Tagged: Internet

Five ways to make sure tech benefits your kids

How can parents capitalize on the lure of phones and tablets?

  • March 27, 2017
Parents can’t help but worry. Phones, tablets and apps galore are competing for the undivided attention of their children and teens – and chances probably seem good to many moms…

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F-bombed

Is our culture really more profane than in the past?

  • September 30, 2015
“In certain trying circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity furnishes a relief denied even to prayer.” —Mark Twain, a Biography A few years back, Jeff Chown was teaching an NIU…

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The New Arms Race

Will honest IT professionals ever catch up to criminal hackers?

  • June 17, 2015
So it happened again: another cyber attack, this time of the federal Office of Personnel Management. According to CNN, “U.S. officials believe the breach, which was revealed (June 4) and…

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The New Arms Race

Will honest IT professionals ever catch up to criminal hackers?

  • March 4, 2015
Although people afraid of identity theft probably believe the Internet remains in its Wild West days, the web actually has entered its Cold War era. Sure, it might not seem…

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