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In app purchasing and kids apps

  • Neil
  • 16 Jan, 2014
  • App Development, Young Learners
  • Apple, young learners
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So, Apple get fined US$32.5 million by the Federal Trade Commission in the US over practices that allow kids to make unauthorised in app purchases. It is yet to see how Apple will apply changes to ensure they do not get accused of this again. They say they were already working on measures to prevent 

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2014 – a big year for apps in Education

  • Neil
  • 15 Jan, 2014
  • App Development, Young Learners
  • Classroom use, young learners
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One of the Guardian’s tech predictions for 2014 is an expansion of tablets for schools and the subsequent growth in educational apps. Education, education, education 2014 feels like a big year for apps – and by extension tablets – in education.

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