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Chat-room Predator Caught
News Memphis police arrested an Arkansas man this week whom authorities said came to Memphis hoping to buy an eight-year-old girl for sex -- a deal he made in an Internet chat room. Arlon Simpson, 50, a University of Arkansas custodian, allegedly made...
[September 3, 1999, 11:15]
Mining Chat-Room Conversations For Social And Semantic Interactions
White Papers The Intelink intelligence network, for example, has a need to monitor chat-room conversations to ensure the integrity of sensitive data being transmitted via the network. However, the sheer volume of communication in venues such as email...
[January 13, 2005, 23:00]
Firm Sues Over Net Room 'defamation' Chat
News Presstek Inc.s defamation suit, filed Thursday, claims the defendants said the company would lose money in a quarter when it actually turned a profit, and also falsely alleged that Presstek was the focus of a grand jury investigation.
[September 19, 1997, 9:56]
Microsoft Chatroom Closure Is 'irresponsible'
Talkback If you've never used a chat room how can you say that they are worthless? I have used a room on msn for more then a year,it is a music room,where the chat is about music ,bands etc,not sex and pick ups!
[September 25, 2003, 14:22]
MPs Turn To Web For Votes
News If your Member of Parliament suddenly launches a personal Web site with online voting and a chat room in the next few months, then approach it with caution. Barbara Follett MP said she was considering starting such a chat room on her site -- www...
[October 30, 2001, 13:06]
Naughton Caught Disney Jet To LA
News As opening statements commenced in the trial of Patrick Naughton, the prosecution tried to paint the former Infoseek executive as a predator who deliberately enticed a young girl he met in a chat room to hook up with him for sex at the Santa...
[December 8, 1999, 9:39]
Camfrog Video Chat
Downloads Camfrog Video Chat allows multi-user videoconferencing where you can join a room with up to 1000 users and just click a user name to begin seeing someone. The video chat rooms are hosted by broadband users who are running the Camfrog Video Chat...
[April 28, 2008, 23:31]
MSN Messenger Hit By Virus, Outage
Talkback And i think i know why.i made a chat room couple days ago ( a big chat room) like 20 people on it and later on night smarterkid@hotmail.com added me to his contact list.i know that its a programe coz it answer all your question and also put...
[March 25, 2006, 11:26]
Disney: The Mouse That Won't Roar
News The cookies are supposed to stop children ejected from a chat room from re-registering as adults. The main Disney page used to link to Go.com, which has chat rooms like Teen Chat, Flirt Room, and Love Chat.
[October 11, 2000, 13:51]
Naughton Jury Still In Deliberations
News At one point, they asked to have a transcript of the entire testimony of Naughton and the two FBI agents who posed as the girl in a chat room and on the Santa Monica Pier. Jurors also asked for testimony relating to "Alyssa," another FBI agent...
[December 14, 1999, 14:01]
A Year Ago: Naughton Jury Still In Deliberations
News At one point, they asked to have a transcript of the entire testimony of Naughton and the two FBI agents who posed as the girl in a chat room and on the Santa Monica Pier. Jurors also asked for testimony relating to "Alyssa," another FBI agent...
[December 14, 2000, 6:02]
Chat 'bots' May Be Hacker Tool
News Internet Security Systems, which monitors networks around the world from seven points of presence, including a "war room" in Atlanta, has seen an increase in IRC (Internet Relay Chat) traffic in the last month, according to Grant Slender...
[May 10, 2002, 10:55]
Child Agencies Lambast Yahoo! Over Chatroom Apathy
News Catherine Taylor explained Wednesday: "We will only take it down [a room or chat area] if it breaks the law or if it is inciting to break the law. Williams explained that Chatdanger.com was designed to "raise awareness among children and parents...
[November 9, 2000, 15:41]
Jury Deciding Naughton's Fate
News Naughton was nabbed on the Santa Monica Pier on September 16 after he set up a meeting there with "krisLA," an undercover FBI agent posing as a 13-year-old girl in a chat room. During her closing arguments, prosecutor Patricia Donahue asked jurors...
[December 13, 1999, 8:14]
High-tech Paedophiles: No Surprise To FBI
News In Naughton's case, an FBI agent encountered Naughton in an Internet chat room, while the agent was posing as a 13-year-old girl, according to an affidavit filed in the case. The investigators are not forcing people to commit criminal acts simply...
[September 21, 1999, 10:05]
Startup Spotlight: Cycosmos.com
News Cycosmos is a chat forum that allows you to let your cyber imagination run away with you, creating whatever character you want and even allowing you to change your sex.techTrader was given a guided tour of Cycosmos.com at the BBC Tomorrow's World...
[July 11, 2000, 7:19]
ISP Launches Monitored Chatroom For Kids
News In its trial period, Supakids chat will be available to users under the age of 14 from 4pm to 6pm on weekdays. There is no foolproof way of making sure who is on the other end.but we wanted a responsible way for children to chat, without...
[June 25, 2001, 11:05]
DimDim - Free Web Meetings
Blog Basically what DimDim provides is a way to host web meetings with video and audio of the meeting host/provider, shared presentation of a whiteboard, the host's desktop and/or PDF files and PowerPoint presentations, public and private chat between...
[April 10, 2008, 15:23]
Yahoo Patches Messenger, Chat Flaws
News When users of the software log on to the IM network or enter a chat room, Yahoo is prompting them to install the patches. Yahoo on Friday issued security patches for its Yahoo Instant Messenger and Yahoo Chat clients in an effort to fix a buffer...
[June 2, 2003, 7:49]
Chat Rooms Targetted By Internet Watch Foundation
News Kerr also believes chat room providers should employ supervisors in chat rooms to monitor what is happening around the clock. The review, published last month, praised the work done by IWF and recommended its focus be extended to online chat rooms.
[March 2, 1999, 11:17]
