The father, who cannot be named for legal reasons, caught Nicholas Lovell making sexual advances to his 15-year-old daughter.

He discovered the abuse by installing spy software on her computer.

In 2008 Lovell, from Guildford, in Surrey, was jailed for four-and-a-half years, and has since been released.

The father said he installed the software on his 15-year-old daughter’s computer after she started acting suspiciously.

Lovell met the teenager in Bracknell, Berkshire, in 2006 while coaching her in ice hockey, and started contacting her through email and MSN messenger.

She had told her parents she was staying with a friend while she was seeing Lovell in secret.

The parents discovered her subterfuge and alerted the police, who gave Lovell a police warning.

‘Sneaky’ kids
However, Lovell used various false names to maintain contact, hoping to evade detection.

The father said he continued to be suspicious.

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For about a month she wouldn’t talk to me, but then one day this guy turned up at the ice-rink and she freaked out and called me”

Victim’s father
With the consent of his ex-partner, he installed the spy software on his daughter’s computer, and began monitoring her email and instant messenger conversations with Lovell.

“My wife was trying to keep an eye on her, but kids can be sneaky,” he said.

By reading his daughter’s emails and messages, he was able to build evidence against Lovell which led to him being jailed for four-and-a-half years in 2008 for five counts of sexual activity with a child.

Lovell was ordered to sign the Sex Offenders Register indefinitely and was also disqualified from working with children.

It was later discovered he was introducing the girl at his place of work as his girlfriend and took her to hotels for sexual relations.

“She was being groomed,” said the father.

Tuesday marks the 2012 Safer Internet Day, an annual event designed to encourage people to use internet technology, including mobile devices, more responsibly.

This year it coincides with the week-long BBC Share Take Care campaign, in partnership with the UK Safer Internet Centre, which is being featured across BBC television, radio and websites to raise awareness of issues surrounding safeguarding reputation online.

The government’s online child protection watchdog CEOP urges parents to get involved with any activities their children take part in on the internet.

It advises people to consider using parental controls on all the internet-connecting devices that children have access to and to “set boundaries in the online world, just as you would in the real world”.

‘Freaked out’
The father said his daughter had been originally angered by his actions, but now was grateful he had intervened.

“For about a month she wouldn’t talk to me, but then one day this guy turned up at the ice-rink and she freaked out and called me,” he said.

His daughter is now at university and is in a relationship with a man of her own age.

The father said he had since installed the software on the computers of all his children – with their knowledge.

However, he said the best way to prevent children falling prey to internet predators was to be “open and honest” with them.

“Talk to them and listen to them,” he said.

He also said he did not approve of children having computers in their bedrooms, and becoming members of social networking sites such as Facebook.

Source:http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-berkshire-16911260

A provider of enterprise output management, announced the Farmington N.M, Fire Department has deployed Brooks’ RPM Remote Print Manager.

“This is an excellent example of a public safety agency applying low cost EOM technology to improve communications at the core of its services, and better protect staff and local citizens,” said Dave Brooks, president of Brooks Internet Software, in a release. “RPM is especially suited for PSAP (Public Safety Answering Points) telecommunication systems, used by providers in cities, townships and rural areas to relay timely, accurate communications from fire and police departments, to hospitals and ambulance services.”

RPM enables the Farmington FD to send 9-1-1 call transcripts to first responders, arming them with critical details about the nature of each emergency and hazards that may be faced upon arrival. These text and email alerts reach about 500 emergency responders in the area.

In addition, RPM’s print-to-email capability serves as a secondary failsafe, in the off chance that primary alerting systems fail.

“These texts are delivered lightning fast. In fact, some of the firefighters’ phones receive dispatch texts before the tones go off in the fire station and the dispatcher calls them on the radio,” said firefighter Mark Mordecki, who manages the 9-1-1 call to text system for the Farmington FD. “The others get them within seconds of the tones going off, so really there is no delay in being able to learn about a call. In an emergency situation, seconds count, so getting information as soon as possible helps save lives.”

Brooks’ RPM Remote Print Manager is a Windows print server. The Windows-based software works with Linux, CUPS, Solaris and HP-UX, as well as legacy systems including System i and mainframes.

Brooks Internet Software provides a bridge between legacy IBM and UNIX systems and high volume print jobs, across enterprise networks.

Source:http://www.fireengineering.com/news/2012/01/1583470672/farmington-new-mexico-fire-department-selects-brooks-internet-software.html

Internet Retailer today named Old Time Candy to its “Hot 100 E-Retailers of 2012″ list, an annual collection of retailers who have broken new ground in the past year in ways that other retailers can learn from. Old Time Candy’s online store, dedicated to selling retro candies like Wax Lips, Ice Cube Chocolates and more, is built on 3dcart ecommerce software.

“Old Time Candy Co. turned an old, clunky site into a sleek, rich entertainment,” Internet Retailer wrote about the online candy store. “Old Time Candy enables shoppers to personalize the tops of candy boxes with their custom messages and images. And, recognizing that this is a perfect gift, the e-retailer offers an unusual service: a staff member will handwrite a gift card, adding a truly personal touch.”

“We knew Old Time Candy required a much more dynamic platform, so we made the switch to 3dcart in 2010,” said Don Bridge, co-owner of Old Time Candy. “Since then, we’ve had a much easier time managing our business on the backend while giving our customers a unique, well-designed experience on the front end.”

Since switching to 3dcart, Bridge cites the ability to control and automate the shopping experience, from ordering to shipping, as a huge time saver for the organization. As a result, Old Time Candy has more time to focus on outstanding customer service-a feature of the store that Bridge and his staff see as a huge priority and a big differentiator from competing stores.

“We’re always impressed when we see customers using our software to drive a unique online shopping experience, but Old Time Candy is one of our favorites,” said 3dcart CEO Gonzalo Gil. “One of the strengths of our software is customizability, and many of our customers take advantage of that, pushing out great examples of successful online stores.”

Source:http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2011/12/06/prweb9014092.DTL

To monitor the activities of internet users in cyber cafes in the eastern part of Kutch district bordering Pakistan, the Special Operations Group (SOG) of the district police has installed special software in computers.

According to Chirag Koradia, Superintendent of Police, Kutch (East), the software will keep track of all surfing activity done at the cyber cafes of bordering cities. “Since the area is close to the border, we wanted a system which could provide us minute details such as who surfed which website on any given day,” said Koradia.

The Special Operations Group has identified 22 cyber cafes in Gandhidham, Adipur, Anjar, Bhachau and Rapar. According to SOG police inspector LD Vagadia, the computers of all 22 cyber cafes in the areas are now equipped with ‘Clinch,’ a web tracking software. “It is made by a Bangaluru based firm and installed at free of cost in every computer at these cafes. The software will keep complete records of the person who uses the PC and which website he/she opened,” said Vagadia.

Under the new system, the user has to fill a form before he/she starts surfing the net from a café.”After filling of the form, a unique ID will be created, through which the user can surf the web. The software firm has given access of their database to SOG, so that we can keep track of all users through our own server,” said Vagadia, who also added that this software is already installed in cyber cafes in Jammu & Kashmir, Punjab and some southern Indian states.

Source:http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report_special-software-to-track-internet-users-in-kutch_1612899

My child hates his Type I diabetes, and I can’t really blame him. Nobody likes to have a debilitating disease that keeps him from participating in a lot of the fun stuff his friends get to participate in.

When another child brings cupcakes into the classroom to be nice and share one with everyone, my child misses out. When they go on field trips, he misses out because the school refuses to send a qualified person to monitor him. When he wants to go Trick or Treating, like he will this coming Halloween, we let him, but when we get home, we will check to see what looks safe and what doesn’t, first of all, and then we will sort out the tiny pile that is his to parse out to himself over the next several weeks and the much larger pile that we grudgingly take to work and push off onto his teachers and classmates, making them break whatever diet they were on in the first place.

But not too long ago, I found a handy tool for keeping track of all of those numbers we have to keep track of as parents, and it’s made my child hate his diabetes just a little bit less. And honestly, as much as he hates it, any lit bit of hating it less helps our whole family at this point.

There’s nothing more miserable than having to bug my kid about his blood sugar readings every time he eats breakfast, lunch and dinner, but all of that changed when we were at a recent diabetes convention.

The City of San Antonio has conventions here just like any other major metropolitan area. So over the summer, we heard about the diabetes convention being held here. Our diabetes numbers are staggering in this part of the country, but particularly in this part of the state.

The 2010 Bexar County Community Health Assessment — created by the county’s Health Collaborative — reported that 85 percent of Southside residents are overweight or obese, followed by residents in Southeast San Antonio at 80 percent. About 16 percent of Southside residents were diagnosed with diabetes, compared to 7 percent and 8 percent in Northwest and Northeast San Antonio.

Now, that’s just a snapshot of where I live. Diabetes is a problem all over the country, and many of these diabetics, Type I diabetics especially, are children, just learning how to take care of themselves and resenting the heck out of the adults in their lives for making them do it.

A new software program that is designed to track blood sugar readings could help children and parents with that arduous task. While at this convention last summer, we discovered Blue Loop, Internet-based software that helps parents and kids organize the diabetic kids’ blood sugar readings.

It’s located at and it’s amazing. The first part of the site you get to explore involves a chart with different categories you can fill out. For instance, you can track his blood sugar readings every day, if you’d like. If your doctor just needs you to keep track of a week or two worth of readings, you can do that, too. You can write them down on a piece of paper, and then you can enter them in the appropriate fields later on. You have almost unlimited options when it comes to tracking your blood sugar.

The best part of this website is that you can share it with your doctor. Because of the Health Information Portability and Accountability Act, privacy between doctor and patient is at an all-time high. There are imitators of this site out here, but very few does what it does, allowing the doctor to go into your website and check your numbers all with the approval of HIPAA. The site has been approved for use in this way, meaning you can give your doctor access to your records and it’s sanctioned by people who work diligently to protect your medical records.

On the front page of Blue Loop, it says, “BlueLoop is your personal electronic health record for people with diabetes and all caregivers – parents, spouses, school personnel, doctors & more… Share BG’s, carbs, medication, notes and more instantly with your caregivers via e-mail and text message.”

I use Blue Loop as a kind of go-between between us and the doctor’s office but also to track my son’s wholle life. I use the section where we can keep track of what he ate and how much insulin he was given what day and at what time. I like knowing that kind of information so if his blood sugar routinely gets high or routinely gets low, we can consult his diet and exercise level over the last however many weeks and see if his blood sugar changes are from something that has to do with his everyday life. If those changes are due to something else, and we can’t figure it out, we’ll consult the doctor at his office.

Ultimately, the best part of BlueLoop is that since it’s on a computer, my 9-year-old son loves it. It’s a fancy form of record-keeping, so it feels like just one more thing for me to do every day, but for him it’s the chance to use computer with permission. You really can’t beat that when you’re a fourth grader.

Source:http://www.emaxhealth.com/8751/track-your-childs-blood-sugar-new-internet-software

The program is called Computer Cop. And Shannon Davis who works in the DA’s office says the first thing you should know about computer cop is that it’s easy to use.

“It’s no harder to install than Turbo Tax or something similar. You just pop the disk in, you follow the prompts and it installs. It has a number of applications on it that allow you to follow your children’s activities online.”

There are already products on the market that help parents monitor their children’s online activities, but they stress that this one is much simpler. Plus, it’s free.

Davis says the computer will save every image that’s been viewed on the computer. You can also tell the computer to look for certain words and to notify you if your child, or someone your child is chatting with, uses those words.

“When these words pop up, you can have an email sent to yourself, which means you don’t have to wait till later. You get that instant message. You can call home and say, ‘Excuse me, Junior.What exactly are you doing?’”

District Attorney Pat Lykos says computers can be an important educational tool, but can also be a safety concern if parents aren’t watching out.

“You cannot relax vigilance in this day in age with respect to your children. It seems that every advancement in technology that we have, the perverts seize upon it first and that we’re always playing catch up.”

Lykos gives an example of a recent case involving a young girl who was playing a video game that was hooked up to the internet.

“We had a case in Harris County where an 11 year old girl was being solicited by a male out-of-state, who was pretending to be an 11 year girl and who was grooming her. Fortunately, the father saw an email opened it up and was horrified and brought it to us. So we became the 11 year old girl and we ‘greeted’ him when he came to Harris County.”

Deputies in the DA’s office will begin passing out copies of Computer Cop at local schools. They’ll also be available to the public at the DA’s downtown office on Franklin Street.

Source:http://app1.kuhf.org/articles/1318455442-Free-Internet-Monitoring-Software-For-Parents.html