GPS, phones, toothing

At 07:23 PM 7/3/04 -0500, bgt wrote:

"With a few keystrokes on a wireless phone, a m-mode subscriber is given the approximate geographic location of his friend, such as a street intersection. The two friends can then exchange messages, call the other, or choose a place to meet from a directory of nearby restaurants, bars, coffee shops, and bookstores."

I'm pretty sure they don't use GPS for this... I think they do some form of triangulation from the cell towers.

The cool thing about 'toothing' is that the party you're arranging to mutually stimulate is within a finite physical range. An amusing unintended consequence.