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  • Study: Parents Aware of Only Half of Cyberbullying Incidents

    • Posted by Mommy Brown
    • February 23, 2012
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    Consumer study findings were released Thursday, from research commissioned by SocialShield, the leading online monitoring service for kids' social networking activities. The research studies, conducted by comScore and NDP, revealed that less than 8% ...

  • Computer-Assisted Tools Alert Pediatricians to Obese Patients

    • Posted by Mommy Brown
    • February 21, 2012
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    Electronic health records and embedded tools can alert and direct pediatricians so they can better manage the weight of children and teenagers, according to a new Kaiser Permanente study published online in The Journal of Pediatrics.
    Researchers ana...

  • FTC: Parents Need More Info on Kids' Apps

    • Posted by Mommy Brown
    • February 17, 2012
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    Kids have easy and inexpensive access to hundreds of smartphone applications, but parents are in the dark about what personal information is being collected from their children and how companies are using the data, government regulators said Thursday...

  • South Korea Introduces Yet Another Law to Curb Gaming Skills

    • Posted by Mommy Brown
    • February 16, 2012
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    The South Korean government is considering another law to further curb rampant game playing and Internet addiction among its youth. Dubbed the "Cooling Off" system, it aims to regulate the amount of time a student get to spend with video games in a 2...

  • Divorce Lawyers See More Phone Evidence, Especially Texts

    • Posted by Mommy Brown
    • February 10, 2012
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    As if to temper all the optimistic love chatter leading up to Valentine's Day, a survey of divorce lawyers has found 92 percent of them think there's been a dramatic increase in the number of cases using evidence taken from cellphones during the...

  • New Computer Game Improves Kids' Attention, Concentration and Memory

    • Posted by Mommy Brown
    • February 3, 2012
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    Focus Education has introduced an attention training system for children ages 6 to 12 called ifocus, a fun computer game developed by a team of leading neuropsychologists to significantly improve executive brain function through cognitive training, s...

  • Phone Recycling Program Helps Keep Kids Safe Online

    • Posted by Mommy Brown
    • February 3, 2012
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    Sprint has been a longtime partner of the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) and provided support for the popular youth-focused Internet-safety website www.NSTeens.org.  Sales generated from recycled wireless phones, ba...

  • Germ-Wary Moms: Grossed Out by Hotel TV Remotes? There's an App for That!

    • Posted by Mommy Brown
    • February 2, 2012
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    Watching TV or a movie in your hotel room just got a little less icky.
    LodgeNet Interactive Corporation, which provides on-demand or other TV-based services in more than 1.7 million hotel rooms in North America, now has a free mobile app that allows...

  • EPA Offers Free Apps to Check Air Quality, UV Index

    • Posted by Mommy Brown
    • February 1, 2012
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    If you wanted to know the air quality Monday morning in Tulsa, Oklahoma. (good), Baton Rouge, Louisiana. (moderate), or Modesto, California. (unhealthy for sensitive groups), a new smart phone app from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency could h...

  • The Best Mobile Apps for Babies and Toddlers

    • Posted by Mommy Brown
    • January 27, 2012
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    For crying out loud, apps for the iPhone, iPad and Android devices are not all about games and social networking tools. Some of the most entertaining and innovative applications are designed for children. There are hundreds of compelling titles, in f...