) December 4, 2008 -- The KIDZARONI.com project began when Kim Shapiro, Internet industry professional turned stay-at-home mom, began searching for a website where her daughter could chat and email with friends and create her own personal page in a totally safe online environment. The ones she found for young children lacked the age appropriate content component necessary to keep elementary age kids engaged, and other sites didn’t offer the parent-monitored safety component needed for kids too young for Facebook and MySpace.

GPS Connect starts a "Your Kids' Safety is in Your Hands" program. The goal of the program is to let parents/guardian keep an eye on their kids in the most unobtrusive fashion possible.

) August 18, 2009 -- With the first day of school coming up, Parents.com is featuring everything on parents' back to school check lists. The website includes ideas about how not to have the jitters when getting ready for school on the first day, solutions for managing morning madness, lists of must-have supplies for the first day and many more helpful back to school tips.

Best backpacks

) June 25, 2009 -- Glubble® (www.glubble.com), the leading online family browser and social network for families with children under 12, has appointed Alexander van Elsas as its CEO. Alexander, former COO of the company, takes over the position from Willem-Jan Schutte, one of the original founders of Glubble. Willem-Jan remains member of the non-executive board. With the appointment of Alexander van Elsas as CEO, Glubble also secures a new funding round of $1 million.

www.glubble.com

Disappointed MFP owners discover BOLT Bridge for Laserfiche for faster, easier, better quality scanning.

Laserfiche users describe BOLT Bridge as their new 'Speed Dial' feature for scanning. The BOLT Bridge connector for Laserfiche provides fast, easy, and practical distributed scanning.

) June 30, 2009 -- kajeet™ (www.kajeet.com), the safest cell phone service for "tweens" and teens and the only cell phone carrier in the U.S. that has ever won a parenting award, has won an iParenting Media Award for 2009 Excellent Products in the Safety category. It is the third parenting award kajeet has won in the last eight months.

- MXit users can communicate with contacts across instant messaging platforms
- This will create a bridge between its mobile users and pc-based internet social network users

- MXit users can communicate with contacts across instant messaging platforms
- This will create a bridge between its mobile users and pc-based internet social network users

Since the 9th of june 2009 a new free, bridge website can be visited at www.bridgevaria.com.

) September 15, 2008 -- Super Fun Science has just launched its new website, which bridges the gap between the classroom and the home in a fun way by allowing students to learn more about kids science from their own home computer.

Super Fun Science (www.superfunscience.com) realized that kids science lessons were often taught in a way that was not fun for students. Because of that, children have not been able to learn at the rate that was expected of them. That has led to low self esteem, and many children have thought that the subject was too difficult to master.

) January 8, 2009 -- The team at McKremie has created the ultimate online accessory for parents. A new word: Kizzog! A Kizzog is a semi-custom personal blog for parents who want to write about their kids, but don't have the time to set-up a blog all by themselves. "As a parent, I was looking for a way to capture my daughter's experiences as she grows up. Using WordPress's blogging software was a great start but I wanted her blog to have a custom look and feel. Custom blog designs can run well into the hundreds of dollars and that doesn't include web hosting.

) January 16, 2009 -- The San Francisco Chocolate Factory has changed its name to Bridge Brands Chocolate™. To commemorate this important event--which coincides with their 9th anniversary--BB will launch a contest on January 18th in which entrants are required to write an essay describing how they have used chocolate to "bridge the gap" between relationships.

Bridge Brands Chocolate(tm) introduces New got milk? chocolate products at the Fancy Food Show San Francisco

) October 28, 2009 -- KidJot is a new service that lets close friends and family save and share the important moments of their lives. From a child's birth, to his first day of school, to her wedding and everything in between, these moments in life are precious and worth preserving for the future.

) October 27, 2009 -- kidthing (www.kidthing.com) unveiled today its free downloadable e-reader app that lets kids read, mix, personalize and share their favorite digital books, games and activities to friends and family. Currently in beta, the new kidthing app is slated for public release this November - featuring e-books from top brands and publishers including Dr. Seuss Enterprises, Penguin Young Readers Group, HarperCollins, Garfield, and more.

kidthing - read an e-book

) October 23, 2009 -- Sports LearningEdge LLC (SLE), the leading provider of advanced online skills learning to sports' major stake holders, announced today that is now offering 24/7 free access to the latest in online skills learning for hockey. Hockey organizations can now offer their players of all ages unlimited free access to hours of valuable, world-class learning content. SLE's powerful On-Demand Sports Learning™ system lets kids choose to learn what the want, when they want, and in the learning style they learn best in.

) October 23, 2008 -- BabyHomePages.net, owned and operated by Eleven, Inc., announces its newest family website, TalkingAboutKids.com, a social networking website that allows parent-to-parent communication globally while keeping the existing feel BabyHomePages visitors have come to expect.

TalkingAboutKids.com is a place for parents to share ideas for everything they need to know about raising kids. Parents can even start their own topics and get responses from the "experts" - other parents.

) November 7, 2008 -- Famundo, the leading online family management and calendaring service, today unveiled Famundo Social, the newest online community allowing families to communicate and share information in one, secure location. Bridging the digital divide between children and adults, Famundo Social is the ultimate all-in-one communication, online calendar, and family management tool everyone can use to share photos, family news, lists, blogs and schedules. The user-friendly service makes it possible for families and friends to connect in a hip and modern way, easily accommodating their on-the-go, busy lifestyle.

) October 27, 2009 -- SmartyRents.com is a new online video game rental company that features LeapFrog and VTech educational video games. One of the most impressive services SmartyRents provides for parents is the ability to search for games by a specific educational skill. For example, if a child is struggling with addition, parents can search for only those games that address addition. Parents can search among 150 educational skills to select key skills pertinent to their child's age and learning level.

) March 25, 2009 -- Today Topaz Bridge Corporation, a leading provider of self-service applications that leverage SAP® ERP software and Microsoft® SharePoint®, announced the appointment of Chris Voss to the position of Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing. Mr. Voss, who has an accomplished record of building strategic, long-term relationships with customers and partners, will be responsible for the worldwide sales and marketing strategy for Topaz Bridge.

) September 29, 2008 -- EduGuide is offering parents the opportunity to download a free copy of "Elementary EduGuide," an online publication (www.EduGuide.org/elemeduguide) that details strategies for raising a successful student. It also gives tips on saving for college.

) April 30, 2009 -- When Holly Palm and her son, Chase, set out to create a new product that would encourage family time and creative exercise, they knew that they'd struck gold when parents, teachers and child care providers began praising their product. Now, they have a new goal. Encourage children to tap into their natural creativity, create a story and win cash for it.

"The Legend of the Dough" is an anchor point for our product. My sons came up with the idea themselves and we had a professional writer expand it and clean it up. Now it's time for other kids to have their chance to add to the story," says Holly Palm, creator of Yohoho Dough.

Internet Safety Center was created to educate parents about internet security. The internet can be a scary place with all the viruses, spyware, and pornography.

) October 3, 2009 -- Parents magazine and Parents.com have just launched iPlay'n Learn, a unique new iPhone application for kids that features fun quizzes and flash cards for babies, toddlers and children. Each of the activities of the interactive iPhone App for kids keeps preschoolers laughing while learning about letters, numbers, colors and shapes. Audio messages and exciting animations such as exploding fireworks, chugging trains, and skyward-bound rocket ships keep kids engaged and deliver positive reinforcement, helping moms and dads raise happy, healthy kids,

Parents.com launches iPhone App for kids

Cackleberries.com, a Vancouver based children's entertainment company, together with leading developers, have created the first, 100% secure, website for children.

) June 30, 2009 -- Poptropica, the Web's fastest growing virtual world for kids, has entered Quantcast.com's list of top 300 Web sites, based on monthly visitors. Less than two years old, the safe online environment for fun and learning recently secured the 274th slot on the online audience measurement firm's list. Poptropica users have created more than 120 million online characters who explore and learn on the site's nine virtual islands.

) March 24, 2009 -- Open Source Bridge, a new conference designed to increase collaboration in the open source community across a broad range of disciplines, announced today that Ward Cunningham, father of the wiki; Kurt von Finck, Communications Manager for Monty Program AB; and Portland Mayor Sam Adams have been named as initial keynote presenters for the conference to be held June 17-19, 2009, in Portland, Oregon. Nearly 50 presenters have already responded to a call for presentation proposals.

Open Source Bridge

) September 23, 2009 -- The internet is transforming the way kids communicate and learn on a daily basis. They use it to write class papers, chat with friends and much more. They are constantly online. In fact, the amount of time children ages 2-11 spend online increased by 63 percent over the last five years.* And for parents, it's more important than ever to monitor their children's internet activity.

Campus Bridge program for bridging accademis-industry gap.

) February 24, 2009 -- For those parents and educators struggling to instill the love of reading in their kids, there is a new solution. eBooks4kidz, a UK-based company, is launching Wizz-e.com. Wizz-e.com produces high quality audio eBooks for kids aged 3 to 8.

The business was created after the CEO and co-founder, Jeanette McLeod, struggled to find quality eBooks online for her own kids. "It was frustrating to search for quality materials online to help my kids read, only to come up empty. They are the technology generation! This is how they learn best," says Mrs. McLeod.

) December 22, 2008 -- Most people will tell you that nothing in life is free. "Everything has a price," as the saying goes. But for the holidays, Pandora Corp. is changing the rules. Beginning at 12:01 AM on December 25th, and through New Years Day, the company will be giving away its signature computer monitoring software, PC Pandora, absolutely free.

) November 17, 2008 -- Gay and lesbian parents, their families and friends now have their own social network not a subdivision or group of another site. Rainbowletter provides a wide variety of opportunities to the GLBT community that were only a part of other sites. The freedom to express who they are in a family of other members with similar backgrounds and pursuits makes Rainbowletter unique.

When the engineers involved in refurbishing the Stillwater Bridge needed a reliable signal cable to control the bridges vertical lift spanafter the originally specified cable failedthey called upon Northwire, Inc. The lift span of the highway bridge, which crosses the St. Croix River and connects Minnesota and Wisconsin, is raised and lowered at least 20 times a day during navigation season, and the cable that controls it is unwound and rewound as many times. The Northwire-designed high-flex-life multiconductor cable fit the bill.

) February 12, 2009 -- Trekaroo announces the launch of the first trip planning website that is designed specifically to help parents overcome the stress of traveling with kids. Trekaroo ( http://www.trekaroo.com ) takes intuitive tools and combines them with the power of a fast-growing, grassroots community of moms and dads. Now, any parent can join Trekaroo to revolutionize the way that families plan their trips.

) August 3, 2009 -- The future of Dallas' skyline is coming together, 36 feet and 50 tons at a time.

The Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge is now under construction in Dallas.

every episode of Kids Special allows parents to win a Zenith computer through a lucky draw.

) September 30, 2009 -- WanderTot.com is the place to go for the latest family travel deals, the best places to travel with kids, the funniest family vacation stories and the most helpful tips for traveling with kids.

WanderTot.com - Adventures in Traveling with Kids

) December 2, 2008 -- The New York Art Exchange (www.nyaxe.com), an online marketplace for buying and selling of contemporary fine art, launched officially today at Bridge Art Fair Miami. The New York Art Exchange (NYAXE) is enabling the art community to capitalize on new digital mediums through technology by connecting artists, gallerists and collectors via the World Wide Web.

) October 29, 2009 -- In line with its faith-based vision of uniting families around the globe, GEWO, Inc. converts its pay-per-view business component to special event video hosting. As a new phase of its Internet video broadcasting business, Weddings/Special Events On-Demand host's simulated live and on-demand special event videos.

) December 16, 2008 -- Storyblender.com today publicly announces the launch of its free "Video Holiday Letter" service, an easy, quick tool for creating and sharing multimedia greetings with family, friends, clients, and coworkers. The service, built with casual Internet users and busy parents in mind, allows anyone to create a unique video Christmas letter or holiday letter using personal photos, webcam videos, and a variety of holiday themes and music.