A Hong Kong cell phone company has created a text-messaging service that lets customers know if they’re near a building where SARS victims lived or worked. What a clever, useful idea.
“The fee-based service, offered by Sunday Communications, represents a novel use of an up-and-coming technology called location awareness. The wireless carrier relies on data that the government issues daily on buildings where hospitalized SARS patients had stayed in the previous 10 days and tailors the information for its subscribers.”
