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January 27, 2012

WLTX - An App Every Parent Should Have

Filed under: Child GPS Tracking, Distracted Driving, Family, Online, Personal Emergency Response System, Phones, Safety, Security, TV, Wireless Communications, _SecuraFone RSS, _SecuraTrac RSS — admin @ 9:00 am

By Derry London

Columbia, SC (WLTX) — It’s the fear of every parent of a teenager: they hit the road, cell phone in hand. Those two together never mix well.

There’s a free application for Android phones called SecuraFone®.

This app, designed for teenagers, allows parents to set up SecuraFences and receive a text alert any time their child crosses a virtual boundary.

With one press of a button, an SOS feature also automatically places a call to a predetermined emergency contact and alerts other emergency contacts via text or email.

For teens with wheels, SecuraFone can temporarily lock down the email and text messaging functions on a smartphone when the device is traveling at a high speed.

The app can also send an alert if a preset speed threshold is passed.

All settings can be tweaked through a password-protected online account.

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SecuraChild Offers a Free Online Service to Report Missing Children

Filed under: Children, Family, Online, Safety, Security, _SecuraChild RSS, _SecuraTrac RSS — admin @ 2:00 am

By Dachell McSween of Yahoo Voices!

It can be a nightmare for a parent to find out that their child is missing. According to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, an estimated 800,000 children are reported missing in the United States every year. Unfortunately, all missing children cases reported to the police are not eligible to have a traditional Amber Alert issued for them especially if police officials do not believe that an abduction has taken place and the child is not in a life-threatening situation.

A technology company called SecuraTrac, LLC located in Hermosa Beach, California, created a child safety service called SecuraChild. Through this free service, parents enter pertinent information about their missing child including name, age, height and weight on the SecuraChild site. Parents also have the option of providing additional personal information relating to their child including medical conditions, photos and videos. In the event that a child registered on the site is missing, parents can quickly log into their account to alert SecuraChild and also provide descriptive information including where the child was last seen and what the child was wearing. Then, a community response alert goes out to thousands of SecuraChild members through both email and text and social media networks such as Facebook and Twitter. Parents also receive a document via email with all of the stored information about their child to provide as key information for police and help ease the process of registering their missing child with law enforcement.

“We are using social media and word-of-mouth efforts to help find missing children,” explains Chris Holbert, CEO of SecuraTrac.

SecuraChild is a fully encrypted site and each account and information submitted is secure for users. According to Holbert, 90 percent of their users are based in the United States. They also have users from other countries including Mexico, Canada and in the Philippines. Through the site, parents have the opportunity to reach so many people to assist with find missing children in seconds.

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January 26, 2012

SecuraTrac A Phone App That Helps Keep Kids Safe!

Filed under: Blog, Child GPS Tracking, Children, Distracted Driving, Family, Online, Phones, Safety, Security, Wireless Communications, _SecuraChild RSS, _SecuraFone RSS, _SecuraTrac RSS — admin @ 9:00 am

I worry about my kids constantly… but that’s a mother’s job, right? Maybe they think I’m overprotective (I know they do) but I just want to keep them safe. Is that so wrong? Last week, I dropped my 9-year-old off at one of her activities and began to pull away in the car pool lane. As I watched to make sure she went in the door to her class, I saw her turn back and go out to the playground – where no one was supervising. I drove back, parked and told her to go inside to her class and she rolled her eyes and told me she was waiting for her friend. I had no idea eye rolling started at 9…why didn’t someone warn me! I explained that it wasn’t safe for her to be on the playground alone without a parent or teacher there. I told her that it’s not that I don’t trust her – but there are a lot of bad people in this world who try to hurt or take children and she can never be alone. She really wasn’t listening…she just wanted me to go before her friends got there. Sigh. No matter how often I tell her, and we talk about it a lot, she just doesn’t seem to understand what a dangerous place this world is.

The truth is, every 40 seconds a child is reported missing. That’s more than 2,000 kids a day…frightening isn’t it? Recently, I received an email about a website that could help if the unthinkable does happen. It’s called SecuraChild.com and it combines the power of Facebook, Twitter, email and text in the event a child goes missing.

On this encrypted and secure website you can create a free, secure account for your child where you can put a picture and information like height, weight, hair color, eye color, other identifying information and medical conditions. If, God forbid, your child goes missing you add updated information like where the child was last seen and what he was wearing. That information is sent out in a blast to social networking sites and through text messages and email. SecuraChild, which is operated by SecuraTrac is a free service that parents can access in an emergency.

SecuraTrac also has an app that may be helpful when the kids get a little older. It’s called SecuraFone and it transforms a cell phone into a safety device. SecuraFone allows parents and kids to always be connected through the power of GPS technology. The app gives parents location updates and goes one step further by uploading an SOS key onto the phone.

If the child is in trouble or needs help, he simply presses an SOS button or slides a bar to send out an alert, via email or text, to all emergency contacts. I think that’s a great feature!

This next feature may be controversial with teens…but it could also save lives. The SecuraFone App has a distracted driver feature which detects the speed of a car and locks the phone to prevent texting and emailing while driving.

If parents choose they can also receive speed alerts. A message will be sent if the child is driving over a predetermined speed threshold.

Parents have access to all of the phones settings through a password protected web account. SecuraFone is available for iPhone and Android devices for $8.99/month. For more information go to the SecuraFone Website.

What do you think? Would you install this on your child’s phone? How do you think he or she would feel about it?

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January 24, 2012

Parents.com on SecuraFone Mobile App

Filed under: Child GPS Tracking, Children, Distracted Driving, Family, Fitness, Online, Outdoors, PERS for Elderly, Personal Emergency Response System, Phones, Safety, Security, Seniors, Travel, Wireless Communications, _SecuraFone RSS, _SecuraTrac RSS — admin @ 9:00 am

There are apps that locate your children, but how about one that tells you how fast they’re driving? This app can do so by using the smartphone’s built-in GPS. Plus, the SecuraFences feature sends notifications if your child goes beyond a designated geographic area. Parents can view 90 days’ worth of map data using what the company website (www.securafone.com) calls a “breadcrumb trail” and access reports that include addresses and a history of all the alerts sent by the app. All this is done in the background of your smartphone via GPS.

Free to download and free to use with the Basic subscription. Premium service requires a monthly subscription.

Copyright © 2012 Meredith Corporation.

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January 6, 2012

Wired Magazine - CES 2012 Preview: How Apps Could Rule the Show on SecuraFone

Filed under: Awards, Child GPS Tracking, Children, Distracted Driving, Family, Fitness, Online, PERS for Elderly, Personal Emergency Response System, Phones, Safety, Security, Seniors, Travel, _SecuraFone RSS, _SecuraTrac RSS — admin @ 9:00 am

By Christina Bonnington

Typically, when one speaks of the annual Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, the conversation evokes imagery of a sprawling arena filled with booth upon booth of hardware.

But hardware isn’t everything this year. CES 2012 will be the first CES where apps show up in a major way.

Every new television or set-top box that boasts a smart TV interface is essentially a platform for app use and discovery. Android apps now run on Google TV, and next week’s CES will play host to a handful of Google TV announcements. What’s more, all of the major TV manufacturers now have a “connected TV” platform that plays host to widgets for Netflix, Amazon, Pandora, Twitter, and similar appy content sources.

Appliances are getting into the apps space too: LG’s ThinQ appliances directly connect to mobile apps for remote user control. And at this year’s CES, you’ll see automobiles stuffed with apps connected wirelessly to the cloud.

Yes, apps will be everywhere in Las Vegas next week, and the Consumer Electronics Association has added “Software and Mobile Apps” as a new product category this year, a nod toward the importance of apps in the overall electronics experience. Today, a consumer electronics company needs much more than hardware to succeed. It also needs an elegant user interface, and a quality selection of apps to distinguish itself from the competition.

The Synergy of Apps and Hardware

“Like CDs and DVDs in the past, apps are tied to the hardware,” said Robin Raskin, founder of Living in Digital Times, a CES Partner Program. “It’s becoming intrinsic to the hardware experience.”

For instance, children’s toymaker Wowwee will debut a line of collectible toys called AppGear at CES. The toys connect to mobile devices, mirroring the real world with the virtual world. So, if you’re playing with one of the line’s small foam airplanes called “Foam Fighters,” you can pretend you’re piloting a WWI airship using the accompanying app.

Transgaming is another company that’s bridging our interactions with hardware through mobile devices and apps. Transgaming has developed a platform that lets you play games using your mobile device and your TV — a rising trend known as multi-screen gaming. The company wants to use CES to broadcast its platform to service providers, content developers, and independent developers.

Vikas Gupta, CEO and president of Transgaming, described a few gaming possibilities: Playing a game of mobile-to-TV Scrabble with your family, or similarly, a game of poker, with your cards on your personal display, and the poker table up on the TV. At CES, Transgaming will be showing off a custom game called Ants at a Picnic, which lets you squash virtual insects on your TV by flicking and swiping bugs on your mobile device.

Approximately 60 percent of Living in Digital Times exhibitors are showing off apps in the sports, fitness and digital health sector. What’s more, in the section for kids products, 80 percent of exhibitors include apps as part of their presentation.

App Recognition
For the third year in a row, CES will be holding a Mobile Apps Showdown, a contest that pits submitted apps against one another for the popular vote. This year, developers entered over 100 apps into the contest.

Titles that have won in past years include Drive Safely, an app designed to curb texting while driving,Swiftkey, a personalized, predictive keyboard app, and Line2, which adds an extra phone line to your mobile device. Robin Raskin, the founder of a CES Partner Program called Living in Digital Times, says the top 10 is a good cross section of app offerings, ranging from video to healthcare to biking pedometers and geofencing.

For the first time, CES is also including a fixture called the Wall of Apps, housed in the show’s North Hall.

“It’s like a self-serve museum exhibit,” Raskin says. In its inaugural year, the Wall of Apps will show off 20 apps on various devices selected by the app developers. Titles like Line2 and Zinio, a global magazine service, will be on display for attendees to take for test drives.

App Launches and Demos
Standalone apps demos will also appear in booths at Pepcom (a major press preview event), and in the iLounge section of the CES show floor.

Scrible, an HTML5 app that will run in-browser on mobile Safari, is a fully featured webpage annotation and online research system for tablets. The service is already available for desktop browsers, but at CES, developers will be debuting the tablet version.

“Folks now recognize that the apps that run on the hardware are important to the user experience and, therefore, the success of a mobile device,” Scrible CEO Victor Karkar says. “The excitement for tablets will continue this year. We’re a part of that, and want to ride that wave.”

Chris Holbert, CEO of SecuraTrac, is a three-year veteran of CES. His company will be exhibitingSecuraFone, a safety-focused iPhone and Android app that uses GPS tracking to prevent distracted driving. In addition to being a good platform for developing new business relationships, CES is a great opportunity to connect with customers and suppliers, and scope out where the electronics industry is headed, Holbert says.

With apps of every form and flavor showing up at CES this year, it looks like more than just company employees are going to be energized. Apps are revving up to be a huge part of 2012.

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