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KIDO’Z now with more power, speed and stability

Sunday, June 13th, 2010

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)

New outfits in KIDO’Z

Wednesday, February 10th, 2010

Hi All

Just a quick note to let you know about the new outfits we  have just added.

The items can be found in the shirts and trousers sections when editing the avatar.

For those of you that are not familiar with avatar editing, it can be done by navigating from the main menu on the bottom to “Places” and then pressing on the “Edit” button.

The new outfits are  available  for our KIDO’Z PLUS subscribers only.

For more details about KIDO’Z PLUS and how to upgrade please click here.

KIDO’Z Takes Kids on an English Learning Adventure

Monday, February 1st, 2010

Kids and parents get ready for the English learning adventure of a lifetime!

If you would like your kid to learn and develop English skills (whether its as a foreign language or as a first language), or if you are running a school’s English program, then this exciting new venture is likely to interest you!

We at KIDO’Z are proud to announce our premium partnership with Adventure City. What this means for you and your kids is that they can now learn English from the basic ABC skills right up to reading and writing..and all in the safe and kid-friendly environment of KIDO’Z.

This partnership is the perfect match - giving this interactive kids’ learning program its ideal home in an interactive, safe and user-friendly kids’ environment.

Adventure City is an online learning environment for young learners of English as a foreign language or as a first language, and is suitable for kids age 4-12 years old.

Adventure City is home to hundreds of interactive educational tools, activities, games and stories for kids - promoting stimulation, learning and fun. There are different learning levels from beginner to intermediate, and kids don’t even have to have any prior English/computer skills to use the program.

It is a remarkable tool for both school learning and at-home supplementary learning for kids, as it can be used in conjunction with any English learning program.

And now, this unique educational program can be found in KIDO’Z as one of the KIDO’Z Premium Packages.

All KIDO’Z users are automatically given a trial version of Adventure City for 7 days to test out and explore the program. This trial version is available exclusively for KIDO’Z users.

Then, to sign up to the Adventure City Premium Package, parents/educators simply need to join for a small monthly/annual fee. This can be done easily through the KIDO’Z Parental Control Account.

If you have any comments or questions on the Adventure City Package, please contact us at info@kidoz.net and we will respond asap.

Begin your child’s first English adventure now!