(This is my first user post! Yay! Thanks malati_frnds :)) Ever wished you had an application in your phone which keeps you informed of where your children are? Wouldn’t it be great if we all could have a “GPS tracking” feature phones, enabling us to show or hide our positions for friends and college’s.A system that can track students through their mobile phones is among the new and latest technologies being developed to help improve security at America’s universities - something increasingly of concern since the tragic events at Virginia Tech recently in April. 
At the same time a privacy group has warned parents using new products which allow them to track their children may develop an “unhealthy and destructive” relationship with their child. And entertainment giant Disney is planning a mobile phone, targeted at up to 30 million children, which uses GPS to monitor where they are. Rave Guardian - invented after research found that phones are one of the primary tools students use to keep safe. Rave Guardian is a GPS-based campus safety application that puts a virtual public safety officer at every student’s side when they need it. Rave Guardian is available to institutions that adopt Rave Campus, as GPS/LBS enabled solutions require an integration path within certified networks to ensure full functionality. Read the rest of this entry »
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