The lonely hearts are preyed on in chat rooms, dating sites and social networking sites.
More than 3.6 million Koreans have avatars, or virtual selves, representing them in chat rooms and e-mail.
Massively multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPGs) like World of Warcraft made gaming in chat rooms seem antiquated.
Sheen's character is a favorite in chat rooms, on sidewalks and nearly any other place where TV viewers gather.
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.
The court heard he formed part of an internet paedophile ring which exchanged child sex fantasies and images in chat rooms with some of those involved posing as children.
Since then, it has used its strength in chat in the first quarter about 750 million people used its service at least once a month to drive traffic to new products like videogames and social-media sites.
Other features include the "Forgotten Attachment Detector, " which prevents users from sending messages without the necessary attached documents, and "Pictures In Chat, " which shows pictures of your friends as you chat with them in Gmail.
Information must be accurate and current, it says, and lawyers have to be careful not to establish an attorney-client relationship unwittingly when they engage in online conversations on their websites or in chat rooms and the like.
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The film focuses on a prisoner (Latifah) who meets a lawyer (Martin) in a chat room and makes her way into his life in the hope that he can exonerate her.
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The organization launched phone and computer-based chat in 2007, and chat quickly grew to the more heavily used method of contact.
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.
Coats and several of the other women in her chat group met for the first time earlier this month to run the Surf City Marathon in Huntington Beach, California.
"Anyone can use any nickname in any chat room at any time, " Leiderman said.
Where they actually come from is a subject for debate, particularly in internet chat rooms.
We junk these old canards and seek our salvation in Web chat, Prozac and cigar sex.
That year the company sued 21 "John Does" for posts in public chat rooms.
Traffic exploded when communities of collectors met, traded, even married after exchanges in Ebay chat rooms.
Joining us in the chat will be Kenneth Rapoza, Forbes Contributor and BRIC expert.
At first, people in the chat rooms had ignored him or accused him of being a cop.
Even worse, the service has fallen behind in the video chat genre it created in terms of innovation.
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In 1992, he observed a group of pagans who met and even performed rituals in Internet chat rooms.
Undeterred, the hacktivists then reconvened on an unsuspecting YouTube video user's comment feed and in another chat room.
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She also complained to the Better Business Bureau and in online chat rooms.
Joining us in the chat will be Taesik Yoon, CFA, editor of Forbes Investor and value stock expert.
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Forbes executive editor Janet Novack will also be participating in the chat.
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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.
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