GPS Used to Reach Transplant Recipient
 

*Source: ABC News (http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wir...RSSFeeds0312)*
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It took global-positioning technology for police to track down a 10-year-old boy and get him to a hospital in time for a life-saving heart transplant.

John Paul May and his mother were at a university concert when officials got word that the heart was available. Sue May had a cell phone, but the volume was off.

When hospital officials couldn't reach the family, they called Pennsylvania State Police for help. The trooper working the desk sent out patrols to search for the family and eventually called communications company Sprint to track May's cell phone, then sent officers to the concert at Slippery Rock University, state police Cpl. James Green said Thursday.

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