Posted on November 30, 2007 by Izzy Neis
Sixty percent of kids 8-17 expect to 1) get a game they didn’t want or a game for a console they don’t have, or 2) not get any or all of the games they asked for, according to a study by Weekly Reader Research cited by USATODAY. It also found that 80% of kids said [...]
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Posted on November 30, 2007 by Izzy Neis
Celebrate the season with Windows Live™ Messenger and chat directly with Santa! Tell him what you want for Christmas, talk about life at the North Pole, and play holiday games with Howard the Elf.
Windows Live Messenger: Messenger Cafe
I thought this was cute– so passing it along to any of you with the tech-savvy tater [...]
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Posted on November 21, 2007 by Izzy Neis
A massive security breach involving the personal information of “virtually every child in Britain” has occurred in the United Kingdom, The Guardian reports. It “could expose the personal data of more than 25 million people – nearly half the country’s population,” CBS News reports. The data concerns “families with children, including names, dates of birth, [...]
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Posted on November 16, 2007 by Izzy Neis
If this doesn’t strike fear in the heart of tween parents everywhere… I don’t know what will. Please monitor SOMEHOW your kids tech usage… or at least talk to them about consequences of certain public choices, yeah? Thanks ahead of time.
p.s. I got that video off of the blog [...]
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