Keep Bullies at Bay with New App

Tired of or hearing your child complain about them?

Laguna Niguel-based that specializes in mobile safety communication and life-style applications, has released the latest app in its PunkBlocker line of smartphone apps called Word Bully.

Word Bully lets a parent/guardian customize a filter for profanity, vulgar or threatening language, and other offensive communications. This is all done with the protection of password-enabled access for the parent/guardian. If a message is sent with this type of language it is automatically sent to the parent/guardian's phone stating what was said.  

Cyber-bullying is an epidemic that carries with it great danger for the general population, not to mention friends and family members.  In today's society, where much of our discourse and communications are done via the Internet and text messaging, our loved-ones (children and adults) are easy targets for, and potential victims of, the harmful practice of cyber-bullying, says Wayne Irving II, CEO and co-founder of Iconosys.

"We did it!... We did it!  We have been planning this app since the inception of Iconosys, and thousands of baby steps later, we've got it!," he said. "We are very pleased with the functionality of this app and feel that this important development in child and teen safety will give parents more comfort and peace of mind when purchasing Android OS phones for their kids, already 40 percent of the U.S. markets (in terms of the percentage of purchasers under 12 years of age)."   

Word Bully features include: 

• Monitoring for about 3,600 words, acronyms, bulli-cons, and phrases that might be considered profanity, threatening and/or vulgar. The app also allows you to create and manage a custom list of monitored words (e.g.,  Acronyms, abbreviations, cultural-isms, and gang-style lingo) that are used.

• Enable and Disable the Word Bully service using the protected access feature of a parental-controlled password.

• Word Bully monitors for inbound and outbound questionable communications and  forwards to the parent's phone, identifying if it was "sent to" or "sent from" your child.

• Choose to monitor ALL of the text message communications with certain settable "Black Listed" individuals, such as those people you believe or suspect to be a significant threat.

• Choose to ignore specific numbers or add numbers to a "White List."

• Locate your child anytime with Trick or Tracker child location retrieval service, built right in.

The Word Bully app is available until Oct. 15 for free, and then will be available for $9.95, for a lifetime license, in English on Android OS smartphones, and an iPhone version is scheduled to be released by Christmas.

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