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Industry aims to stop theft of laptops

June 10, 1997 Web posted at: 11:45 p.m. EDT (0345 GMT)

From Correspondent Greg Lefevre

SAN FRANCISCO (CNN) -- Expensive, compact and frequently out and about, a laptop computer makes an attractive target for thieves.

But the computer industry has devised some ingenious ways to counter theft, including invisible software that knows when the computer is in trouble.

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