| Smartphone anti-theft bill provokes protest from carriers Sacramento Business Journal Lawmakers will consider a bill Tuesday that would make it impossible for thieves to wipe information from stolen smartphones and return the devices ... |
| Smartphone 'kill switches' could save owners $2.6B a year—no wonder carriers hate the idea ZDNet With more than 145 million US smartphone owners, and while that figure ... Google and Microsoft in the past year also added anti-theft technology to ... |