si325i

Scared

Si.





[Edited by si325i - 7/1/2003 6:19:07 PM]

richs2891

Excellent idea in theory but can see how like all good ideas it will soon get abused !

All the big brother conspiracy theorists are going to love this !!

Richard

class_A

Big brother is watching. How long until companies register the phones they give to employees in order to track movements??

richs2891

Don't care on that I refused to have a compnay mobile for ages (and would not give them my personal number) and when they made me have a company mobile I used to leave it every night in my drawer at work.

Richard

johnfelstead

they would be stupid not too if they think their employees are abusing their working out of the office freedoms.

Great tool for theives and pissed off ex's

boomer

What a content-free web-site it is at mapAmobile

Click on "How mapAmobile works", and it, er, doesn't tell you how it works

Perhaps one of the most important things is how accurate the system is. Well according to the web-site it is, er, "Subject to information from the networks, location accuracy may vary between urban and rural areas". They don't even hint as to whether it is accurate to feet or to tens of miles

Basically, most of the web-site concentrates on telling you how to spend your money with them, but doesn't actually tell you what they provide

Go to the "About MI International" section, and read a load of content-free drivel with no hard facts.

Oh, and why does the web-site use a secure server (HTTPS) to give you basic information. It doesn't have a reason to use HTTPS apart from wanting to know your actual IP address should you (as most people are) be hidden behind a proxy server - more big brother

I think that i might give this "technological breakthough" a miss

mb

boxst

Hello

As I just posted to another thread, many years ago this technology was accurate to 40 or 50 meters. It depends on the number of base stations within a given area as to how accurate it can be. Which is why there is a difference between rural / urban areas.

We were working with companies that were looking to target people with coupons on their mobile phone as they walked past certain stores.

Steve.

MartinM

80m - intense urban
30km - very rural

...approx - and different for each network