When the police brought in truants, she looked up their records on her personal laptop and tracked down their parents' and school phone numbers.
For nearly four years, detectives using 38 laptop computers tracked thousands of telephone calls between reputed mob figures, the union officials they are accused of bribing and contractors charged with helping them siphon millions of dollars from construction projects around New York City.
(Traditional laptop insurance from, for example, Safeware.com costs about $130 per year. It covers theft, but unlike the laptop-tracking services reviewed here, doesn't offer any mechanisms for finding and retrieving your machine).
Today, the depots are gone, and the blue vans rely on mobile telephones and laptops to track jobs, order missing parts and call for advice with tricky problems.
The idea is to enhance security of this weakest link in a computer network by remotely backing up files, deleting files or tracking the laptop in the event it gets stolen some 600,000 laptops go missing every year.
On Mr. Cheikh's laptop, the tracking program showed different colored dots to distinguish arriving from departing passengers.
Rangers at the base could operate the drone via two laptops, one showing a map tracking the flight path, the other showing the UAV's point of view through a high-definition camera.
In the mid-2000s, they were the epitome of an electronic act: three guys behind electric keyboards, playing to a laptop backing-track.
Part Robert Moses, part Robinson Crusoe, part Freud, Mr. Roman, with a Hewlett-Packard laptop; RR-Track, a hobbyist's software; and his hands, must realize working municipalities from the uncharted childhood islands in the minds of grown men.
