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Originally Posted by Peter N
Not far off with that. Mobile phone profiling with word recognition has already been proposed and GPS tracking is already being trialled and it's been used to spot peoples shopping habits for a "study".
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Location, location, location
BT have a long history of being interested in tracking services:
"Location-based services have been the next big thing for a long time. Way back in 2001, BT Cellnet, as it was then before it became O2, lured me to the Isle of Man to see trials of the world's first 3g network. One of the things that got them really excited was driving us in a taxi past some windswept pub on a lonely road so that a screen inside the cab could light up with a message inviting us in for a pint."
Now Yahoo are trying it:
http://fireeagle.yahoo.net/
With everyone trying to get onto the 'added value' bandwagon, my big hope is that in a few years it will still be possible to buy a mobile phone which is a mobile phone.