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-------------- Smart phone, really dumb thief --------------
SAN FRANCISCO - Police in San Francisco said a mugger was
arrested after stealing an iPhone while it was being used
to demonstrate new GPS tracking software. David Kahn, chief
executive officer of Covia Labs, said he gave his iPhone
to an intern to walk around the block while he was demonst-
rating the real-time GPS tracking software Monday to potent-
ial clients at K/F Communications, the San Jose Mercury
News reported. "We kind of noticed while that was happen-
ing, boy, she was really starting to move pretty fast
and she wasn't heading back toward the place," he said.
"Moments later she comes bursting into the office and said
she'd just been mugged." Kahn said he used the software to
track the thief's movements while the intern called 911.
"It was pretty exciting to realize what was going on and
wondering if he had noticed," Kahn said. "Obviously if he
had turned off the phone, that would have been it." Police
said they recovered the phone and arrested Horatio Toure,
31, on suspicion of grand theft and possession of stolen
property about 9 minutes after the incident.
Oh man! lol Good for the IPhone! Something tells me that demonstration went off really well. Guess they've got some new customers now.
Guess the gps works.
Now that's the kind of news story I love. LOL
me too. Hahaha. What an idiot.
Yeah really. lol.