Google & Microsoft Installing Killswitch Technology

 

Google and Microsoft have agreed to install killswitch technology into the next version of their Android and Windows Phone operating systems with the hopes of  curbing the growing theft of smartphones in cities across the world.

The killswitch technology follows pressure from authorities in both the US and the UK, under the Save our Smartphones (SOS) initiative. This was formed in response to the huge rise in the number of thefts of high-endsmartphones. The hope is that killswitch will render any theft irrelevant and so curb this growing trend.