chatrooms in comment and analysis
Chatrooms: Your route to business success (LOL?)
Comment Online chatrooms don't have a great image right now. If the UK press and Countdown Queen Carol Vorderman are to be believed, paedophile monsters lurk in every one of them, disguised and offering young children pocketfuls... [11 Apr 2001]
Is MSN hiding behind social responsibility?
Comment MSN has announced it is to scrap its chatrooms over concerns about child safety in the wake of a number of high profile scares and incidents involving children who have been contacted by paedophiles online. [24 Sep 2003]
Leader: Stop self-policing
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... [17 Aug 2005]
Leader: WorldPay security wake-up call
Leader Just last week silicon.com warned how businesses are getting unwittingly caught in the crossfire of hackers in chatrooms launching DoS attacks on each other. Online payment service WorldPay admitted today it is still... [06 Nov 2003]
Linus Torvalds: King of the duck pond
Comment When you first meet Linus Torvalds what shines out is his apparent shyness. Inside the headquarters of Transmeta - the Silicon Valley chip-designer that now employs him - I met a man who is admired by millions of people the world over... [18 May 2001]
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]
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]
Dan's China diary - day 8
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,... [17 Jun 2006]
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