Vodafone buys into Internet of Stuff, sinks fangs into Cobra

Vodafone has announced that it is going to buy the Italian machine-to-machine company Cobra, which does a brisk business in stolen vehicle tracking. Cobra has done well out of the slip in Tracker’s market share and counts many of the major European car manufacturers – including Porsche – among its customers. The firm started …

[Anonymous Coward]

So, even more tracking data..

.. for an outfit with tapped cables..

[DNTP]

Imagine my excitement and then disillusionment when I thought that Cobra was a service that if your car was stolen, you could push a button on your cell to remotely release the snakes hidden under the seat cushions.