GetNetWise » android http://www.getnetwise.org/blog GetNetWise.org Tue, 26 Mar 2013 19:50:29 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Download 1st-Ever Digital Safety App for Your Smartphone http://www.getnetwise.org/blog/2011/01/31/download-1st-ever-digital-safety-app-for-your-smartphone/ http://www.getnetwise.org/blog/2011/01/31/download-1st-ever-digital-safety-app-for-your-smartphone/#comments Mon, 31 Jan 2011 17:13:21 +0000 GetNetWise http://www.getnetwise.org/blog/?p=112 GetNetWise is proud to contribute content to the “First-Ever Online Safety & Security Education App Available on Smartphone Platform.” It was developed by GNW’s parent, Internet Education Foundation, along with Google and Verizon and the content is contributed by three of the other premier online safety education organizations in the world — Common Sense Media, ConnectSafely.org, OnGuardOnline.gov. This innovative app makes it easy for consumers and families to keep up with mobile and online privacy, safety, and security issues using their Android smartphone or tablet.

If you have an Android phone or tablet download the App from the Market by searching for “Net Safety Tips.” Visit http://netsafetyapp.org/ for more information. The press release is here.

]]> http://www.getnetwise.org/blog/2011/01/31/download-1st-ever-digital-safety-app-for-your-smartphone/feed/ 0 Is Your Android Safe and Secure? http://www.getnetwise.org/blog/2010/01/13/is-your-andoid-safe-and-secure/ http://www.getnetwise.org/blog/2010/01/13/is-your-andoid-safe-and-secure/#comments Wed, 13 Jan 2010 22:25:23 +0000 GetNetWise http://www.getnetwise.org/blog/?p=51 Relative to the iPhone the Android app phone is spanking new. The 20,000 or so apps for Android developed so far for Android phones are dwarfed by the number of iPhone apps — 120,000 and counting. In addition to all the fun and clever apps written for the iPhone, there are many security and safety apps written for the platform as well. Whether you want to block porn for your 12 year old or whether you want to remotely wipe clean your data from a lost iPhone, well, there’s an iPhone app for that. Now that more and more Android devices are being sold more and more developers are writing for the platform. That means that you will start seeing similar security and safety apps for the Android. The New York Times’ Gadgetwise (no relation to GetNetWise) blogged today about a new security app for the Android in a piece titled “App of the Week: Lock Up Your Android.” Gadgetwise features an app from WaveSecure, “a free app for Android lets you use any computer to lock down your lost phone, erase the disc, locate it and restore much of the phone’s contents if it is recovered.”

No doubt with more time on the market we will see even more great safety and security apps written for Android. Now if I could just get a porn blocker for my Droid.

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