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Tracking Your Employees, Children

Posted by michael on from the not-much-difference-at-many-companies dept.

Mattygfunk writes "Hong Kong has launched what's believed to be Asia's first location-based service which enables companies to locate their employees via their mobile phones signals." And in a semi-related story, Son-of-a-Geek writes "The BBC is reporting on a new GPS device for kids from Wherify Wireless. With the new device parents can track junior or he can call for help by pushing a panic button. Available only in the US for one penny less than 400 dollars it is a pager as well."

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  1. fp by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    hopefully

  2. Re:Err, yes but.. QWZX by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    The average /. reader is an idiot. Half of /. readers are below average. Are you scared yet?

    You know, for your sig to make sense, it really should say "The median /. reader is an idiot", since you're not guaranteed that half the set of an average is below the average.