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Norton Safety Minder for Android keeps kids safe, monitored

By: , IntoMobile
Tuesday, February 7th, 2012 at 5:06 AM
Norton Safety Minder for Android keeps kids safe, monitored

Norton is out with a new mobile app for Android smartphones – Norton Safety Minder, allowing parents to keep track of what their kids are doing on their mobile phones through Norton Online Family.

Although the application itself is free to download, Norton Online Family does come with a price tag, offering such benefits to the Norton Safety Minder users as:

  • Ability to track who kids have been exchanging text and MMS messages with and check their contact lists.
  • White and black list creation tool with approved and not-approved friends, respectively.
  • See all the apps kids install and uninstall on their Android phone

The cool thing is that Norton Safety Minder doesn’t act as a “spy tool.” Rather, kids will see an app icon on their mobile and apparently this approach will encourage “open conversation between parents and their kids” about the importance of online safety. Not sure that will work, but what do I know.

Norton Safety Minder (FREE) [Android Market link]

About The Author

Dusan Belic

Dusan has been using smartphones since their introduction and is now following the latest trends in the industry. The "convergence" is what he's most excited about, and writing about it is the next logical thing to do. He thinks that using a smartphone is what everyone who cares about their time should do. In addition to his interests in mobile phones, Dusan also loves to experiment with the latest web and mobile 2.0 services. The idea of accessing and managing your information from any device no matter where you are simply amazes him. Whether it's an online to-do list, note taking service or a video sharing social network, he's there to try it out. He admits though, he's still searching for the ultimate web-based organizational tool, which "sings" perfectly with the mobile PIM application. Dusan used to run SymbianWatch.com which later became part of IntoMobile. He lives in Serbia, South-East Europe, from where he edits the site on a daily basis.

Related Apps

Norton Online Family
Version: 0.6 Release on: 1-26-2011 Category: Lifestyle

Keep your kids safe from Internet dangers even when youre not around. Its easy with the new, FREE Norton Online Family (Beta) app for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad. It gives parents who subscribe to Norton…Read More »

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  • Bstringy

    Who feels like looking up the monthly fee?

  • auroch68

    as admin you can’t even stop it on your mobile , don’t have any option to manage who is using your android so when you apply it for a child you lock your self. crap crap crap and I can’t find how to remove it!

  • http://www.ringcentral.com/virtual-pbx/index.html PBX

    Good news for parents and a bad news for the kids. But for me this is a great idea if you really want to check or make sure that your kids are safe in using the advance technologies.