Once a year comes the payback for 364 days of “me last.” Mother’s Day has been transformed from a buy-a-box-of-candy holiday to one of those major consumer fests. And of course, technology is being hawked as this year’s equivalent of the 50s’ diamond necklace or trip to Maui.
But what technology does […]

Joining Intel’s Classmate PC and the One Laptop Per Child PC, the Mini-Note is the latest foray into the sub-notebook PC for the classroom.
To laptop or not to laptop, that is the question many schools are asking. Parents should take heed. More and more schools have begun to require a laptop and at younger […]

Actually, it’s a movie, not an ode. Since gadgets have kept me duly employed for nearly 35 years, I thought I might spend a few moments reflecting on what gadgets mean to others. Sheer joy or bane of existence? Making life simpler or making it darn complicated? Defining personality or making all personalities identical?
With […]

And if so …. is it failing? I was asked to write an essay about my thoughts on this prompt for The Economist. I really wanted to ask them who in the world would say that technology was meant to simplify? And why haven’t they received their lobotomy yet?

Every parent should try to familiarize themselves with social networking. Understanding how you make friends and share information is probably the single best way you can help your kids adopt the right strategies for staying safe.

Here’s a cheat sheet to help block content and insure safe profiles on some of the most popular teen tools.

Have toys always been dangerous and we just didn’t know it? Salon author Katharine Mieszkowski recounted the summer’s toy fiascoes and it wasn’t a pretty read.

Young boys like violent games. Parents find it terrifying that their sweet little boys could have an attraction to violence. The friction between the two is age old. But video games give new meaning to graphic violence. Not only do you see it on the screen, you interact with it. […]

Over the past few years there have been a number of attempts to create the perfect kids’ phone. Firefly, Migo , Wherify, Tic Talk, and others come to mind. But you know the old rule of kids, don’t you? The kids don’t want the kids’ phone! They want the cool phone.