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News Roundup: Are your kids safe online?
News If we stop them using what is currently available perhaps the kids themselves will develop a peer-to-peer messenging system which bypasses Yahoo! for the way in which it runs its instant messaging service and chatrooms.
[November 13, 2000, 14:01]
News Burst: Government site links kids to sex and drugs - report
News But the site links to Internet resources some say is inappropriate for kids, such as a "virtual surgery" discussing sexually transmitted diseases and drug addiction, according to the Mail on Sunday. A government Web site designed for schools is...
[October 23, 2000, 14:03]
Aussie public still behind PCs for Kids
News More than a month after Microsoft took on a small Australian charity, the issue remains in the spotlight, with public support firmly behind PCs for Kids, according to a recent survey. A ZDNet poll has shown that of nearly 1500 responses, 74 percent...
[August 20, 2001, 8:30]
ISP launches monitored chatroom for kids
News But half of the issue is that kids can go off to sites like Yahoo! British ISP Supanet has entered the minefield of online child protection, launching a fully monitored chatroom service designed to ensure that children are shielded from unsavoury...
[June 25, 2001, 11:05]
Digital music a hit with kids
News Several companies were showing off devices that allowed kids to download music clips off the Internet and then carry them around or digitally morph them. And Cybiko, which has developed a handheld device for kids that allows them to communicate...
[February 15, 2000, 10:01]
E-learning project hooks school kids up to the stars
News The main problem with teaching school children astronomy is that much practial work can only be done at night, when parents want their kids home and in bed. Australia is set to play a role in the education of British school children, as they use...
[May 17, 2002, 8:54]
Paris unlocks open source for kids
News To help make kids aware of alternatives to proprietary software, the Ile-de-France (greater Paris) region will be giving 175,000 schoolchildren and apprentices a USB-key loaded with open-source software.
[February 6, 2007, 14:18]
AOL launches kids channel
News The Kids Only Channel will feature content from the New York Times, MysteryNet, ePlay, Time for Kids, and others. Parents can send their children to the channel by default by using parental controls.
[March 11, 1999, 16:43]
The Web is wonderful for kids
News Far from being a tool of the devil, the Internet is a great technology that helps kids develop and also builds family relationships, according to a new study from the National School Boards Foundation.
[March 29, 2000, 10:14]
Safe Surfing test proposed to protect kids
News Concerns over the dangers of children accessing Internet chatrooms surfaced last Tuesday when Carol Vorderman launched an attack on the government for its apathy in protecting kids online. He asserted that "chatrooms can be an interesting way of...
[January 30, 2001, 15:36]
Kiwi kids most at risk from Internet dangers
News New Zealand's teenage girls feel more threatened by Net predators than surfing kids in the UK and America, a new study reveals Thursday. A forthcoming UK report by the Internet Crime Forum (ICF) purports that "around 20 percent of Internet chatroom...
[March 9, 2001, 7:20]
'Smart' tech toys for kids of all ages
News And the more kids are exposed to computers, the more they become part of their role play and eventually their lifestyle as they grow up," said Rice. Lego Mindstorms is the division of Lego that develops new technologies for kids to build and...
[July 20, 2000, 13:24]
US stricter than Europe at monitoring kids online
News American children are more likely than European kids to have their activities on the Web monitored by parents according to a global survey on Internet use amongst young people. Nearly three in ten American children also report some form of parental...
[November 29, 2000, 15:04]
A Year Ago: Parents are worried about kids on the Web
News The Internet may hold extraordinary promise for children, but their parents also carry deep fears about its possible influence, says a new survey released today about kids and computers. People trust their kids with the Internet, but they don't...
[May 4, 2000, 7:01]
US survey: Parents are worried about kids on the Web
News People trust their kids with the Internet, but they don't trust the Internet with their kids. Turow said 39 percent of parents can be described as "online worriers," who are convinced of both the happy and scary elements of the Internet and most...
[May 4, 1999, 11:41]
British kids' awareness of Internet dangers has increased
News Kids may believe that they will play safe on the Internet and not give out information about themselves to someone that they don't know, but a paedophile will deliberately lead a child through a careful set of steps that gradually lures them into...
[July 31, 2001, 17:17]
Comdex Fall: HP system 'TRAKs' down missing kids
News The system is called TRAK and is based on a Hewlett Packard system made up of PC, scanner, and high-quality printer. TRAK's Robert Asquith told ZDNet News: "We are a non-profit making organisation set up by some concerned people in Silicon Valley...
[November 19, 1997, 11:28]
Time Computers to donate computers to kids
News UK schoolchildren are to be given a helping hand getting wired by Time Computers, which announced Tuesday that it is to donate as much as £35m in software and hardware to kids. The initiative, organised with the help of The Times Education...
[September 29, 1999, 10:23]
Nuggets: Torture your kids with a TIC
News Don't worry if you don't trust your kids not to try and circumvent it -- there's a series of LED lights that show if the unit has been tampered with, or whether an unauthorised person has tried to reprogram it.
[February 1, 2000, 6:08]
The Week in Review: The kids are all wired
News It's 'hold the front page' time: Intel is going to concentrate on making chips in 2003. Chief exec Craig Barrett told the Intel Developer Forum that some $2bn will be invested in new fabrication plants, in the non-stop push for cheaper and faster...
[February 21, 2003, 16:48]
