KJ Mullins: A survey by Parenting Magazine and BlogHer has found that when it comes to technology today’s mom sees it as a positive for the family from staying connected to the kids to giving ideas on how to spend time together. Monitoring their children is one way mothers use new technology. The survey published [...]

KJ Mullins: Ron Bowes is said to have collected the names and profile URLs for 171 million Facebook accounts from publicly available information and then zipped it up so that anyone could download it as a torrent file. Bowes operates the site skullsecurity.org out of Manitoba. That site is now down and phone calls are [...]

KJ Mullins: Star Trek’s William Shatner is one of the founders for Myouterspace.com, a new place on the Internet where Science Fiction fans can gather. Shatner launched the site at 7:30 p.m. PDT Friday night after landing on the deck of the USS Midway in San Diego in a helicopter. Shatner teamed with Sammy Oriti [...]

KJ Mullins:  The maker of Flip Video (TM) announced on Wednesday that the second generation of the Flip MinoHD has been added to their product line. Flip camcorders are hand held devices with two hours of recording time. The device comes with a USB built in for easy uploading of the video to a computer. [...]

TORONTO, June 23 /CNW/ – TVOKids.com, the popular online destination for kids from ages 2 to 11, presents a new and evolved website with the single screen universe in mind. Along with improved usability features, the new TVOKids.com responds to the increasing number of kids who use the website as an alternative to watching TV [...]

NEW YORK, June 21 /CNW/ — www.BeautifulPeople.com, the dating site with a strict ban on ugly people, has launched a virtual sperm and egg bank for people who want to have beautiful babies. The Beautiful Baby service – which is also available to non-members – was created for people who want to maximize their chances [...]

TORONTO, June 15 /CNW/ – Kids around the globe are growing up in an online world, learning to navigate not just the Web, but new rules, emotions and unfortunately, some negative experiences. – Angry. Upset. Afraid. – Kids reported these feelings about negative online experiences. – More than half feel some personal responsibility for their [...]

WATERLOO, ON, June 4 /CNW/ – Does glass flow, creepingly, over the centuries? Despite the uneven, wavy surfaces of mediaeval cathedral windows, the answer is no – glass is a rigid, disordered, solid. But researchers from the University of Waterloo, using large-scale computing at SHARCNET, have found a new way of arranging matter – into [...]

KJ Mullins-Toronto:  The Internet can be a scary place when you have children-child porn, violence and the risk of getting attacked by a virus are all issues that parents deal with but fearing kids will give out too much info is the top fear. Over 85 percent of Canadian parents found that they were most [...]