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Aeroplane Crash Victims Found At Sea Thanks To iPhone Signal

1:42AM September 8, 2011 | Jesus Diaz

A military aeroplane with 21 people aboard was lost over Chile’s sea this weekend. It disappeared from radar and the authorities didn’t know where it crashed. Surprisingly, they started to recover their bodies thanks to Apple’s Find My iPhone feature. More »


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Apple Adding Surveillance, Data Scrambling To Find My iPhone?

3:47AM June 17, 2011 | Sam Biddle

Patents can mean everything or nothing, so take this with big ol’ salt grains, but Apple’s thinking about seriously beefing up its Find My iPhone service. Most notable? New ways to spy on a thief and remotely scramble your stuff. More »


Software

MobileMe Will Live For Another Year As Find My iPhone Escapes From Its Grasp

7:38AM June 7, 2011 | Adrian Covert

MobileMe will die someday. Just not anytime soon, since apple will keep MobileMe operational until June 30, 2012. But now that iCloud is here (and free), all MobileMe subscriptions from the last year, will be free until they expire. More »


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Idiot Vigilante Umpire Beats Up Falsely Accused iPhone Thief

6:40AM May 27, 2011 | Sam Biddle

When New Jersey little league umpire Carl Ippolito couldn’t find his iPhone, he did the completely reasonable thing: went into a rage, used Find My iPhone, and started personally tracking someone who he assumed had robbed him. Didn’t end well! More »


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Stolen iPhone Provokes Aussie Police To Track It By Helicopter, GPS

5:00AM December 16, 2010 | Kat Hannaford

Hailing from Australia myself, I know first-hand how slowly life trickles by. “A stolen phone? No worries mate, we’ll juzz git the ‘elicopter outta the shed, fire ‘er up, and chase that drongo down fer ya using GPS. True blue!” More »


Software

"Find My iPhone" App Locates Lost Apple Gadgets

6:38PM June 18, 2010 | Kat Hannaford

Was it really only last June that Apple introduced the Find My iPhone feature? Since then it’s stopped thieves and more than paid for itself. Now there’s an iPhone app (for installing on iPhones other than your own, obviously). More »


Gadgets

What To Do If Your iPhone And iPad Disappear On Trash Day

2:00PM June 17, 2010 | Rosa Golijan

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Find My iPhone Leads Cops To Robbery Suspects

5:00PM August 31, 2009 | Danny Allen

Find My iPhone to the rescue again! Pittsburgh Police nabbed three robbery suspects over the weekend, after the man they allegedly robbed used the MobileMe online service to point police to their location. More »


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Find My IPhone And A Posse Recovers Stolen IPhone

6:20AM June 23, 2009 | Jason Chen

The Find My iPhone feature? It works, as evidenced by Kevin and his two friends, who went an adventure that involved Lego, a dive bar and some fast urban walking. Read on to see how everything played out. – JC More »


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An Inexpensive IPhone Theft Detector

1:20AM June 19, 2009 | Mark Wilson

In case you weren’t willing to pay $US100 a year for MobileMe to find your iPhone, here’s a less expensive, DIY means of checking whether or not your phone has been stolen. [b3taboard via thedailywhat] More »