
- Army backtracks somewhat on blogging restrictions
- Last week, we wrote that the Army had issued new, restrictive rules around so-called milblogging, rules that forbid blog or photo posting without prior approval from a commander. And the rules applied to family members and private contractors, as well as active personnel. Now it looks like the Army...
- Blog posts 2007-05-07
- Luke's Binoculars hard-wire spyglasses right into soldiers' brains
- Science fiction and military reality have seemingly merged now that U.S. Special Forces have developed powerful high-tech binoculars that connects a soldiers prefrontal cortex to hardware that detect threats by the soldiers subconscious, reports Wired.com. The Cognitive Technology Threat Warning System, dubbed "Lukes Binoculars," after the binoculars Luke Skywalker...
- Blog posts 2007-05-03
- The death of milblogs
- For soldiers, the Armys hands-off attitude towards blogging must have been like that period in the 1960s before LSD was criminalized was for hippies. Jerry Garcia once said of that period, "They didnt know and it wasnt illegal and it was like, that was a really good year." All good...
- Blog posts 2007-05-03
- Army testing Mobile WiMax
- The U.S. Army is evaluating Mobile WiMax for possible military use, according to ComputerWorld. Samsung will supply the equipment to the Army. The Army Communications Electronics Research & Development Engineering Center CERDEC will study whether the Army can use mobile WiMax equipment in a military environment and measure...
- Blog posts 2007-04-26
- Air Force building giant solar field to power NV base
- The Air Force is building the largest solar power plant in North America and will soon provide electricity to an Air Force base in the Nevada desert, USA Today reports. The project is proof positive that solar will work provide a sizable chunk of the nations energy needs....
- Blog posts 2007-04-18
- Routers in space: Defense to launch (literally) space-based Internet
- The Defense Dept. plans to put a router in space by 2009 to allow troops to access voice, data and video over IP, the BBC reports. Eventually DoDs Iris project could allow satellites to send data directly between each other, instead of sending it via ground stations. "Iris...
- Blog posts 2007-04-13
- Internet: The next generation (or 'Routers in Space')
- Back in the 1960s, it was a US Defense Department agency, DARPA, that created the network that has become the Internet. Now, the DOD has approved and funded a new project, Iris, that might wind up jump-starting a new chapter in Internet history - the wired cosmos. The...
- Blog posts 2007-04-13
- British court denies extradition for UK hacker who broke into US military computers
- The British High Court rejected hacker Gary McKinnons bid to fight extradition for pulling off the "biggest military computer hack of all time," the BBC reports. Hes accused of breaking into 97 US military and NASA computers. McKinnon argued that in the US he would...
- Blog posts 2007-04-03
- DoD funding high-tech research equipment for universities
- The Defense Department is funding universities purchases of high-tech equipment as part of a program to "improve the capabilities of US institutions of higher education to conduct research and to educate scientists and engineers in areas important to national defense by providing funds for the acquisition of research equipment," Ars...
- Blog posts 2007-03-06
- Military knocking garage door remotes out for first-responder system
- The Marines are clashing with the very symbol of suburbia - the garage door opener, The Washington Post reports. Residents near Quantico Marine Base in Virginia are finding their openers no longer work. The Marines are using a frequency that is also used by some remote controls. The...
- Blog posts 2007-02-26
- Virtual reality treatment for soldiers returning from Iraq
- Doctors have treated post-traumatic stress syndrome with psychotherapy, but these days, doctors are treating vets returning from Iraq with virtual reality, the BBC reports. The immersive system combines realistic street scenes, sounds and odours to allow patients to relive traumatic events in a controlled environment. During the "exposure therapy,"...
- Blog posts 2007-02-19
- Sgt. Star - the Army's virtual recruiter
- "Sgt. Star" is the perfect salesman. Hes strong, trustworthy and has all the answers, and you can meet Sgt. Star at the GoArmy website. Sgt. Star is the latest addition to the recruitment site and has been developed to appeal to the tech-savvy, reports Government Computer News. "Weve tested...
- Blog posts 2007-01-03
- WMD scenarios to come to the Web
- How will federal agencies, private businesses, hospitals, police and fire departments react if another terrorist attack hits the US, if a foreign country drops a nuclear bomb, or if toxic chemicals are released in the New York subway system? Such doomsday planning is the bailiwick of the Defense Threat...
- Blog posts 2007-01-01
- Hackers shut down student network at Naval War College
- Hackers attacked the computer network at the Naval War College in Newport, taking down the schools network for more than two weeks, including some e-mail services and the colleges Web site, AP reports. The intrusion was detected Nov. 16 on the unclassified network. No word on when the network...
- Blog posts 2006-12-06
- DISA relocation forces embrace of telework
- The Defense Information Systems Agency is moving from northern Virginia to Fort Meade, MD, as part of a Defense Dept. realignment. Thats a problem for the agencys many employees who live in Virginia communities. And so, DISA is embracing telework as a way to avoid losing scores of skilled...
- Blog posts 2006-11-20
- Researchers strive for a universal translation device
- The time is now for that Universal Translation Device that came in so handy on Star Trek, DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, has decided. And so it is ready to spend gobs of money to achieve that holy grail - a machine that translates important non-Western languages like...
- Blog posts 2006-11-09
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- Chrome's JavaScript poses challenge to Silverlight
- Experts speaking at Microsoft's TechEd conference in Australia warn that JavaScript will continue to get speedier, making it the biggest rival of Silverlight technology. The biggest rival for Microsoft's next-generation Silverlight web technology will be JavaScript, not Adobe's ubiquitous Flash, according to experts speaking at Microsoft's TechEd conference in...
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