NetIDme’s age-verification software has today been accredited by the British Board of Film Classification for its new media download classification scheme. Read the rest of this entry »

It has been found that Young people living in North Somerset are being targeted by “paedophiles and internet bullies” through social networking sites.

The police have issued steps to take to avoid children from being a victim, “Advice we give out includes not putting a picture on the internet or any contact details such as email addresses and phone numbers or where they go to school”

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NetIDme welcomes the British Board of Film Classification’s new download classification scheme which was launched today. Read the rest of this entry »

Myspace has recently launched “Myspace Music”. It is a joint venture with “with Sony BMG, Universal Music Group and Warner Music”

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A city council is using the social networking site Bebo to its strengths to communicate their views across to the younger generation.

The council has set up a profile on Bebo “to promote Fairdeal, which is the council’s consumer advice and advocacy service for 11 to 21-year-olds”

From this profile visitors can easily get access to “Fairdeal” where they are able to “get advice on consumer issues and contact the team privately or publicly with a query.”

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From a survey conducted by the Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL), Teachers from Norfolk speak out “after new figures revealed that more than 60pc of secondary school pupils are being affected by cyber-bullying”.

This high figure is due to electronic devices becoming more easily accessible and more common.

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Members of the Association of Teachers and Lecturers have “urged parents to become more aware of ‘cyber-bullying’ that may be affecting their children at school”.

A recent survey of ATL members discovered that “over half know of pupils being bullied through the use of mobile phones or the internet”.

Also found was that 16 percent of the members surveyed were “victims of such bullying themselves”.

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AOL has bought Bebo for an estimated $850 million in cash. The social networking site has an “audience of 7.1 million people”.

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Cyberbullying is increasingly becoming a major problems across schools. With bullies taking their threats out of the school playground and onto the internet.

A campaign was launched by the NSPCC to help tackle this very problem in Wreham.

All the representatives from the county’s secondary schools have “received anti-bullying training”. But this has been taken a step further in “Ysgol Bryn Alyn in Gwersyllt is the first where all staff have undergone anti-bullying training as part of the campaign”.

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