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  • "NHTCU (National Hi-Tech Crime Unit) noted that although virus reports were high, it is laptop theft that is a greater cost burden to businesses." - VNU Business Publications, May 17,04.
  • "Almost 70 percent of the surveyed executives said they would purchase a more expensive PDA if it had security features." -TechNewsWorld, May 7, 04.
  • "nearly one in four have had their PDA lost or stolen." - Palm InfoCenter, May 3, 04.
  • "Local college students, it turns out, are more vulnerable to laptop theft than people who travel" -Tonight at 11 on NewsSource 13, May 3, 04.
  • "70 per cent of data theft from a company is physical theft - from laptops and hard drives to CDs or increasingly higher capacity mini-storage units." - Sillicon.com, April 28, 04.
  • "iPod is not only the best selling MP3 player, but also the most stolen." - MacFixIt, April 2, 04.
  • "Turns out the standard white 'ear buds'" which identify an iPod user immediately, are mugger magnets...muggers known to snatch cell phones and other electronic gadgets right out of users' hands" - Fox News, April 1, 04.
  • "iPod: this season's must-have for muggers"- The Register, March 31, 04
  • "Vancouver Police have issued a stark warning to iPod users: ditch the white headphones or pay the price. Fashion-conscious music lovers are apparently being targeted by muggers." - Vancouver Independent Media Center, March 31, 04.
  • "iPod proves a massive hit with thieves. Apple's iPod music player is not only popular with shoppers - it is also becoming increasingly popular with criminals." - Associated New Media, Feb 23, 04.
  • "Across campus, laptop theft is a rising problem, up 37 percent in 2003 from the previous year. For police, the thefts are frustrating because they are difficult to solve and easy to stop" - Yale Daily News, February 12, 04.
  • "Britain launches a crackdown on mobile phone crime on Wednesday with the creation of a special police unit, …The National Mobile Phone Crime Unit …

    the "epidemic" of mobile phone theft in Britain was being fueled by an international market….

    exporting stolen handsets has become a lucrative trade for criminals because they do not need to be reprogrammed for use abroad….

    Since 1999 the number of people using mobile phones in Britain has risen to 51 million from 17 million." - CNN, Dec 17, 2003.

  • "A nationwide crackdown on mobile phone crime is being launched with the creation of a special police unit. Latest figures show half of all street crime now involves mobile phone theft. "- BBC, Dec 17, 2003.
  • "More than 100,000 mobile phones were reported lost or stolen in 2002 in Australia." - ZDNet, 16 Sep, 03.
  • "the Home Office, today announced that one million phones have been reported lost or stolen" - ChannelMinds, Sept 1, 2003.
  • Over 1.6 million lost items turned in to Tokyo lost and found center in 2002 - Associate Press, July 7, 03.
  • Average daily inventory of 4,000 items in New York Grand Central Terminal's lost and found office. - Associate Press, July 7, 03.
  • 591,000 laptops stolen in the USA in the year 2001 - Time Magazine, Jan. 27, 03.
  • "Airlines Lose Luggage Every 90 Seconds " - Reuters, December 23, 02.
  • 20,000 lost items turned in to the Metro-North Lost and Found in Grand Central Terminal of New York. - Voice of America, Oct 3, 02
  • 2.8 million cell phones are stolen or lost each year in South Korea. - The Financial News, Aug 26, 02.
  • Over 7 million cell phones were reported lost in South Korea between 2000 and June 2002. - The Financial News, Aug 26, 02.
  • "Now, laptops are the most stolen article of property in San Francisco," said Richard Leon, an inspector in the San Francisco Police Department burglary detail. "We get reports of hundreds of laptops stolen each month."- CNET, August 22, 2002.
  • A laptop theft results in an average loss of $89,000 - the FBI and CSI, 2002.
  • "there's a serious problem of cell phone theft" said President of South Africa Thabo Mbeki - ANC Daily News Briefing, June 7, 02.
  • "In Amsterdam last year, mobile-phone theft rose by 80%… cell-phone theft is not only rising, it also is becoming more violent." - Time, March 11, 2002 (Vol. 159 No. 10)
  • "Mobile phone theft has risen by 190% since 1995" - BBC, Feb 1, 02.
  • "710,000 mobile phones were stolen in the UK last year, ...Thefts of mobile phones make up one third of all thefts in the UK, and an estimated 2 percent of all phone owners have had their mobile phone stolen in the last year"  - CNN, Jan 9, 2002.
  • "London has seen a dramatic increase in mobile phone theft, which has had a significant impact on the number of recorded street crime offences. It now accounts for over 50% of street crime and…"

    "making property identifiable, helping police establish that suspected stolen property is actually stolen. Police can then easily trace the victim of the crime and have a much stronger chance of prosecuting the suspect."  - The UK Metropolitan Police. (Source: www.met.police.uk in 2002)

  • "Hurried travellers have left as many as 62,000 mobiles, 2,900 laptops and 1,300 PDAs in London taxis over the past six months." - BBC, August, 31, 2001,
  • "The FBI is investigating the disappearance of a State Department laptop computer…The missing computer contained information classified in the most sensitive category. … so-called "code- word" material -- a classification higher than top secret." - CNN, April 17, 2000.
  • "laptops were most often lost or stolen on corporate property"- TechRepublic, June 4, 01.
  • "Rising laptop theft.. is costing laptop buyers an estimated $150 extra per machine" -ComputerWorld, Aug 3, 98.
  • "What do the U.S. State Department, the British military and the FBI have in common? Each of these security-centric organizations has recently lost laptops with sensitive information." - eWEEK, August 6, 2001.
  • "It used to be video recorders but now it's laptop computers that have become the favorite for thieves." - TECS, Aug 31, 01.
  • "The importance of making property identifiable and reporting thefts as soon as they are discovered cannot be over-emphasized. Many people think that the police will never recover their goods but by not telling us they are guaranteeing that is the case." said, Tony Crompton, a police officer at Altrincham. -Trafford, Jan 10, 2001.
  • "I would like to suggest to you that you need to keep track of your cell phone or you may be in for quite a shock.

    If your cell phone is stolen you could be financially responsible for the calls made on the phone. My office has received complaints from individuals who are being charged for thousands of dollars in calls made after their cell phone was stolen. …

    Many people think that their liability for cell phone charges is similar to a credit card theft. But that is not the case. If you read your cell phone contract you are likely to find no liability limit because cell phone providers are not required to limit your liability. " - NM Attorney General Patricia Madrid, New Mexico Journal, April 2001.

  • "FBI statistics indicate that one in eight laptop computers will be stolen" - USA Today, Oct 24, 00.
  • "More than 319,000 laptops were stolen during 1999" - CNN, Aug 15, 2000.
  • "one of the most common thefts is of cell phones, …The cell-phone theft rate in Santa Clara County is tremendous" - Los Gatos Weekly-Times, September 16, 1998.

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