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A kids’ reading app that reports back to parents
Children’s e-book reading is still in very early stages — but with parents increasingly handing iPads down to their kids, publishers see room for fast growth. Scholastic launched a children’s e-reading...
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What happens when you give Kindles to kids in Ghana?
Nonprofit Worldreader gives Kindles to students in sub-Saharan Africa (and is working on a reading app for mobile phones). The organization just published the results of iREAD, its year-long pilot...
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Are enhanced e-books bad for kids’ reading skills?
New research from the Sesame Workshop’s Joan Ganz Cooney Center suggests that enhanced e-books’ special features can be distracting both to young kids and to their parents reading the books with them....
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Hulu launches ad-free kids section on the web and on the PS3
Parents, Netflix isn’t the only game in town anymore for kids content: Hulu launched a dedicated kids section on its website as well as on the PS3 Thursday morning, underscoring yet again how important...
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Dailymotion nears ownership switch with kids subscription plan
YouTube rival Dailymotion is making its first foray into subscription video on-demand (SVOD) with a €4.49-per-month bundle aimed at children, as it aims to show circling investors it can be more...
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McDonald’s is giving away ebooks, including one about a goat who eats too much
McDonald’s has faced pressure for marketing salty, fatty food at kids and for giving away plastic toys that essentially amount to landfill in its Happy Meals. Now the company is attempting to address...
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Hulu gets more kids content, including Sesame Street in English and Spanish
Hola, Elmo: Hulu added a number of new shows to its Hulu Plus kids section Thursday, including episodes of the Sesame Street in English and Spanish, as well as shows like Strawberry Shortcake, Bob the...
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Movile brings its kids video service to two dozen more countries
Play Kids, the mobile subscription service for kids’ content, is going places: Latin American mobile entertainment company Movile announced Thursday that Play Kids is now available in 24 additional...
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Here’s why Amazon’s Fire TV could become a big seller: Kids
Amazon’s new Fire TV streaming box offers a lot of the same content that’s already available through competing devices like Apple TV, Roku and Chromecast — but there’s one big difference that could...
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Elmoflix is here: Sesame Street launches a standalone video subscription service
Parents of preschoolers, get your credit cards ready: Sesame Workshop launched a new subscription video service called Sesame Go Tuesday that offers kids access to full-length, ad-free episodes of...
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Child’s Play – MacKiev Gets It Right
While primarily due to being ill *yet again* (I’m beginning to think Seattle is the nation’s cold/flu incubator), last week’s blogging was further disrupted by the preparations for and celebration of...
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Kid Proofing a Mac With Parental Controls
If you’ve got young children, chances are they’re already quite adept at using the computer. This is a new generation of wired little ones, and we’ve got our work cut out for us as we attempt to stay...
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Surviving Spring Break Week with Kids
I love Spring Break... when there's a trip involved. Alas, I haven't taken a real vacation since Spring Break 2002. Sure, my family took a road trip from Dallas to San Antonio and Austin last year, but...
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Apple Offers Summer ‘Camps’ for Kids
Whenever a friend who’s new to Apple picks up a new Mac of their own, I’m sure to tell them about the great educational and support services Cupertino offers as well. In-store group Workshops, Genius...
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Vid-Biz: iPods, Watchmen, Nielsen
iPod Lineup to Get Video? Whispers of a video camera and pictures of a new case with a camera-friendly hole have blogs buzzing. (TechCrunch) Speaking of i-video, check out this Guide to Video on the...
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ZuiTube is YouTube for Kids
Kidzui, the company behind the child-safe web browser of the same name, extended its online video experience with ZuiTube, a kid-friendly video destination site. ZuiTube features a collection of 60,000...
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Why Both Kids & Parents Love The iPhone
If you’re a parent with an iPhone or iPod touch, chances are your kids are dying to play with it. And a majority of parents who own such devices let their kids do just that, at least once a week, a...
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Surviving After-School Time: Meet Deadlines and Keep Your Kids Happy
In my school district, kids get out of school as early as 2:45 pm and as late as 4:15 pm. If you start working after the kids leave for school, you can usually get around six or seven hours of work...
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UPDATED: I Gave My 3 Year Old an iPhone: Have I Created a Monster?
A few months back, my wife went on a girls’ weekend trip from East Coast to West, gone for a total of five days. I survived my first long stretch with our three year old daughter alone, but it wasn’t...
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8 Great iPhone Games for Kids (According to Kids)
My family is originally from Ecuador, and I recently got the opportunity to go back to the land of my birth and spend a few months living there. During that time I’ve been staying with my aunt and...
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