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Hopster to leap into kid-friendly streaming in November

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Hopster to leap into kid-friendly streaming in November


Hopster to leap into kid-friendly streaming in November

Posted: 26 Sep 2013 09:43 AM PDT

(Credit: Hopster)

A new company out of the UK has designs on becoming the Netflix for children.

Named Hopster, the company plans to launch an ad-free television and learning application for iOS in November, Nick Walters, its founder and a former Viacom executive, revealed to All Things Digital on Thursday. The service, which will be designed for kids between the ages of 2 and 6, will launch in the UK, but could make its way to other countries at some point.

According to Walters, his service will launch with 800 episodes of popular kids shows such as "Babar" and "Paddington Bear." It'll also feature kid-friendly games. He told AllThingsD that Hopster has so far raised a little over $1 million, and will charge customers between $8 and $10 per month to access the service. At its onset, the service will be available exclusively as an iOS app.

Walters didn't say when -- or even if -- the service will be coming to the US.

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iPhone, iPad owners complain of motion sickness due to iOS 7

Posted: 26 Sep 2013 05:49 AM PDT

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At least some of the 200 million people that have downloaded iOS 7 to this point aren't so pleased with what they've found.

Apple's iPhone and iPad owners have been taking to the company's forums over the past week to complain about iOS 7's new parallax and zoom features. Many of the folks in the forum said that they've experienced motion sickness, vertigo, nausea, and headaches due to the motion on-screen.

"The zoom animations everywhere on the new iOS 7 are literally making me nauseous and giving me a headache," one forum poster wrote last week. "It's exactly how I used to get car sick if I tried to read in the car."

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