Lost & Found Reward Inflation?
It appears that as our hand-held gadgets increase in price, so are the rewards for the recovery and return of those valuable lost items. While the effectiveness of a hand-made sign in a window can be debated; you can’t deny the creativity of the second guy who came along to post his alternative $51 reward.Â
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Hackers Invade Your Lost Blackberries and Laptops
If you ever thought that no one could possibly have a use for your personal contacts and files contained on your lost laptop, PDA, blackberry or other missing item think again. Groups like Orlando’s BR407 are popping up all over the country with one mission in mind – to teach each other how to hack devices.
RFID Technology Isn’t Just For Lost and Found
RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) tags have been widely used for years. My first memory is walking out of JCPenny’s when I was a child and setting off the alarm, thanks to the cashier who forgot to remove one of those big plastic asset tags before I walked through the electromagnetic field generated by those metal-detector [...]