Lately, my daughter has been begging to see the new show iCarly, a spinoff of Drake and Josh.
Now, I'm not a big TV watcher, but I was a huge fan of it when I was a kid, and I do think that iCarly could have all the makings of a 21st century Zoom, given what we have available in the form of consumer technology around the house.
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Today's parents may live and work on the cutting edge, but we didn't grow up in a digital era. (parent.thesis) brings you the latest news and musings about life raising kids in today's 24-7, hyperconnected world. MojoMom.com creator Amy Tiemann and open-source software pioneer Michael Tiemann are a 21st-century couple. They take a leap of faith as parents and build their parachute on the way down, living by the motto, "We aren't raising our children for the world we live in, we're raising them for the world they'll live in." Disclosure.
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Business Tech
U.S. trade agency eyes Samsung-Sharp spatSamsung's claim of LCD-related patent infringement by rival Sharp draws the attention of the U.S. International Trade Commission.
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En route to GPS-based air traffic control (images)
Technically Incorrect
Facebook, Twitter: How we chose to live in publicThe end of 2009 and beginning of 2010 see much commentary about how living your life in public has become the norm. Is this technology's fault? Or is this what people always wanted?
Beyond Binary
Visual Studio launch delayed by 'a few weeks'Microsoft says it's still working to resolve some performance issues related to the Visual Studio 2010 developer tool suite, which was slated for a March release.
Video
Deep-sea volcanic explosion--part 2 (video)
InSecurity Complex
Q&A: Researcher Karsten Nohl on mobile eavesdroppingResearcher who tackled smart card security last year talks to CNET about how easy it is to listen in on GSM-based mobile phone calls now that the encryption has been cracked.
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Deep-sea volcanic explosion--part 1 (video)
Deep Tech
'Don't-be-evil' Google spurns no-evil softwareOne open-source software programmer's joke--'The Software shall be used for Good, not Evil'--is a serious matter at Google.
The Space Shot
Soyuz craft docks, boosts space station crewA Russian Soyuz spacecraft docked with the International Space Station Tuesday after a smooth, automated approach, boosting the lab's crew back up to five.
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NASA trains WISE eye on the sky (photos)
Crave
Robots in 2009: The wackier, the betterNo surprise here--some of the silliest and oddest robots of the year gone by were to be found in Japan. But who could top Taiwan's kissing bots?
Green Tech
Green-tech venture investing cools off in 2009Green tech is still attracting billions of dollars a year, but the amount of money has shrunk significantly as investors began to focus on start-ups with the most potential.
