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Find My iPhone finds two suspected thieves in Silicon Valley |
January 23, 2014
Apple’s “Find My iPhone” application led police in Silicon Valley to quickly arrest two suspected thieves after gadgets worth thousands of dollars were taken from a Palo Alto startup incubator.Staff at the AT&T Foundry arrived at work on Jan. 8 to find three laptops, 15 cell phones, an iPad and other electronics items had been stolen from the facility, which was opened by AT&T to work with local startups on smartphone apps and services.The gadgets were collectively worth around US$14,000, according to Palo Alto Police Department.While police officers were still on scene investigating the break in, an AT&T Foundry employee used the “Find My iPhone” application to attempt to detect the location of the stolen iPad and quickly got a hit: a nearby parking lot.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
Link: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2090860/find-my-iphone-finds-two-suspected-thieves-in-silicon-valley.html#tk.rss_all
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