UKNM: Re: wap killer app??

[rODbegbie]

The following article covers a variety of the proposed uses for the

"location specific" technology... and doesn't like the sound of any of them.


 http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/ccarch/cckev042.htm


rOD.


----- Original Message -----

From: "Fiona Campbell-Howes" <

quinquiremehotmail [dot] com

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To: <

uk-netmarketingchinwag [dot] com

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Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2000 6:29 AM

Subject: UKNM: wap killer app??



> Today's Telegraph Connected leader says that BT Cellnet has launched

FindMe, which allegedly points a mobile phone user to the nearest

McDonalds/Lloyds cashpoint etc.  So far so

location-specific-m-commerce-hype-bollocks.

>

> But if FindMe can identify a user's location to 100 metres, how long

before Jack Straw and his cronies cotton on to the fact that pretty soon

most of the UK population will willingly be carrying around an electronic

identity tag? Sinister...



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