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Dan Gillmor The FTC has warned that mobile app developers are making it too easy for technology companies to collect and store personal data from child users. Photograph: Rex Features/Eye Candy The US Federal Trade Commission says mobile app developers are doing far too little to help parents protect the privacy of children who use phones and tablets. And, according to a story in the...

David Boyle In Africa, a mobile banking system called M-Pesa has been common practice for years. Can it catch on in the UK? Photograph: M-Pesa Discussing money some years ago with the Washington editor of a UK national newspaper, I was staggered to be told that all money was based on gold. Admittedly, the newspaper was the Sun, but even so. Here was rather frightening evidence of the...

Charles Arthur Apple's iPhone: 'slide to unlock' system is patented Apple has won a significant patent battle in Munich that could see Motorola smartphones running Google's Android software blocked from sale in Germany – and potentially could be expanded to other handsets running Android too.Apple won the case on the basis of the "slide to unlock" system which it introduced with the...

Getting up close and personal with Zlatan Ibrahimovic's tattoos? There's an app for that. A selection of 16 apps for you today:Monopoly HotelsElectronic Arts has launched a new mobile spin-off from board game Monopoly, which sees you running hotels, attracting VIP guests and adding micro-businesses and attractions. It's free to play, and funded by in-app purchases.iPhone / iPadClikClik promises to let you "take control of any web-enabled screen with your smartphone"....

The Clik app plays YouTube videos on a larger screen... for starters Are millions of people champing at the bit to find a way of watching YouTube videos on their main TV sets? Probably not, although that may change as Google encourages more producers and creators to launch original channels on its video service.Still, a new app called Clik provides some food for thought about the role smartphones (and by extension, tablets) may play in the connected living rooms of the...

John Plunkett Screened out: a survy has found one in six parents don't fully understand how gadgets such as the Nintendo 3DS work. Photograph: Robin Utrecht/AFP/Getty Images Once parents relied on their children to help them set the video recorder. But in the age of apps, iPods and 3D portable games consoles, the digital divide may have got a little wider.One in six –16% – of parents...

Charles Arthur Tablets such as the iPad will outsell desktop and laptop PCs within a few years, says Apple CEO Tim Cook. Photograph: Paul Sakuma/AP Tablets such as the iPad will outsell desktop and laptop PCs within a few years and eat into their sales, says Apple chief executive Tim Cook.He also hinted that the company could be preparing to launch into the smart TV market with a...

iPhone app Clear brings a new user interface to To Do lists A selection of 13 apps for you today:The Sims FreePlayEA has ported its freemium mobile take on The Sims from iPhone to Android, letting players create up to 16 Sims and then control their homes, careers and love lives. It's influenced by – but doesn't connect to – the hugely popular The Sims game on Facebook.AndroidClearThere's a huge buzz already around iPhone productivity app Clear. It's a To-Do list...

Charles Arthur Android continues to dominate the smartphone market. Photograph: Bloomberg/Getty Images Google's Android mobile operating system dominated the fast-growing smartphone market in the fourth quarter of 2011, powering 50.9% of mobile devices shipped worldwide as it crushed Nokia's Symbian and BlackBerry maker Research in Motion. Android was the biggest smartphone OS by share...

Tara Conlan Dr Christian Jessen, co-host of Embarrassing Bodies: Live From the Clinic. Photograph: Channel 4 Ground-breaking Channel 4 series Embarrassing Bodies: Live From the Clinic is to return with a new feature that allows viewers to check their health via iPhone or a video symptom checker, through which users can interact with the show's doctors.As in the first series, Live From...