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- iPhone users don't use device for work, study says
- iPhone users don't use device for work, study saysI use my iPhone for bothThough the "preponderance" of use is personal. I guess a good follow-up question would be, for those of us tho use it primarily for "play", is "Does the iPhone meet your business use needs?" For me the...
- Tags: Smart phones, Handhelds, U.S. Marine Corps, iPhone 3, business phone, Apple iPhone, soldier
- Discussion threads 2009-04-28
- Using the iPod as a weapon
- The iPod has lots of uses: music and movie player, photo album, contact and calendar organizer and military tool? The U.S. armed forces are deploying the iPod touch to troops stationed in Afghanistan and Iraq for use as translation tools and for "networked warfare" linking soldiers to...
- Tags: Apple iPod, Soldier, Apple iPod Touch, U.S. Marine Corps, BulletFlight, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Jason D. O'Grady
- Blog posts 2009-04-20
- Killer apps: Army embraces iPod touch
- The rap on the iPhone and iPod touch is that it's chiefly an entertainment device. (After all the software keyboard is damn irritating.) But the Army doesn't think so. Newsweek reports that the military is very high on the touch, since it's priced at about a...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple iPod, Killer Application, Soldier, Apple iPod Touch, U.S. Marine Corps, Robots, Digital Music, Digital Media, Emerging Technologies, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-04-19
- Project Aftermath demo 1.13 (Windows)
- In the aftermath of a great war, when your enemy has wiped out everything you hold dear, the time has come to regroup and strike back. Enlist in the Morphid army and use all the weapons and genetic powers at your disposal to eradicate the New Order menace.Project Aftermath is...
- Tags: Enemy, Soldier, Microsoft Windows, Games Faction, Games, Personal Technology
- Software downloads 2009-01-27
- New Army site connects recruits, soldiers
- On Veterans Day, the Army launches a new version of GoArmy.com, featuring a webcast features that allows the public to ask questions and watch taped responses from troops stationed in Iraq. by Richard Koman
- Tags: Army Site, Richard Koman, Iraq, Media, Soldier, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing
- Blog posts 2008-11-11
- Photos: Virtual training at Fort Benning
- The Army is increasingly utilizing new technologies to help soldiers learn their jobs. Example: the Virtual Interactive Combat Environment. by CNET News.com
- Tags: Soldier, Training, Photograph, Army, Workforce Management, Training And Certification, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, CNET News.com
- Image galleries 2008-07-07
- Air+Force%3A+No%21+Stop%21+Blogs+bad%21
- Air+Force%3A+No%21+Stop%21+Blogs+bad%21Not just security...Just as at a corporation where the company owns the computer, not you; in the military, the US Government owns the machine, the network its hooked up to,and everything els about it. As such the government has the right to restrict how those systems are used -...
- Tags: Blogging, blog, security, government
- Discussion threads 2008-02-29
- Photos: Army touts top tech inventions
- Aerial surveillance and counter-IED systems dominate the Army's top 10 list of gear that serves to protect soldiers.
- Tags: soldier, photograph
- Image galleries 2007-06-20
- Pentagon management ignores Marine requests for tech weapons
- Send in the drones. It appears that important surveillance equipment that takes up the slack when soldiers are in short supply, is also in short supply, reports Wired News.In Iraq, there are not enough soldiers to cover thousands of square miles, so having enough aerial drones to take up the...
- Tags: Defense
- Blog posts 2007-05-31
- Outrage: starting today South Korea blocks our soldiers from using VoIP
- Outrage: starting today South Korea blocks our soldiers from using VoIPThen they need to start paying our soldiers for putting their lives on theThen they need to start paying our soldiers for putting their lives on the line for protecting them.we have a solutionWe have several Boys enjoying our service...
- Tags: Telephony, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Network technology, soldier, phone, VoIP
- Discussion threads 2007-05-31
- Plot to kill soldiers discovered by DVD transfer clerk
- Plot to kill soldiers discovered by DVD transfer clerkGood job watching our soldiers back.While I don't think it would be feasible to do this to every video you transferred, they got a lucky break. Privacy is one thing, but when you accidentally catch a glimpse of something like that,you...
- Tags: Consumer electronics, soldier, DVD
- Discussion threads 2007-05-30
- 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...
- Tags: Defense, EEG, Government technology, soldier
- 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...
- Tags: Government technology, Defense
- Blog posts 2007-05-03
- Alerting vests for soldiers
- Alerting vests for soldiersSpidey-sense for the militaryPractical? Who knows. But a cool idea nonetheless.Very usefulThis could be very useful. From what you wrote though the vest doesn't alert you to anything. It sounds more like someone is using the vest as communication too to alert you to danger.The difference here...
- Tags: vest, soldier, vibration
- Discussion threads 2007-01-03
- Alerting vests for soldiers
- If you were a soldier, Im sure you would like to be warned in real time of an imminent danger. According to New Scientist, MIT researchers have developed a vibrating vest which could send alerts to soldiers. But here comes the tricky part: the alerts will wirelessly be sent to...
- Tags: soldier, motor, Engineering &, Innovation, Defense &, Security
- Blog posts 2007-01-03
- In Iraq, military seeking Universal Translator
- For the military in Iraq, being able to speak with the locals is a huge problem. In the absence of enough translators, there was high hopes for technological fixes to the problem. But, the Washington Post reports, the Star Trek Universal Translator is still a long ways off. Two...
- Tags: DARPA
- Blog posts 2006-11-02
- Photos: Robot rescuer for wounded soldiers
- The Bear, from Vecna Technologies, would put itself in the line of fire instead of human stretcher-bearers.
- Tags: Robots, soldier, robot
- Image galleries 2006-09-21
- Fla. Natl. Guard laptop with solider data stolen
- A laptop stolen from a Florida National Guard soldier contained training and administrative records, including Social Security numbers, of up to 100 Guard soldiers, the Orlando Sentinel reports. The Guard is conducting a security review. "We're doing everything we can do to protect the unit," Joe Myatt [of...
- Tags: Guard, security review, soldier, laptop computer
- Blog posts 2006-09-08
- Land Warrior: Soldier-based tech gets a test run
- On Star Trek, the Borg were a cybernetic race in which technology was deeply integrated with flesh and blood humanoids. We're not quite there yet, but with the Army's new Land Warrior system, currently getting a dry run at Fort Lewis, Wash., soldiers and technology are getting closer than ever....
- Tags: Land Warrior, Fort Lewis, soldier
- Blog posts 2006-07-24
- Images: Ultrasound heads for battle
- Philips Research and the University of Washington explore using ultrasound technology to stem internal bleeding when soldiers are injured in battle.
- Tags: University of Washington, soldier, Philips Electronics N.V.
- Image galleries 2006-07-19
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