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Home My Photo Blog (Moblog) Observations Java Hot Products Books/Knowledge Devices Operators Mobile Messaging My Courses My Profile My ideas/thoughts Techno Vision Blogroll Me! Join Paul's mail list	Wednesday, December 17, 2003   :: Location-finding capabilities of GSM used to convict Soham murderer :: The tragic case of the two girls murdered in Soham (UK) was solved in part using the location-finding capabilities of GSM. When a mobile is switched off, it reports that fact to the network before switching off entirely. This "disengage" signal was traced from one of the murdered girls' phones to a particular base station mast. It so happened that the disengage signal was registered with a base station that did not serve the area where the girls went missing, except for a few patches of coverage, one of them being the spot where the murders took place. More details can be found on the BBC website. 10:43:50 PM    comment []   © Copyright 2004 Paul Golding. Last update: 1/12/2004; 1:31:33 AM.	December 2003 Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat   1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31       Oct   Jan Sign up to my email list - Send me email Available for hire as consultant via Magic E Company who can also develop software for you. Consult my booklist on Amazon Blogroll: