British child spent $ 1615 on in-game purchases in iPad

In the UK, parents often have to pay huge bills of their children, who are spending money in the shareware games on iPhone and iPad.

It is reported by the British newspaper Daily Mail, Popular projects like Angry Birds, Fasci zombies and Penguin Rush can download and install free of charge, but in the course of the game on the screen and then there are pop-up ads with the offer to buy something. Applications can purchase additional game coins, new levels, weapons and special abilities for the characters, which allows faster and more efficient to pass this or that game.

The money spent on these services are removed from the parents' credit cards. According to the publication, the 6-year-old Jake Sadler spent 1615 dollars playing on iPad mum. Parents learned about it only after a call from the bank, when his team discovered unusual activity on the credit card holder. 

"We could not think that the money goes to the card while we were not informed of the bank - says Jake's mother happened Gemma Sandler. - I was shocked when I looked the details of the account and saw that amount. " 

It is noteworthy that on mobile devices Apple, which are played a thousand children, not only in Britain but throughout the world, requesting a password for in-game purchases. But if the parents themselves will enter the password of your account, then the children have a 15-minute opportunity to the next entry to purchase a variety of gaming.

In this case, parental controls, built-in operating system iOS, can remove purchases as well as directly within the games and applications. But in practice, many parents do not know about these options, so the children and parents continue to spend more money, immersed in virtual reality on its iPhone and iPad.

Samsung showed off a 100 million smartphones sold Galaxy S

Smartphone shipments flagship Samsung Galaxy S series have exceeded 100 million units. This was reported by Samsung in an official press release, noting that this result was achieved in 2 years and 7 months.

The original smartphone Galaxy S, released to compete with the iPhone 4, made his debut in 2010. This range of Samsung phones has allowed to become a manufacturer of mobile devices, the first order, directly competing with the world's leading IT-- Apple.

The most successful mobile gadgets Samsung has Galaxy S III. In the five months were sold 30 million of these devices, for 7 months - 40 million previous version Galaxy S II has sold 40 millionth edition 20 months. The first modification of Galaxy S has found 24 million customers. At present, according to official data, daily sold 190,000 vehicles line Galaxy S.

While Samsung and ahead of Apple from selling gadgets, "fruit" company confidently holds the title of most popular smartphone manufacturer. According to the results of the last fiscal year ending in September 2012, every day, buyers are on average about 342,000 iPhone different generations. The total number of iPhone, sold for more than 5 years since the release of the debut model iconic devices fall exceeded 270 million.

In 2013, Samsung is planning to put on the market for about 500 million mobile phones, more than three quarters of which will be smartphones. Analysts say that the results of 2012 the Korean vendor was first intercepted at Nokia rank the world's largest handset manufacturer.