Consumer electronics

Squawk Box August 6 – YouGetItBack

by alec on August 6, 2008

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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.

On the call: Frank Hannigan, Jim Courtney, Adam Somer, Bill Volk, Sheryl Breuker, Mike Pruyn, and Jonathan Jensen.

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David SparkDavid Spark (subbing in for Alec Saunders) here of The Spark Minute subbing in for Alec Saunders today on the Squawk Box.  My guest on today’s show was Andrew Eisner of Retrevo, the consumer electronics search engine. I asked Andrew to come on and discuss his extremely popular article, “Seven reasons why the new iPhone sucks” and how Retrevo finds and indexes all content online about consumer electronics. We also got to talking about iPhone applications as well and if Apple’s walled garden approach is better or worse than the carrier’s walled garden approach.

Other topics in this show include the insane volume of High Def coverage that will be at the Olympics, the good and bad with Bluetooth and wired headsets.

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