We are happy today to announce that  KIDO’Z  has joined  the Intel® Software Partner Program, a set of premium Intel services to help partners expand their sales, reach and increase customer confidence through Intel® Certified Solutions Program.

Being an Intel Software Partner increases the credibility of KIDO’Z and adds a certification to the commitment to quality which we have.

The collaboration with Intel offers us incredible advantages including  access to unique powerful tools that we use to innovate and optimise our solution and make the KIDO’Z platform even better.

The KIDO’Z application today is getting  a significant upgrade with the new release of the Adobe Air 2 runtime.

The (Great !!!!) Adobe team, which we  have worked closely with in the past months, helped to solve some KIDO’Z specific issues and made a huge improvements in the overall performance. All of that enables us to deliver now even better online experience for millions of  kids around the globe.

More Power:

The KIDO’Z Application now uses less CPU and up to 30% less memory.

This means that users should see an immediate improvement in performance, particularly on less powerful machines.

More Speed:

Adobe AIR 2 has an improved JavaScript engine which works up to twice as fast as the old one. This means that many of  your child’s  favorite sites will now work  faster and more efficiently with the KIDO’Z Browser.

More Stability

A new integrated browser together with some major bugs fixing, improves KIDO’Z's stability and eliminates all crashing issues that some of you had when browsing certain sites.

To take advantage of the new Adobe Air 2, simply go to:
http://get.adobe.com/air/ and upgrade.

(No need to upgrade the KIDO’Z application)

Have we got news for you!

The former National Geographic Kids Entertainment (NGKE) President and Founder, Donna Friedman Meir, has just joined the KIDO’Z Leading Team in the role of Chief of Content and Strategy.

Donna is a top kids’ entertainment executive, power mom and Harvard University Magna Cum Laude Graduate. She was even named one of the top 25 most powerful women in television by Electronic Media in 2002!

Donna’s professional background spans more than two decades in the Kids’ Entertainment industry, and prior to National Geographic Kids, she was the Executive Vice-President of Programming at Kids’ WB! and held several senior posts at Nickelodeon, where she made a huge impact in the organization.

She currently lives in New Jersey with her husband Gadi and her two kids, Alyla and Joss, who are founding (and passionate!) members of the KIDO’Z community.

Donna’s expertise in the Kids’ Entertainment industry will add tremendous value in shaping the content and overall creative strategy for KIDO’Z, to ensure that it becomes the leading content platform for kids on the web.

Donna joining the KIDO’Z Team comes at an opportune time, as we will be launching the latest KIDO’Z version (v2.0) later this month! This version will bring users even more exciting features, tools and content, and Donna will be instrumental in making sure that both kids and parents are delighted, excited, educated and entertained even more than ever before!

There has been a huge media buzz around this announcement all weekend long.

To take a look at our full media press release, please click here.

Have a great week!

Nici, KIDO’Z