NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Yougetitback.com, whose recent North American launch gained wide acclaim for helping to protect and recover mobile devices from theft and loss, today announced new features that further enrich the service in preserving the owners’ highly personal – and valuable — information and preventing identity theft.

“Our goal all along has been a truly feature-rich Yougetitback.com that goes way beyond ‘lost and found’ by helping people to protect their privacy and recover their valuable lost and stolen mobile assets, such as phones, laptops, iPods, etc.,” said Yougetitback.com CEO Frank Hannigan. “By enhancing our website, we’re giving our users a variety of tools they can use to minimize intrusion into their personal and private information and save them from huge bills – or worse – if their mobile devices go missing.

“For instance, we think our new device-location and -locking features will be very appealing to users who are concerned about never having the information stored in their smart phones, PDAs or laptops falling into the hands of personal-identity thieves,” he added.

Hannigan said the new upgrade offers users of Yougetitback’s “Mobile SuperHero” application additional levels of protection for their smart phones if a device is lost or stolen, including significantly extended device-location and -locking capabilities.

If a user’s device is GPS-capable, Yougetitback’s ability to pinpoint its location when lost or stolen is “fantastic,” he said. And because Yougetitback supports RIM’s BlackBerry operating system 4.2 and above, and the Symbian operating system S60 2nd and 3rd editions, many devices without GPS can be located via their proximity to individual wireless-network cell sites.

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