Comments on: MobileMe’s Find My iPhone Feature Used To Track Down Robbers, Again

By: Tyler Tschida

Tyler Tschida — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 20:18:49 +0000

As far as I know, the software must be enabled on the iPhone before using the website, which means that if your phone was stolen and you didn’t have it enabled, you are probably out of luck.

Here are some links for further reading:

http://www.tuaw.com/2009/06/17/find-my-iphone-how-to-set-it-up/

http://www.apple.com/mobileme/setup/iphone_ipod.html

By: Deidre

Deidre — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 16:29:45 +0000

my phone was also stolen this weekend and i’m wondering if it’s possible to sign up for mobile me after the fact to try and find it…

By: dean

dean — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 02:04:31 +0000

so do you have to load any software to the phone before its stolen? my girlfriends phone was just stolen and im wondering if this will work for us.

By: Find My Phone - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com

Find My Phone - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 17:43:59 +0000

[...] feature is helping people track down their stolen phones, as in this example: The victim, whose name has been withheld, told the Pittsburgh police that [...]

By: Efrain

Efrain — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 00:44:31 +0000

By: Apple and Lojack : Core Economics

Apple and Lojack : Core Economics — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 21:30:53 +0000

[...] lost phone. Already there are reports of this aiding in finding stolen iPhones — here and here. But this also works for laptops too. Today a story about someone using the Screen Sharing feature [...]

By: Lowey

Lowey — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 19:37:04 +0000

Who gives a monkeys what time zone it is!!

By: AJ

AJ — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 19:27:34 +0000

GMT-7

By: Azmir

Azmir — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 18:58:38 +0000

Hi, all the article posted in this blog is based on which time zone? Is it GMT+0 or GMT+something.

For example the article above was posted on August 31st, 2009, 10.37 am

Currently my time zone is GMT+8 (September 1st, 2009, 2.57am)
Thanks.