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Submission + - US Military issuing iPod Touches to soldiers

Submitted by 644bd346996 on Monday April 20, 2009 @05:57PM

644bd346996 writes: Newsweek is running an article about the US Military adopting the iPod Touch and the iPhone as general purpose handhelds for soldiers in the field. From the story:
Apple gadgets are proving to be surprisingly versatile. Software developers and the U.S. Department of Defense are developing military software for iPods that enables soldiers to display aerial video from drones and have teleconferences with intelligence agents halfway across the globe. Snipers in Iraq and Afghanistan now use a "ballistics calculator" called BulletFlight, made by the Florida firm Knight's Armament for the iPod Touch and iPhone. Army researchers are developing applications to turn an iPod into a remote control for a bomb-disposal robot (tilting the iPod steers the robot). In Sudan, American military observers are using iPods to learn the appropriate etiquette for interacting with tribal leaders.

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Submission + - Cyan Worlds to open-source Myst Online: Uru Live (spokesmanreview.com)

Submitted by 644bd346996 on Friday December 12, 2008 @08:44PM

644bd346996 writes: Cyan Worlds, Inc., creators of the Myst franchise, has decided to make their unsuccessful MMORPG Myst Online: Uru Live into an open source game. They will release all the source code for the client, server, and tools. They will continue to host the data on their own servers. Uru was originally intended to be an online-only game. The publisher, Ubisoft, requested that a single-player version be made as well. They then canceled the online version in February 2004, while it was still in a closed beta. Cyan allowed fans to run their own servers as part of a completely unsupported service known as Until Uru. In February 2007, GameTap picked up Uru as one of their biggest games, only to cancel it a year later.

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