{"id":4247,"date":"2017-05-15T21:30:15","date_gmt":"2017-05-15T21:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/?p=4247"},"modified":"2017-05-15T21:30:15","modified_gmt":"2017-05-15T21:30:15","slug":"tool-can-find-smartphone-lost-stolen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/2017\/05\/15\/tool-can-find-smartphone-lost-stolen\/","title":{"rendered":"This tool can find if your smartphone is lost or stolen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CTIA, a US-based mobile industry trade group, has launched a tool called \u201cStolen Phone Checker\u201d powered by GSMA Device Check which lets consumers in the US look up whether a smartphone has been reported lost or stolen.<!--more-->The consumers can check up to five devices a day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe service provides the wireless industry with the definitive, single source of real-time lost or stolen mobile device data,\u201d dailymail.co.uk reported on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGSMA Device Check\u201d also helps determine the true device model authenticity, which helps calculate an accurate value.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStolen Phone Checker\u201d works by looking up a device\u2019s IMEI (International Mobile Equipment Identifier), a unique code that get assigned to every phone.<\/p>\n<p>For iPhones, these are printed on the back but in other devices, these can be found in the settings menu.<\/p>\n<p>The service keeps a record of up to 10 years of a smartphone\u2019s history and the device\u2019s model information and capabilities.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>IANS<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Picture source: Alamy<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Picture used for illustrative purposes alone<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CTIA, a US-based mobile industry trade group, has launched a tool called \u201cStolen Phone Checker\u201d powered by GSMA Device Check which lets consumers in the US look up whether a smartphone has been reported lost or stolen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":4248,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[31,49],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4247"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4247"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4249,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4247\/revisions\/4249"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}