kodomo® Introduces New Features Designed to Help Parents Gain Insight Into How Their Kids are Using Mobile Applications and Messaging

kodomo®, a next-generation application that gives parents the ability to monitor and manage their child’s mobile lifestyle on an Android® device, is introducing new features that will help parents gain insight and understanding into how their children use mobile applications and messaging.

The new kodomo version offers four distinct features:

1. Parental Newsfeed: The Newsfeed feature provides parents with continuous updates on the applications used on their children’s phones. Parents get up-to-minute summaries on what a child is doing on a device — and if they have multiple children, they can set separate feeds for each one.

2. SMS Monitoring: Parents can track with whom their children are text messaging by monitoring senders and recipients, as well as the number of messages being sent, on mobile devices.

3. Profanity Catcher: Trying to stop a child from using bad language, or at least tone it down? kodomo informs parents if the SMS messages being sent or received contain bad words.

4. Anti-Spyware Protection: kodomo protects user privacy and can’t be used to spy on other people. The child app always notifies the user that it is present.

Originally designed with a vision to help parents gain peace of mind in managing their families’ mobile lifestyles, kodomo is expanding to offer data and insight tools that aim to help parents build more trusting relationships with their children. The company’s groundbreaking features are designed to give parents data that they can use to have meaningful conversations with their children about excessive or unacceptable use of mobile devices, including phones and tablets.

"Our goal is to become the go-to, single application for parents who wish to keep their children safe, while also helping to guide them to healthy mobile habits,” said Bill Anderson, Chief Product Officer at OptioLabs. "While most parental apps help to block, track and control mobile usage, we want to empower parents with tools that will help them teach their kids how to use devices responsibly.”

To use kodomo, parents download and run the iPhone or Android kodomo parent app from the Google Play or iTunes store, and select the child phones they want to follow. kodomo sends a text with a link to install the child app on the child’s Android device. The kodomo parent app is designed for either an Android L (Android "Lollipop”) or iOS8 device, and the child application requires an Android L phone.

kodomo was created by OptioLabs, a developer of technology products that aim to make mobile devices more secure. The company is a subsidiary of Boston-based Allied Minds (LSE: ALM), an innovative U.S. science and technology development and commercialization company. More information about the product can be found at www.kodomozone.com. The new features will be available at the end of July.

About OptioLabs

kodomo is a product of OptioLabs, which develops transformational security products for the mobile enterprise and embedded systems. Led by a world-class team of technologists, and leveraging innovations developed for national security protocols, OptioLabs has pioneered game-changing advanced security solutions for the world’s leading mobile platforms. With offices in Baltimore and Nashville, Tennessee, OptioLabs customers include federal agencies, commercial enterprises, and device manufacturers. More information can be found at www.optiolabs.com.

About Allied Minds

Allied Minds (LSE: ALM) is an innovative U.S. science and technology development and commercialization company. Operating since 2006, Allied Minds forms, funds, manages and builds products and businesses based on innovative technologies developed at leading U.S. universities and federal research institutions. Allied Minds serves as a diversified holding company that supports its businesses and product development with capital, central management and shared services. More information about the Boston-based company can be found at www.alliedminds.com.

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