Ideal for smaller possessions such as cameras, smaller phones and smartphones, kids electronic games and so many more places.  We have found loads of new applications for our labels, from Ninetendo games to cameras to kids toys there are so many places to use GoKodes.

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Customers can now choose to purchase a Gold Membership in a choice of 5 colors using Amazon.com.  As always, shipping is always free.

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Here's a sumary of the new features:

• Purchase premium Gold and Platinum Memberships online on the GoKodes Lost and Found Service website
• Choose from 5 exciting colors for your print your own GoKode labels and for premium labels
• Platinum members receive the new LocateMe map feature showing where your GoKode was scanned
• Platinum members can use anonymous communications when commuicating with finders via the message board
• When members upgrade to a premium membership they receive additional free GoKodes

1)      Call your lost phone

2)      Be a detective, retrace you movements

3)      Check common places

4)      Use your phones GPS tracking service

5)      Call you cell phone carrier

Found phone? Take Steps to Avoid Future Phone Loss.

5 Steps to Prevent Phone Loss Stress

http://mobile.businessweek.com/articles/2012-03-08/data-security-most-finders-of-lost-smartphones-are-snoops?section=highlights

Great article: Here are some key stats which may be of interested to GoKodes Lost and Found Service Customers.

72% peek at private pictures
81% contacts
47% cloud based documents
64% social networking
57% passwords
45% salary info
43% online banking

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By Ashlee Vance
March 08, 2012 8:01 AM EST

(Corrects Francis deSouza’s title in the third paragraph)
I was sitting in the food court of the Great Mall in Milpitas, Calif.—Great Khan’s Mongolian BBQ to one side, Hot Dog on a Stick to the other—when the adrenaline hit. It was go time for Operation Honey Stick. Cris Paden, a public-relations man at security technology company Symantec, reached across one of the metal tables and passed me an Android smartphone. I placed it on the seat behind me, waited a couple of minutes, and then left—hoping someone would nick the device after our getaway.

That day in early February, we “lost” 10 smartphones as part of a multi-city clandestine project to see what happens when digital devices go missing. Symantec organized Operation Honey Stick, named after fake websites known as honeypots that investigators use to snare hackers. A total of 50 smartphones were distributed in Silicon Valley, Washington, D.C., New York, Los Angeles, and Ottawa. The devices, loaded with a buffet of juicy, fake data, were left in restaurants, elevators, convenience stores, and student unions. Symantec equipped them with monitoring software that let its security gurus track where the devices were taken once found, and what type of information was accessed by the finders.

Symantec executives admitted they hoped the project would have some shock value. Francis deSouza, Symantec group president of corporate products and services, contends that workers treat their employer-provided smartphones like consumer devices rather than corporate machines. He rattles off cases of stolen smartphones and data being sold on black markets, where bank account credentials can go for $900 and e-mail accounts for $20. “Beyond that, there’s a compliance risk for companies,” deSouza says. “People use these devices to do their work with corporate data, and we know criminals are targeting that information for profit.”

Symantec and other security companies have seized on the explosion of smartphones and tablets as an opportunity. They promote software that requires strong passwords to open certain apps, tools that block sensitive data from being pasted into e-mails, and services that can wipe data off a lost device from afar. Many smartphone owners don’t take even simple steps, like requiring a PIN to unlock a phone, because they’re “taking a home PC security model, where they don’t lock down the machines, and applying it to a smartphone,” says deSouza. “Frankly, you are not likely to lose your home PC at a Starbucks.”

It took about four hours for us to distribute our smartphones throughout Silicon Valley. Paden had lined up crowded spots with lots of foot traffic. We first did some reconnaissance at a Stop ’n Save convenience store, then hit a restaurant on the Stanford campus, the student union at San Jose State, and a San Jose taco shop. We skipped a high-end mall in Palo Alto because Paden figured the iPhone-toting, wealthy clientele would immediately turn in the lost phones. But the first lesson of Operation Honey Stick is that it’s much harder to lose a cell phone than you’d think. On a few occasions, we staked out a spot and planted the phone, only to have someone yell out, “Hey, buddy, you left your phone!”

The smartphones were set up to make it easy for people to return them. They did not require a PIN, and the only contact listed in the address book was “Me,” containing a number and e-mail address that reached Symantec’s researchers. One humanity-affirming finding from Operation Honey Stick is that, despite skewing the study so the phones were as easy to take as possible, half the smartphones were returned within a couple of weeks. One tortured soul sent the team the following e-mail: “I found your phone at the Santa Monica Pier last Thursday. I used it for like a week but now I feel bad and want to return it. I’m really sorry.”

The downside is that even the angels indulged the devils on their shoulders. About 90 percent of all finders rifled through the phone’s apps and files, including ones that seemed to contain highly sensitive information. The home screen of each phone included a file promising salary information, a Bank of America app, a Facebook app, and standard fare such as apps for photos, e-mail, and a calendar. More than 80 percent of people looked at the corporate data on the phone and about half took the bait to peek at the salary information and peruse the corporate e-mail account. Forty percent couldn’t resist looking at the banking information, while 60 percent jumped into the Facebook account. About half of the finders tried to use an app that would let them remotely log into a corporate network.

Someone started using the phone that began its journey at the Great Mall about five minutes after it was lost. The finder quickly went through the salary, banking, and Facebook information. The phone was later plugged into a computer, and the finder tried to tap into the corporate network. He or she then drove 150 miles on U.S. Highway 101, accessing Facebook 21 times over a 45-minute period and a folder containing passwords nine times. After about a day the phone shut down and disappeared.

The study “played out about how we suspected,” says deSouza. That confident statement masks anxiety about keeping smartphones safe. Security companies have spent years battling PC hackers with less than spectacular success. Now they’re trying to defend products with an exploding and confounding number of operating systems and apps. “We’re having to move very quickly to match the innovation happening in the mobile device world,” deSouza says. “It exceeds what we saw in the PC world.” Chew over that comforting thought during your next visit to Hot Dog on a Stick.

End GoKodes Lost and Found Service – Featured Article

We’ve all had the experience of misplacing or losing our phones.  It’s a gut wrenching and unnerving experience when so much of our lives depend on being able to make and receive calls, send and receive mails, work with online banking, arrange travel not to mention playing Words with Friends and Angry Birds!

It’s not just the cost of the device, though at over $600 to replace an iPhone that’s a big deal.  It’s the risk of loss of privacy, personal information and security.  If you use online email like Gmail, most likely you don’t delete your mail and you may have banking details, tax returns, and confidential letters accessible via your smart phone.  So losing these mobile devices is a rapidly growing problem that’s only going to get worse.

While there are solutions that allow you to locate your phone using GPS, the phone has to be configured correctly, have power and a signal and that’s not always the case.  You could put a label on your phone, but those are often unsightly and look more like corporate asset tags which detract from the fashionable statement many phones make.  You also risk exposing your personal information if you put your name, email or phone number on your phone so that’s not ideal.

Within these growing challenges, Nadine and I saw an opportunity to develop a new service that helps reduce risk of losing valuable personal possessions while using new technology and smart design to appeal to fashion conscious consumers – GoKodes™!

So what are GoKodes? By now you've probably seen those square QR bar codes on marketing flyers and posters.  They are a great way to entice customers to learn more about a product or service by scanning the bar code with a smart phone.   GoKodes patent-pending technology takes that concept and extends it to a new personal bar code  label service that automatically notifies you via email and text message when your possession is scanned.  There’s no personal information stored on the label, which makes it supersafe. Coming in a choice of fashionable colors, you can pick one that matches tyour device and style.

GoKodes' Lost and Found service was launched on January 19th 2012 with a feature that allowed you to join free, configure and print 3 free GoKode labels on your own printer.  Trial GoKodes' Lost and Found labels and key fobs have been awarded for testing and feedback and work is well underway for the next major release.  The next major milestone is the release of the premium GoKode Gold and Platinum membership options in April 2012. 

Our Gold and Platinum membership options allow you to purchase our labels and key-fobs directly from the website using a secure credit card processing.  These new memberships feature labels in a choice of  cool colors as well as other benefits, which also include ‘LocateMe’ Mapping, Anonymous Communications' options  and GoKodes Recovery Services, which means we will support the process of bringing your lost property back. 

With a starting price of $13.99 for a premium membership, it’s a great way to add a layer of protection to your valuable possessions, and shipping is always free!

So check out GoKodes Llost and Found Service! It’s free to get started, no credit card is required and there's no software to download - after all, ‘what have you got to lose?’

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Title: Verizon's 4.2 million new iPhones came at a steep cost

Date: Jan 24th 2012

Source: CNN Money

Author: David Goldman

URL: http://money.cnn.com/2012/01/24/technology/verizon_earnings/index.htm?eref=mrss_igoogle_business

Highlight

'About 44% of Verizon's wireless customers are now smartphone customers, up from just 28% a year ago. The company sold 7.7 million smartphones in the fourth quarter, and of the phones that it sold with a two-year contract, a stunning 70% of were smartphones.'

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Verizon's 4.2 million new iPhones came at a steep cost