IP: Have Cell Phone, Will Shoot

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

> From: Monty Solomon <monty () roscom com>
>
> Have Cell Phone, Will Shoot
> By Michael Stroud
> 2:00 a.m. Feb. 8, 2002 PST
>
> STOCKHOLM -- There's a taxi driver in Stockholm known by the Web
> alias of Taxi31 who spends all his time between passengers shooting
> people. In Copenhagen, ferocious street battles flare daily between
> dozens of young men.
>
> The carnage occurs with cellular phones, not guns -- courtesy of new
> technologies that allow cell phone users to locate each other to
> within several hundred meters.
>
> Two small companies -- It's Alive of Sweden and Wireless Factory of
> Denmark -- have carved out early positions in a new genre of
> location-based game-playing and entertainment that will likely expand
> soon from Europe to North America.
>
> ...
>
> http://www.wired.com/news/wireless/0,1382,50205,00.html

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