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Iraq war veteran's iPod found 6,000 miles away, returned to him

by Kelly Hodgkins (Feb 15th, 2012)

You always hear about a lost cat or a dog traveling hundreds of miles to find its owner. Here's a story from WFMY2 News in Greensboro, NC about an iPod that traveled thousands of miles to make its way home to a soldier in Iraq. The story begins with Venice Curtis,who had an iPod that he used for ...

iPod being used by Army as Arabic translator in Iraq

by Mike Schramm (Oct 10th, 2007)

Macenstein's got the tip on the Army using iPods in Iraq to speak Arabic. Vcommunicator Mobile is a hardware/software setup (the iPod straps to your arm, and gets a small speaker hooked up to it) that allows soldiers in Iraq to "speak" Arabic by choosing and playing certain phrases through an ...