• Baby care app reveals surprising truths about modern fatherhood

    In an era where parenting roles are continuously evolving, Onoco, the award-winning AI-driven baby care app, has conducted research that challenges views of fatherhood. This research, based on an analysis of over 6 million feedings and 4 million nappy changes, uncovers surprising insights into the actual role of dads in early childcare.

    Revealing Findings: Dads, More Than Just a Helping Hand?

    The analysis presents a complex picture of modern fatherhood. In the first 6 weeks, fathers were responsible for 26% of bottle feedings. However, this involvement decreased to 22.95% for children under 3 months, suggesting a decline in paternal engagement as the child grows. On the nappy-changing front, dads were involved in just 19.35% of the instances in the first year. This anonymised data, excluded single caregiver families to focus on shared parenting dynamics. While families with multiple mums or dads were included, their relatively low representation in the dataset indicates their impact on the overall results is minimal. Are modern dads as involved as we think, or are they merely scratching the surface of their potential in childcare?

    The Onoco Effect: A Catalyst for Change

    Onoco – Shared Baby tracker, featured by Apple as an App of the Day and named a “lifesaver” by parents in reviews, has been pivotal in reshaping the narrative of shared parenting. User testimonials rave about its impact, with one parent sharing, “Onoco’s real-time logging and shared access has been a game changer, ensuring both of us are equally informed and involved.” But the question remains – is technology enough to bridge the gap in shared parenting responsibilities?

    A Societal Shift or Surface-Level Involvement?

    While the data shows fatherly involvement, it also highlights a discrepancy between expectation and reality. Despite advancements in parental leave policies, the actual involvement of fathers remains inconsistent. The UK, for instance, has extended paternity leave options, yet the uptake of these leaves could be much higher. Societal expectations, workplace cultures, and financial implications play significant roles in these decisions. This disparity between policy and practice underscores the need for a broader cultural shift to fully embrace the role of fathers in childcare. This issue requires more than some flexibility in when to take two weeks of paternity leave or the new change in Statutory Paternity Leave (SPL) and Pay (SPP) that will take effect from 6 April 2024. It requires bold reform to change ingrained attitudes in the workplace and society as to the gender divide in childcare.

    A Call to Action for More Equitable Parenting

    Onoco’s CEO, Margaret Zablocka, emphasizes the importance of evolving our perception of fatherhood and recognizing the significant role dads already play in parenting: “It’s time to redefine fatherhood beyond traditional stereotypes. Our data shows fathers start challenging outdated norms. To further this progress, policymakers must introduce improved paternity leave policies. Such changes would ensure the promotion of a more balanced and equitable approach to family responsibilities.”

  • Launch of news Crypto Card Mini App in Binance Marketplace

    World’s leading crypto payment gateway, Alchemy Pay, just launched its Crypto Card Mini app in Binance Marketplace in collaboration with Binance Pay.

    Alchemy Pay said it is giving away 1,000,000 vouchers, allowing users to secure the crypto card for only $0.01 and offering 2,595,000 $ACH as rewards for new users’ recharging and spending activities. The crypto card supports end-users to spend crypto like fiat currency anytime, anywhere, across multiple scenarios with their preferred brands.

    Now, users can obtain a discount voucher reducing the standard $1 application fee to just $0.01 when entering the Binance Marketplace. They need only search “Crypto Card,” for them to access the Crypto Card mini app with the discount applied automatically at checkout.

    The promotional period runs from December 2023 to February 2024. Alongside the application fee discount, users also enjoy 2.5% discounted top-up fee rate without any recharge limits.

    Additionally, new users can receive a 100 $ACH token voucher upon recharging $50 or more to their crypto card, and earn up to 25,000 $ACH rewards through crypto card spending. 

    Alchemy Pay’s robust payment network encompassing over 300 fiat channels across 173 countries. It is the leading name in the crypto payment industry, while it offers fast, secure, and cost-effective cross-border transactions.

    Moreover, Alchemy Pay has built a strong track record of obtaining licenses across the United States, Canada, Indonesia, and Lithuania, with the recent addition of a Money Transmitter License license and Money Service License in the USA. 

  • Spy Phone App

    The Android app Spy Phone App now can be found under the name Spapp Monitoring. This rebranding of the product changed also the url of the website. The url of the website was changed from https://www.spy-phone-app.com/ to https://www.spappmonitoring.com/. All of the Spapp Monitoring clients will be redirected to the new website. This rebrand represents a significant step in the company’s evolution. Spapp Monitoring offers a 3 days free trial that comes with all the features of the app.

    Spapp Monitoring, formally known as Spy Phone App, is a complete monitoring solution used for tracking Android cell phones. With over three million users, Spapp Monitoring is one of the most used mobile tracking app. The mobile app can be used by parents for monitoring their teenager child or by employers for employee monitoring. As a parent, ensuring your child is safe and healthy should be your first priority. This application also makes work easy for any supervisor as it tracks the employees working time.

    The extensive rebranding effort also included adding new tracking features to Spapp Monitoring. From 2020, Spapp Monitoring is able to record phone calls even for Android 10. Spapp Monitoring requires Accessibility access for recording calls on Android 10. Accessibility access is not needed only for call recording but also for sent social media messages. With Accessibility access and Notification access, Spapp Monitoring is also able to track all social media messages, even without Root, for apps like WhatsApp, Facebook, Snapchat, Instagram and many others.

    The Android 10 Phone Call Recording is included in the latest version 15.0 of Spapp Monitoring. Before Spapp Monitoring version 15.0 it is possible that all phone call recordings were silent. From Spapp Monitoring version 15.0 it is still possible to have silent phone call recordings even if you enable the Accessibility access. This is why we recommend that you display a notification for the app. If Spapp Monitoring is visible when it records the call, the app may have a higher priority to record the phone call. Only one recording process is allowed on Android.

    What is new in the latest Spapp Monitoring version 15.0 :

    • Access to all cell phone calls; this includes phone call recording for Android 10 or even Android 11.
    • Get incoming messages from WhatsApp when you are in chat – without no message notification posted. – before this incoming messages were tracked only if they appear in notification. If you are in chat, you will not see a notification. More info on these pages: Whatsapp Spy and Whatsapp Hack
    • Get incoming chat messages from Facebook when you are in chat – even if no notification is posted. More info on this page Facebook Spy
    • Get incoming chat messages from Snapchat when you are in chat – even if no notification is posted. More info on this page Snapchat Spy
    • KakaoTalk chat messages without ROOT.
    • imo chat messages without ROOT.
    • Zalo chat messages without ROOT.
    • Discord chat messages without ROOT.
    • Messenger Lite chat messages without ROOT.
    • Support for the new version of Hike Sticker Chat – Fun & Expressive Messaging.
    • TikTok messages without ROOT.
    • ZOOM messages without ROOT.
    • Pinterest messages without ROOT.
    • Likee messages without ROOT.
    • WhatsApp Business messages without ROOT.
    • Improved support for website tracking for Chrome, Samsung Internet or other browsers.
    • Added browser tracking for Opera browser beta, Web Browser & Fast Explorer, Kiwi Browser, Mint Browser, Via Browser, Browser for Android, Quick Browser, DuckDuckGo Privacy Browser, Brave Privacy Browser, UC Browser Turbo, Phoenix Browser and Microsoft Edge

    It is your responsibility to use the application legally, including for call recording on Android 10. We recommend to display a notification for Spapp Monitoring. This notification will be shown on the mobile phone( notifying the user that he is tracked and that its activity on the phone can be viewed remotely), making this application not usable as a spy app – hidden app. You are not able to use this application as a spying application where you spy on a person without his or her consent. To spy a mobile phone could be a federal offence and it is very important to understand this, you must always check the laws in your country. In general installing a monitoring app for parental control is legal but we still recommend checking a few laws in your country or state. There are some states where to legally record a phone call, you must inform both parties of the conversation.

  • How apps on mobile phones are changing Zimbabwe’s talk radio

    Artist Kudakwashe Chigodo poses for a portrait with his smartphone in Harare.
    Jekesai Njikizana/AFP/Getty Images

    Stanley Tsarwe, University of Zimbabwe

    In Africa, radio still has wider geographical reach and higher audiences than any other information and communication technology, including television and newspapers.

    Like the rest of the world, African radio is breaking away from being an analogue communication tool that relies on top down information flows to one that relies on multiple feedback loops. The main driver of this is digital media technologies.

    It’s a trend I examine in a paper called Mobile Phones and a Million Chatter: Performed Inclusivity and Silenced Voices in Zimbabwean Talk Radio. I wanted to observe what is really happening at the convergence between radio, smartphones and related mobile-based applications such as WhatsApp, Facebook and Twitter.

    I found that apps like WhatsApp have indeed grown public discourse by connecting more voices to participate in live talkback radio – but this came with new challenges as newsrooms experience an oversupply of digital information from audiences.

    A radio station in Harare

    I set out to study a local radio station in Harare, the capital of Zimbabwe through live studio ethnography and sustained interviews with radio producers and 21 audience members, the latter largely working class Harare residents.

    Unsurprisingly, both producers and audiences found the convergence between radio and mobile phones is stretching out the communicative space. It allows more inclusive, seamless and real time debate between radio hosts and audiences. There was a strong feeling that radio continues to inculcate a sense of imagined community. One producer said:

    Because we have a dedicated mobile line for WhatsApp, our programme has grown a bit in popularity and we know some of our listeners in person. Some of them visit us during the day just to explain a point discussed in the previous show or even to give us story leads.

    And one of the listeners told me:

    I tune in to radio through my mobile phone while I am selling vegetables on the market. I know that my neighbour is listening to this show also.

    Apps like WhatsApp have become so pervasive and immersed in our everyday lives that many more people can now easily communicate with larger numbers of contacts than before. In the context of live talk radio, mobile phones are allowing more people to cheaply and conveniently access studio debates.

    Prior to the emergence of digital media technologies, land lines were expensive and not nearly as widely domesticated as mobile phones are today.




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    By 2017, WhatApp was already by far the most popular app in Zimbabwe. It accounts for up to 44% of all mobile internet usage in a country where 98% of all internet usage is mobile. According to Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe, promotional WhatsApp and Facebook access bundles, marketed by the country’s mobile operators, are helping drive up use of these platforms.

    The digital downside

    However, there’s also a downside to the advent of digital media technologies and digitalised newsrooms. Observing live studio shows I witnessed a number of structural constraints.

    For example, while radio audiences may celebrate the possibilities of easily sending critical questions via WhatsApp to studio hosts, an apparently unintended consequence was that the journalist managing live studio debates struggled to read out all the messages received. The studio WhatsApp number commonly becomes congested.

    Some messages and comments are left unread and get buried under an avalanche of newer ones popping up on the screen, in turn buried under even newer ones. Once this happens, it’s hard to tell how many quality contributions have been lost by not being read. So not all voices reaching the studio get a fair chance of being heard.

    I call these unintended constraints, though, because they are not necessarily a result of failure by journalists and producers. They are more a technical setback in which an oversupply of information via dedicated WhatsApp lines eluded even the most astute radio presenter.




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    In addition, some messages reaching the studio WhatsApp channel were so badly typed that they would be set aside, the journalist preferring to read out only well-typed messages. Newsroom pressures and deadlines associated with broadcast media mean that there isn’t the luxury of spending too much time on one question.

    In mass communication studies, these are seen as exclusionary practices in live radio talkback shows.

    Democratising the airwaves

    Democracy is normatively seen as thriving in environments where all voices, opinions and views across diverse population profiles are respected and given a fair chance of representation.

    My study showed that, at least in terms of volume, the convergence between radio and mobile phones is stretching out the public sphere to accommodate more voices.

    Digital technologies are allowing for new participants to engage actively with radio.The Conversation

    Stanley Tsarwe, Journalism Lecturer, University of Zimbabwe

    This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article.