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FEC Rejects Bid For Text Message Campaign Donations

Ryan J. Reilly | December 13, 2010, 10:02AM

The Federal Election Commission has rejected a leading wireless trade association's request for permission to enable political campaigns to solicit donations via text message, ABC News reports.

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Topics: Campaign Contributions, Campaign Donations, FEC, Smartphones, TPMTech, Technology, iPhone

The Army Wants To Put Smartphones On The Battlefield

Rachel Slajda | December 9, 2010, 8:51AM

A promo photo from the Army's app contest

Smartphones may soon be as ubiquitous in Army units stationed in Iraq and Afghanistan as they are on the streets of New York, as the Army works on a program to bring smartphones to soldiers on the ground.

The Army believes that smartphones -- and certain apps developed by and for the Army -- could be a great boon to soldiers on the ground. And the service sees it as inevitable.

"Taking smart-phone technology and bringing them to the battlefield is probably -- I shouldn't say this -- but it is something that we need to do," said Tony Fuiza, a researcher on the program, on a recent call with military bloggers.

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Gizmodo And The Prototype iPhone: What Do We Know?

Justin Elliott | April 28, 2010, 11:04AM

A screenshot from Gizmodo's video revealing the next generation iPhone

Less than ten days after the tech blog Gizmodo published pictures of Apple's next iPhone model, the police raided the home of a Gizmodo editor and what began as a story about the next hot gadget has morphed into a story about media ethics, the First Amendment, and the power of Apple Inc.

As you may know by now, soon after its initial post revealing the next generation iPhone, Gizmodo published a version of events of how it acquired the iPhone: Apple engineer Gray Powell left the iPhone at the bar at Gourmet Haus Staudt in Redwood City, CA, near the company's headquarters. An unidentified person picked it up and, according to Gizmodo, tried in vain to contact someone at Apple to return it to. Gizmodo ultimately acquired the prototype iPhone for $5,000 in cash.