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U.S. Army Launches Blogging App Aimed at Troops

in Social on February 28, 2011 at 12:50 pm PT

The U.S. Army today released an iPhone app and mobile Web site for its Army Strong Stories blogging platform. Besides giving soldiers with smartphones the means to blog from the field, the app and site are meant to be a marketing tool for potential recruits who can feel like they’re a part of the action via their own phones. The Army currently has 600 official blogging soldiers.

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Egypt Restores Internet; Army Calls for End to Protests

in News on February 2, 2011 at 2:24 am PT

Egypt’s army called on protesters to return home Wednesday, and Internet connections were restored, as the government moved to return to some normalcy after a wrenching week of protests.

2010 Was the Year the Internet Got Scary. Get Used to It.

in Enterprise on December 30, 2010 at 7:00 am PT

The year just ending started with an attack on Google by China and ended with the WikiLeaks affair. In the meantime, the Stuxnet worm showed the way toward a world where skilled hackers can cause serious real-world damage. Scared yet?

Full Metal iPhone

in Mobile on December 14, 2010 at 8:30 am PT

Air strike? There’s an app for that….The U.S. military may soon add another item to the standard-issue field and garrison furnishings it issues to every soldier: The smartphone. Come 2011, the Army Capabilities Integration Center will begin field-testing phones, network equipment and applications as part of a combat team modernization program called Connecting Soldiers to Digital Applications. The first smartphones to be reviewed will be Apple’s iPhone and an Android device.

A Problem Has Been Detected With Your Classified Mission. Windows Has been Shut Down to Prevent Damage to Your Computer.

in News on May 25, 2009 at 10:11 am PT

How slow are government agencies at adopting new technologies? So slow that the U.S. Army is planning a major upgrade of its information systems–to Microsoft’s Windows Vista OS. Though Windows 7 is expected at market by the end of the year, the United States military has set that as a deadline for its migration from Windows XP to Windows Vista and from Office 2003 to Office 2007.
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In the 21st Century There Will Be a New Endangered Species … Man.

in News on August 3, 2007 at 6:12 am PT

Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates titled his recent article in Scientific American on robotics “A Robot in Every Home,” but a better title might have been “A Robot on Every Battlefield.” In June, the U.S. Army sent the the first armed ground robots into action in Iraq. Dubbed “special weapons observation remote reconnaissance direct action system” [...]