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Stories about: Anti-Theft Technology

Stolen Notebook Contacts Owner, Sends Thief in Jail Laptops are small, portable and lightweight devices that can be carried almost anywhere with a minimum amount of effort. However, their greatest advantage, portability, seems to also be their weakest spot. Thieves can easily snatch your unit while you are looking away, leaving you without both your favorite toy and y... 16 April 2008 08:55 GMT Computrace: Track Your Stolen Laptop, then Get it Back Absolute Software has just revealed an innovative method of tracking laptop and mobile computing devices using a firmware-based application. Called Computrace, the new asset management solution relies on a patented piece of software that integrates into the computer's BIOS.The new service will be integrated into... 4 April 2008 06:51 GMT Thieves Beware: The Laptop That Can't Be Stolen Is Here Intel plans to give notebook thieves a hard time with the implementation of an innovative anti-theft system that would render the notebook completely useless when in wrong hands. The new system promises to lock down the storage device and the processor of the stolen computer and leave the thief with nothing but a pil... 3 April 2008 10:27 GMT