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Saturday, August 24, 2002
http://news.com.com/2100-1040-954931.html Setting a trap for laptop thieves Sandeep Junnarkar, Staff Writer, CNET News.com Notebook computers are small, powerful, increasingly affordable--and easily stolen. Now, new services being offered by major PC makers could help track down pilfered systems. A spate of publicity in recent months over misplaced laptops at government agencies, such as those missing from the FBI, the Internal Revenue Service and the Pentagon, has drawn attention to the problem of notebook computer theft. ... Looking to stem that problem--and to gain some badly needed revenue--leading notebook makers IBM, Hewlett-Packard and Dell Computer are offering software with their new notebooks that's the PC industry's equivalent of the LoJack stolen car tracking system. ...software from companies like Absolute Software and zTrace Technologies is embedded on notebook hard drives, allowing systems to be tracked as soon as they are connected to the Internet... stolen or lost, its location is tracked and local law enforcement is called in to recover the stolen property....
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