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Cloud services provider releases Netintelligence App on iTunes

Posted: 09 Oct 2011 05:48 AM PDT

One in ten parents in the UK feels it's appropriate for children as young as four years old to own a mobile phone, while one in ten kids under the age of ten already owns an iPhone, according to a survey by Westcoastcloud, the supplier of cloud-based internet security services. Westcoastcloud commissioned the survey to coincide with the release of its iPad internet security product for schools, Netintelligence, as an App on iTunes. The report found that one in twenty primary school children now own an iPad. The extent to which today’s youngsters rely on technology was revealed following a study of 2,000 parents of children aged ten and under. The Westcoastcloud poll found that 17 per cent of parents bought their kids a phone after they succumbed to their child's pestering. Typically, parents felt comfortable buying their child a mobile or the latest Smartphone like an iPhone or Blackberry at the age of ten, with 68 per cent doing so because they wanted to keep tabs on their kids. Worryingly the survey also revealed that almost one in ten primary school aged children had a social networking account – the age at which children are eligible to have a [...]