Make sure you protect access to your device with a password or PIN to keep intruders out if the device is lost or stolen.
If a user's device is lost, damaged or stolen, the data can be locked and wiped clean remotely, helping to protect the company's important proprietary information.
In addition to the simple education of users, Adams advises businesses to develop clear policies governing user-owned devices to avoid difficult confrontations with staff if a device is lost, stolen or compromised.
And of course corporate IT should have the ability to wipe the container if the device is lost or the employee leaves the organization, but not delete music, photos, personal apps, etc. that the employee put on the phone.
Because of this separation, when an employee leaves the company or if a device is lost or stolen, business will be better able to safely and securely remove corporate information from mobile devices, while not having access to an individual personal profile.
Many of these same robust device management tools can also be made available to end consumers, offering centralized controls to enable parents or a designated device admin to apply content filters, set budgets, manage apps on multiple devices or even locate and wipe a lost device.
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Reaffirming Verizon Wireless' commitment to robust security, Verizon Mobile Security helps customers protect their devices from digital threats and equips customers with the power to remotely locate, alarm, lock and even wipe data from a misplaced or lost device.
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According to a 2011 report1 by AVG, 42% of US and European smartphone users surveyed had lost their device while in transit.
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Apple today updated its Find My iPhone utility with driving directions, providing users on the hunt for a lost iOS device or Mac with an exact route to its last known location.
But the doctor forgot and lost the unencrypted device on the way home.
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Also install tracking software, such as Apple's Find My iPhone, that allows you to remotely wipe information from a device if it's lost or stolen.
This lets you impose the highest levels of corporate security and provides a fast-track route to restore any faulty devices and minimize downtime for key people, by completely wiping a lost or stolen device and rebuilding the replacement.
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The goal is to help organizations better secure smartphones and tablets in the workplace with a hosted service that allows the IT team to remotely locate, lock or wipe a lost or stolen device, as well as update software to protect against spyware and viruses.
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Pretty soon hundreds of millions of people will be able to stick their cell phones on the dash and never get lost or need a separate device.
Overall, what we see, what arrives on our tablet, mobile device or into our email inbox, has lost the human element, and is fast losing the ability to grab our attention.
"This new surgically implanted assistive device provides an option for patients who have lost their sight to RP -- for whom there have been no FDA-approved treatments, " said Dr. Jeffrey Shuren, director of the FDA's Center for Devices and Radiological Health, in a statement.
Mobile commerce will transform retail, both because the transparency of pricing will force big box stores to be much better merchants or die, and because store associates armed with mobile devices can now do everything from save lost sales, to carry a POS device in their hand.
Once logged into the app, you can send and delete eKeys, or transfer them to another device (this also deletes the eKeys associated with a lost handset, for example) -- you can even create eKeys that only work once.
Brian Mancini, who lost his right eye after being hit by an explosive device in Iraq in July 2007.
He said the paratrooper was part of a patrol sent to recover kit after a soldier lost his legs when he triggered an IED (improvised explosive device), while the patrol looked for the kit another IED went off, seriously injuring a second soldier.
Unfortunately the sheer size of the Xperia T means that the design language Sony had used on their previous high-end Android device, the Xperia S (reviewed here on Forbes), has been lost.
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Mr McBean lost an arm and a leg after he stepped on an Improvised Explosive Device in Afghanistan in 2007.
Cpl Boggi, 26, of 9 Parachute Squadron Royal Engineers, lost both his legs and his right arm stepping on an improvised explosive device (IED) on New Year's Eve 2010 in Afghanistan.
In previous tours in 2009, the battalion lost Lance Corporal Chris Harkett when he was killed by an improvised explosive device (IED) as he provided covering fire on a Taliban stronghold near Musa Qala.
"After a frightening personal experience where I briefly lost my young son, Filip, in a mall, I realized that a communications and location device for children was not a nice-to-have but a must-have, " said Sten Kirkbak, founder and CEO of Evado Filip.
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