Parents and kids need to talk about Internet

With summer vacation in full swing it's important for parents and their kids need to talk about safety while online on social networks, IM, blogs, and websites. With all the extra time on their hand and internet access from everywhere, home, cell phones, libraries, friends homes and friends phones.

Parents should talk to their teens and remind them of the dangers of sharing personal information and posting sexually explicit photos online. Parents also need to know what their children are doing online, what social-networking sites they frequent, and whether they use their mobile phones to access the Internet.

See full article from PC World and discussion with experts from Microsoft, AOL, and Safe Internet Alliance. (click here)

Also see MobiZim's mobile parental controls for windows mobile, Blackberry, and Android phones at http://www.mobizim.com/

iPhones not yet for kids

Nielson recently published iPhone users demographics. Interesting to note is that against common wisdom, 53% of 6.4million iPhone users are over the age of 35 and 17% are over 55 years old. Users between the age of 18-24 are only 13%.

Possible reasons for this distribution include $199 price of the phone and the most painful part is up to $1200/year for voice and data services. Unlimited data is mandatory purchase for iPhone subscribers.

At MobiZim we thought so and it makes, now we have independent confirmation. Mobile Parental Controls on iPhone will be important, but it will have to wait until Apple decides to allow background processes and iPhone prices drop below $99 and the data subscription prices drop further.