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  • Phoenix Freeze Auto-Locks Laptops via Smartphone

    Posted June 26, 2009 - 12:42 pm

    A new product from Phoenix Technologies, called Freeze, lets you use BlackBerry or iPhone Bluetooth to tell a PC that you're leaving the area and want it to lock up. When you return, Phoenix Freeze can also automatically unlock the machine so it's ready for you.

  • BeInSync on Hiatus Like a Flailing TV Show

    Posted April 30, 2009 - 1:36 pm

    innovation for decades. They were bought by Phoenix Technologies to add file synchronization, backup, and sharing to an admittedly hardware-centric product line. Yet as happens too often, a big company buys an interesting small company, loses interest, and the interesting technology disappears. BeInSync is in danger of becoming like one of those TV shows that promises to come back but never does (hello, Middleman, are you coming back?).

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