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Smarter commuting, the cyborg way
Digital Living You boot up VeriChat's Instant Messaging software and can connect you to Yahoo, ICQ, Microsoft Messenger and AOL IM systems. Commuting in a big city has never been easy, but it's become particularly challenging of late.
19 October 2005, 12:06
Swedish flirts find a new home
Digital Living Imagine if everyone on AOL could suddenly interact via 3D? Today one of Sweden's largest flirt-driven social-networking sites, Playahead, is going to offer its members access to the rapidly growing online virtual world of Second Life, turning its...
23 September 2006, 8:00
Chatting in the third dimension
Digital Living Just as IM was once used mainly for flirting on AOL, it may not be too long before your avatar is chatting to your supplier's avatar in Singapore about shipping costs. Yet it's social and entertaining enough to now include chat avatars, cute little...
8 August 2006, 16:33


Format wars: The tech that should have won
Did you love Laserdisc? Were you bonkers over Betamax? Travel back in time with Captain Tech and check out the format losers that should have triumphed

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