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A GPS Device for Keeping Tabs on the Children
A GPS Device for Keeping Tabs on the Children
http://money.aol.com/news/articles/_...-keeping-tabs- on-the/20070621115509990001 http://tinyurl.com/2u2nju By SARAH CHILDRESS Posted: 2007-06-21 11:57:51 Gone are the days when parents stood on the back porch and shouted for their kids. The AmberWatch Foundation, a nonprofit group focused on preventing child abduction, announced the pending launch of a Global Positioning System software application called AmberWatch Mobile. Parents can use the application to monitor their children's movements and children can use it to send an alert to their parents notifying them of their exact location. The software enabling the service can be downloaded to a child's GPS- enabled cellphone. It then allows parents to log on to a dedicated Web site, amberwatchmobile.com, and quickly pinpoint their child's cellphone location. The child can also zap his or her location from the GPS-compatible handset via text message or email to the parent's phone by hitting a few keys on their cellphone. The application can also be set up to send an alert to a parent's cellphone when the child gets home from school, or strays from a designated area, creating a kind of digital fence. Eventually, the application could also be linked to a panic button on the child's cellphone which, when pressed, emits a high-decibel sound to ward off potential abductors. It's still unclear when the software will hit the market, and it's still being developed by WaveMarket Inc., a company that develops location-tracking technology for cellphones. The foundation says it's in talks with major wireless carriers to support the service, which users would be able to download from a Web site onto their handsets for $4.99 a month. Half of the fee would be donated to the AmberWatch Foundation. No carriers have committed yet. The service is part of a wave of new GPS products appearing on the market, as GPS chips are built into an increasing number of handsets, partly a result of government regulations that require them for 911 purposes. Other GPS services include navigation tools and "buddy finders" that help track locations of friends. A few companies have already developed products that keep tabs on children, such as Walt Disney Co.'s Disney Mobile and Sprint Nextel Corp., which both offer similar Family Locator services that let parents look up their child's location on a Web site or cellphone. But AmberWatch Mobile will be the first GPS application that also lets the child initiate the sending of exact GPS coordinates to parents. 2007-06-21 11:55:46 |
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A GPS Device for Keeping Tabs on the Children
In article . com, "Fred Goodwin, CMA" wrote:
A GPS Device for Keeping Tabs on the Children http://money.aol.com/news/articles/_...-keeping-tabs- on-the/20070621115509990001 http://tinyurl.com/2u2nju By SARAH CHILDRESS Posted: 2007-06-21 11:57:51 Gone are the days when parents stood on the back porch and shouted for their kids. The AmberWatch Foundation, a nonprofit group focused on preventing child abduction, announced the pending launch of a Global Positioning System software application called AmberWatch Mobile. Parents can use the application to monitor their children's movements and children can use it to send an alert to their parents notifying them of their exact location. The software enabling the service can be downloaded to a child's GPS- enabled cellphone. It then allows parents to log on to a dedicated Web site, amberwatchmobile.com, and quickly pinpoint their child's cellphone location. The child can also zap his or her location from the GPS-compatible handset via text message or email to the parent's phone by hitting a few keys on their cellphone. Sounds to me like something On Star should have come up with. Wonder what it costs, plus cell phone plan. greg |
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A GPS Device for Keeping Tabs on the Children
GregS wrote:
In article . com, "Fred Goodwin, CMA" wrote: A GPS Device for Keeping Tabs on the Children http://money.aol.com/news/articles/_...-keeping-tabs- on-the/20070621115509990001 http://tinyurl.com/2u2nju By SARAH CHILDRESS Posted: 2007-06-21 11:57:51 Gone are the days when parents stood on the back porch and shouted for their kids. The AmberWatch Foundation, a nonprofit group focused on preventing child abduction, announced the pending launch of a Global Positioning System software application called AmberWatch Mobile. Parents can use the application to monitor their children's movements and children can use it to send an alert to their parents notifying them of their exact location. The software enabling the service can be downloaded to a child's GPS- enabled cellphone. It then allows parents to log on to a dedicated Web site, amberwatchmobile.com, and quickly pinpoint their child's cellphone location. The child can also zap his or her location from the GPS-compatible handset via text message or email to the parent's phone by hitting a few keys on their cellphone. Sounds to me like something On Star should have come up with. Wonder what it costs, plus cell phone plan. greg Can't we just implant them at birth with a chip that we can signal on our computer to find out their location, state of arousal, and alcohol level? Even X and THC levels? How many kids are they engaged with in what they now call heavy petting? That's why Clinton claimed "I did not have sex with that woman." To her it was only heavy petting. Or as Susan Sarandon sang in Rocky Horror, can lead to "seat wetting". (forget grammar, both Shakespeare and I do) We never had a watch video for the kids, like the one that recently pulled in the NASA channel. But we did what is now forbidden, which was to let our kids sleep on their bellies with their butts in the air, which they found to be most comfortable. I had a baby nephew die of crib death a little later and it shattered my half-brother's family. I was never able to learn any details as the parents went nuts over guilt, even converting to Christianity. And later selling drugs: a now famous singer was one of their mules. My kids got out of their early childhood in great shape, but very different. Even now in their late 30s, I say, these are *my* kids? As a young father I wrote a few theses and papers while keeping them under my eye. They had their run of the house, but I was always available to fix toys and settle disputes a la Solomon. And make my world-champion pancakes when necessary. But a few years ago friends visited with two young daughters. We got them together on a mountaineering trip. We have a dog, Achilles, whom they liked to play with, but I kept a watch out, reading at the basement desk (our basement is 'finished'), as sometimes things can unintentionally or intentionally get out of hand. The elder sister foxed the younger sister, then just 4, to come up to my desk and ask innocently "Why does Achilles keep licking his cock?" Not a question you expect from a 4-yr-old girl. But I saw that the elder sister was doing her best to make herself invisible, and so managed with aplomb, as my kids had asked even more off the wall questions. Between my two marriages, in Pasadena, there was a rock band called The Roto-Rooter Band with the lead 'singer' called Awfthe Wally. I saw them when I could, which is not to say that my dates always felt favored. jimbat |
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