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...only they?d kept it to chat. San Francisco health officials were dismayed to discover that an AOL chat room had become ground zero for something not seen in the City By the Bay since the early '80s: an outbreak of syphilis. Officials have talked to seven gay men who had the disease ? all of whose last encounter was with someone they had met in "SFM4M" (San Francisco Men for Men). Jeffrey Klausner, director of the health department's sexually transmitted diseases division, estimates that as many as 47 men may have dated after meeting in SFM4M, which could mean...
...lagged in cell-phone technology for the better part of this decade. While two-way text messaging over cell phones has for years been a standard service from London to Lisbon, and the chat method of choice for teenagers in Tokyo, only a tiny number of users in the U.S. have the feature. U.S. wireless carriers are on the cusp of offering Internet access; overseas, it's already happening. Cell phones as wireless modems for laptops? Works great--in Europe...
...learning how popular you were came only with the delivery of birthday or Valentine's Day cards. Now every day is judgment day, thanks to instant messaging and the in-your-face presence of its address book (the "buddy list") on computer desktops. The software offers real-time chat with friends, family or co-workers who are online, as most now seem to be. Instant messaging, or IM, in fact, handles more missives each day than the U.S. Postal Service. Besides relying on it to evaluate their popularity levels, teenagers use IM to swap homework tips and gossip; Internet start...
...with Clinton, Barak hopes for what his mentor, assassinated Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, had achieved--direct, instant and frequent access to the President. In the weeks after his election, Barak resisted approaches of lesser U.S. officials, such as special envoy Dennis Ross, preferring to wait for a White House chat. Nor did Barak want his subordinates running relations. In a confidential memo, Secretary of State Madeleine Albright advised Clinton that the ex-general was secretive and didn't have a large circle of aides "who knew his mind." A one-on-one relationship with Barak, she said, would be "extremely...
...subscribers who pay to use AOL's main services. Still, as with all free Internet services, the numbers of active user accounts are undoubtedly inflated by the ease of registering. And despite these large audiences, no one has figured out how to make any money on the free chat service, except to note that the client program commands an outsized amount of attention from active users who leave it open on their computer screen alongside other activities. Right now users stare at the AOL (or MSN or Yahoo) brand name ? presumably they can one day be persuaded to look...