MacDailyNews - Where Mac news comes first

Go to iPodDailyNews

MacDailyNews Poll

Have Apple tablet rumors delayed your planned MacBook/Pro/Air purchase?(trends)

5 Day Most Commented

Apple rejects iPhone app featuring caricatures of politicians; deems Pelosi drawing 'offensive' (102)
U.S. Senate bill would bar cellphone early termination fee spikes (67)
AT&T attacks Verizon's 3G map ads: 'There's a misrepresentation for that' (62)
AT&T sets the record straight on Verizon's 'blatantly false and misleading' ads (60)
Meet the Pedraza brothers, the men behind would-be 'Mac cloner' Psystar (53)

Opinion Archive

October 2009
Is Psystar’s real mission to publicize that running Apple’s Mac OS X on generic PCs is possible?
March 2009
Dell launches overdone, overpriced, overweight, OS-limited Apple MacBook-wannabe ‘Adamo’ laptop
November 2008
Apple should buy Sprint

Current Headlines

Sat, Nov 14, 2009 - 05:55 PM EST — AAPL: 204.45 (+2.46, +1.22%) | NASDAQ: 2167.88 (+18.86, +0.88%)

NYC thieves want iPhones, victims are fighting back with tech like Apple’s ‘Find My iPhone’

Thursday, July 02, 2009 - 04:36 PM EST

"Thieves are increasingly going after iPhones and other 'smart phones' but victims now can fight back with technology," Edith Honan reports for Reuters.

"One device allows a user to remotely activate a loud siren designed to rattle the thief. Another application, designed for iPhones, can reveal the phone's location," Honan reports.

"Police statistics show petty crime is down in New York but anecdotal evidence and recent headlines about street muggings targeting costly and coveted devices like Apple's iPhone," Honan reports.

"New technology helps owners of expensive gadgets to get them back after they are lost or stolen. The Find My iPhone feature from Apple, which declined to comment for this story, enables users to determine the phone's location and erase the data on it, among other things," Honan reports.

"A Chicago blogger who tried the feature after his iPhone disappeared tracked the phone's movements from a friend's computer. According to his post here, he got his phone back -- and a handshake from the surprised culprit," Honan reports.

Full article here.

Reader Feedback: = registered.
Unregistered users: Feedback from multiple usernames are subject to deletion. Off-topic and posts from suspected astroturfers will be removed.

Jul 02, 09 - 03:59 pm Comment from: applesauce

militant fan boys? who knew.

Jul 02, 09 - 04:17 pm Comment from: troy

Remember that girl that recovered her mac book using "back to my mac"?

Jul 02, 09 - 04:18 pm Comment from: dogmaticatheist

Put a pass code on your phone.

Jul 02, 09 - 04:26 pm Comment from: I'm a PC

Why am I not surprised? I would "NEVER" buy a iphone. Just don't seen to be interested in a copycat.

http://www.bing.com When it comes to decisions that matter, Bing & Decide

Jul 02, 09 - 04:42 pm Comment from: TheConfuzed1

@ I'm a PC--

I'm not sure if you're aiming for satire, or stupidity with that comment.

If you're trying to be the next Zune Tang, you've got a long way to go.

If you really believe what you're saying, who's being copied?

Jul 02, 09 - 04:42 pm Comment from: El Guapo

It's a great feature, but can be thwarted by turning the phone off. A relatively simple fix would be to require a passcode to shut down the phone.

Jul 02, 09 - 04:47 pm Comment from: ByeTakeCare

LOL.... @I'm a PC. Related to Zune Tang?

Jul 02, 09 - 04:50 pm Comment from: R2

Ashame you have to pay for MobileMess to use it.

Jul 02, 09 - 05:00 pm Comment from: dialtone

DMA: A passcode to shut down. That's a great idea.

Jul 02, 09 - 05:48 pm Comment from: @ I'm a peecee

Zune Tang's idiot little brother.

Jul 02, 09 - 06:25 pm Comment from: FuzzyBo

@ I'm a PC --
You do know that http://www.bing.com
runs on Linux, didn't you?

Jul 02, 09 - 07:03 pm Comment from: ken1w

How long before some loser plays "Find My iPhone" vigilante, gets hurt in the process, and sues Apple for making it all possible?

Jul 02, 09 - 07:20 pm Comment from: Jim of D

What's with all the bing.com spam? Is it a new porn site? I wouldn't want to visit it because, you know, I don't look at porn.

Jul 02, 09 - 11:33 pm Comment from: Missy Pants

bing.com must be a fan website for the Chandler character in "Friends".

Jul 03, 09 - 03:42 am Comment from: twilightmoon

R2,

I understand your antipathy towards ATT but MobleMe? What do you have against that? It works fantastically and flawlessly.

Jul 03, 09 - 07:59 am Comment from: gump

I used bing to search for "microsoft blunders"

Jul 03, 09 - 08:41 am Comment from: Everytime you use bing...

an angel dies.

The lead engineer on bing.com is Chinese. I wonder if that's why they called it "bing" which might appeal to the chinese market. Bing in chinese means "ice".

Reader feedback page 1 of 1 pages:

MacDailyNews - Where Mac news comes first

MacDailyNews Poll

5 Day Most Commented

Opinion Archive

Current Headlines

Latest Joy of Tech

MacNN

AppleInsider

Macworld UK

TUAW

MacRumors

Yahoo! Finance AAPL

iTunes Top 10 Albums

Mac OS X Downloads

Sat, Nov 14, 2009 - 05:55 PM EST — AAPL: 204.45 (+2.46, +1.22%) | NASDAQ: 2167.88 (+18.86, +0.88%)

NYC thieves want iPhones, victims are fighting back with tech like Apple’s ‘Find My iPhone’

Reader Feedback: = registered.
Unregistered users: Feedback from multiple usernames are subject to deletion. Off-topic and posts from suspected astroturfers will be removed.

Add Your Feedback:


Emoticons \| Allowed HTML Tags Remember my info Notify me of follow-up comments? Please enter the "MDN Magic Word" you see in the image below:

MacDailyNews - Where Mac news comes first

MacDailyNews Poll

5 Day Most Commented

Opinion Archive

Current Headlines

Sat, Nov 14, 2009 - 05:55 PM EST — AAPL: 204.45 (+2.46, +1.22%) | NASDAQ: 2167.88 (+18.86, +0.88%)

NYC thieves want iPhones, victims are fighting back with tech like Apple’s ‘Find My iPhone’

Reader Feedback: = registered.Unregistered users: Feedback from multiple usernames are subject to deletion. Off-topic and posts from suspected astroturfers will be removed.

Add Your Feedback:

Reader Feedback: = registered.
Unregistered users: Feedback from multiple usernames are subject to deletion. Off-topic and posts from suspected astroturfers will be removed.