Children as young as two are the target audience of a new software that will enable toddlers to both surf and send e-mails safely without help from their parents. The software is described by its developer as a "children's own operating system" and is aimed at two- to 12-year-olds. The idea is to protect them from sex and drugs spam and other unsavoury aspects of the internet, while at the same time give them access to the web's more useful and entertaining sides. The man behind the software, Easybits program developer and partner Lars Jolstad, describes it as a "protective shell" that is placed over Microsoft Windows. Only authorised content can pass through the shell, so parents can draw up "white lists" of e-mail addresses with which their children can communicate, and of websites they can access, he told BBC News Online.
All eyes are on Istanbul tomorrow night for Eurovision 2004 and the official BBC site has really upped the online ante with videos of all the finalists, an Istanbul online diary from the UK contingent including James Fox, a downloadable scorecard, and an excellent playground section which includes Language Lessons from Terry Wogan, plus a random Terryism generator!
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