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By Kathy Adams The Virginian-Pilot November 16, 2013

VIRGINIA BEACH

Haid'z Hefner said she tries to monitor her 8-year-old daughter's activities online, but keeping tabs can be difficult, especially when she works nights.

Now she's got something to help her: ComputerCOP, a free computer-monitoring software the Commonwealth's Attorney's Office is offering parents as part of its online safety education program. The office launched the initiative Friday night at New Castle Elementary School.

"This is very interesting," Hefner said, holding her daughter's hand as she picked up a copy of the software. "My husband will like it. She's growing up... and I can't be there 24 hours a day."

ComputerCOP can show parents what photos their children have downloaded, what sites they've visited and who they've been talking to. It can alert parents when certain keywords such as "drugs" or "gang" are used.

The ComputerCOP disc includes safety tips, a link to the state's sex offender registry and Internet safety pledges parents can ask their children to sign. There's also a free 30-day trial of a cellphone-monitoring program, available for $10 a month.

The hope is to arm parents with the tools to protect their kids from online predators and cyberbullies and to teach them how to behave safely and appropriately online, Chief Deputy Commonwealth's Attorney Colin Stolle said. The initiative is in response to cases in which youths have either gotten into trouble for their online activity or been victimized as a result of it, he said.

"In the Commonwealth's Attorney's Office, we see Internet charges on a regular basis," he told about 300 parents, teachers and students Friday. "As a parent, it's something that terrifies me."

This year, a 15-year-old Virginia Beach girl tried to kill herself after nude photos she had sent to an 18-year-old boy ended up on her Facebook wall. Last month, a 14-year-old York County girl reported being raped by a 20-year-old Virginia Beach man she met through a chat app called KIK, according to the York-Poquoson Sheriff's Office. He had told her he was 16, and she agreed to meet him for a walk, the office said.

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Take a look at the next desktop PC or laptop you come across. Odds are good it won't be running an open-source operating system. Microsoft's closed-source Windows has by far the highest share of the PC client operating system market, followed in a distant second by Apple's Mac OS X. Linux and other wholly open source operating systems have only a tiny market share.

It's not hard to see why. Despite the advances made by distributions such as Ubuntu, desktop Linux is still miles behind Windows and OS X in terms of the look, the feel and the slickness that most office workers have come to expect. The vast majority of companies simply aren't prepared to make office workers use an open source OS - and most office workers aren't prepared to use them, either.

Even if you want to stick with a closed source operating system (or, the case of OS X, partially closed source), your business can still take advantage of a vast amount of open source software. The most attractive benefit of doing so: It's generally available to download and run for nothing. While support usually isn't available for such free software, it's frequently offered at an additional cost by the author or a third party. It may be included in a low-cost commercially licensed version as well.

Is it possible, then, to run a business entirely on software that can be downloaded for free? There certainly are many options that make it possible - and many more that aren't included in this guide.

Report: Open Source Should Come First When Choosing New Enterprise IT

Paul Rubens is a technology journalist based in England. Contact him at paul@rubens.org. Follow everything from CIO.com on Twitter @CIOonline, Facebook, Google + and LinkedIn.

Open Source Office Productivity Suites

Very few companies using Microsoft Office actually require support from Microsoft, so using an open source alternative can make good financial sense. Open-source suites are compatible with Microsoft Office file formats such as .doc and .xls. Though their feature sets aren't quite as comprehensive as Office, that's unlikely to matter - most people only use a fraction of the available features available anyway.

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CCH Acquires Accounting Software Company Best Practice Solutions

Research proves SMEs want their Accountants to provide them with more strategic business advice. The addition to the CCH iFirm suite of BPS accounting software solutions like ATO Paper Buster alone can free up around 1,000 annual hours of an Accountants time for providing that advice

SYDNEY, Australia (14 November 2013) CCH, a Wolters Kluwer business, today announced the acquisition of the business operated by Melbourne-based accounting software company, Best Practice Solutions (BPS). This acquisition will significantly expand CCHs ability to provide a holistic software-plus-content solution to accounting firms in Australia and New Zealand so that they can better serve their clients who operate Small- to Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs).

Headlining 2013 research of over 1,000 SMEs commissioned by CCH shows that SMEs trust their accountant ahead of their financial planner, business partner or lawyer when it comes to which external adviser they trust most, yet only 37% of accountants are sufficiently freed up from transactional work to be able to provide them that strategic business advice.

A natural extension of the content and software already provided by CCH, the addition of BPS software solutions will better equip Accounting Firms with a single source of authoritative and practical information, software and services to become that keenly-sought trusted advisor to their SME clients.

Mr Russell Evans, President of Wolters Kluwer Tax and Accounting Asia Pacific and Chief Executive Officer of CCH Asia Pacific, said this is why clients of BPS and CCH will benefit significantly from the acquisition.

We welcome the addition of the BPS team and its fantastic accounting software products to Wolters Kluwer Tax and Accounting. Our CCH iFirm cloud software suite and BPS revolutionary ATO Paper Buster product is proven to save an accounting firm around 1,000 hours a year so we will make it even easier for accountants to be that trusted adviser to their SME clients, Mr Evans said. SMEs are often cited as the engine room of the Australian economy, but this should more accurately be described as successful SMEs.

Mr Ron Drost, founder and Director of BPS, said the BPS team is looking forward to working with its new CCH colleagues.

We are very excited about joining Wolters Kluwer Tax and Accounting, whose services set global standards. This acquisition demonstrates a clear commitment to investing in leading Australian Intellectual Property and builds on the strengths of both organisations, as well as enhancing our services to our clients and customers.

CCH will be retaining all BPS employees and BPS clients can expect to receive the same high levels of service and attention to detail that they have become accustomed to, as well as newly-available software and content solutions that can further improve their efficiency, productivity and profitability, Mr Drost continued.

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