The Economist: One drunk driver, 32 traffic violations and 15 miscellaneous offences. A daily tally of crimes in Cochin, a city in the Indian state of Kerala, appears on the mobile phone of Sanjay Vijayakumar, the young co-founder of MobME. His firm, which provides “value-added services” for mobile phones, has outfitted the Cochin police with camera-phones.
Instead of describing crime-scenes to their control room over a walkie-talkie, the police can now snap a picture (stamped with date, time, and place) and send it over the airwaves. It takes just a few seconds to send a photograph over India’s mobile networks. Users can also send live video via 3G networks.
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