Today, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission released a new report entitled “Mobile Apps for Kids” that highlighted a persistent privacy transparency gap on mobile apps for children. During their press conference, the FTC highlighted the Association for Competitive Technology's education and transparency efforts as "promising." In response to the report, [...]
The Washington Post reported today about RIM’s announced January 30 launch date for BlackBerry 10. The new operating system will be accompanied by two new devices signaling that the Canadian manufacturer plans an aggressive push to reclaim lost marketshare. Further groundwork has been laid for a big splash with the BB10 launch [...]
"The FTC believes the world would be a better place if we spent $250 million more on lawyers and $250 million less on developing educational apps and content for kids.”
Washington Post: App Developers Wary of Child Privacy Law Dan Russell-Pinson has designed some of the top educational children’s apps for the iPhone and iPad. Monster Physics is a game that lets kids build virtual contraptions, operated by a customizable furry monster, to complete missions — clearing debris using an [...]
Huffington Post, Silicon America: 5 Startup Economies Keeping it Real and Bringing it Back Despite its ridiculously frigid and long-term winters, those "salt of the earth" Minnesotans are not effing around for one minute when it comes to getting their gigantic, Nordic-ancestral hands into the startup pot. What was once [...]