It must of gone though everyone’s mind at one point, what if my laptop was stolen, now most people protect their accounts with a password and encypt their DATA, although this isn’t engouth, the thief is still able to sell the laptop, Eircsson and Intel are developing a tracker within a laptop, which allows the owner of the laptop to disable the laptop via remote-SMS.

This means your not only able to find out where your laptop is via GPS, you can also shut the laptop off so it’s no use to the thief what’s so ever. They are hoping to be able to ship at least one product with this technology in it around the middle of 2009.

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