chatrooms in audio and video
Broadband Blighty gets a rural flavour
News England The English spend more time on the internet than in any of the UK's other nations, going online for an average of 12.4 hours on the internet, and 77 per cent of their time online is used to send emails and IMs, and visit... [22 May 2008]
Photos: Eavesdropping on the net
Photo The Listening Post at the Science Museum in London captures snapshots of fractured conversation from thousands of public chatrooms and bulletin boards. Eavesdropping on the whispers of the web has been made a whole lot... [07 Apr 2008]
Social network sites scuttled by shipping business
News But with the increased popularity of social networking sites, chatrooms and online shopping, the company has been forced to monitor and curtail staff browsing activities. Shipping and tanker agency Graypen has installed... [21 Sep 2007]
Mobile social networking 'to ring up $6bn'
News Mobile dating and chatrooms currently account for 57 per cent of user-generated revenues, with this proportion falling to 21 per cent by 2012 as other services increase in popularity, Juniper predicts. [15 Aug 2007]
Second Lifers on their best behaviour?
News Do people behave better in virtual worlds than on blogs, forums and chatrooms on the web? A group of virtual world advocates say "yes". They just can't prove it yet. Jaron Lanier, scholar-in-residence at UC Berkeley's... [02 Aug 2007]
Employers embrace e-learning
News The most popular up and coming high-tech teaching methods include podcasting - where teachers send audio files to students - and chatrooms - where teachers and students can discuss topics. Employers see big benefits from... [07 Feb 2007]
Gates and Brown: Tech transforming education
News Lectures will be distributed for free over the internet, students will hold discussions at a distance in chatrooms, and testing and accreditation will happen online for people anywhere in the world, Gates explained. [31 Jan 2007]
Beeb to open Second Life for kids
News For security reasons, the BBC's service won't have any chatrooms. The BBC is to open its own version of Second Life aimed at children, according to Auntie's website. Kids will be able to use the planned virtual world to... [24 Jan 2007]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: Mobile internet reality
Comment But even here, right from the outset, people subscribe to news groups, join chatrooms, belong to community networks, or have their shared favourite jumping-off point. The success of a 'mobile internet' doesn't mean... [11 Jan 2007]
Skype to get bloggers talking?
News Internet telephony provider Skype plans to offer bloggers and others the ability to hold audio chats in the next version of its net telephone product. Speaking at the at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, Skype co-founder Niklas... [08 Nov 2006]
FBI chief bangs drum for ISP data retention
News Mueller said in a speech at the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) conference in Boston: "Terrorists co-ordinate their plans cloaked in the anonymity of the internet, as do violent sexual predators prowling... [18 Oct 2006]
'Blogs not trusted for serious news'
News In seeking out information on those kinds of topics, blogs, user groups and chatrooms are the most popular after traditional lifestyle media. A survey of media consumption in the US has found 50 per cent of people opt... [03 Oct 2006]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: School's out - so watch out
Comment The scope of sites is vast - from music and movies and games through eBay, shopping, chatrooms, alternative reality sites, instant messaging, videoconferencing, VoIP and much more. Written in my home office and... [21 Aug 2006]
Disney cancels UK mobile kid-tracking
News The service also restricts kids from using certain services, such as chatrooms, and calling particular numbers. Disney has shelved plans to launch a mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) in the UK, saying the market is... [14 Aug 2006]
Schools do battle with cyber bullies
News Cyber bullying can range from abusive text messages, emails and phone calls, to bullying in internet chatrooms or on social networking sites. The new guidelines recommend: school anti-bullying policies should include... [25 Jul 2006]
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