Google+ now allows teenagers to sign up
Google's social networking service, Google+, is now allowing teenagers to sign up for accounts to use the service but with some added security and sharing restrictions. More...
Google's social networking service, Google+, is now allowing teenagers to sign up for accounts to use the service but with some added security and sharing restrictions. More...
Sony has had quite the PR disaster on its hands after the exposure of its PlayStation Network. While Microsoft has, so far, not had its systems compromised to the degree that Sony is currently facing,... More...
There have been several studies released that suggest that as people use their cell phones more they become dependent on them. Separating them from their cell phone creates anxiety and stress. Michelle Hackman, a teenager... More...
Teenagers spend money on game consoles, movies and music concerts while ignoring newspapers. At least that's what Matthew Robson, a 15 year old intern at Morgan Stanley is saying according to Bloomberg. He was... More...
What is it that the New York Times claims is causing teens anxiety, falling grades, repetitive stress injury and sleep deprivation? They claim teens are doing it at school, late at night, at restaurants... More...
According to TechRadar, more than one thousand Britons aged 13 to 15 took part in a OnePoll poll of online browsing habits, and it turns out that, on average, each teen spends about 100 minutes... More...
In California a 13 year old girl was able to rack up an astounding 14,528 text messages in one month. For those keeping track that's 484 a day which breaks down to 20 an... More...
A new study carried out by the MacArthur Foundation has shown that online time is actually good for teenagers, countering the stereotypical view of parents that spending any time online is a waste of time.... More...
We have all heard of Cyber Bullying where a group of users online would taunt and stalk helpless users until they break down online and even offline but this is a case where it went... More...
Websites which encourage vulnerable teenagers to kill themselves are to be blocked under plans by the Government to tackle the dozens of suicides that have been linked to internet chatrooms. Ministers are alarmed that... More...
MAY 21--Meet Alex Phillips. The Wisconsin teenager is facing felony child pornography charges for allegedly posting naked photos of his 16-year-old ex-girlfriend on his MySpace page. When contacted by police about the two images,... More...
HP's director of future innovations, Ameer Karim, has announced that HP will be launching a fall line of "Teen" PC products. HP has hired a council of teenagers who will help design the products,... More...
A backdoor in MySpace's architecture allows anyone who's interested to see the photographs of some users with private profiles -- including those under 16 -- despite assurances from MySpace that those pictures can only be... More...
Yet another "expansion" for The Sims 2. What is this, like 35 now? Yikes: For the first time, Electronic Arts has brought The Sims players a stuff pack with the exclusive intent of giving their... More...
Teenage drivers in California will soon have to text "g2g" to their friends as Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger passed a new law yesterday prohibiting all individuals under 18 from using a cell phone while driving. The... More...
Earlier this month, Australian Prime Minister John Howard announced a multi-million dollar pornography filter along with several other measures to make the Internet safer for children and families, including an information and education campaign and... More...
Teenager Austin Stewart did something a friend didn't like and the next thing she knew "a nonstop flood of hurtfulness" was posted about her on Facebook and other networking websites. "It was all about how... More...
17-year-old Mary Masterman, a senior at Westmoore High School in Oklahoma City, won the Intel Science Talent Search and received a $100,000 scholarship for building an inexpensive yet accurate spectrograph that identifies the "fingerprints" of... More...
One of the more impressive features of Windows Vista is its support for 3D. This proof-of-concept is a knock-off of Coverflow (recently integrated into iTunes) with a few extra "twists". Using the library file generated... More...
Acting very quickly, Google fixed the security hole on Jan. 1 after being notified of its existence on Dec. 30. According to reports online, however, the flaw was only partly corrected. The flaw can exploit,... More...
Acting on a Florida lawyer's suggestion that violent video games may have figured in Tuesday's slaying of a West Feliciana Parish man, sheriff's deputies searched the home of one teenage suspect again on Thursday. West... More...
About a quarter of girls, ages 15 to 17, keep their own blogs, compared with only 15 per cent of boys in that same age group according to a survey conducted by the Pew Internet... More...
Using a self-propagating worm that exploits a scripting vulnerability common to most dynamic Web sites, a Los Angeles teenager made himself the most popular member of community Web site MySpace.com earlier this month. While the... More...
Authorities in Sweden had detained a person for stealing Cisco Systems Inc.'s source code, the basic instructions for the machines that direct Internet traffic around the globe, the company said yesterday. Police in Uppsala, a... More...
Grand Theft Auto makers causing media trouble again. British electronics retailer Dixons has removed Rockstar's Manhunt title from stores, after newspapers and TV news shows reported allegations that the title had influenced... More...
A new service has been set up to pass on people's whereabouts in case they go missing. Safetytext users can notify others of their whereabouts by sending a text message to a preset... More...