Frank Zappa once warned: "Watch out where those huskies go." Now you can with mobile dog radar. Designed to help Finns keep track of their hunting dogs, dog radar is one of the more bizarre location-based services.Dogs wear a small mobile device and the hunters carry a Benefon mobile phone with built-in GPS and software from Pointer Solutions. If the dog goes missing, its exact position, bounced off a satellite, will be displayed on a map on the mobile's...
RECENTLY-LISTED Unified Communications is banking on a new joint venture to secure a recurring revenue stream by offering location-based mobile phone services in three countries by the year's end.Since February, Unified has been offering such services to Malaysian mobile phone operator Maxis Communications through 40 per cent-owned Ahead Mobile Sdn Bhd, a joint venture with a Korean mobile services provider.It is in talks with Singapore telcos to explore deals here. Unified...
COMPUTER web surfer Simon James got swept away on the wave of love when he met his wife through the internet.Simon, from Farmers Court, Westlands, logged on to love when he began chatting to Parascovia Stratulat on Friend Finder, a website similar to a chat room, last April.Now a year on, the happy couple are married and live in a flat, in Woodmans Green, Westlands, after the 21-year-old from Maldova moved to England in February 2002 to be with Simon.Simon, aged 31, said:...