A Great Idea to Stop Gadget Thefts
September 7, 2009 by Rico Mossesgeld
Filed under Handhelds, Services
Samuel Borgese was recently featured on The New York Times, as part of a story that points out how gadget makers in the US seem less inclined to help out owners of stolen who don’t want thieves to profit. Borgese’s brilliant idea? When someone registers a second-hand gadget, the maker should send an email to the original owner, asking them to confirm that they indeed sold the gadget.
This idea probably won’t work for gadgets not tied to a specific service. But for items like Amazon’s Kindle, where users need to be properly registered so that they can buy books for …read more
Why You Should Never Let Stuff Get Stolen
April 7, 2009 by Rico Mossesgeld
Filed under Ramblings of a Gadget Geek
Why? Read on below:
A friend’s old-generation Macbook Pro was stolen over a year ago. So imagine his surprise when he encountered it on a for-sale forum. The serial number posted by the seller indicated that it was my friend’s long lost Macbook Pro!
So my friend contacts the seller, confronting him about the laptop while asking him to return it. Initially, the seller agreed to return the laptop immediately, and look for the thief. Unfortunately, on the agreed date, the seller was a no-show.
Now I’m assuming the seller had nothing to do with the original theft. After all he posted …read more
