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InfoWorld - After an operator started selling a service that lets parents control the Web sites their kids access on their phones, the service provider noticed something unusual: The third most popular category of Web content being accessed by phones monitored by the service were job hunt sites.

San Francisco - After an operator started selling a service that lets parents control the Web sites their kids access on their phones, the service provider noticed something unusual: The third most popular category of Web content being accessed by phones monitored by the service were job hunt sites. "We were convinced there must have been a problem because kids aren't looking at those sites," said Simeon Coney, vice president of business development for AdaptiveMobile, the company that offers the monitoring technology to operators. But then AdaptiveMobile figured out that the operator had broadly advertised the service as one that blocks adult content on handsets. Companies noticed and started buying the service to restrict access to sites by employees. The mobile workers were visiting the job sites. AdaptiveMobile launched its Policy Control Framework monitoring service for the North American market at the CTIA conference Tuesday in Las Vegas. It's already being used outside of North America. Mobile operators that want to offer the service to users must implement AdaptiveMobile's product in their networks. AdaptiveMobile's technology then monitors Web traffic to and from phones and can block traffic that... [ Read more on www.yahoo.com ]

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