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Dell has finished a study according to which about 12,000 laptops are lost in airports on a weekly basis. Not around the world, but around the nation. That’s a huge number. Multiply it by 52 and you get more than 600,000 laptops lost every year. I never wondered how many laptops are lost a year, but isn’t that figure a bit too much?

After all people tend to pay quite a sum for their laptops. And even if they have received them for free from their company, they usually pay attention to what happens to them. Besides loosing the laptop itself, you lose all the precious and sometimes confidential personal data. Not to mention any files you were working on and didn’t have time to back up.

Or this is just another intelligent strategy to make us, you know, the people that don’t usually lose our laptops, look for programs and utilities which would protect data once the notebook has been stolen or lost?

We’ve introduced new Dell ProSupport Mobility Services to help costumers protect their laptops and the data that resides on them. Offers included are things like laptop tracking and recovery and a remote data delete option so that if your laptop does go lost or missing we’re able to reach out and remotely delete that sensitive data so it doesn’t fall into the wrong hands.

Dell says that 70% of those stolen laptops never get reclaimed. Why oh why? Furthermore 53% of people interviewed said they had confidential data on their laptops with as much as 65% of those not protecting it accordingly. If you do the math, you will get a rather large number of laptops wandering around with other masters, sharing secrets from their previous owners.

So, Dell ProSupport Mobility Services anyone? (That’s what you want Dell, right?)

via press