Lenovo and Phoenix Technologies will begin adding a feature to Lenovo notebooks that allows them to be disabled, or "remotely killed," via a text message sent from a cell phone.

Lenovo and Phoenix Technologies will begin adding a feature to Lenovo notebooks that allows them to be disabled, or "remotely killed," via a text message sent from a cell phone.

The technology, called Constant Secure Remote Disable, was launched on Tuesday. It will be embedded within the notebook's BIOS.

This new security feature allows a user to send an SMS (short message service) text message from a cell phone to a Lenovo ThinkPad that has been lost or stolen. Once the kill command is sent, the lost or stolen ThinkPad is either disabled immediately or the notebook is disabled after the PC has been turned back on, said Stacy Cannady, Lenovo's product manager of security.

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