As the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) continued in Tunis last night, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan unveiled a prototype of a cheap and rugged $100 laptop for children, as ...

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A slow device can seriously slow down the homework process. (Photo: Getty) Many kids and teens rely on computers to complete their homework, as well as play games and in some cases, use social media.

In 1997 community volunteers took a leap of faith and founded Computers For Children, (CFC) a nonprofit organization grounded in the principle to make technology more accessible to children who were ...

Robert Szweda wants to give families that can’t afford a computer for their children the opportunity to own one. Szweda and Cliff Peterson, director and co-director of Computers for Kids in Baraboo, ...

Some babies enjoy banging on pots and pans. Jessie Traver prefers banging on a keyboard. Any time her parents say, "let's play on the computer," Jessie, 18 months, squeals and toddles toward the PC.

“I have to get my child a computer for her classes, as now all classes are going online. Which one should I go for? We want a decent notebook that will work well for a while…but do not want to spend ...

CLEVELAND — WKYC Studios’ “Computers for Kids” campaign, sponsored by CrossCountry Mortgage, is off to a strong start. Hundreds of used desktops and laptops have been donated by local residents and ...

PERTH, Australia, April 30, 2010 /PRNewswire/ — Parents are being warned that computers may be causing physical problemsfor their children. The warning comes in a set of 12 new evidence-based ...

A new study looked at organizations that give disadvantaged kids home computers and found that kids used the computers a lot–but not for schoolwork. There’s an unspoken assumption that giving poor and ...

Computer 4 Kids celebrated its new location in downtown Billings Tuesday by giving away more than 25 refurbished computers to kids who can’t afford them. “This will be exceedingly helpful,’’ said ...

There was a time when computers were far too expensive to let mere students use them. In those days, we wrote fake programs for fictitious machines and checked them by hand. That wasn’t fun, but it ...