RE: [xml-dev] A Fun Business Idea

["Len Bullard" <cbullard@hiwaay.net>]

Cool.  Thanks.  It seemed to obvious for someone not to be doing this.
Now someone should offer a version to cover the other 96% of the world's
PCs. 

Competition is good.

len


From: Stefan Tilkov [mailto:info@tilkov.com] 

http://orbicule.com/undercover/

But it's a great idea, I agree :-)

Stefan

On Feb 26, 2007, at 3:39 PM, Len Bullard wrote:

> There is a story in USA Today about a user of the SETI Home  
> application that
> used it to find his wife's stolen computer.  Since the SETI app  
> wakes up
> from time to time and phones home, maybe this is a business software
> business.  Sell a small self-installed app and a service that  
> listens for
> computers to phone home, checks against the valid address, and  
> automatically
> sends email to the owner if it varies from the approved/registered  
> list.
>
> Seems simple, desirable and effective.  It works for rental cars.
>
> len