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Yougetitback.com is an online vault style company that makes helps you to get lost property back. Not really the GoMo News area -but I loved these stats:

Did You Know ?

Over 2000 cell phones are lost or stolen in Ireland every week!

300 laptops are left in Dublin taxis every year.

Dublin Airport recovers 500,000 lost items every year!

There are over 70,000 untagged, unclaimed laptops and PDAs languishing in the lost & found department of New York City’s La Guardia Airport!

In Britain 1 million cell phones were lost or stolen last year.

Cell phone Insurance may not cover you if you lose it in a public place.

According to Accenture, 10% to 15% of all handheld computers, PDAs, cell phones and pagers are lost by their owners.
99% of cell phone owners do not back up the data on their phones.

Gartner estimate the commercial cost to a business when an employee loses a cell phone or a PDA at between $2000 and $3000.

Accenture estimate the cost of company information lost on corporate laptops at between $10,000 and $20,000.

Every year airlines, airports and car hire companies find hundreds of thousands of unmarked, un-identifiable items - despite their best efforts, fewer than 5% are returned.

In Northern Europe and North American regions, up to 75% of security tagged items are returned to their rightful owners.

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