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Want to stalk your friends? Verizon can help.

Verizon Wireless next month will offer access to Loopt, a social networking service that utilizes GPS technology to let you keep tabs on yours friends' location. You have to opt-in and pay $3.99 a month for the service, though, so friends won't be able to monitor your whereabouts without your consent.

Users will be able to see where their friends are via a map display on their phone, and share their whereabouts with anyone in their address book or AIM buddy lists.

Loopt has previously only been available via Boost Mobile on certain Motorola phones. Loopt for Verizon will be available on about 20 "Get It Now"-enabled phones, including the Chocolate by LG, the Motorizr Z6tv, and the G'zOne Type-S.

Meanwhile, Verizon also this week added a direct link to MySpace on its mobile Web homepage, and announced that MTV's bilingual channel, MTV Tr3s, will be available on V Cast Mobile TV. Programming includes Sucker Free Latino, Karlifornia, Quiero Mis Quinces, Pimpeando, and Rock Dinner.



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Posted by: LVBoatguy
April 1, 2008 8:28 PM

What a great idea for parents who often wonder where their children are -- especially teen-aged daughters late at night (say, after curfew)


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