Word: stolen
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...addition, speedy freshmen Henderson (28) and Macadam (16) have combined for 44 stolen bases. In comparison, Princeton’s entire team has only 13 stolen bases this year...
...cruel irony: Car navigation devices keep you from getting lost, but their location-sensing acumen won't help you find them if they get lost or stolen. Why not? Because location and tracking are two different matters. "The GPS calculates location for you. Communicating that location to a tracking center requires a separate service," says Kanwar Chadha, founder and vice president of SiRF Technology, the largest supplier of GPS chips to navigation device makers...
...pricey gadgets have become the newest high-tech target. Yet even as sales have slowed in recent months as consumers cut back on discretionary spending, theft of the devices has continued to soar. According to the FBI, as of late April, 31,324 portable navigation devices had been reported stolen in the U.S. - a 12% increase since late February. The crime is particularly rampant in big cities - Houston saw such robberies triple last year to 1,303. "These thefts get reported every day," says Captain Don McKinney of the Houston Police Department...
...device is," says Mark Williamson, Dash's director of marketing, who adds that the device was purposefully designed that way to protect consumer privacy. Instead the Sunnyvale, Calif.-based company uses information sent from Dash devices only to provide faster updates on local traffic conditions. (Should a unit get stolen, however, Dash lets owners disable it remotely by calling customer service and providing the serial number...
...average consumer who would track down a criminal to get his TomTom or Mio back. But the fact that it could be tracked at all would serve as a powerful deterrent; it would also help authorities locate and bust larger-scale crime rings, which typically hawk stolen electronics in pawn shops, on street corners, and on websites like Craigslist and eBay. What's more, it would help authorities locate people in roadside emergencies or if they're reported missing, much like GM's OnStar service. "Two-way connectivity is definitely on our roadmap," says Larry Rougas, vice president of marketing...