4 posts and columns on soldiers

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.

China to YouTube: YouBlocked

in News on March 24, 2009 at 12:09 pm PT

China’s access to YouTube, which has been intermittent at best, ceased entirely late Monday, apparently choked off by the country’s legendary Internet filtering system. There’s no formal explanation yet for the block, though it may be in response to a seven-minute video posted to YouTube last week showing Chinese soldiers brutally beating Tibetans last March after the riots in Lhasa. China, after all, isn’t renowned for its tolerance of free expression or dissident speech.
China Web Police