New customer cell phone tracking services introduced

It all started in Korea, the cellular carrier SK Telecom introduced in 2000 a service which translates to something like “find friends”. Today more than four million koreans are using the service. I compiled a incomplete service list, here it is:

• send periodically messages with your coordinates to family and friends.
• automatically send a message to a friend if hes only one block away from you
• automatically sends a message if a person is not at the correct place at a certain time. The recipient has the option to see the movements of the last five hours.
• automatically sends a message to parents if children stray from their route from home to school.

See “Working late” won´t work anymore from businessweek.com for more information.

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