LoJack - Closing the Gateway onThieves

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LoJack software works by tracking down a missing or stolen laptop the moment it connects to the internet. Many new Gateway notebooks will come pre-installed with this useful security solution.

Afteroffering Mobile Theft Protection to its business, government, andeducational customers, Gateway has deigned to provide the lojack for laptopstheft-deterrent system to its everyday mom and pop punters. Howkind of them! All sarcasm aside, there really isn't any reason at all toderide this development in Gateway laptops. The LoJack technology actually does work to trackdown lost or stolen laptops. It does so by tracking down the missing notebook thesecond that it goes online.

Proof-positive of LoJack's power comes from such storiesas the one out of William Penn University in Iowa. A studentthere had a college laptop stolen. Absolute Software was promptly notified. Andtheir recovery experts there soon tracked the laptop down to thephone line that the notebook was hooked into the Internet on. TheDes Moines Police Department was notified, and officers promptlyput down their donuts and coffee and swooped in on the missingPC.

If such anecdotes don't sell you on the idea, perhaps Absolute'sguarantee will. The company ensures its customers that it willrecover lost or missing laptops within 30 days, after which itwill refund the customer the cost of the LoJack for Laptops. (Thecost of the actual notebook, we assume, is a different story.)And if that doesn't get you, how about some good old-fashionedscare tactics. John Livingston, the chairman and CEO of Absolute,makes sure to remind all of us that a notebook is stolen every 53seconds in the United States. (OK, some sarcasm is stillnecessary!)

The price to prevent yourself from being part of this statistic?Gateway's LoJack-based theft protection goes for a reasonable $59 per year,$79 per two years, $89 for three, and $119 for four. The LoJacktechnology will be featured on the Gateway's consumer laptops CX200,NX200, NX250, NX500, NX550, NX850 and M325.

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By Matthew Brodsky - Laptopical

Wednesday, December 07, 2005


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