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Emergency communications in 140 characters or less
The Public Service of New Hampshire used Twitter to keep customers informed during a treacherous winter storm In the midst of a Dec. 11 ice storm unprecedented in its destruction, Martin Murray, senior corporate news representative for the Public Service of New Hampshire, reached beyond the typical telephone customer service lines, Web updates and press
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Exploring a ‘Deep Web’ That Google Can’t Grasp
One day last summer, Google’s search engine trundled quietly past a milestone. It added the one trillionth address to the list of Web pages it knows about. But as impossibly big as that number may seem, it represents only a fraction of the entire Web. Beyond those trillion pages lies an even vaster
Terrorists turn technology into weapon of war in Mumbai
Have we seen the future of terrorist cells? Messenger bags, AK-47s, jeans, hoodies, and Blackberry phones. Among their arsenal of weapons are bags of almonds and BlackBerry mobile phones – almonds to keep their energy up, and the mobile internet connections to stay one step ahead of police and the
You’re leaving a digital trail — do you care?
Propelled by new technologies and the Internet’s steady incursion into every nook and cranny of life, collective intelligence offers powerful capabilities, from improving the efficiency of advertising to giving community groups new ways to organize. But even its practitioners acknowledge that, if
Not playing around: Army to invest $50M in combat training games
Dust off those military game business plans. Starting in 2010, the U.S. Army will continue its successful strategy of recruiting and training via immersive gaming environments with a $50 budget line. The Army has created a video game unit and will invest $50 million over five years on games and gaming
Pentagon Researcher Unveils Warcraft Terror Plot
A Pentagon research initiative shows how virtual worlds might be used to support terrorist planning, but FAS provides the real perspective: Steven Aftergood, the Federation of the American Scientists analyst who’s been following the intelligence community for years, wonders how realistic these
Can Web 2.0 save BI?
Chief Jon Greiner recently expanded his staff of crime analysts from one to 11 without hiring a single new officer at the Ogden Police Department in Utah. Instead, Greiner equipped his existing force of eight lieutenants and two assistant chiefs with new, easy-to-use, Web-based business intelligence
Army Virtual World
The next in a line of many future MMOGs Last week we broke the story of the Army’s attempt to design a “first-person thinker” video game for training future generals. Now one senior Army game-designer tells DANGER ROOM that the ground combat service wants to go one step further …
Play Warcraft? No job at the CIA for you…
Interesting article, but it seems we should be focusing on ways to bring these folks in to exploit new and emerging technologies, including gaming. Last I checked there were tens of millions of people interacting in these worlds that transcend national boundaries. Do you trade music with your pals?
Network Science a key interest at the Pentagon
We need one of these grants here at GroupIntel. The University of Pennsylvania School of Engineering and Applied Science just announced that it’s been awarded a $7.5 million grant to work in this fast emerging field of network science, which melds everything from mathematics to sociology. Network
