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 your precious data. The advent of tracking technology is alleged to make thieves' lives a lot harder, and al ... [read more >>]
	16 April 2008, 08:55GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Nanodisks Speak Binary
	So, the nanotechnology managed to develop nanomaterials of nanoflakes, nanowires, nanorods... but what about the nanodisks? They must be useful at something! Researchers from Northeastern University agreed and, in order to demonstrate their use, they developed a method that uses nanodiks carved out of nanorods to encrypt information in binary code, method that can be used for a number of applications such as tagging or tracking ... [read more >>]
	28 December 2007, 04:38GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Active RFID More Popular
	Radio-frequency identification ( RFID for short) is an automatic identification protocol that is based on data transmitted by a number of wireless capable devices using RFID tags or transponders. Such a transponder can be inserted into almost any kind of object ranging from electronic components like computers and cell phones to pet animals, livestock and so on. According to the news site ... [read more >>]
	11 August 2007, 07:37GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia