Unfortunately, it's not very intuitive on how to enable geolocation and it took some exploration to figure it out. This seems like something that should've been automated in the installation, but alas you have to manually enable it after the fact. From there, you'll see the four main topics: Locate, Lock, Delete, and Recover.īy default, the geolocation feature is disabled. In order to really "use" Absolute LoJack, you need to login to the portal page. There's no actual software interface since it's simply a tool to keep tabs on your mobile device. You'll then be presented with a menu that confirms the software's check-in date, where it's sending information to, and other mundane information. There were a few error messages that came up on the screen, but everything seemed to work fine so I continued on.Īfter the installation, you'll be forced to lock your device with either a PIN or a password the unlock pattern is blocked out for security purposes. This tool was installed automatically from the LoJack software.
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There's a rather large EULA that you have to read through before completing the installation.Īfter the installation completed, I had to create an account and then install a second piece of software, Comutrace. I installed the Absolute LoJack software onto my Motorola Xoom tablet (yes, I still have one!) directly from the Google Play store. Getting the application onto your mobile device is extremely simple. So how do you protect yourself? Although there are several options, Absolute Software wants you to consider their LoJack for mobile devices tool so we took a look at the offering. While the device itself is valuable, the banking information, credentials, and contacts stored on it are worth far more. That equates to 3,600 devices an hour, 86,400 device a day, or a whopping 2.6 MILLION devices a month! Although I enjoyed going #DigitallyDark last week, I didn't have the stress of wondering where my data was. According to their statistics, a mobile device is literally stolen every second. Absolute Software is working with a handful of sites to bring awareness to the issue of mobile device theft.
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