On the 18th Norton released it’s Kids’ Top 100 Searches of 2009. Predictably, Facebook and YouTube were among the top 3. What I found a little unsettling, was that the #4 and #5 most searched for terms were “sex” and “porn”.
Now, I know that teens will be curious about those subjects and that’s normal. If you scroll to the bottom of the Norton page, it lists the searches by age categories. “Porn”, was the fourth most popular search performed by kids 7 and under! That has me worried if parents know what their kids are doing while they’re online, and if they know how to enable “Parental Controls” for when their children are online.
Monday, December 28, 2009
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
If you’re with Rogers wireless, check the fine print…
The CBC published and article yesterday about a mother in British Columbia, who's Rogers account was charged 0.15$ per incoming text message. Although her contract states that all text messages are free, Rogers, implemented the charge on incoming text messages in July of this year.
According to the article "her 16-year-old daughter sent and recieved close to 6,000 tests in one month - that's 200 per day - to and from those numbers." Let me do some quick math on that... 200 times 0.15... carry the 1... $30.00 ?!?!?!
That's just for one of her 3 kids, and not including her own incoming texts. As much as Canadian wireless companies are spending on advertising and making off their clients. You would thing that they would inform their customers about upcoming changes to plans. A little fair warning would give people time to adjust their texting habits. While the additional charges are still ridiculous, being up front about them would show some respect for their clients, and go a long way in my eyes for being a company that operates ethically.
You can read the full CBC article here.
According to the article "her 16-year-old daughter sent and recieved close to 6,000 tests in one month - that's 200 per day - to and from those numbers." Let me do some quick math on that... 200 times 0.15... carry the 1... $30.00 ?!?!?!
That's just for one of her 3 kids, and not including her own incoming texts. As much as Canadian wireless companies are spending on advertising and making off their clients. You would thing that they would inform their customers about upcoming changes to plans. A little fair warning would give people time to adjust their texting habits. While the additional charges are still ridiculous, being up front about them would show some respect for their clients, and go a long way in my eyes for being a company that operates ethically.
You can read the full CBC article here.
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