65% of Americans lose their cell phone

Research shows that 65 percent of Americans lost their cell phones last year, reports UPI-- and it cost $600 million to replace them.

"Losing a phone due to absentmindedness is not just frustrating, though. It's causing anxiety in the IT departments of many major corporations, because, these days, mobile phones are so powerful that most of them are mini-PCs, containing customer information, phone numbers and pricing schedules. ... Gartner said that as much as 40 percent of corporate data resides on the handheld devices."

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