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Chat Rooms Targetted By Internet Watch Foundation
News The review, published last month, praised the work done by IWF and recommended its focus be extended to online chat rooms. David Kerr, chief executive of IWF believes chat rooms are "the next big problem" in the fight against child exploitation on...
[March 2, 1999, 11:17]
A Year Ago: Chat Rooms Targetted By Internet Watch Foundation
News The review, published last month, praised the work done by IWF and recommended its focus be extended to online chat rooms. David Kerr, chief executive of IWF believes chat rooms are "the next big problem" in the fight against child exploitation on...
[March 2, 2000, 5:37]
PowerTools Pro For AOL 7.0/6.0
Downloads PowerTools fully integrates into the AOL toolbar by providing fully customizable toolbars and custom menus, and is packed with dozens of useful and fun features, such as an enhanced Address Book, colored chat rooms, single tabbed Instant Message...
[September 22, 2002, 6:32]
Pushing The Envelope On IM
News Long associated with casual text-based conversations among teens and singles in America Online chat rooms, IM technology is now poised not only to gain mainstream acceptance, but to establish itself as an independent platform for a variety of...
[July 31, 2001, 9:06]
Net Paedophile Gets Five Years
News The Web site has been designed to alert parents to the dangers of online chat rooms, helping children to be streetwise in cyberspace. Reynolds believes chat rooms are the prime target for paedophiles as they allow children to engage in live...
[October 24, 2000, 14:49]
Microsoft Directs Chatters To IM
News Microsoft stands to benefit in several ways from the move, for example by reducing expenses related to maintaining and policing free Web chat rooms, and raising the prominence of MSN Messenger in the regions affected: Europe, Asia, Africa and...
[September 26, 2003, 9:00]
America Online (OS X)
Downloads With an AOL account, you can utilize a vast array of chat rooms, message boards, online stores, digital pictures, and AOL's My Calendar. America Online (AOL) is a communication service that provides users with access to both the Internet and...
[April 18, 2003, 2:15]
AOL To Put Ads Online
News However, the UK service will only carry ads on its most popular areas and says it has no immediate intention to duplicate US plans for including them in chat rooms. AOL is shortly to follow its US parent America Online by rolling out advertising...
[March 5, 1997, 15:55]
Five Years Ago: AOL To Put Ads Online
News However, the UK service will only carry ads on its most popular areas and says it has no immediate intention to duplicate US plans for including them in chat rooms. AOL is shortly to follow its US parent America Online by rolling out advertising...
[February 28, 2002, 6:01]
AOL-Netscape Deal: The Death Of Open Standards?
News America Online, an online service based on proprietary technology, offers its users a gateway to the Internet, but most of its features-- including file downloads, e-mail and messaging technologies such as chat rooms -- are available only through...
[November 25, 1998, 9:41]
Net Offers Lifeline Amid Tragedy
News He was joined by thousands using chat rooms to exchange information on the attacks. and America Online experienced increased demand as people sought to contact friends and family. One New York resident who couldn't get to traditional news sources...
[September 12, 2001, 10:58]
AOL Enters The Rating Game
News Including an "I" in a rating indicates to parents the game includes interactive elements like chat rooms and bulletin boards where their children may be exposed to unsupervised content. In a move it hopes will set a new standard for the online...
[November 19, 1999, 10:02]
Valentine's Day Goo Clogs Net
News It might not sound romantic, but large numbers of people are finding a variety of reasons for flocking to Web sites, 3-D chat rooms, and online stores ahead of Saturday's festival of love. Greet Street started up just as the Internet was becoming...
[February 16, 1998, 9:31]
IBM Revamps Voice-recognition Software
News The software also incorporates the ViaVoice Online Companion, which let users talk their way through chat rooms. ViaVoice Web Millennium, $80, adds America Online to a list of ISPs users can access. Hoping to lure more people to the brave new world...
[September 8, 1999, 11:10]
US Report: AOL 4.0 Assimilates The Net
News These sites, termed "portals," began as tools for searching for information on the Web, but in recent months have transformed themselves into multi-featured services, with features such as chat rooms, e-mail, personalized news and information, and...
[September 29, 1998, 11:45]
IT's A Question Of Ethics In The Online Workplace
News That leaves a serious potential for embarrassment if employees are visiting any number of places, from job-search sites to racist chat rooms. Cautionary tales are piling up -- from United Parcel Service of America, which caught one employee using a...
[October 21, 1999, 13:44]
US Web Snooping Plan Draws Fire
News America Online, whose boards are cited in the SEC document as a surveillance target, said it routinely forbids anyone from harvesting information from its many thousands of chat rooms and message boards to protect the privacy of its customers.
[March 29, 2000, 9:12]
Net Gently Weeps For Beatle Harrison
News Fans crowded online message boards and chat rooms Friday to express their sadness over the death of former Beatle George Harrison. As of midmorning Friday, America Online members had posted nearly 1,500 messages, 200 messages had been posted on Yahoo!
[November 30, 2001, 17:09]
US Report: Net Giants Battle For Portal Dominance
News The idea behind the recent deals between AT&T and the three search services is the same one driving those services to add features such as free e-mail and chat rooms: to attract users, and the advertising dollars that come with them.
[May 11, 1998, 7:32]
FBI Digs Deeper Into The Web
News The result, they say, could be a crackdown on political dissidents and people who visit anti-American chat rooms. America's allies have also sought to bolster laws aimed at aiding investigators, with the European Parliament last week approving...
[June 6, 2002, 12:28]
