August 6, 2008
Everyone has, at one time or another, lost a piece of consumer electronics like a cell phone, or an iPod. There has really been no easy way to find it and recover, until now. Today we talked with YouGetItBack CEO Frank Hannigan about their solution for these problems.
YouGetItBack solves these problems in two ways:
1. They allow you to purchase and tag your electronics. When a device is lost, the finder of that device simply calls the number on the tag, and arrangements are made to return it.
2. The allow you to control access to the data on your device. Logging into their website, one can lock down the lost device, recover data like address books and phone numbers from the device, and even tap into the onboard GPS (if present) to have the device tell you where it can be found.
As Frank Hannigan said on the call today, billions of things are lost every year. It’s a problem we can all relate to, and YouGetItBack has developed an easy solution. Available globally, on their web site, for between $10 and $20 per year per device.
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May 30, 2008
Pat Phelan’s MaxRoam saved my wallet in Barcelona at MWC earlier this year. Pop one of his SIMs into an unlocked GSM handset, and bob’s your uncle… you’re calling at reasonable roaming rates rather than inflated. For comparison purposes, I was paying somewhere under 40 eurocents (60 cents) per minute for roaming in Spain, as [...]
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