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...while online communications are often a time-stealing culprit, some companies are finding relief in them. All the employees at Basex, an information-technology research firm in New York City, use instant messaging. A simple switch to DO NOT DISTURB status signals that coworkers shouldn't phone, email or stop by to chat. "There was never a memo on it. We all just started using the technology," says CEO Jonathan Spira. Finding peace and quiet should always be so easy...
Virtual worlds have been around for years. Even the best-selling Sims computer game has an online version in which people create characters, build homes and interact with others. But while The Sims Online has so far been a flop, Habbo has been an instant hit. Why? Habbo's focus on teens and chatting is one reason, as is its price tag: it's free. Despite the no-charge admission, there are oodles of games to play and rooms to explore. Habbo also has some healthy rules: the site blocks all swearwords and has adult moderators. Teens can send private...
...cell phone, many Americans balk at typing them out on a tiny numeric keypad. AT&T Wireless's Ogo ($99, plus $17.99 a month) offers a solution. It has a wide keyboard, sharp screen and slim profile. You can send not only SMS text messages but also email and instant messages using AOL, MSN or Yahoo...
...mine have handed in sociological analyses of it for classes. Articles about it have littered newspapers everywhere, from the New York Times to that ball of incomprehensible muttering that is the Yale Daily News. And of course, that’s not even counting the innumerable soul-searching instant messages I’ve received from converted friends, or the time I was sent a text message at 9:30 a.m. that informed me that I had been poked by a man named “Helidon Hasanaliaj...
...bottom line,” Murphy said, “is he’s given us some juice at that position and he’s an instant shot of adrenaline...