Tag: PARENTAL CONTROLS

Nobody is surprised anymore that "sex" and "porn" are always in the top ten search terms. So why is it news that kids are routinely searching out the naughty stuff online, as well? According to Symantec, which used its OnlineFamily.Norton service to track 3.5 million kids' searches anonymously, "sex" and "porn" are respectively the fourth and sixth most popular search terms among younger ...

The video game controller is not your enemy, Mom. It's your friend. A recent survey published in GamesIndustry.biz shows that 60-percent of kids wish their parents would become more involved in their gaming pursuits; 47-percent said their parental units "never" took part in the gaming action. Oddly, this was the same percentage of parents (47-percent) who admitted that they sometimes allow ...

A former Xbox Live user has been banned by Microsoft because her profile stated that she was a lesbian, according to a report in The Consumerist. Identifying herself only as Teresa, the woman told her story in an e-mail to the site, reading, "[My] account was suspended because I had said in my profile that I was a lesbian." This should not come as a total surprise to anybody who recalls the ...

With so many people on Facebook (175 million by the Web site's own count), common sense tells us that not all of them are nice people. Thankfully, social networking companies are being proactive in their attempts to purge their sites of not-so-nice members (by not-so-nice we mean pedophiles). Facebook has removed 5,585 sex offenders from it site since May 1, 2008, according to Connecticut's ...

Hugh Spencer, a writer and designer of museum and public educational exhibitions, has created a new and unique method of keeping his teenage son from engaging in gratuitous video game violence. The elder Spencer's initial dilemma arose when Evan approached him about 'Call of Duty,' a series in which players participate in integral campaigns of World War II, either solo or with fellow online ...

Putting out parental controls and Internet filtering is a booming business. The problem is that as web-enabled phones like the iPhone become more popular, monitoring what your child can access online is becoming more difficult, if not impossible. InternetSafety.com, maker of the Safe Eyes filtering software, chose CES to unveil their solution -- the new 'Safe Eyes mobile' product. Replacing ...