Forget the academic market...if Entourage can get a DeptDef contract they've got it made.
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McCarthy (director of the mission command complex of the Future Force Integration Directorate at Fort Bliss in Texas) bought a Kindle, six Apple iPads and an Entourage Edge, which incorporates an e-book reader and a tablet into a dual-screen computer, to see how the retail products could be used on the battlefield. He said the devices could serve as electronic manuals for Army standard battlefield systems, including broadband radios and unmanned sensors systems.
Currently, soldiers use printed manuals. Every time a system is reprogrammed or revised, the Army has to print new instructions to distribute to soldiers. But the service could easily update the e-manuals and push the changes out instantly over a network, McCarthy said.
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I'd imagine the annotation capabilities and image viewing would be a plus in the Edge's favor, but the lack of 3G might hurt their chances vs. Kindle.