Dellapenta admitted that he posed as his victim -- a woman who had spurned him -- in sex-themed Internet chat rooms by placing personal ads in the woman's name.
Made-in-Asia chat apps too are growing by leaps and bounds, particularly in the Asian region.
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It was Libyan activists -- in the underground, in chat rooms, in mosques -- who kept a revolution alive, even after some of the world had given up hope.
It's a little buried at the moment -- hidden behind the "i" icon in the chat window -- but everyone's favorite social network is now offering a way to place free voice calls to friends.
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It seems almost bizarre to imagine William Wilberforce, the high-minded anti-slavery campaigner, indulging in friendly social chit-chat with the Prince Regent (a typical conversation with the prince, as recorded by an amazed Persian diplomat, encompassed such topics as the large size of his brother's penis, revealed as he relieved himself out of a carriage window).
The practice originated in online chat-rooms but has quickly inspired several specialist websites, such as 51tuangou.com and www.teambuy.com.cn.
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Group discussions with classmates and one-on-one sessions with instructors will be conducted via FaceTime, the iPad's built-in video chat feature.
Several agreed that text enhances call-in and chat options for a generation of young people who prefer to communicate by typing on their phones, especially when they don't want parents, teachers, friends or boyfriends to listen in.
As the leader in group video-chat, ooVoo's new mobile apps are the only major communications product offering users four simultaneous video streams at once on mobile devices, and hosting a total of up to 12 participants on one call, for free!
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Not only did the actor, pitchman and onetime Captain Kirk engage an in-orbit astronaut in a Twitter chat, he also joined the more raw world of Reddit and took a stand against what he saw as a culture there that permits a fair amount of racism and bigotry.
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In 2008, the company launched YY, a voice-based gaming communications service, which enabled gamers to voice chat over the Internet and text chat in real-time while slaying monsters or coordinating gaming missions.
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The incident that possibly lies behind this suspension relates to a match at Warrington earlier in the season, when Millward was told that he had to hold his after-match chat in the stands at the Halliwell Jones Stadium because no suitable room was available.
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Every conceivable new idea for sustaining the environment is literally posted in this museum of chat-boards that holds enormous promise for the next wave of visionary stakeholders in a less painful, more environmentally sensitive world.
The programs can capture what has been typed in e-mails, chat rooms, and instant messenger services.
No, say others, who argue most will never tweet, let alone check-in, or chat, or vote, when they just want to relax with some TV.
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Sabu also made the allegations to me during an online interview I carried out with him and a handful of other Anonymous supporters in an invite-only chat channel on March 11, 2011.
Mr Knapman took over the role of leader in 2002, but in 2004, a new pretender to the crown - former Labour MP and chat show host Robert Kilroy-Silk - arrived in a flurry of publicity to shake things up once again.
The tab also sports 8GB of internal storage, a rear 3.2-megapixel camera and VGA front facer -- helpful if you're out and about and want to video chat -- in addition to a 4, 100mAh battery.
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Unfortunately, the illusion was a little too comprehensive users could also see any chat conversations the friend they were fake-logged-in-as were currently having through Facebook chat.
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Rumors of imminent Wall Street downgrades and accounting irregularities--de rigueur in these cases--are sweeping the Internet chat boards.
The organization launched phone and computer-based chat in 2007, and chat quickly grew to the more heavily used method of contact.
When upstart smartphone company Xiaomi launched a mobile-chat service in 2010, Chief Executive Lei Jun told a conference in May, it expected Tencent to take a while to launch a rival service.
She did not go to the police at the time, but did raise the allegation in a TV chat show in 2007, when Mr Strauss-Kahn's name was bleeped out.
And as kid-skewing shows such as "The Mickey Mouse Club" were supplanted in late-afternoon TV schedules by syndicated chat-shows featuring Mike Douglas and Merv Griffin.
More than 3.6 million Koreans have avatars, or virtual selves, representing them in chat rooms and e-mail.
And they want to video-chat with fans in a Google Plus hangout.
Borders and boundaries have ceased to exist as people tweet, blog and chat online in real-time, 24 hours a day, seven days a week with just about every country on the planet.
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It works much like the video feature in the company's Poke app -- press and hold the red record button, speak your message and it'll appear in-line as part of your chat, represented by a clickable sound wave icon.
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Through the app, which goes live this week, Sky customers can interact more fully with content than ever before, following and contributing to online chat via an in-built Twitter feed, plus gain easy access to a range of extra information related to the show they are watching.
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Instant messaging, that rat-a-tat chat technology that is catching up toe-mail in popularity, still hasn't overcome a critical hurdle that e-mail cleared years ago: utter incompatibility among rival brands.
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