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This is off topic from our blog, but I was just wondering. I was watching a moive last night, Ransom, with Mel Gibson. This is the movie where he yells out over the phone, “give me back my son”.
I don’t have any kids currently, but I do have niece’s and nephews. At that particular scene of the movie, I tried to put myself in a parent’s shoes and wonder “how would I feel? “. What if that were my kid, or your kid, for that matter, that was kidnapped. You knew he was alive, but where?
How would you feel, about being able to track your kid? Your teenager? Would you be invading their privacy?
Of course we have heard of being able to track our shipments, our cars…. but our jewelry?
At first glance it may seem beneficial, but what if your employer was using GPS tracking capabilities to keep an eye on YOU?
It sounds like something out of a Tony Scott and Jerry Bruckheimer film, but it’s true. GPS Tracking is no longer something you see out of a James Bond movie.
You suspect your spouse is spending way too much time at the office after hours…. are they really at the office? Is your infant kid, really at day care?
When is too much? Where do we draw the line? Is it ethical, moral? Would you do it?
GPS tracking or Global Positioning Systems tracking, can be a double edged sword…. hmmmm.
What would you do??!?!
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Apple just announced their new MobileMe service. Push mail, contacts and calendar data all in the cloud and synced back to your iPhone over the air. Works with the Mac’s Mail.app, iCal, and Address Book as well as on PCs for those using Microsoft’s Outlook. It’s built around Ajax and fully “web 2.0″ so that you can access the service from your favorite web browser while maintaining the look and feel of your desktop applications. Syncs photos from your iPhone too. Available at me.com for $99/year and 20GB of on-line storage — 60 day free trial in early July. No more (.Mac)!!!
Loopt, a social networking system, is coming to the iPhone. Known as “Your Social Compass,” Loopt will be able to show you where your friends with Loopt currently are, the geo-tagged photos they’ve uploaded, and more. It will be a free download available on the iPhone App Store. Yes, it’ll be compatible with Loopt users on other phones/platforms.
The service is also available on multiple phone platforms.
The Associated Press today released an article that I thought would be beneficial to my readers here. Here’s an excerpt:
“When surfing the Internet for safe Web sites, not all domains are equal. Companies that assign addresses for Web sites appear to be cutting corners on security more when they assign names in certain domains than in others, according to a report to be released Wednesday by antivirus software vendor McAfee Inc.
McAfee found the most dangerous domains to navigate to are “.hk” (Hong Kong), “.cn” (China) and “.info” (information).
Of all “.hk” sites McAfee tested, it flagged 19.2 percent as dangerous or potentially dangerous to visitors; it flagged 11.8 percent of “.cn” sites and 11.7 percent of “.info” sites that way.
A little more than 5 percent of the sites under the “.com” domain — the world’s most popular — were identified as dangerous.”