Track Friends and Family With BlackLine Blip

It’s 12 a.m., do you know where your children are? How about your spouse or your best friend?

If you have a BlackBerry and your friend or relative does also, you can track use BlackLine Blip to track each other. If you want to track a person or an object (a car, for example) that doesn’t have a BlackBerry, you can just use a standalone device called the Snitch. You can even get e-mail or SMS alerts when the Snitch is moved.

This technology has some interesting uses. If everyone at work had a BlackBerry with BlackLine Blip, I’d use it to find out which of my coworkers was out on lunch break and ask them to pick up a few cans of diet coke for me. If I had teenagers, I’d definitely put a Snitch in the glove compartment of the family car.

Joanna Stern takes a closer look at the Blip and the Snitch in the video below.