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RSS chat roomGoogle Wave greets conferencing with help from Ribbit
News Once you add the Ribbit conference widget to a wave, everyone in it becomes part of a potential voice chat. The Ribbit team recently showed off their prototype widget, which lets Wave users quickly set up a conference... [30 Sep 2009]
Photos: Inside the RSA cybercrime war room
Photo From the AFCC, the security firm sifts through more than 10 million emails every day, as well as domain names and fraudster chat rooms, searching for threats to its customers, which include a selection of Britain's high... [18 Sep 2009]
Five ways to make meetings bearable
Comment First consider if the meeting is truly necessary - will a quick chat or phone call suffice instead? Accept it and condemn yourself to hours locked up in an airless room eating biscuits and drinking too... [21 Oct 2008]
ITU 06 diary - BT's bacon sock, mobile medicine and 3G backlash
Comment Aside from BT's chat, today saw a session based around two of the biggest themes of ITU this year - connecting the unconnected populations of the world and using mobiles for health. The chuckles from the conference floor... [07 Dec 2006]
Unwired: Fewer desks than people?
Comment This is achieved by creating what Chris Webber, head of BT Workstyle calls "CCC Culture", or 'cappuccino, connectivity and chat'. Hotelling is usually supported by room and desk-booking systems. The... [12 Sep 2006]
US to block minors' access to MySpace?
News Fitzpatrick and fellow Republicans, including house speaker Dennis Hastert, on Wednesday endorsed new legislation that would cordon off access to commercial websites that let users create public "web pages or profiles" and also offer a... [11 May 2006]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Security and 'toilet paper'
Comment So.if you see a well-dressed guy with a laptop rummaging around in a public or company waste bin somewhere, don't take pity on him, just leave him be - unless you want to buy him a coffee and have chat about security... [28 Apr 2006]
'Track your lover' spyware seller and customers indicted
News Once opened, the spyware would install itself on the recipient's PC and report their behaviour - including websites visited, emails sent, chat room sessions and IM conversations - to the sender. A... [30 Aug 2005]
Zombies: There are too many of them, says McAfee
News The programs spread to vulnerable computers via chat room servers and file-sharing networks, experts said, and often go undetected by the PCs' owners. Personal computers that play unwitting host to... [12 Jul 2005]
Internet-illiterate parents hold back kids
News Fearful parents may take too rigorous an approach to restricting online access completely and thereby leave their children less aware of online risks, such as chat room dangers, when they do use the... [28 Apr 2005]
ThinkPad users in despair over IBM's PC sale
News One devotee wrote in the chat room on popular user site ThinkPads.com: "Let me be brief. In the wake of Wednesday's announcement that Lenovo will buy IBM's PC business - since which the Chinese's company... [10 Dec 2004]
ISPs take more spammers to court
News This includes a case brought by AOL against 20 individuals accused of spimming, or sending unsolicited junk mail over to an instant messaging client or to a chat room. A volley of lawsuits was launched... [29 Oct 2004]
Leader: Expect in-flight chit-chat
Leader But he said: "You can do anything on one of the [Connexion-equipped] planes online as you do in your living room online. News broke over the weekend of a flight by an American Airlines jet featuring in-cabin cellular... [21 Jul 2004]
Analysis: Politicians botching tech laws
Comment Anyone distributing instant-messaging programs, File Transfer Protocol software or internet Relay Chat clients would have to follow a complicated set of regulations to be published by the Federal Trade Commission, which... [12 May 2004]
Latest worm threat is spotted early
News The attachment contains a mail engine, a list of domain names associated with Undernet.org and some parts of the code suggest it may be designed to communicate with a chat room. Email filtering company... [16 Feb 2004]
