SurfWatch Joins Industry and Government Leaders in Building a Safer Internet Experience for Children; Online Safety is Focus of GetNetWise Initiative.LOS GATOS Los Gatos (lôs gä`tōs, lŏs, găt`əs), city (1990 pop. 27,357), Santa Clara co., W Calif.; inc. 1887. It is an affluent residential community and health resort. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Thursday, July 29, 1999-- SurfWatch Software, a division of Spyglass, Inc. (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on : SPYG) joined a coalition of leading Internet companies today in announcing the launch of GetNetWise, an online resource for families that will deliver information about tools and tips needed to guide children to a safe, enriching experience online. The resource will be available on all major Internet portals, through a broad range of Internet Service Providers Internet service provider (ISP) Company that provides Internet connections and services to individuals and organizations. For a monthly fee, ISPs provide computer users with a connection to their site (see data transmission), as well as a log-in name and password. and family-oriented Web sites, as well as at http://www.GetNetWise.org. Functioning as an interactive directory, GetNetWise contains aggregated and syndicated content that can be found by clicking on the blue-and-white GetNetWise logo showing a little hand resting on a large hand guiding a computer mouse. The content is divided into four themes: -- Internet Safety Guide based on age-level, risk area, and technology, -- Tools for Families describing technologies that monitor Net use, filter unwanted content, or control computer use, such as SurfWatch Software, the only patented filtering software available today, -- How to Report Online Trouble offering links to law enforcement and advocacy groups, -- A Guide to Kids Content linking to educational, entertaining content designed for kids. "We're very excited to be working with industry and government leaders to establish this important Web site, a rich online resource for parents, teachers, caregivers and children," said Theresa Marcroft, director of SurfWatch marketing. "SurfWatch was founded on building a safe Internet environment for children, and this program will help ensure a safe, rewarding and educational online experience for them." The GetNetWise resource was announced today at a press conference moderated by Rick White, a former U.S. Representative from Washington State and co-founder of the Congressional Internet Caucus. "GetNetWise is a comprehensive, Web-wide resource designed to guide parents and caregivers to all the tools they need to help children safely navigate the Net," said Rick White. White was joined at the announcement by representatives from SurfWatch and most of the companies sponsoring GetNetWise, including AltaVista, AOL (A division of Time Warner, Inc., New York, NY, www.aol.com) The world's largest online information service with access to the Internet, e-mail, chat rooms and a variety of databases and services. , Ameritech, AT&T, Bell Atlantic, Commercial Internet eXchange (networking, body) Commercial Internet eXchange - (CIX) The CIX is a non-profit, 501(c)6, trade association coordinating Internet services. Its member organisations provide TCP/IP or OSI data internetwork services to the general public. , Disney Online, Excite@Home, IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , Information Technology Association of America See ITAA. , Internet Alliance, Internet Content Coalition, Internet Content Rating Association ICRA, the Internet Content Rating Association, is an international non-profit organization with offices in the United States and the United Kingdom. Its mission is to help users find the content they want, to trust what they find and to filter out what they don't want for , Lycos, MCI (1) (Media Control Interface) A high-level programming interface from Microsoft and IBM for controlling multimedia devices. It provides commands and functions to open, play and close the device. (2) (Microwave Communications Inc. WorldCom, Microsoft, MindSpring., Netscape, Network Solutions Inc., Prodigy, PSINet Inc., Road Runner, U.S. Chamber of Commerce The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is the world's largest not-for-profit federation of businesses, representing more than 3 million businesses and organizations in the United States. As of 2003, the chamber was comprised of 3000 state and local chambers and 830 business associations. , U.S. Internet Council, and Yahoo! Inc. About SurfWatch SurfWatch products allow Internet users to screen out inappropriate content in five categories: sexually explicit materials, hate speech, gambling, sites that glorify the use of drugs, alcohol or tobacco, and violent sites. ChatBlock(TM) enables parents to block children from accessing chat rooms - one of the most dangerous places online for young people. SurfWatch employs cutting edge technology to continuously update its filters, which users can download daily for maximum protection against the newer sites on the Web. SurfWatch Software is also being distributed by most major Internet Service Providers (ISPs) in an effort to make it more readily available in homes. SurfWatch invented the Internet content filtering market in early 1995 and is the industry leader today providing the only patented filtering software. SurfWatch allows parents, teachers and employers to screen out unwanted content, sexually explicit and other inappropriate materials from their computers - without restricting the access rights of other Internet users. SurfWatch client products contain six core filtering categories, including chat. SurfWatch software filters the World Wide Web, Internet, FTP FTP in full file transfer protocol Internet protocol that allows a computer to send files to or receive files from another computer. Like many Internet resources, FTP works by means of a client-server architecture; the user runs client software to connect to , Gopher and Web-based chat connections. For more information, see the SurfWatch Web site at http://www.surfwatch.com |
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