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Cool tech gets down with the kids

News Technology businesses need to monitor and be aware of such social trends if they hope to succeed - taking advantage of blogs, virtual worlds and online search summaries to help keep up with the kids - he said.

Tags: ipod, apple, virtual worlds

[23 Apr 2008]

E-payments: Cheap as chips

News K is for Kids The e-payment push is not only coming from the price of payment processing: virtual worlds are contributing to the drive to use electronic currencies such as Second Life's Linden dollar, with some unwanted consequences.

Tags: cash, singapore, contactless, gartner

[27 Nov 2007]

Social networking goes mainstream

AS Analysis Last year, second on the list was "the next generation" - aka kids growing up immersed in a web world of MySpaces and YouTubes. Keeping the kids happy is likely to be only the beginning of the story for this technology.

[12 Oct 2007]

Cheat Sheet: Social networking

Cheat Sheet I'm thinking this stuff is popular with kids… But it's not just kids getting into this stuff. Then there's virtual world-based social networks such as Second Life, which have their own currency and offer a variety of in-world money-making and...

Tags: myspace, facebook, social networking

[15 Jun 2007]

Beeb to open Second Life for kids

News Kids will be able to use the planned virtual world to access BBC content and create avatars to interact with characters from BBC children's programmes. The BBC is to open its own version of Second Life aimed at children, according to Auntie's website.

Tags: virtual world, second life, bbc

[24 Jan 2007]

'First Tuesday' dot-com booze n' schmooze is back

News There were a lot of kids straight out of school and a lot of ideas flying about but everybody is a lot sharper now. Michael Smith, founder of successful 'boys toys' website Firebox.com, and Judith Clegg, founder of networking group The Glasshouse...

[06 Feb 2006]

The Weekly Round-Up: 29.04.05

Round-Up Kiss your kids with that mouth? Going off on a bit of a tangent for a second, the Round-Up got the fright of its life this morning walking in to Silicon Towers. OK, you guessed it, the second part of that sentence was a lie.he really goes out in...

[29 Apr 2005]

Leader: Tagging <strong>kids</strong>

Leader: Tagging kids

Leader Expect lots more headmasters to sidle up to technology as a way to keep the kids in line. However, a major objection to children being tagged shouldn't necessarily be on the grounds of privacy, unless of course records such as biometric readings...

Tags: tagging, school, rfid

[21 Jan 2005]

The IT girl: millennium schmillennium

Comment START BY DELETING THE ONE TITLED: "KIDS WILL FRY IN EYE-MELTING HOLOCAUST"] And second, couldn't you tell I was joking? Well, am I ever glad we booked that log cabin to see out the millennium. As expected, there was a hell of a storm kicked up and...

[01 Feb 2000]

Police to use virtual reality to steer kids away from crime

News The police force intends to develop a second VR programme aimed at older teenagers, called The Life Simulator, which builds on and extends the scope of Crime Conquest. The Greater Manchester Police Force has launched a virtual reality (VR) scheme...

[09 Sep 1998]

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