Avast, a concern of favourite liberated section suites, has declared its acquire of ambulatory section consort ITAgents, which makes the section app for Android and Symbian titled Theft Aware. Theft Aware is celebrity for substance SMS far control, existence nonabsorptive to sound wiping, and substance features specifically for unmoving phones, in constituent to more tralatitious lost-device ambulatory section features.
Avast would not divulge a acquire toll for the company, though since both are privately held companies, they're not indebted to.
The acquire does not vary the company's plans to promulgation its possess Android section resolution in the ordinal lodge of 2011, Avast Chief Technical Officer Ondrej Vlcek said in an e-mail to CNET. "When we talked [this summer], we already had the LoI [Letter of Intent] with Theft Aware signed. So it's rattling no modify in plans at all, it was conception of the strategy from the rattling beginning."
Vlcek said Avast plans to ready the anti-theft creation as a removed creation with kindred pricing to what it has now, but that it will also be desegrated into Avast's section suite. "Basic features will be acquirable in the liberated edition of the suite, patch whatever of the modern features will exclusive be inform in the paid," he said.
Currently, Theft Aware retails for $13.55 for a authorise extremity to digit device, or $20.32 for a authorise that crapper be transferred from senior devices to newborn ones.
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