CNN: For parents and other adults who feel frustrated by computers and the fact that their kids seem so much savvier, there is some interesting news. According to a recent study, parents are more web savvy than their teenage kids. The study revealed that teenagers have “poor reading skills, unsophisticated research strategies and a ‘dramatically’ [...]
Filed under: Internet on January 31st, 2005 | No Comments »
InfoWorld: Google has hired two programmers of the Firefox Mozilla brower recently. The browser shouldn’t be too drastically affected since the programmers will continue to also work on Firefox as well as Google projects.
There’s only two reasons Google would hire these guys. 1) They’re brilliant, or 2) Google is working on developing a Google Browser. [...]
Filed under: Google on January 27th, 2005 | No Comments »
BBC: online journals of children potentially provide many details to pedophiles. Details such as personal information and pictures from mobile phones to identify the kid and make him or her a target. The increasing popularity of moblogs (blogs with mobile phone pictures) only makes kids more vulnerable.
Pedophiles haven’t grown in number but the resources they [...]
Filed under: Uncategorized on January 26th, 2005 | No Comments »
CNN: Don’t go to prison in Missouri. You will not be allowed to play video games.
Violent inmates will no longer be able to play out their violent fantasies in video games, such as Hitman: Contracts, according to the new law the governor passed.
Filed under: Uncategorized on January 25th, 2005 | No Comments »
By the end of 2006, no tv station, broadcast or cable, will be transmitting in analog format. The FCC created this deadline several years ago, but did leave a “loophole”. The digital broadcasting will only go into effect at the end of 2006 if 85% or more of households have at least one TV capable [...]
Filed under: Uncategorized on January 21st, 2005 | No Comments »