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Feel Like Goofing Off at Work Today? Tell ‘em Google Gave You Pac-Man Fever!
Playing games during work hours is typically a no-no… but thanks to the folks at Google, you can enjoy a good old-fashioned game of Pac-Man between Internet searches today. In celebration of the game’s 30th anniversary, Google has embedded a fully functioning Pac-Man game on its home page for the...
eBlaster 2010 Awarded the National Parenting Center’s Seal of Approval
Kudos to the SpectorSoft team! Today, the company announced that eBlaster — the world’s best-selling remote monitoring software for Windows or Mac OS — has been honored with the National Parenting Center’s 2010 Seal of Approval for Computer Software. This award signifies to other parents that their peers have acknowledged...
Monitoring Saves Lives: Teen Arrested After Researching Bomb-Making on School Computers
A Florida teen was arrested after high school administrators discovered a partially made pipe bomb and related supplies in his locker and back pack. School administrators were tipped off to his Internet activity on campus computers. They began closely monitoring his Internet activity after warnings that he’d visited several inappropriate...
Playboy “Safe for Work?” Pornography, Productivity and Protocol Collide in the Workplace
This week, Playboy announced plans to launch TheSmokingJacket.com as a “safe-for-work website" minus the stuff that’ll get you into hot water at the office. Most companies have no idea about the site, or how many work-hours will be lost once it goes live. Regardless of whether it’s deemed ‘safe’ for...
An Alternative to Middle School Parents Banning Facebook & Social Networking
Anthony Orsini, the principal at Benjamin Franklin Middle School in Ridgewood, NJ, sent out an e-mail to parents asking them to help him get all of his students off of social networks and to keep careful track of their children’s text messages. “”Please do the following: sit down with your child...