Chatrooms The Independent: Chatroom rivals attack Microsoft closure move
A MAN aged 22 pleaded guilty in court yesterday to gross indecency with a 14-year-old girl he met in a Microsoft chatroom, only hours after the internet provider announced that it was shutting its online forums.David Hipperson, from Hitchin in Hertfordshire, told magistrates in Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, that the girl claimed she was 16. They met twice for sex, but he was arrested during their third encounter after the girl's parents became suspicious. The case was adjourned...
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Talktv's 'the chatroom' is billed as the next generation of television
MEET THE motormouths: Seamus O'Regan, Jennifer Hollett, Louisa McCormack and Roberto Veri. As hosts of the chatroom, they fill six hours of live television every weekday on CTV's digital channel talktv. Not just any local chatterboxes of whom we all know many these four anchor a show that calls for fast thinking, quick stepping and unscripted entertainment.The chatroom is the first attempt in North America at a truly "convergent" show,...
The Economic Times:
MSN 'Nanny' sounds the death of chatrooms
LONDON: To the sound of congratulatory cheers -- and barrack-room chants of 'MS Nanny' -- Microsoft Network (MSN), one of the world's biggest Internet service providers, has announced the end of an era of free, unpoliced chatrooms. But there are fears the advertised 'global decision' will challenge the very concept of the worldwide Web, with its un-metered, untrammelled and borderless nature.In what it calls a move to protect...