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“Are your mates too busy to join you for a beer because they say they need a night in? Is your wife working late again? Is your car where you left it?”

Well now you can answer all these questions without having to leave your computer. Just log on to the website and you can track the movements of people and objects with or without their knowledge.

Nokia is launching a range of location-aware tools for series 60 and 40 phones that utilise GPS technology to pinpoint your location. This is then used to feed you location-specific services such as directions to nearby facilities, the route to the nearest Post Office or entered destination, or if any of your friends are in the same area as you.

Previously, mobile phone companies could only track your location and movements by monitoring which cell tower you were connected to as you roamed. With GPS, they can track your movements more precisely.

Big brother is watching you, and he’d like to tell you that McDonald’s (0.5km from your current location) has a special offer on Happy Meals at present.

Engadget has a review of a new external SATA hard drive case that uses RFID to activate an encryption mechanism to encrypt/decrypt the contents of the drive in order to protect your data from potential theft.

This seems like a weak form of security to me personally, because no matter how strong the level of encryption is, the key to unlocking it is a physical object that you have to carry with you at all times in order to use the drive.

So all a thief needs to do is to steal both the drive and key fob (assuming they are after the data and not just the hardware) or clone the RFID device (as demonstrated in a recent episode of Tiger Team).

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When you are out and about and need to copy data off of a memory card in a hurry, all you need is a handy 55-in-1 card reader that fits in the palm of your hand.

It supports all the more common memory card types, plus some you’ve probably never heard of. And by using bluetooth you can transfer the files from the card reader to your PDA/mobile/laptop.