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iphone Have an iPhone? Or maybe you have another smartphone. Personally, I am setting my eyes on the Google Nexus One. It’s just as pretty and from most accounts, it is even more functional than the Apple iPhone.

In any case, most everyone has a smartphone now and that means that their children are getting exposed to mobile computing as well. If you think that it’s such a headache to ensure that children are protected when they go online on laptops and home computers, then think again. It’s even more of a hassle to make sure they are safe on mobile platforms!

One thing you can do about the iPhone is to use the built-in parental control. More than that, however, you can check out Safe Eyes Mobile, a web browser made specially for the iPhone. It gives you additional control on top of the parental controls that the iPhone has.

Forrest Collier, CEO of InternetSafety.com endorses this mobile web browser:

“Apple has gone a long way toward child-proofing the iPhone with the new parental controls in the iPhone 3.0 software, but those controls apply only to content that Apple itself distributes through iTunes and the App Store. They don’t address the #1 source of objectionable material: the Internet. If you combine Apple’s parental controls with a browser that blocks pornography and other offensive websites, however, you can completely protect your child from harmful content both online and off.”

At the end of the day, these are excellent tools but I believe that your parenting skills will still emerge as the most important factor.

Here is another loophole for all iPhone enthusiasts and it has something to do with a security hole that has been categorized as a minor glitch by apple. Apparently the immediate resolution for this security hole is to reset the settings but the real issue has to do with potential openings given to attackers that can exploit the security holes and get access to files or maybe even do some mischief as most hackers are known to do.

Apple spokesperson Jennifer Bowcock said, “The minor iPhone security issue which surfaced this week is fixed in a software update which will be released in September.”

There is a simple workaround, Bowcock said: iPhone owners can simply change the settings so double-clicking the emergency button returns a user to the home screen, which will present a password login field if password protection is turned on.

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So a patch will be released by September and hopefully this issue will die down. But expect new problems to crop up once this has been settled. Being in the limelight and open for criticism is bound to result in a lot of things that should be considered and apparently iPhone has to be ready for them.

For a gadget that costs a lot, the iPhone is in for a lot of rougher sailing from the users and the critics. But before we advance a bit, it would be best to see first if this security glitch will be resolved with their so-called patch software due for release.