Thursday, June 19, 2014

Amazon's Fire TV is safer for kids with latest update


A feature promised at the launch of Amazon's Fire TV is finally here. It's called FreeTime, and it's a fairly straight port of the same functionality that Amazon offers on its Kindle Fire tablets. The basic idea is simple: it offers kids a basic interface for browsing TV content and it offers parents discrete controls for what content their kids can access (and for how long).


The feature is technically just a bit late — Amazon had originally said it would launch in May — but company says it wanted to include other features in the software update the consumers were asking for. Namely, in the regular Fire TV interface users will be able to filter their searches just so they see all the content that comes free with an Amazon Prime...


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