Children in Digital Era
Posted December 1st, 2009 by Ananda Perwira No Comments »
Millions of teenagers have been now familiar with digital world on the Internet. Web-entertainment industries and communities are growing with rapidly. Club Penguin, webkinz, Starfall, and Facebook may be just a part of millions of ‘Kid-friendly sites’. Most of the fans of this websites are school-age children up to students. And these ‘Kid-friendly sites’ enjoy the benefits. For example, the creator of toys ‘webkinz’ takes the characters from the virtual-world get visitors about 6 million children last year.
The marketers and brander also give more attention on this matter. For example Disney bought Club Penguin worth $ 350 million dollars. In addition, branders such as Toyota Motor, Kellogg’s, PepsiCo, and Warner Bros. also improve the ads dedicated for children in virtual world.
Children are also very relevant in growth of multimedia technology, especially in education and entertainment. There are also found many educational sites and educational software used as a means of children educating to develop the skills and intelligence. Read the rest of this entry »
Estimated that three of four employees have been using their work computers to send email, shopping, surfing and other personal business. According to the survey conducted by the 530 IT managers (Information Technology) and end users in several companies in North America, Britain and Europe, found that workers use office computers for personal tasks. Only about 15 percent of workers do not use their work computers for personal tasks, while the other 11 percent of respondents prefer to abstain or not to answer questions.