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How Parents Can Deal With Their Teenage Kids’ Addiction To Smartphones And Internet

 

According to Common Sense Media, teenage kids these days spend an average of six and a half hours every day busy with their mobile devices. Furthermore, teens apparently spend nearly nine hours daily devouring all types of media (internet, movies, music, and video games), and that does not account for media consumption related to school or for homework.

A Guide To The US Laptop Flight Ban

 

A laptop ban will soon be applied to flights from specific countries from the Middle East. This is not expected to be as hot a topic as other recent travel restrictions imposed by the United States, but it will still cause some hassle especially for frequent flyers and business travelers. In order to deal with this, it might help to get the basics.

ComiXology’s Guided View Now Available On Amazon’s Kindle App For iOS

 

The digital comics reading experience has gotten an immense boost through the Guided View feature developed by ComiXology. The feature is primarily designed to be used on smartphones and tablet devices, basically letting readers browse comics content panel by panel, which is really cool because that is how people read comics in real life. 

Ways In Which Spotify Is Becoming A Threat To Record Labels

 

For the longest time, record labels have forced Spotify to pay 70 percent (or more) of its revenue for royalties, and anytime they want, these same record labels could increase the pricing and Spotify will not be able to do anything about it. Almost a decade ago upon its debut, Spotify had no leverage because, well, at that time, it was nobody. In its first few years, it had to raise more than $180 million in order to pay the ridiculous upfront advance on royalty payments that labels were demanding. Moreover, Spotify had to sell the record companies equity.

Introducing Family Link: Google’s Parental Control Software For Android

 

Google has officially announced the existence of Family Link, which is an application that parents can use in setting up their child’s first ever Google account, plus take full advantage of several parental controls that not only can monitor screen time, but also establish daily limits, bedtime limits, and select which apps their kid can access.

Lowe’s Stores Testing Google Tango Tech To Map Supermarket Interiors And Items

 

Home improvement retail giant Lowe’s is beginning to take full advantage of Google’s Tango in mapping its store’s shelves and even the items being displayed on them. The company is now deploying an augmented reality app that tells its customer where to find the exact item they are looking for.

Report: Smartwatch Market To Improve 18 Percent In 2017

 

Pandora Premium Now Comes With On-Demand Streaming For $9.99 Per Month

 

US Senator Preparing Bill That Would Require Border Phone Searches To Have A Warrant

 

The instances of border phone searches are increasing. As a matter of fact, Homeland Security has disclosed that such searches conducted by the Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has grown from less than 5,000 in the entirety of the year 2015, to 5,000 in the last month alone. For those who think this trend is getting out of hand, there may be some bit of good news.

New Study: Pokemon Go Players Walk An Additional 2,000 Steps Each Day

 

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