New Delhi: Forgotten your cellphone? Or did you leave your backpack on the train? Or maybe you just forgot to pick up your laptop from the taxi and didn't realise it till the next time you needed it.
If you do this quite a lot, chances are that you are a Mumbaikar.
A survey by Pointsec Mobile Technologies - experts in security for mobile devices - together with licensed taxi companies around the world has revealed that Mumbaikars are the second-most forgetful travellers in the world.
The Global Taxi Survey, as it is called, has shown that in the last six months, Mumbaikars have forgotten a staggering 32,970 mobile phones, 355 laptops and 349 USB sticks/thumb drives at the back of licensed taxi cabs - and these are just the ones that have been reported as lost!
The citizens of Mumbai come second only to Londoners - which has emerged as the capital with the most forgetful population, losing 54,872 mobile phones in the past six months.
Pointsec, a leading provider of endpoint device security solutions conducted the survey amongst licensed taxi cabs to gauge the frequency and ease with which small mobile devices are lost in transit.
Says CEO Pointsec Mobile Technologies, Peter Larsson, "With the storage capacity of mobile devices increasing, it is important for users to recognise the need to protect critical data. The Taxi Survey highlights the need to educate the users about the value of data stored and how it could be misused in case adequate security tools such as encryption and password protection are not used to protect the same."
ON A LOSING SPREE
*London ranked highest with 4,718 lost PCs
*In the second spot was Washington with 2,260 PCs lost
*Munich came third with a 1902 missing PCs
*Berlin ranked fourth with 1,125 PCs lost
ABSENT-MINDED? | |
 | Today, mobile phones are capable of storing 4 GB memory. That's equivalent to physically storing data on 400 boxes of paper in nine filing cabinets with the capacity to retain 4 million emails and 4,000 songs. |
| The space provided by these high-end mobile devices means business travellers can now use them as a mobile office and a convenient replacement for the filing cabinet to store a host of personal and business data. |
| This data can comprise customer and personal names and addresses, pictures, insurance details, bank account and credit card information, NI numbers, and other highly sensitive data, making it even more important to secure it. |
| According to the survey, around 75 per cent of passengers recovered their mobile phones and 78 per cent got their Pocket PCs and Laptops back- with the cab drivers in almost all cases tracking down their owners. |
| Apart from devices some other interesting items left behind in the taxis were pork chops, babies, drunken women, judges' wigs, machine guns and false teeth. |
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