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To: LindyBill who wrote (20685)	12/21/2003 10:35:00 AM
From: Neeka	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793718

Interesting article Bill. I've been reading about the possibilities of location based devices for quite a few years now. They are becoming more than a plan on a drawing board. One thing the writer of the article failed to mention is that a person can easily turn the location finder on or off through the main menu on the cell phone. My phone has the option of leaving the e-911 and location function on or turning one or the other off, (I've chosen to leave the e-911 function on in case I find myself being kidnapped or in a ditch ;) The most useful function of location based devices will be for tracking personal property. A good example would be keeping track of your property should you find yourself moving across country. By placing a location devise among your belongings, (some of them are the size of a silicon chip) you will be able to trace that valuable Picasso or antique during transit. In fact thousands of shipping companies are using the devices to keep track of shipments that travel across town or around the world. I remember a story a few years back of finding a lost little girl in a park in Tokyo because she was wearing a location devise. M