Speeding around

This article by HOWARD WOLINSKY in the Chicago Suntimes has information on Clarity's Whereabouts, which does a lot more than geo-fencing on kids' phones.

GPS chips in cell phones can do a heck of a lot more than help 911 workers locate you in an emergency, as Jim Fuentes' son Eric discovered while zooming down a highway at 85 mph. The elder Fuentes received an SMS "speed alert" on his phone telling him his son was booking it. The same alert was available via an e-mail or on a Web site, And there's more to this system, known as "Whereabouts, Family Tracking and Navigation" developed by Aurora-based Clarity Communication Systems Inc., a start-up founded by Fuentes and seven other former Lucent wireless software engineers in 1998.

The article brought to my attention way-to-go which I hadn't heard of before. "Welcome to Way-To-Go Central! The place to find really cool GPS applications for your mobile phone" I haven't played with it yet, but will let you know what I think.

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