A great story of human goodness - a lady found a camera and posted pics from the camera onto Flickr and after a long story the owner was reunited with the camera.

The Telegraph reports that

“Home Office data released in response to a question by the Tory peer Lord Hanningfield show that 43 laptops and 94 mobile phones have been lost or stolen at the department over the past three years – 15 laptops and 47 mobiles in 2007; 14 laptops and 10 mobiles in 2006; and 14 laptops and 37 mobiles in 2005.”

A major growth in mobile phones in 2007 , caused by the increasing use of smartphones.
The UK govt is averaging losing 300,000 users per month this year to April.

All at Yougetitback HQ are very excited , the largest campus in the USA are rolling out our services to all students and staff this week. We have launched the mini site for ASU students and feedback is great.

ASU have a a number of great protection initiatives, which we are now part of.

We have had a large level of interest from other universities in North America, Europe and Australia and will be announcing some new deals around the corner.

The Office of the National Counterintelligence Executive (ONCIX) has prepared a mobile security booklet for US citizens who travel abroad. The booklet offers advice for traveling with mobile phones, laptops, PDAs and other mobile devices.

The key tips:
If stowing your phone remove the SIM and the battery.
Increase password strength and change when you return home.
Use a different phone when travelling.
Dont ever use usb sticks.
Dont use wifi - it is never secure and in some countries is compromised by security services.
Encrypt files on laptops but you may need to open files at custom

Business Travellers lose 12,000 laptops weekly in USA airports, according to a Dell sponsored Ponemon Institute research piece..
Dell suggest strongly that all laptops should be labelled for ease of recovery. All at yougetitback.com couldnt agree more , our tagging and our new laptops software will help the recovery process dramatically. Our new software allows finders to report the item without going pass the windows log in page, coupled with our well proven tagging it is a very strong recovery solution.

42% of data breached in the US are due to lost or stolen mobile devices such as laptops.
Los Angeles Airport (LAX) experiences the greatest number of weekly losses with a figure of 1200.

Only 33% of laptops in lost & found departments are recovered. At an estimated value of $1000 per week that is asset value loss of $800,000 per week, apart from the impact of loss of data.

Although 53% have confidential information on the laptops,65% of business travellers do not take any measures to protect their laptops when travelling.

A sobering 57% of business travellers worry about losing their laptops.

Those warm cuddly guys from Dragons Den and our warm cuddly guy aka ceo Frank Hannigan are meeting once again to dicsuss the merits of start ups apprearing on Dragons Den. Newstalk tomorrow midday Irish time - 106-108fm or listen in online www.newstalk.ie

Frank appeared before them in 2005 and nope they didnt invest !!

Ding Ding Round 2

Frank has been interviewed by , Dave Graveline , a very high profile radio host which is airing this week. This follows up a number of weeks of very strong interest in mobile superhero in the USA. We are giving away some free 1 year subscriptions to mobile superhero on the show so do listen in.

A €2000 coffee machine that once connected to the Internet lets you set the strength of your coffee and get remote support help over the Internet without having to send the appliance in for service is in a bit of trouble.

Hackers , according to Cnet, can use the coffee machine to take over your pc but much more importantly make your coffee weak.

A great term to describe what people look like when they are typing furiously into their Blackberry with both hands and head bowed.
Read it on Pinstack.com a fervert and pretty cool BB community.

I got a call from one of our investors today - not with a typically what is the CAGR ( google it I dare you) or such hard maths questions. It was with a cool tit bit on Ray Darcys show on Today FM . They do a piece called Fix It Friday - and the constant No 1 problem they get calls about is lost items.

Frank , our CEO and all round media darling was on Ray’s show telling all and sundry about our cool service last year. We will be calling Ray et al to remind them of where to send unhappy listeners.