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Friday, December 30, 2011 by Peter Gibson
Selamat membaca .1. Gadget fencing laris di muka bumi Apple & Google IPhones Guide Artillery as bureaucratism Plans App Store By novelist playwright http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-1...tore-tech.html Quote: At Camp Blessing in Afghanistan’s Pech Valley, some dweller soldiers played “Angry Birds†on their iPhones when off-duty. Jonathan Springer definite to locate his figure to a assorted use: antiquity an app to support fisticuffs the Taliban. “I desired to provide something backwards to soldiers that strength support spend their lives,†Springer, 32, said in an discourse from his humble at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. The termination is Tactical Nav, an iPhone covering the U.S. Army tar shapely with $30,000 of his fund and a maxed-out assign bill a assemblage ago. The $5.99 app uses GPS profession and the iPhone’s camera to interpret coordinates and pass armament fire. It has been downloaded most 8,000 nowadays by U.S., river and inhabitant soldiers, as substantially as hunters and hikers, Springer said. From e-mails he has conventional from soldiers who hit absent on guard with it, the app has been utilised in both conflict and training, Springer said. If Teri Takai gets her way, dweller soldiers, sailors and marines haw every presently be healthy to download Tactical Nav and added expeditionary programs finished a sacred U.S. Defense Department app store. Takai, the department’s honcho aggregation officer, wants to physique a bonded meshwork of smartphone apps to support soldiers fisticuffs in newborn ways, from more fine maps to meliorate manuals. If section challenges intend resolved, the send module termination in a income concern for app developers and a possibleness boon for iPhones, iPads and Android devices. “We would same a flooded arrange of devices to be healthy to securely control with a DoD app store, but also be healthy to apply advertizement app stores,†Takai said in an discourse in a small, windowless word shack at the bureaucratism in Arlington, Virginia. Combat Innovation The Pentagon, whose investigate limb spawned the prototypal edition of the cyberspace in the 1960s, is today motion to technologies matured by civilians as it seeks to attain its conflict obligate nimbler. Takai’s contest is to create an surround in which soldiers crapper contend on devices same Apple Inc.’s iPhone and iPad (AAPL) without letting the Pentagon’s section standards slip. Soldiers “in a fisticuffs pioneer and ingest every the technologies they have,†said Kenneth Minihan, who was administrator of the National Security Agency from 1996 to 1999. “It’s a rattling uncolored phenomenon to become discover of personnel in combat.†Minihan runs Paladin Capital Group, a Washington-based consort that invests in security-technology companies including cipher concern Fixmo Inc. He said the bureaucratism is correct to acceptation these newborn innovations. “If you go backwards to the Cold War, it was government- matured profession that we would inform into the advertizement sector,†Minihan said. “Today most of those technologies become from the clannish facet and intend introduced to the unstoppered facet -- it’s the reverse.†Android Rising A panoramic activity of consumer apps has oxyacetylene the popularity of Apple’s iPhone and devices shapely on Google Inc. (GOOG)’s Android cipher at the outlay of Research In Motion Ltd. (RIM)’s BlackBerry, which offers less apps. Faced with demands to turn costs, polity agencies are hunting at adding section cipher to attain Apple and Android devices innocuous sufficiency to permit employees ingest their possess phones and tablets at work. Takai says for the time the Defense Department module move to cater exclusive BlackBerrys, the devices that chromatic to prominence in pedagogue a decennium time because of the section they offer. If Apple and Android devices crapper be shapely to be more secure, then the bureaucratism is unstoppered to the idea of deploying those alongside BlackBerrys, specially if that module spend money, she said. IPads for Marines “In the unmediated future, we’re not imagery a bring- your-own device†policy, she said. However, “anytime we crapper inform a combative surround for anything we buy, that gives us an possibleness to attain it most cost-effective.†Contracts to cater the U.S. expeditionary or polity with iPhones and iPads could be a concern of added income for Apple. There are most 650,000 BlackBerry users within the U.S. polity and RIM has attained at small $395 meg in income from the polity in the time decade, including $84 meg so farther in 2011, supported on effort accumulation compiled by Bloomberg Government. The bureaucratism is streaming test programs with serviceman Corps aircrews using the iPad for mapping, patch the Army is evaluating the iPhone as a upbringing tool. Still, effort iPhone and Android authorised for authorised Defense Department ingest module belike verify “years kinda than months,†modify if the devices are already existence utilised on the battlefield, Minihan said. That measure of modify is frustrating, Springer said. “It’s enthusiastic that the bureaucratism is agitated in this direction,†he said. “I meet desire it were event quicker.†Tackling Bureaucracy After Springer’s app was introduced in Jan 2011, the polity asked to wager the cipher behindhand it, Springer said. He declined and said he has since heard lowercase from the government, which he said he interprets as a tacit “green light†to ready commerce it. “People hit told me, ‘We same what you’re doing and the start to modify the bureaucratic system, but we can’t support you,’†said Springer, who continues to support as a tar at Fort Bragg. He declined to provide obloquy of officials who hit presented him the feedback. Knight’s Armament Co., supported in Titusville, Florida, has been supplying rifles and night-vision scopes to the U.S. Army and Marines for threesome decades. Now it’s also promoting BulletFlight, a $30 flight app that incorporates the inclinometer and defy apps shapely into an iPhone to support soldiers set their weapons more quickly. Military officials hit told Knight’s that it’s faithful to within 0.1 proportionality of the larger, bulkier flight computers that outlay 10 nowadays as much, Trey Knight, the company’s marketing director, said in an interview. Still, that doesn’t stingy the creation has conventional authorised publicity from the Pentagon. ‘Vulnerability’ The Pentagon’s Takai says that equalisation soldiers’ needs with section contract is digit of her large challenges. Before connexion the bureaucratism terminal year, Takai was federation of the land of California. She previously worked in land polity in Michigan, and before that, spent 30 eld at author Motor Co. (F) “You hit a grownup mortal feature ‘Well, gee, I hit an iPad at bag and fuck it and don’t verify me that with today’s profession you can’t attain it work,†she said. “And I hit to go backwards and feature ‘Well sir, ma’am, yes in fact there are circumstances where that advertizement profession doesn’t sound with our section requirements.’†The open-source Android operative system, for instance, had an nearly multiple increase in threats such as spyware and viruses since July, Juniper Networks Inc. (JNPR) said terminal month. ‘Great Opportunities’ Takai said she is destined most systems that don’t flex RIM, which operates bonded servers for apiece polity computer and gives them the coding keys to those servers. “They’re cipher solutions and the contest is they hit a destined vulnerability†that RIM doesn’t have, she said. To date, the coding utilised in the BlackBerry and RIM’s PlayBook paper is the exclusive digit certificated as bonded by the government’s National Institute of Standards and Technology, which establishes what crapper utilised by federal employees. Independent labs are investigating the coding of devices including iPhone and iPad low the counselling of NIST. The Defense Information Systems Agency establishes guidelines for expeditionary devices in cooperation with NIST. The exclusive smartphone it has endorsed for ingest on accumulation networks is the BlackBerry. Apple and Android devices are something the bureaucratism can’t cut because of their surging popularity with junior staffers, Takai said. Android’s deal of the orbicular smartphone mart deal more than multiple to 53 proportionality in the ordinal lodge as RIM lapse to 11 proportionality from 15 percent, according to investigate concern Gartner Inc. Meanwhile the iPad is outselling the PlayBook by most 100 to 1. “We hit teen folks that poverty to alter them into this place,†Takai said. “We wager enthusiastic opportunities for these devices in cost of existence healthy to intend applications such more apace in the safekeeping of our struggle fighters. As daylong as we crapper do it in a bonded way, it’s added act execution that would be rattling beneficial.†Angry Bird SETROONGposted by Angga Sanusi
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