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Media source : The New York Times
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Date :
4/24/2008
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Excerpt :
A Four-Gigabyte Thumb Drive With Two Safety Nets.
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Media source : The Aurora Sentinel
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Date :
10/30/2007
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If you’re planning on giving your kid a bike for Christmas, local law makers are hoping you’ll also spend a little extra money for a security feature that could help improve bike lanes and trails in the city.
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Media source : San Diego Transcript
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Date :
10/8/2007
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Excerpt :
There’s also a low-tech method for recovery of lost notebooks and other items that relies on good Samaritans. It’s from BoomerangIt of San Leandro.
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Media source : Home-Based Travel Agent
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Date :
9/1/2006
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Excerpt :
It’s an inexpensive way to mark valuables with hard-to-remove labels that also act as theft deterrents.
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Media source : Dallas Morning News
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Date :
8/30/2005
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Cyclists can take one more step to protect their bike and increase the chances it’ll be recovered after a theft. For $10, they can enroll their bike in the National Bike Registry, an almost 20-year-old database of bikes and their owners.
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Media source : United Hemispheres
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Date :
4/1/2005
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Excerpt :
Get It Back / After years in development, BoomerangIt Lost and Found Service has gone global. For $14.95, the company provides tamper-resistant labels that make it easy for your lost phones, PDAs and luggage to return home quickly when found. The service creates a database of your major possessions that can be useful for insurance purposes.
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Media source : The New York Times
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Date :
3/11/2004
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Excerpt :
Digital Bloodhound...
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Media source : “Ask Rat Dog”, Dallas Morning News
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Date :
3/16/2003
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…the labels also act as a theft deterrent since crooks cannot so quickly resell items marked with these secure tags. And since destroying identification tags is a crime in many states, should they do so, it could facilitate their trip to the slammer. Check them out, folks, at www.boomerangit.com.
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Media source : Associated Press, nationwide
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Date :
11/1/2002
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Excerpt :
It’s an Internet version of the lost and found.
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Media source : Wall Street Journal, October 16
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Date :
10/16/2002
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Excerpt :
The Killer App You’ve Been Waiting For…
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Media source : Delta Sky Magazine
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Date :
10/1/2002
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Excerpt :
Back Atcha! Leave your laptop at the hotel? Your cell phone in a taxi? Did some light-fingered rogue purloin your favorite watch? With BoomerangIt, what once was lost now is found.
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Media source : The Oakland Tribune
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Date :
9/11/2002
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A few months ago, officer John Mattes was working the front counter at the Belmont police station when somebody dropped off a cell phone he had found in the parking lot of a nearby shopping center. Normally, the silver mobile would get shipped off to the station’s property room, where it would join thousands of other orphaned items, most of which, Mattes said, never find their way home. But not this time.
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Media source : Alaska Airlines Magazine
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Date :
9/2/2002
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Even the most careful people lose something of value now and then. A Bay Area company called BoomerangIt is addressing this risk with computerized, global lost-and-found service.
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Media source : East Bay Business Times
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Date :
8/16/2002
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The BoomerangIt service could prove especially helpful to an increasingly mobile work force whose equipment is becoming a more popular target for theft.
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Media source : Yahoo! Internet Life
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Date :
8/1/2002
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Excerpt :
...sign up for BoomerangIt [boomerangit.com] and register your valuables, especially those that are uninsured or have sentimental value.
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Media source : Continental Magazine
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Date :
8/1/2002
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Excerpt :
With BoomerangIt, if you can tag it, you can easily retrieve it.
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Media source : Real Simple
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Date :
8/1/2002
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Excerpt :
Try a high-tech version of the labels your mom used to iron into your camp clothes.
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Media source : Business Traveler
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Date :
8/1/2002
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Excerpt :
Have you ever lerft your cellphone, laptop or briefcase in the airport area?
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Media source : Computer User, Bay Area Edition
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Date :
8/1/2002
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Excerpt :
If you’ve ever lost a PDA or a cell phone, you know how much you can lose – addresses, phone numbers, etc. – over and above the device itself. BoomerangIt --www.boomerangit.com -- is trying to become a nationwide lost and found. Eddie Orton, the CEO and founder of BoomerangIt, described how lost items can come back to you.
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Media source : Mountain Biking
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Date :
7/1/2002
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Excerpt :
A new registration program with National Bike Registry should go a long way in curbing bike theft.
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Media source : Chicago Athletics
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Date :
6/1/2002
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Excerpt :
The NBR has introduced the NBR Bike Registration Pack. It includes a 10-year registration with NBR, a tamper-resistant serialized security label and a key tag that gives the user BoomerangIt Lost & Found Service for their keys for 10 years.
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Media source : FSB: Fortune Small Business
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Date :
6/1/2002
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Excerpt :
A lot of "stolen" [computer] notebooks are just gathering dust in some lost and found. BoomerangIt is a low-tech solution that may help recover them using ID tags and a subscription service.
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Media source : PROMO: The magazine for promotional marketing
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Date :
5/1/2002
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Excerpt :
Can't stop misplacing your car keys? BoomerangIt, Inc., San Leandro, CA, has an Internet-based registration system that can help get lost items back to their owners.
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Media source : St. Louis Post-Dispatch
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Date :
4/28/2002
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Excerpt :
Now there's a new way to help your lost luggage or cell phone find its way back to you. A California company called BoomerangIt (because it comes back to you) has created tags with registered numbers that you can attach to your luggage, briefcase or camera.
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