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Norton Safety Minder Lets Parents Control their Child’s Mobile Activities
It may be because of its recent malware scare but Symantec is making up for its wrong diagnosis of the Android.Counterclank issue. By releasing the app called Norton Safety Minder, Symantec hopes to do just that. The Norton Safety Minder is a free Android parental control app that allows parents to track and block websites which their children access on their Android device. After downloading the app, parents can easily sign up for a Norton Online Family account to help enforce this. The app works by attaching itself on the default browser of the mobile device. It then blocks websites …
This article, Norton Safety Minder Lets Parents Control their Child’s Mobile Activities , was originally published at AndroidAuthority.com – Your Android News Source.
People Prefer Smartphones Over PCs, Gee You Think?
For the very first time, the quarterly smartphone sales have announced that smartphones have outpaced PC sales during 2011’s Q4. More reason to celebrate: it wasn’t even close! Canalys, a mobile market research firm, has released an estimate that 158.5 million smartphones were sold during the last quarter of 2011. This was a huge boost for smartphones compared to the 120.2 million sales of personal computers. According to Canalys, this is the first time they have ever seen such numbers. But where do tablets fall into? Well, Canalys refers to tablets as PCs—something other research firms do not do. So …
This article, People Prefer Smartphones Over PCs, Gee You Think? , was originally published at AndroidAuthority.com – Your Android News Source.