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Mobile Net use not just kid stuff: Study

Every day, it seems, the social, media-sharing Web is more mobile and cellphones are used more as full-blown computers – and not just by people under 18! The latest Pew/Internet study , released today,...

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Facebook adds ‘Places’: Cellphone location service

I’m sure you’ve heard about Foursquare, a game and geolocation app that lets people “check in” to their favorite spots virtually when they’re walking in physically. Well, Facebook now has a geolocation...

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4% of US online adults use location-sharing

Geolocation apps and services like Foursquare, loopt, Gowalla, and Facebook’s Places are an online-safety frontier where consumer (much less kid) usage is the great unknown. Thankfully, the Pew...

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New phone app: Color me (& us) careful!

The new Color photo-sharing app for iPhone and Android smartphones, is free, potentially fun, and has no age restrictions. And it will probably have a lot of appeal for our highly social, digital...

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Texting apps taking over the world, it seems

You know that texting doesn’t just happen on phones, right? Kids can (and do) download a free texting app to any wi-fi-enabled device – iPod Touches, iPads, Android tablets, etc. – and text with their...

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Perishable pix: First Snapchat, now Poke

Snapchat, the little app that came out of nowhere – well, Stanford University, but launched with no media fanfare by a couple of students whose service now supports 50 million snaps a day – has been...

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Teens’ tech getting very mobile: New study

Ninety-five percent of US 12-to-17-year-olds use the Internet, 93% have access to a computer at home and 71% of teens with that computer at home share it with other family members, according to a study...

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The meta-trend behind the teen (& everybody) mobile trend

As the news stories about teens’ mainly mobile (digital) socializing multiply, parents seem to be turning a corner too. Monitoring kids on Facebook is “so 2009,” Yahoo! News reports. Even the very...

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Facebook’s ‘Home’: New layer in the mobile layercake

Although as of this writing, a search of Google News turned up nearly 2,000 news stories about it, the new uber app for Android phones that Facebook unveiled today isn’t really big news for families. I...

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Stickers, emoji & other social-media conversation add-ons

You may’ve noticed this too: Online and on-phone conversations have gotten very mixed-media – very artful, in a sense. Have you noticed that our children are among the most creative mixed-media...

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