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RSS children in newsFlexible working still a stigma, say techies
News Currently, only parents with children who are under six or disabled are entitled to request flexible working. However, earlier this year, the government announced plans to extend flexible working rights to all parents with children under the age of... [25 Jun 2008]
SMS snitch pilot targets knife crime in schools
News Posters (see image below) urge children to text details of potential offenders, such as their name, nickname, school and year. Talks and/or workshops are also conducted in the target schools to ensure children are fully informed. [03 Jun 2008]
Qwerty beats touch for smart phone fans
News The next generation of the $100 laptop - a project aiming to put low-cost laptops in the hands of children in the developing world - has also made a transition from keyboard to touchscreen interface. Qwerty keyboards find favour with the majority... [02 Jun 2008]
Mothercare web sales boom
News The children's clothing and equipment retailer said online sales from its Direct in Home website were up 19.7 per cent to £49.9m over the financial year, while Direct in Store sales, where internet purchases are made in the store were also up 43.5... [22 May 2008]
Google Android - winning apps are location-based
News LifeAware helps parents track children. Expect there to be at least one application incorporating location-based services in the upcoming Google Android phone. In accordance with the recent interest around location-based services, a wave of such... [20 May 2008]
OLPC's Sugar gets sweeter with Windows
News Microsoft was not part of the project started by Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Nicholas Negroponte to develop an inexpensive laptop computer for school children in developing countries. [16 May 2008]
IT sector: Not so bad after all
News Three-quarters of IT professionals would recommend an IT career to their children, a survey by careers website The IT Job Board has found. Bucking the current, gloomy economic outlook caused by the sub-prime lending crisis in the US, the majority... [15 May 2008]
Satyam spices up silver screen with latest effects
News The division has already teamed up with 4K to make Marvi Hämmer, a bilingual science magazine programme for children starring a 3D computer-animated rat. The glamour of Hollywood and the Indian outsourcing industry will collide on the big screen... [29 Apr 2008]
Tech to tackle India's poverty
News With the average rural Indian family of five living on less than $1.5 per day, 220 million malnourished children and 300 million illiterates in the Indian countryside, these opportunities are desperately needed. [23 Apr 2008]
Male-targeted mobiles hog market
News Mobile phones are designed by men for men, with women and children not getting a look in, according to analyst Gartner. Gartner is urging phone manufacturers to change their products to make them more appealing to women and children, who will be an... [10 Apr 2008]
Call to increase online data protection for teens
News The rules that limit websites and marketers from collecting data on children under 13 may spread to teens as old as 18 if a group of child advocates has its way. The group - which includes the American Academy of Pediatrics, Children Now, and the... [10 Apr 2008]
Who's on the wrong side of the UK digital divide?
News The MP also asked for information about the number of households containing children without access to the web. Interestingly, UK households with children are more likely to have internet access than childless homes - less than a third (24 per cent... [07 Apr 2008]
Mobile industry slams 'health time bomb' study
News He added: "It is anticipated that this danger has far broader public-health ramifications than asbestos and smoking, and directly concerns all of us, particularly the younger generation, including very young children. [02 Apr 2008]
More than 1,000 gov't laptops lost since 2001
News The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs lost 94 laptops, 10 mobile phones and 23 PDAs during the same period, while the Department for Children, Schools and Families revealed it has misplaced 84 laptops and 25 mobiles. [01 Apr 2008]
Mobile phones: A public health time bomb?
News It is anticipated that this danger has far broader public health ramifications than asbestos and smoking, and directly concerns all of us, particularly the younger generation, including very young children. [31 Mar 2008]
