Yougetitback.com Adds Geo Location Protection Service

NEW YORK, BUSINESS WIRE — Yougetitback.com, the innovative online service that helps people protect, recover and replace highly valued mobile devices, has enriched its “Mobile SuperHero” application with a geo location capability to aid in tracking and recovering misplaced, lost or stolen valuables.

Yougetitback.com protects and helps recover mobile devices–such as smart phones, laptops, PDAs, iPods, cameras and more–while preserving the sensitive information they contain. Its premium service will even replace the device, if it is not recovered. The company launched its flagship “Mobile SuperHero” software as a service in North America in July for smartphones, including popular BlackBerry(R) devices from RIM; protection for iPhones(R) from Apple(R) is under development.

Now, Yougetitback.com has enhanced “Mobile SuperHero” with the ability to determine the actual physical location of a lost or stolen mobile device equipped with GPS or running the BlackBerry operating system 4.2 and above, or the Symbian operating system S60 2nd and 3rd editions. Many devices without GPS can be tracked via their proximity to individual wireless-network cell sites.

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