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Parents Don't Know Where Kids Are Surfing
Canadian parents say they have a pretty good idea what their kids are doing online, but a recent survey of nearly 6,000 children and teens suggests that parents don't know the half of it. The Media Awareness Network, a non-profit clearing house for family-oriented media education, says its "Young Canadians In A Wired World" survey found a wide gap between what parents say they know about their children's online activities and what the kids say is really going on. The survey, conducted for the Media Awareness Network by Environics Research Group and funded by the federal government, questioned 5,682 students between the ages of nine and 17 in schools across Canada. Eighty-four percent of them said they are by themselves at least some of the time while online, and 70 percent said their parents talk to them "very little or not at all" about what they do online.
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/167483.html
Hotel Reopens With Free Net Access In Each Room
When Abraham Rosenthal decided a few months ago to renovate his Hotel Gates in Berlin, he did something that until now only a few hotels in Europe have done: He equipped each room with a computer, monitor and a broadband Internet connection. Of course, almost all business-class hotels nowadays have Internet access in some form, whether though a business center or a modem hook-up for guests bearing notebook computers. A handful of hotels have computers in rooms, but they usually charge high per-minute rates. What makes the Hotel Gates different is that the computer and Internet usage is included in the standard room rates; guests can surf and write e-mails all night long and not pay a penny extra at check-out time.
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/167473.html
Report: Bluetooth Will Take Off - Eventually
A report due to be published next week says that the Bluetooth short- range wireless network will take off into the mass market, but it will take a few years. The conclusion contrasts with some of the hype surrounding the wireless personal area network, which was first "unveiled" by Ericsson, Intel and other information technology (IT) companies in the late 1990s. The Frost & Sullivan (F&S) Bluetooth report, which took in responses from more than 120 IT managers and senior executives in companies in the U.S., Europe and Asia, says that Bluetooth will have to overcome some of the "teething troubles" that have affected its early development.
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/167468.html
Three Horses in Mid-Streaming
Radio and TV on the Internet have very little in common with real radio and TV. For one thing, the selection is a whole lot better. For another, the quality can be a whole lot worse. And in your living room, you don't need three different receivers to watch the full spectrum of programming. On the Internet, you do. Most "streaming media" — so called for the way it flows down to your computer in real time, instead of being transferred as a download that must complete before you can see or hear anything — comes in a handful of incompatible flavors: RealNetworks' RealAudio and RealVideo, Microsoft's Windows Media, and Apple's QuickTime.
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/167458.html
Computer Co. Must Pay German Fees
A German court has ordered computer giant Hewlett-Packard Corp. to pay fees on all compact disc burners sold in the country over the last three years, upholding a new law meant to take a bite out of music piracy. The fee, adopted last year by Germany's powerful copyright society GEMA, is intended to compensate musicians whose latest hits are being illegally lifted off the Internet using the technology. Under a ruling handed down last week by a state court in Stuttgart, Hewlett-Packard must now report how many CD burners it has sold in the past three years. The court also ruled the company will have to pay fines for every device sold over that period and for devices sold in the future. The court has yet to rule on how high the fee will be.
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/2001..._piracy_1.html
Navigation-system sales soar, but will the experts get lost?
Attention, summer drivers: After years of promising a lot and delivering a little, car-navigation systems may finally be worth taking on the road. Certainly, more and more people are picking them up. Retailers estimate sales this year alone have doubled from a year ago, with one of the biggest vendors, Rand McNally, saying its StreetFinder system now has one million users. And it’s easy to see what is drawing so many drivers: Once pricey, the systems now go for as little as $150 to $250 — and are portable to boot. But as drivers like Mr. Gordon can tell you, at least some of the makers haven’t worked out all the bugs in their systems, which pinpoint locations using satellite technology.
http://www.msnbc.com/news/594190.asp?0dm=C12OT
Study Suggests Life After Death
A British scientist studying heart attack patients says he is finding evidence that suggests that consciousness may continue after the brain has stopped functioning and a patient is clinically dead. The research, presented to scientists last week at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), resurrects the debate over whether there is life after death and whether there is such a thing as the human soul. "The studies are very significant in that we have a group of people with no brain function … who have well-structured, lucid thought processes with reasoning and memory formation at a time when their brains are shown not to function," Sam Parnia, one of two doctors from Southampton General Hospital in England who have been studying so-called near-death experiences (NDEs), told Reuters in an interview.
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/scite...ead010629.html
Water That Won't Wet 
By stirring in a special powder with sloshing water, scientists created buckets of water beads that won't leak. Unlike regular water droplets that slide down a surface and leave a wet trail, these droplets can roll around and don't spill a thing. "On a surface the coated drop rolls like a marble," says Pascale Aussillous, a physicist at the College of France in Paris and co-author with her thesis adviser, David Quere, of a recent study about the beaded, dry water in the journal Nature. These "marbles" of water actually take on the properties of a spongy solid and reveal how water moves when it does not cling to surfaces. The beads' rolling motions resemble the behavior of water droplets suspended in space and, the scientists say, can lend clues about the stability and behavior of celestial bodies.
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/scite...ter010627.html
UK Govt's stand on spam provokes angry backlash
The British Government's decision to defend spam has caused outrage among El Reg readers. Yesterday they reported how the UK forged an alliance with France to defend the right for Net users to have to pay for the displeasure of receiving porn, scams, hoaxes, and other dubious "business" propositions via their in-box. The feeling among readers - with one exception who backed the Government's stand - is that if e-minister Douglas Alexander is so keen on spam, he won't mind receiving it.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/20064.html
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