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Video: OnlineFamily.Norton

by Matt on February 22, 2010

More information about OnlineFamily.Norton

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Kids’ Top 100 Searches of 2009

by Matt on January 3, 2010

Kids’ Top 100 Searches of 2009

YouTube, Google, and Facebook top the list
Sex and Porn round out the top 5
Kids spend most of their time searching for music related topics (30%), then TV/movie related topics (12%).
The most popular celebrity kids searched for was Michael Jackson. Taylor Swift came in second.
Team Jacob won over Team Edward, with [...]

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OnlineFamily.Norton

by Matt on December 23, 2009

OnlineFamily.Norton surveyed a whole lot of parents and put a great deal of thought into the core features needed to provide a robust communication-based tool that aims to bring you and your family closer together as you work to manage your online lifestyles.
Key features of OnlineFamily.Norton include:
Personal Profiles
Your child is unique. You can manage, update, [...]

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Rebecca Hagelin: The Death of Conscience

by Matt on August 4, 2009

Author and columnist, Rebecca Hagelin has written a wonderful article for http://townhall.com.
Our teenagers are more sexually active than any generation of youth before them. They also are consuming more pornography and compromising basic moral standards more often. It seems that many of them have lost not only their innocence, but their conscience, too.
The plethora of [...]

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Hackers don’t feel bad for your kids

by Tregaron on July 1, 2009

It is my opinion that in general people are becoming more aware of Internet threats and identity theft. Most of my associates would never have considered downloading and running something called checkmeout.exe, and I think that this cautious attitude is becoming more prevalent. Of course, this takes away a prime attack vector from [...]

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OpenDNS is the leading provider of free security services that make the Internet safer for your home, school, or business by integrating Web content filtering, anti-phishing and Domain Name Service (DNS).
Apart from being free, OpenDNS provides a simple yet powerful interface that allows parents to customize the Internet for their family.
OpenDNS provides more [...]

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KidZui, The Internet for Kids

by Tregaron on May 27, 2009

I have five children, aged from 5 to 13.  They are all pretty tech savvy and we have several computers in our home that they use.  One day some type of paper came home from school that was advertising KidZui.  It mentioned that it was free to try and my wife and I had been [...]

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Pete Cashmore from Mashable is reporting that some Facebook users are receiving messages with links to goldbase.be and other .be websites with the subject line of “Look at This”.
DO NOT click the links to any of these sites:
goldbase.be
greenbuddy.be
silvertag.be
picoband.be
According to Mashable, if you receive any of these Facebook messages you should delete the message, clear your [...]

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Blue Coat offers K9 Web Protection, a commercial-grade parental control and internet filtering package, free of charge.
K9 Web Protection helps parents protect their children online by preventing access to pornography, gambling, violence, and other dangerous content. It also monitors the sites that your children visit.
You can find out more information about K9 Web Protection [...]

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