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Kids Get New Tablets Over the Holidays? Here’s How to Lock ’Em Down.
After $50 in Angry Birds purchases, I’m now the wiser.Music-Discovery Service ExFM Pulls the Plug
A startup that had buzz four years ago says that it’s going dark, more or less, next month.The NeatConnect Scanner Is a Cloud-Connected Guilty Pleasure
A hassle-free scanner that’s easy to set up and does most of what it promises to do. But there’s a catch: It costs $500.MindMeld Assistant App Listens Along to Conversations to Help in Real Time
MindMeld, which has been promised for more than a year and is one of the more ambitious application ideas out there, launches to the public tonight.News Byte
Japan Overtakes U.S. in Apple/Google App Store Revenue
Japan is now the top country worldwide in revenue from Apple’s App Store and Google Play, according to a new report from App Annie. The app analytics company attributed the surprising shift to rapid smartphone adoption over the past year in Japan — where feature phones have held on for longer — and explosive growth in Google Play spending, outpacing global trends due to the availability of carrier billing as an alternative to credit cards.Toca Boca CEO Bjorn Jeffery: Adults Don’t Understand How Kids Play
Well, most of them, anyway.Group Wants Mattel to Recall a Newborn Bouncy Chair With Built-in iPad Holder
The idea of strapping a newborn into a chair facing a tablet is a really bad one, says one consumer group, which is calling on the toymaker to pull the product.News Byte