AFP
Sunday, January 10th, 2010
Stun gun maker Taser wants to help parents, not with jolts of
electricity but with a tool which allows parents to effectively take
over a child’s mobile phone and manage its use.
“Basically we’re taking old fashioned parenting and
bringing it into the mobile world,” Taser chairman and co-founder
Tom Smith said at the Consumer Electronics Show here, where the Arizona
company unveiled the new product.
“Because when you give your child his mobile phone you
don’t know who they’re talking to, what they’re
sending or texting, all of those things,” Smith told AFP.
The phone application, called “Mobile Protector,” allows
a parent to screen a child’s incoming and outgoing calls and
messages, block particular numbers and even listen in on a conversation.
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