SAN FRANCISCO — Children younger than 8 are spending twice as much time on screen media as they do reading or being read to, according to a new national study. And as many as 40 percent of toddlers ages 2 to 4 and more than half of those 5 to 8 use smartphones, video iPods, [ Read More ]
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Toddler screen time on the rise
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FBI Warns Stores To Prepare For More Credit Card Hacks
Comments Off on FBI Warns Stores To Prepare For More Credit Card HacksThe recent malware attacks on payment systems at Target and Neiman Marcus may be getting all the headlines, but they weren’t the first such breaches, and they won’t be the last. This week, the FBI issued a warning to retailers, telling them to prepare for the inevitable hack attempts to come. “We believe POS [point-of-sale] [ Read More ]
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Sex Bracelets
Comments Off on Sex BraceletsThe Return of Sex Bracelets So you thought the sex (colored jelly) bracelet trend was over. Well think again. Have you heard of the latest bracelet trend in teenage fashions? It is called \’snapping\’ and it involves the colored jelly bracelets first made famous by Madonna. Back in the early 80’s, pop icons such as [ Read More ]
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My husband and I are having a hard time deciding whether we should monitor what our daughter, who is 14, does on her mobile phone. We’ve talked to her about sexting and believe she is smart enough to know not to send nude photos of herself to a boyfriend, but we’re still very concerned. We [ Read More ]
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Is iMessage Starting to Take a Bite Out of Standard Texting?
Comments Off on Is iMessage Starting to Take a Bite Out of Standard Texting?When Apple introduced iMessage, a service that lets people with its mobile devices send each other free text messages over data networks, many analysts predicted that it would take a substantial bite out of the profits that text messages generate for wireless carriers in the United States. Is there evidence that this is actually happening? [ Read More ]
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