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  • Embracing Technology May Brighten Mom's Outlook

    Technology is creating closer family relationships rather than pushing families apart, according to research presented today at the 7th Annual M2Moms® ... The Marketing to Moms Conference, at the Chicago Cultural Center. Moms in families who embr...
  • Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment Launches Sesame Street: Once Upon a Monster

    Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment announces the launch of Sesame Street: Once Upon a Monster, an innovative, engaging and humorous, new controller-free video game on Kinect™ for Xbox 360®. Players can interact with popular Sesame Stree...
  • Auburn Kindergartners Get iPads

    City schools are rolling out iPads to half of the kindergarten students this week.
    At Washburn Elementary School, Jessica Prue's class got their tablet computers Wednesday.
    “The iPads, they are very special and we're very, very, very lucky th...
  • New Student-Developed Site Helps College Hopefuls Gauge Their Admissions Chances

    To help minimize the confusion of applying to colleges, and to help streamline the process, Parchment Inc. recently launched parchment.com, a free website that gives students tools they need to find colleges that would be right for them, and lets the...
  • Survey: Two-Thirds of Parents Worried About the Internet and Children's Safety

    While the Internet is a popular and still-growing source of information, e-commerce, social networking and more, two-thirds of American parents say they are worried about their children's safety using the Internet. That's the result of a new nationwi...
  • Many U.S. Schools Adding iPads, Trimming Textbooks

    For incoming freshmen at western Connecticut's suburban Brookfield High School, hefting a backpack weighed down with textbooks is about to give way to tapping out notes and flipping electronic pages on a glossy iPad tablet computer.A few hours away, ...
  • Beyonce Baby Announcement Sets Twitter Record

    Beyonce triggered a tweeting frenzy with her surprise announcement at the MTV Video Music Awards that she is expecting a baby. Viewers spreading the pop diva's news banged out 8,868 tweets per second at 10:35 p.m. on Sunday, a record for the most twe...
  • New Release: VTech InnoTab for Kids

    VTech announced that InnoTab™, a multi-function educational tablet for children, is available for online pre-order on major retailer websites and VTechKids.com. This learning app tablet brings interactive and animated reading, educational gamin...
  • SocialShield Addresses Internet Safety Issues Highlighted by New California Law on Schools and Cyberbullying

    California Governor Jerry Brown signed into law Assembly Bill 746 on Fri., July 8, 2011, giving the state's schools new powers to address cyberbullying by enabling them to suspend students for bullying classmates on social networking sites, including...
  • Scholastic Media Launches New Magic School Bus Game on Nintendo DS

    Scholastic Media, a division of Scholastic Inc., the global children's publishing, education and media company, announced today it will bring The Magic School Bus - the Emmy® Award-winning science adventure series based on the wildly popular Scho...