by Lynette Owens | Feb 4, 2011 | For Parents, For Teachers
By Lynette T. Owens It pleasantly surprised us a year ago when we launched our first user-generated video contest called What’s Your Story. The goal was to encourage young people to give advice to other young people about being safe online (to see last year’s...
by Lynette Owens | Jan 28, 2011 | For Parents, For Teachers
by Lynette T. Owens Online privacy has been a hotly debated topic for a while now, and it has intensified as greater numbers of people from multiple generations are finally adopting new devices and applications. When you start researching the issue, it can leave you...
by Lynette Owens | Jan 20, 2011 | For Parents, For Teachers
By Lynette T. Owens The 2011 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) was held in Las Vegas Convention Center this past January 6-9 and showcased everything from cars and robotic vacuum cleaners to holographic displays and advances in environmentally-friendly...
by Lynette Owens | Jan 6, 2011 | For Parents, For Teachers
By Lynette Owens Santa was very good to my kids this Christmas. They were thrilled to discover that even though they both asked for a Nintendo Wii, they awoke on December 25 to find an Xbox Kinect waiting for them. It is quite a leap from Atari joysticks and using...
by Lynette Owens | Dec 14, 2010 | For Parents, For Teachers
By Lynette T. Owens Today, we announced our membership to the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) based in the UK. This has enabled us to expand the fight we began earlier this year to stop the online distribution of child sexual abuse images when we became the first...
by Lynette Owens | Dec 9, 2010 | For Parents, For Teachers
By Lynette T. Owens The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is pushing for consumer privacy legislation that would give you the ability to stop websites from tracking your surfing habits. Sites track you partly to make your surfing experience easier – remembering what...
