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The iPhone Goes to War by Roy Furchgott
10 hours ago ago from surflightroy
On Wednesday at the 2009 Intelligence Warfighting Summit in Tucson, Raytheon, the military contractor, announced an iPhone application that tracks friends and foes, shows their positions on live, real time maps and provides secure communications. Called the One Force Tracker, the Raytheon iPhone software can also be used by first responders like police, firemen and emergency medical technicians. The app works on a standard iPhone, ...
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14 hours ago ago from Text Me Ads
American military contractor shows off iPhone application intended to help soldiers track and kill insurgents on the battlefield In little more than a year, applications for Apple's popular iPhone have become a sensation - with more than 100,000 downloadable programs that do everything from stargazing to virtual farting. But now one of America's biggest military contractors is taking the concept to extremes, by building a series of ...
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20 hours ago ago from CTO/CIO Perspectives
Fred Brooks wrote a seminal essay in 1986, No Silver Bullet — Essence and Accidents of Software Engineering , a model of clear and cogent thinking that I consider to be required regular reading for anyone involved in information technology. Despite the essay's brilliance, and despite its wide promulgation and deserved fame, the phenomenon it describes seems to have only broadened in the last twenty-three years. Brooks argues as follows ...
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14 hours ago ago from AJ's Blog
SAN FRANCISCO, December 17, 2009 (AFP) US defense contractor Raytheon on Wednesday unveiled the first of what it said will be a series of software applications to make iPhones or iPod touch devices into battlefield tools. One Force Tracker (OFT) software takes advantage of features built into Apple's wildly popular touch-screen mobile devices to let soldiers track whereabouts of allies and adversaries on maps in real time. We have ...
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19 hours ago ago from Technology & Lifestyle Tech News
Raytheon, known more often than not in these parts for its ability to zap people at a distance with microwaves, has just announced a little something called One Force Tracker. Essentially an iPhone app, it leverages recent developments in location awareness and social networking to keep tabs on both friends and enemies in the field, displaying positions on maps in real time all the while enabling secure communications between soldiers. If ...
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