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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 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]
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]
Flexible-working rights for parents extended
News Legislation dating from 2003 allowed parents with children under the age of six to request flexible-working conditions from employers, who were obliged to "seriously consider" such applications and reject them only if there were "good business...
[April 6, 2009, 17:19]
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]
Bank of Parents
Downloads Password protected Admin mode for Parents ATM Talks when being used (MacOSX)Allows Opening Balance to be set Supports Withdraws and Deposits Always shows current Balance Transaction description, date, and amount stored Allows negative balances for...
[May 4, 2004, 8:00]
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]
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]
Tech support for your parents review
Reviews Your parents can push all your buttons -- after all, they installed them. One way to give yourself an upper hand is to use remote control software to see what's going on with your parents' computer when you're on the phone with them.
[December 30, 2004, 13:20]
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]
IC3 Certification Boosts Potential and Opportunities for Students, Teachers, and Parents at Northern Arizona Junior High School
White Papers Students, school district teachers, and parents are now pursuing IC3 via night course for adults and their children. In 2005, the Holbrook Unified District School Board instituted new computer literacy requirements for 8th graders at Holbrook...
[June 16, 2006, 0:00]
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]
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]
PayPal card lets parents track student spending
Blog Online payments firm PayPal is offering US students a new service that links a PayPal-branded MasterCard to their parents' PayPal account. The Student Accounts service is designed to allow parents to track spending and provide extra funds to their...
[August 12, 2009, 16:02]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
