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RSS kidsDoing the Right Thing: How Electronic Age Verification Protects Kids Online
White Paper As a society, it has established and lives by a set of rules designed to keep merchandise and services intended for adults out of the reach of children. In most states, alcohol sales are restricted to anyone under 21 and 18 to buy tobacco. [13 Nov 2009]
Who do you trust when you're spending your IT budget?
News While UK businesses may be social media whizz kids, when they're choosing their supplier for a new product or services, old school is best. When it comes to deciding how to spend a hard-won portion of the IT budget, who... [28 Oct 2009]
Acorn co-founder on the BBC Micro and the early days of personal computing
Comment There is not an equivalent open platform today where you can construct something Meccano-style, for example to interest kids. Andy Hopper is co-founder of the iconic Acorn Computers and currently head of the computer... [07 Oct 2009]
Looking Beyond the Open Source and SaaS Marketing Hype: Why Fast and Cheap ECM Deployment Is a Bad Idea
White Paper The new kids on the block have been getting a lot of press lately as they scramble to find their niche. If one listens to the marketing hype, Open Source and SaaS ECM seem almost too good to be true. And on the surface,... [02 Oct 2009]
Are dinosaur managers and poor teaching holding back Digital Britain?
News There's a fundamental shift needed to make kids of that age realise this is a great profession to go into. But if UK kids are technophiles in their spare time, they are technophobes at school - and this... [23 Sep 2009]
IBM Cognos Is the Glue That Brings Management and Clinical Departments Together at the Bloorview Kids Rehab Center
White Paper Bloorview Kids Rehab, known as Bloorview, is Canada's largest children's rehabilitation hospital. In 2002, Bloorview partnered with the University of Toronto to become Canada's first teaching hospital in children's... [01 Sep 2009]
Kids today: Don't fear the Millennials at work
Comment Myth 2: Millennials are egotistical 'trophy kids', cosseted by their parents and demanding constant praise. After working in schools, Richard Leyland tells a different story. I'm sure you've heard the familiar scare... [24 Aug 2009]
PayPal goes plastic with debit cards aimed at students - and their parents
News PayPal on Tuesday introduced a new service for parents with kids who are in high school or college. The parent acts as the provider and can funnel money in whenever they feel like it at predetermined dates, or at the... [12 Aug 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 07.08.09
Round-Up First up, while you might be smarting from the swingeing cuts to your IT budget ('what do you mean we can't afford iPhones for all the work experience kids? When T.S. Eliot wrote "April is the cruellest month" he had... [07 Aug 2009]
There's just one problem with tablets: No one wants them
Comment Perhaps a generation of kids will grow up that are as speedy on a virtual keyboard as they are on a real one, but until then anyone who does more than write quick emails and Twitter messages on a computer will want to... [05 Aug 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 03.07.09
Round-Up Then again, most festival goers are equipped with smartphones to send video clips to their mates and tweet about all the great bands they've seen, and a GPS to find their tent after a day of moshing, so really this is just the BBC... [03 Jul 2009]
The tech that lifts Pixar's Up
News We all know, from kids' parties, how a bunch of balloons behave, so if we could animate balloons in a realistic way, the believability that the house could fly would sell. If you want to consider a difficult... [28 May 2009]
Minority Report: Laptop Hunters on a par with drunken uncles
Comment They're way too much money, dude," says an eye-rolling soccer mom to her 11-year-old son, adding, "Macs are popular with kids his age". Rather than championing Windows, Microsoft's latest TV ads reveal the company's deep... [23 Apr 2009]
Microsoft Office Live: Jack Canfield Presents the Success Principles - 7 Ways to Boost Your Business, Just by Asking
White Paper Kids are masters at using this gift but adults seem to lose their ability to ask. The gift called asking has been around for a long, long time. In fact, one of life's fundamental truths states, ask and one shall receive. [01 Apr 2009]
Identity crisis for £1.2bn e-Borders system?
News K is for Kids Weaknesses in a £1.2bn computer system to track journeys into the UK could allow undesirable individuals to slip into the country, a security expert has claimed. From 2010 the e-Borders system will cross... [30 Mar 2009]
