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...long as the information moves the market, they may be willing to act on it. "Traders today are willingly complicit in the dissemination of false information," says John Coffee, an expert on Internet securities fraud at Columbia University Law School. "That's why they often flock to [the] chat rooms with the worst information, so they can find material that will destabilize the market one minute before they profitably pull out the next...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Taking Stock Scams Off-Line | 3/13/2000 | See Source »

...test one ever since I saw a photo. Your typical Cybiko looks like a walkie-talkie with a teensy typewriter keyboard cloned onto it, only cooler, since it comes in four translucent colors (if you count clear and black as colors, that is). Its primary function is wireless chat--you peck out messages on the keyboard and beam them to any other Cybiko users who happen to be around. While the device's range is 300 ft., each has a kind of repeater built in, so that a message can be relayed over great distances--if you could somehow assemble...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Girl and Boy Toys | 3/13/2000 | See Source »

While the ability to chat on a wireless walkie-talkie alone might make it worth the money for some, I was more excited by the other stuff that the Cybiko promises to do. The Chicago-based Cybiko company calls the device an "entertainment system" because it aspires to be a new gaming platform, like the Game Boy only better, since you can connect Cybiko to your PC and download a free game every day from its website, says the company. Chess, darts--wireless darts, how cool is that!--billiards, poker and dozens of other games are promised, which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Girl and Boy Toys | 3/13/2000 | See Source »

...Remember those films in health class that showed how rats will give up food and water for certain addictive drugs? My kids made those rats look like teetotalers. This was especially amazing given that the prerelease models I was testing weren't even close to fully functional--only the chat functions worked reliably. Also a shoot-'em-up game, which Ella reported was a big hit with "the popular boys." For some reason, that made me feel good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Girl and Boy Toys | 3/13/2000 | See Source »

...minute tape is hardly clandestine, but it's not in heavy news rotation either. Two silver-haired men chat in a cozy office. Dan Yeary, pastor of the North Phoenix Baptist Church, calls it "a blessing" to include his companion "in our family and our fellowship." He asks if they might talk about prayer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: McCain's Faith: I Pray Regularly | 3/13/2000 | See Source »

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