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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 easier thanks to a...
[07 Apr 2008]
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 web filtering technology...
[21 Sep 2007]
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]
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 Center for Entrepreneurship...
[02 Aug 2007]
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 e-learning compared to more...
[07 Feb 2007]
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]
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 access BBC content and...
[24 Jan 2007]
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 trying to replicate the desktop...
[11 Jan 2007]
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 Zennström, one of...
[08 Nov 2006]
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 chatrooms.
[18 Oct 2006]
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 for traditional media such as...
[03 Oct 2006]
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 despatched to silicon.com from a free...
[21 Aug 2006]
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 in flux.
[14 Aug 2006]
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 strategies to deal with...
[25 Jul 2006]
Comment Mrs Rao didn't know what to do but surf the net day and night and talk in chatrooms. This is his warts-and-all diary, which appears daily this month. For in-depth coverage of this fact-finding trip inside China, including analysis and exclusive...
[17 Jun 2006]
News These PCs are connected to instant messaging networks and typically logged in to chatrooms, which are often the starting point for new IM worms. A new instant messaging worm installs a rogue web browser called "Safety Browser" and hijacks the user...
[23 May 2006]
News Last year the NHC released a similar study that found one in five youngsters had suffered 'digital bullying' either by text messages, email or in internet chatrooms. One in 10 teenagers has been bullied online over email or instant messenger, while...
[15 Mar 2006]
Leader both shut chatrooms, citing concerns they were being used by paedophiles. One of China's leading portals, NetEase, announced today it has shut its MP3 search facility, fearing it could be blamed for the illegal music files that such a search turns...
[17 Aug 2005]
News One in five youngsters has suffered from 'digital bullying' either by text messages, email or in internet chatrooms. Other forms of digital bullying experienced included abuse in internet chatrooms (five per cent) and via email (four per cent).
[07 Jun 2005]
News According to the Office of National Statistics' Yearbook 2004 - a snapshot of the tastes and events of the nation in 2004 - 53 per cent of UK households have internet access, 84 per cent of the UK's internet users have used email between April...
[30 Nov 2004]
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