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Kids are Using Tablets for Education, Not Just Gaming | Nielsen Report

By Kegan Blumenthal On February 22, 2012 · Leave a Comment · In Parenting, Technology News and Opinion
Kids Using Tablets for School

Last year the computing industry witnessed a big shift towards tablet use. One of the most staggering statistics about this shift was that 7 out of 10 children in households with tablet computers used them [...]

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The Future of Tech and What it Means for Families

By Mary Heston On February 21, 2012 · Leave a Comment · In Android and Apple App Markets, Family, Parenting
Future of Family Technology

Those young whippersnappers today and their new fangled technology.

You may have fought it. You may have sworn it would never happen to you. But it has. You have turned into your mother or father. It really [...]

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The FTC, App Developers, and Children

By Yahya Haque On February 20, 2012 · Leave a Comment · In Android and Apple App Markets, Android Apps, Family, iPhone and iPad Apps, Parenting, Technology News and Opinion
Hands working on a smartphone isolated on white

At the risk of becoming Famigo’s resident privacy “expert”, I am going to dedicate another blog post to privacy. This one is a little different than my last one, today I will talk about the [...]

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Top 5 Apps of the Week – And a Free App from Oceanhouse!

By Sarah On February 17, 2012 · Leave a Comment · In Android Apps, iPhone and iPad Apps, Top Apps of the Week
Trash Chaos

This week was a bit all over the place. We had some educational games thrown in with some absolutely not-educational-at-all games, mixed in with some simply random stuff.

We had a ton of fun though, [...]

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QR Codes are a Thing of the Past

By Kegan Blumenthal On February 16, 2012 · 1 Comment · In Android Apps, iPhone and iPad Apps, Technology News and Opinion
Famigo QR Code

In the last couple of years, QR codes have found their way into mainstream advertising. They are featured on buses, billboards, flyers, just about everywhere.

But realistically, who goes out of their way to snap [...]

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The Phone Stack: The Best Ever Family Game for iPhone, Android & iPads

By Q On February 15, 2012 · 3 Comments · In Family, Parenting, Technology News and Opinion
The Phone Stack Game

Finally, a cellphone game your whole family can play at the dinner table and not feel bad about.

I recently read a post in a hip tech blog about a new social game you play [...]

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Study on Family Mobile Gaming Habits

By Sarah On February 14, 2012 · Leave a Comment · In Android Apps, Family, Technology News and Opinion
Cropped Study Results

Famigo recently completed a study on family mobile media usage. We collected and analyzed information from 1,000 random usage samples from Famigo Sandbox through a 4-week period in January.

Check out the super nifty infographic [...]

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What Google’s New Privacy Policy Really Means

By Yahya Haque On February 13, 2012 · Leave a Comment · In Technology News and Opinion
Your online privacy is almost as faded as this sign.

There has been a lot of coverage in the past couple of days over Google’s new privacy policy and Path uploading its customers’ address books onto their servers without permission.

This is something that [...]

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Managing Kids’ Time on TV, Phone and Computer

By Matt McDonnell On February 11, 2012 · Leave a Comment · In Education, Family, iPhone and iPad Apps, Parenting
Kids Playing Outside

My girlfriend, Melissa, is a nanny for a 2-year-old girl and a 6-year-old boy.  She and the kids spend a lot of time with their neighbor and her three boys who are 2, 4 and [...]

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Top 5 Apps of the Week – The Apps for the Whole Family Edition

By Sarah On February 10, 2012 · 2 Comments · In Android Apps, iPhone and iPad Apps, Top Apps of the Week
Quell Reflect

This week we came across apps for every age group.

From one of our childhood favorites, Harold and the Purple Crayon, to some serious strategy games for teens and parents, we’ve got you covered.

Top [...]
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