Acer ships Travelmate laptop with Absolute Software’s Computrace® and Intel’s Anti-Theft Technology

Absolute® Software Corporation (TSX: ABT) announced today that its Computrace® and Intel’s® Anti-Theft Technology would be shipped in Acer’s TravelMate 6493 and 6593 notebooks.

The Acer TravelMate 6493 and 6593 notebooks will ship with Computrace technology from Absolute Software built into the BIOS firmware and Intel(R) Centrino(R) 2 Processors featuring Intel(R) Anti-Theft Technology, the company said.

“Absolute and Acer customers can now have support for tamper-resistant computer security with the patented Computrace technology embedded during Acer's manufacturing process. With Computrace, customers can also activate the lock-down capabilities of Intel Anti-Theft Technology,” Absolute Software Corporation added.

"Customers have been able to use Computrace and Computrace LoJack for Laptops products on Acer computers for many years. Absolute and Acer have collaborated to embed Absolute's technology in the firmware for additional tamper-resistance," said John Livingston, Chairman and CEO of Absolute. "With this new collaboration between Acer, Intel and Absolute, Acer is giving their customers the best solutions available to track, manage and protect their mobile computers."

The Computrace technology allows the user to remotely delete data from a missing or lost laptop, and allows the laptop to be tracked or recovered through Absolute’s Theft Recovery Team. Intel’s Anti-Theft technology allows the user to remotely or locally disable a laptop.

"With the increase of business laptop sales, theft management has become an important issue for the rapidly growing mobile workforce," said George Thangadurai, director of Strategic Planning and general manager, Intel Anti-theft Services, Intel Mobile Platforms Group. "Our collaboration with Acer and Absolute is bringing customers new worldwide scalable hardware-based security solutions using Intel Anti-Theft Technology to deter theft."


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