Take Remote Action on Your iPad

You can now take action on your iPad, choosing one or more of three
options that vary in utility based on whether your iPad has fallen
behind a couch cushion, or was misplaced or stolen. Whatever action
you take, MobileMe sends an email message to your me.com address,
notifying you.

Call the police first! If you know your iPad was stolen, you should
consider taking location information to the police—calling an officer
if you have a report already opened—before trying to entice the thief
to give it up. Although electronics are stolen all the time, reports from
all over indicate that law enforcement responds favorably to being
given a map and other data. That can, in turn, lead police to find a
cache of other stolen hardware. 

Works even if offline by acting the next time it’s online: You
can pick any of the below options even if the iPad is shown as offline,
and MobileMe will trigger them whenever the device comes back
online—if ever. Stolen hardware tends to be wiped as soon as it’s
prac tical, and an iPad without an active 3G plan would have to join
a Wi-Fi network to report itself and be remotely reachable.