Toy-Safety Data Released On Web Site
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Parents worried about toy safety after a record year of recalls can now look through a list of more than 1,200 items that a coalition of public interest groups has tested for lead and other harmful chemicals, though toy industry officials say the list may cause unnecessary alarm.
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A reminder from the government: check those holiday shopping lists to make sure no recalled children's toys are on them.
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Parents can finally breathe easier, as this month, Mr. Ian McLellan, CEO of Safe Computer Kids, brought to the world's attention a revolutionary new cyber safety toolkit that allows parents to monitor their kids' online activity and translate their instant message acronym lingo.
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Children using hugely popular social   networking Web sites such as MySpace.com and Bebo.com face   bullying, unsuitable advertising and pornography, a report by a   UK consumer watchdog magazine said on Thursday.
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The real-world toy maker joins Mattel and Hasbro in catering to children online.
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Internet users at home are not nearly as safe online as they believe, according to a nationwide inspection by researchers. They found most consumers have
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By David Hayes, The Kansas City Star, Mo.  Sep. 10--The Power Rangers, Yogi Bear and Barney ... yes, even the purple dinosaur, may be threatening your computer safety.
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The growth in electronic toys that sing, provide realistic sound effects and make other noises has led to yet another hazard for children, a consumer advocate group said Tuesday.
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(InfoWorld) - The odds of a search engine directing you to a risky Web site are getting slimmer, but some companies are better at filtering out bad links than others, McAfee reported Monday. Google has improved over the past year, but AOL has the safest search results on the Web right now, McAfee said. The riskiest? Yahoo. Overall, a significant percentage of Web links are still risky, McAfee said. In its latest study, published Monday, about 4 percent of search results were found to be risky. A year ago, that number was five percent. McAfee's study looked at the first five pages of search results provided by AOL, Yahoo, Google, MSN, and Ask.com for about 2,300 widely used keywords. It then compared those links to its Web safety database, which records sites that are associated with things like spam, online scams, Web attacks, and risky downloads. The study took a look at both the sponsored links returned by search engines and the "organic" links that are not sponsored, and Yahoo's poor performance is due to a spike in the number of sponsored links that McAfee deemed risky. When looking at organic links alone, Yahoo actually had the best results of any of the five search engines, returning risky links just 2.7 percent of the time. The most dangerous subjects to search for are words related to digital music and tech toys, McAfee found. Searches for terms relating to these two categories return risky results nearly 20 percent of the time. Some types of these "risky" results are much more common than others. For example, 0.03 percent of search results lead to a Web site that tries to run attack code on your PC. The chance of a link that is associated with spam is much higher: 1.3 percent, according to McAfee. Improvements at Google, which provides search technology to AOL and Ask.com, have been boosting the safety of search results in general, said Mark Maxwell, senior product manager with McAfee's SiteAdvisor group. Google returned risky results 3.4 percent of the time. A year ago, it scored 5.3 percent. McAfee's top-rated search engine, AOL, gave risky links 2.9 percent of the time, an improvement over last year's 5.3 percent. Yahoo, formerly one of the safest engines evaluated by McAfee, jumped from 4.3 percent in 2006 to 5.4 percent in the latest study. Microsoft's MSN also took a step backward, jumping from 3.9 percent in 2006 to 4.2 percent in 2007. Ask.com went from 6.1 percent to 3.5 percent. Over the past year, the industry has been better at acknowledging that there is a problem with risky search results and has reduced the percentage of risky sponsored links from 8.5 percent last year to 6.9 percent in 2007, Maxwell said. "You're seeing a lot more communication and cooperation toward the goal of trying to improve the online experience."
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WASHINGTON, Sept. 22  /PRNewswire/ -- In cooperation with the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), Playskool, of Pawtucket, R.I., is voluntarily recalling about 255,000 Team Talkin' Tool Bench toys following the deaths of two young children.
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Children who visit Webkinz.com, the popular virtual world for children who buy Webkinz stuffed animals, may also see advertisements on the site.
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The nation's 140 toy libraries are also a key development tool for children.
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By Brandy A. Lee Deseret Morning News  A national nonprofit organization has unveiled a Web site that allows residents access to up-to-date local public-safety news and information.  All of the information is state-specific with the help of Google.
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Holiday shoppers may worry if the toys they buy contain lead, but some scientists are urging consumers to focus on the thousands of chemicals in everyday household items.
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On the Web, a parallel universe of tiny, adorable accessories for tiny, adorable dogs.
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Here are some of the toys expected to be top sellers this Christmas. The list is based on Toy Wishes&#39; editorial board&#39;s review of thousands of toys and interviews with parents, children and retailers.
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Despite passage of the 1994 Child Safety Protection Act, hazardous toys can still be found on toy store shelves across the country, according to a nationwide toy safety survey released by the US Public Interest Research Group (US PIRG).