Send Missing Child Alerts From Your Smartphone With Lost Kidz App [VIDEO]

By mashable.com | Posted - Aug. 22, 2012 at 8:08 a.m.

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It's safe to guess that just as many moms have a smartphone in their purse as they do a half gallon of milk in the fridge. Which makes smartphones a smart place to post about missing children.
Stephen Fern, founder of the app Lost Kidz knows first hand how terrifying it can be when you realize your child has wondered off. While traveling in France, one of Fern's six children went missing for 25 minutes. They found him unharmed, but from that incident the idea for Lost Kidz was born.
With Lost Kidz, the moment you realize your child is missing, you launch the app on your phone and send out an alert. All Lost Kidz users within a 1 mile radius wil Continue reading...
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