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Symantec's Norton consumer division today introduced the beta version of a product www.onlinefamily.com intended to let parents monitor children's online activities, generating reports for review, including red flags to note questionable behavior.
Norton Online Family, offered as a free beta for download today and expected to ship in the second quarter for Windows and the Mac, lets parents monitor a wide array of activities, including Web, chat and social-networking sites, on up to five household PCs. Pricing hasn't been set.
But more than just software, Norton Online Family is a cloud-based service that can analyze a child's actions -- from Web site visits to whether kids are declaring themselves to be older than they...