Tuesday, November 19, 2013

Parents and Companies Use Monitoring Software to Solve Problems

Youth are at risk from Texting While Driving, Online Predators and Gambling,CyberBullying and possible illegal sending of images Compulsive Cellphone Use and much more. These new problems demand new techniques for handling them. Anybody that wants to keep up with how children, workers or spouse are using their mobiles should know about available cell phone tracker software that is becoming quite popular and can do much more than locate phones. Exciting new technological breakthroughs are causing a stir.


 Smartphone Parental Controls


New mobile monitor software applications that incorporate client-side and web applications to capture SMS text messages, mobile phone GPS location, sent and received smartphone activity logs information and sends it to an online private account or forwards it to an email address.


Leading smartphones are the cell phones with computer-like capabilities. Trade names such as BlackBerry, iPhone, Windows Mobile, Android, Nokia Symbian ? all have spy phone software available. Spy Call and Call Intercept mobile phone bugging require that the target phone uses a GSM network. About 3 million smartphones a month are sold in North America, and sales are approaching 150 million delivered per year around the world.


Fresh reports from The National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy found that over 20% of teens (ages 13-19) and an incredible 33% of young adults (ages 20-26) have shared nude or semi-nude images of themselves either via mobile phone SMS text messages or by posting on the web. Teenage girls are a little more likely to do this than boys and a very disturbing 11% of the young teen girls (ages 13-16) admitted to sending suggestive photos of themselves.


Published in a study from marketing research firm The Nielsen Company (blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/online_mobile/under-aged-texting-usage-and-actual-cost/) American youths transmit an unimaginable average of 10 SMS text messages every hour that they are not in school or sleeping ? and probably a lot during school too. Focus group findings show that zexting occurs most often during one of three specific scenarios: The first, involves exchanges of images solely between two romantic partners; the next, lists exchanges between partners that are then shared with other people; followed by, exchanges between people who are not yet in a relationship, but with one person hoping there will be one.



Parents and Companies Use Monitoring Software to Solve Problems

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