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Parents To Sue Tech Firms For Child Murders
News The parents of three high-school students who were murdered at school in Kentucky are claiming the entertainment industry and media violence inspired the killer to murder their children. The parents will file a $130m (£79m) lawsuit in US District...
[April 14, 1999, 8:47]
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. The survey results, being released today in America, suggest...
[May 4, 2000, 7:01]
Parents Shun Web Filtering Tools
News Only one-third of parents use filtering tools to control their child's access to the Web because they think they are too complicated. According to research published yesterday by the BBC, the Broadcasting Standards Commission (BSC) and the...
[September 24, 2002, 10:50]
One Of Europe’s Largest Amusement Parks Deploys A Wi-Fi-Based RFID System That Helps Parents Retrieve Children Who Have Wandered Off
White Papers Legoland Denmark attracts around 1.6 million visitors annually, and each season, the theme park’s staff is called upon to help locate approximately 1,600 children that have become separated from their parents.
[June 25, 2004, 0:00]
US Survey: Parents Are Worried About Kids On The Web
News The survey results, being released today in America, suggest a Jekyll-and-Hyde view by parents of the Internet, where graphic sexual photos are merely mouse-clicks away from children's Web sites. The new study divides parents into three groups...
[May 4, 1999, 11:41]
Child Accuses Parents Of Selling Him On The Net
News A 14-year-old boy from Virginia has sensationally accused his own parents of selling him on the Internet in August for just $400 (£250). The youth reportedly told investigating authorities that a number of his siblings had also been exchanged over...
[October 18, 1999, 9:53]
Eidos Faces Lawsuit From Columbine Parents
News Eidos, the UK company that created Lara Croft and the Final Fantasy computer game series warned on Wednesday that it was facing a £3.4bn lawsuit from the parents of the teenagers killed in the Columbine massacre of 1999.
[June 6, 2001, 16:49]
Texts Alert Parents To School Closures
News Fife Council has begun to use SMS and email to inform parents when schools are forced to close because of extreme weather The service is powered by the council's website, Fife Direct, which sends either a text message or email to the 1,600 parents...
[August 6, 2004, 14:55]
School District Partners With Parents For Students~ Success
White Papers When the school board chartered the district to improve communications with parents by providing a variety of services and information online, the Anoka-Hennepin technology team began to evaluate solutions.
[July 5, 2006, 0:00]
Identity Management Solution Keeps Parents In Large Minnesota School District Informed
White Papers The district strongly encourages parents to get actively involved in their children's education, but a mixed software and hardware infrastructure made it difficult to offer parents access to relevant student and school program information.
[September 28, 2007, 0:00]
Parents Win Right To Demand Flexible Working
News Parents are being encouraged back to the workplace with new legislation that will allow them to demand more flexible working hours from employers. From April, parents of children aged under six, or of disabled children aged under 18, will have the...
[January 3, 2003, 13:59]
7th Level Lets Parents Censor Game Content
News The game will be released on Friday and allows parents to adjust the language and conversations based around the Pet Detective character. There is a long tradition of game censorship in titles such as Infocom's Leather Godesses of Phobos text...
[November 6, 1996, 10:11]
School Board In Ontario Offers Innovative Web-Based Solution To Help Students, Faculty And Parents Collaborate Effectively
White Papers Superior-Greenstone District School needed to be able to use the full potential of Internet-based technology to improve the services it delivers to students, parents, administrators and teachers. The school wanted to improve information...
[March 16, 2007, 23:00]
A Year Ago: British Parents See Internet's Corrupting Influence
News Despite the lack of monitoring, parents claim to be concerned about what their offspring are getting up to online. The survey -- conducted on behalf of computer security firm Symantec -- finds that on average half the time British children spend...
[June 7, 2001, 6:28]
Tech Support For Your Parents
Talkback If any child (or "friend") of mine switched on automatic Windows Updates on my computer I would kill him (or her).
[January 6, 2005, 9:57]
British Parents See Internet's Corrupting Influence
News Despite the lack of monitoring, parents claim to be concerned about what their offspring are getting up to online. The survey -- conducted on behalf of computer security firm Symantec -- finds that on average half the time British children spend...
[June 7, 2000, 10:01]
Messaging Solution Boosts Communication Among Students, Educators, And Parents
White Papers For three years, the School District of Philadelphia worked with Microsoft Consulting Services and Drexel University to build the School of the Future. Designed to support about 750 students over the next few years, the school opened its doors to...
[February 14, 2007, 23:00]
Okanagan-Skaha School District And Cisco Solutions Empower Teachers, Students, & Parents
White Papers The British Columbia school district encompasses 19 schools. Boardwalk Communications, wanted to replace its expensive public telephone network and overhaul its aging data network, made up of a hodgepodge of platforms and systems.
[February 19, 2005, 23:00]
Do Video Games Make Children Violent?
Talkback The parents who buy their underage children the game The parents who fail to monitor what games their children are playing The parents who fail to teach their children the difference between reality and fantasy
[March 4, 2005, 15:17]
Study: New Mums Apt To Alter Web Habits
News Women change their Web habits more than men when they become parents, according to a new study by an Internet market research group. The study examined the surfing habits of people who had become new parents in the past six months or were expecting...
[September 27, 2002, 16:45]
