During the school year, after creating their business plan, they were able to contact their suppliers, retailers, and shippers using eBay's Skype Internet video-chat phone service.

在校期间，在制定好商业计划以后，他们通过eBay的视频聊天网络电话服务联系他们的供货商、零售商和运货商。

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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 court ruled that that Internet Service Providers were protected by US Federal law that said providers of chat rooms or news groups are not considered the publishers of information furnished by others.

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Indeed, within days of the recent denial-of-service hacks, authorities quickly focused their search on an Internet Relay Chat braggart with the moniker "mafia-boy" and on "Coolio, " the alias of the person who allegedly hijacked the domain of RSA Security and redirected it to a defaced site.

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