by Veronica Henry, READWRITEWEB
Once upon a time, nothing was more stressful than losing your wallet. But these days, losing your smartphone can be even more traumatic – and even more expensive and risky. Fortunately, there are a number of ways to track and hopefully recover lost or stolen mobile devices. It’s a big and growing problem. Recent surveys show that travelers worry more about losing their phone than their wedding ring! And the Wall Street Journal estimates that losing your phone is like losing “your wallet with $900 in cash in it, plus your address book and your bank passwords.” And that doesn’t even address the security risks from compromised access to personal and corporate email, passwords and other potentially sensitive data. (This infographic lays out many of the dangers…) Worse, it happens all the time. Cell-phone insurance provider Asurion reports that 60 million smartphones are lost, stolen or damaged each year. In dollar terms, according to a report conducted by mobile security firm Lookout, Americans lost $30 billion dollars worth of smartphones in 2011.
http://www.readwriteweb.com/mobile/2012/08/the-best-ways-to-find-your-stolen-mobile-device.php
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