Tag: GIRLS

The conventional stereotypes of girls' involvement with technology are being assaulted from every angle these days, as more girls enter the tech industry and flock to games like 'World of Warcraft.' Now, the Lower East Side Girls Club is trying to change the perception that robotics engineering is just for the boys. Girlzilla was created by 11 girls from low-income families for the Howl! Arts ...

On top of all the natural insecurities and volatile emotions that characterize adolescence, you can now add the girlish gossip-mongering of the Facebook age, where high school dating drama follows gals home and the family laptop becomes the central location of anxiety, woe, and "Oh no, she di-int." Granted, they may just want to have fun, but growing girls don't always have an easy time of it. ...

If the Acer Aspire One netbook above makes you feel uncomfortable, even angry, then you're probably not a Japanese school-girl. Hell, even if you are we hope you have the good sense not to paste stuffed animals, taffeta, and frills to your Atom-based netbook. That's what UMPCs are for. ...

When it comes to careers in tech, it's still a man's world. According to Susan Merritt, the dean of the computer science program at Pace University in New York, only 10 percent of computing majors are women. One of the suggested reasons for such low interest among women could be that, as kids, boys are more likely to be interested in video games than girls, and gaming activity often leads to an ...

We've previously posted about the 'Barbie Girls' virtual world being slapped together by Mattel as a 'Second Life'-esque haven for teens and tweens. Now, the site has entered beta mode and something surprising has happened: The service has racked up three million registered users in 60 days and is still growing. The service is signing up roughly 50,000 new users a day, a growth rate that far ...