kids

'Boring' IT classes put off future careers

News The teaching of IT in secondary schools needs radically overhauling as it is putting kids off a career in technology, leading figures from academia and industry have warned. The UK's status as a world class IT nation is being threatened by a skills...

Tags: kids, industry, entry, study

18 June 2008, 8:55

Students try texting to combat knife crime

News The charity said the pilot is small-scale as it wants to determine whether misuse of the system is likely to be a problem -- for instance, by kids attempting to get innocent classmates into trouble -- although it stressed that to-date there have...

Tags: details, children, anti, london

4 June 2008, 9:13

BBFC: Online game ratings inevitable

News BBFC Online is currently a voluntary scheme that enables Web sites to provide classification information to consumers and ensure that underage kids can't download unsuitable content. The system is a world first, and it comes at a time when the...

22 May 2008, 10:25

Bebo president: We're not just for kids anymore

News Bebo's core demographic might be teens and young adults in the UK, but President Joanna Shields said that now that the social network's acquisition by AOL is complete, it's time to start expanding. She's now in charge of AOL's "People Networks...

Tags: ad, ads, platform, yahoo

20 May 2008, 8:58

News.blog: Videogames don't breed violent kids

News Two Harvard researchers have concluded that there's no data to support the notion that violent videogames cause the kids who play them to act out violence in real life, contrary to the vast majority of media outlets that would have the public...

Tags: children, kids, theft, videogames

13 May 2008, 8:54

UK kids taking the Blyk for free calls

News An ad-funded mobile network that offers free calls and texts to 16- to 24-year-olds has signed 100,000 UK users in the first six months of operation. Blyk -- a mobile virtual network operator MVNO) which piggybacks on the Orange network and gives...

Tags: rate, cent, ad, response

28 April 2008, 9:16

Social trends spur technology

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: base, customer, nokia, london

24 April 2008, 9:21

Games on the curriculum in Scottish schools

News School kids will be taught how to design and develop electronic games and how to create computer animations and films as part of the new Curriculum for Excellence. While the Germans want to stop children from playing videogames during school hours...

Tags: industry, part, school, children

15 April 2008, 8:56

UK government failing to provide Web access for all

News Interestingly, UK households with children are more likely to have Internet access than childless homes -- less than a third (24 per cent) of homes with kids are without the Web. It's several years since former Prime Minister Tony Blair pledged to...

Tags: silicon, cent, children, universal

8 April 2008, 9:19

Sex offenders face social network ban

News The UK Social Networking Guidance published today offers advice to the Internet industry and parents to help keep kids safe online. Registered child sex offenders could soon be legally obliged to supply local police with their email address to be...

Tags: industry, environment, addresses, networking

4 April 2008, 10:21

Mobile use 'worse than asbestos and smoking'

News Children's use of mobiles is particularly worrying, he claims, suggesting kids' use of mobiles should be restricted to emergency situations only. Mobile phones could represent a public health time bomb akin to asbestos or smoking, according to a...

Tags: mobile phones, research, study, body

1 April 2008, 9:08

News.blog: Classmate PC ready for EU retailers

News Classmate is clunkier looking, and has a silly-looking (though great for kids) handle on the spine, whereas the Eee comes in a variety of colors and looks like a laptop an adult wouldn't mind being seen with at his or her local coffeehouse.

Tags: intel, consumers, laptops, laptop

20 March 2008, 7:00

Schools may add Wii to PE

News In the UK, the Wii might even become a standard part of physical education after five schools in Worcestershire ran a scheme at lunchtimes where kids could play Wii Sports. The organisers found that the kids queued up for the chance, after years of...

Tags: kids, cent, sports, physical

29 January 2008, 8:31

Government plans broadband for UK kids

News All of the UK's six million children could have home broadband access under plans being drawn up by the government to improve education standards. A Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF) spokesman confirmed to

Tags: children, government, school, sports

7 January 2008, 10:37

Photos: Tree house living

News Tree houses aren't just for kids anymore. They are used increasingly as primary residences, vacation getaways and meditation retreats. Homes perched high in a forest canopy or woven from the very branches of trees take ecofriendly building to the...

1 October 2007, 10:19