Lost and Found Laptop
Quick Tip #81: Check Hotel Lost And Found
So, you’re traveling on a business trip, or maybe just a liesurely weekend getaway.
You finally get to your holel room, exhausted, and realize somewhere between the front door of your home and the door of your hotel room, you lost the power adapter to your Blackberry, laptop, digital camera or iPod.
The last thing you want to do [...]
New School Year Sees More Lost And Found
Millions of kids are heading back to school and you can bet a lot of them are going to be coming home with less than they left with throughout the school year.
It’s not just umbrellas, jackets, back packs and sunglasses anymore. Kids nowadays are carrying expensive technology, including laptops, $100 calculators, cell phones, mp3 players, [...]
NYC Taxi’s GPS To The Rescue
It has happened again, another expensive, very expensive orchestra instrument was left behind in a New York City taxi cab.
Korean violinist, Hahn-Bin, left the 18th-century instrument built by Giovanni Francesco Pressenda, along with his credit card, in the back of a cab early Monday morning. The value; $600,000.
Lucky for Hanh-Bin, NYC taxis are equipped with [...]
Will Spying On Your Child Prevent A Lost Cell Phone?
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SMobile System is the recipient of Disney’s Iparenting.com “2009 Outstanding Product” award for its Security Shield Parenting Controls software.
The software is designed to protect children from the growing dangers of online predators, sexting (sending sexual texts or picture messages), cyber bullying, spyware and device loss and theft.
“I can track my child through the GPS system, [...]
Cell Phone Insurance Is No Assurance
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I recently read a blog about a person who purchased third-party insurance through his cell phone service provider and had a real bad experience.
He lost his phone and had to fill out a lot of paperwork and pay a $50 deductible. He was told his receipt would be sent with his new phone. He needed the [...]
Dell’s Lost Laptop Study
Dell computers commissioned a study last year and found that 12,000 apopsare lost each week at US airports. Los Angeles is at the top of the list with about 10% or 1200 laptops reported lost or stolen at LAX weekly. Most of thes are left behind a security checkpoints. Only about 33% of those left are ever recovered (16 percent after the flight, 17 percent before).