August 27, 2012

Parents worry about kids and smoking, drug and alcohol abuse and teen pregnancy, but none are the top health concern in their minds. According to a new survey, children not getting enough exercise is the number-one worry of parents, followed closely by obesity. It’s the first time that lack of exercise has topped the annual survey. Source Link

So who’s in the fast lane of the information superhighway? A new FCC report says six out of ten American households now subscribe to a wired broadband Internet service. But only about half of those homes have the faster level of service that allows for use of streaming video sites like Netflix. In some areas, wireless broadband offers better service than wired Internet service. Source Link

Want to know if that political attack ad is telling the truth? Now there’s an app for that. The new “Super PAC” smart phone application listens to the audio from the commercial and uses the same technology designed to identify songs by sound. It identifies the group that produced the commercial and then points you to non-partisan web sites that review political ads. Source Link