Laptops under cover

Laptops used to be virtually uninsurable.

The high risk of theft made them unattractive to insurance companies as standalone items. The rise of mobile phones and PDAs as data storage devices has seen a dramatic change in the options available to business users.

‘‘People are using mobiles for more than just phone calls these days,” said John Ryan, operations director with IT security firm Entropy. ‘‘There is now a greater ability to store ...