Neowin News Feed for: Rooms

New Gmail experience with Chat, Rooms, and Meet tabs rolling out to G Suite customers

Rajesh Pandey — Thu, 13 Aug 2020 04:38:01 +0000

The new Gmail that offers an integrated workspace experience with tabs for Meet, Chat, and Rooms is now rolling out to G Suite customers. Google has also added the ability to co-edit documents. Read more...

Messenger Rooms launching with a fifty-person limit

Paul Hill — Fri, 24 Apr 2020 22:12:01 +0000

Facebook has announced a new feature called Messenger Rooms. Rooms will host up to 50 people in one video call and later on will be accessible across Facebook's products such as Instagram and Portal. Read more...

Twitch launches custom chat rooms for streamers

Craig Mu — Fri, 16 Feb 2018 11:58:01 +0000

Twitch has just introduced a new 'Rooms' feature that allows streamers to create custom chat rooms. Streamers can invite audience members to their rooms and chat with them separately. Read more...

Facebook testing new topic-based public chat functionality in Messenger

Boyd Chan — Sun, 13 Nov 2016 02:16:01 +0000

Facebook is trialing a new feature called 'Messenger Rooms', which will enable focused discussion for public groups, including people outside your network of friends, via the Messenger app. Read more...

Microsoft confirms support for Windows Phone 'Rooms' ends in next few weeks

Andy Weir — Fri, 15 May 2015 11:58:01 +0000

Microsoft confirms that support for Windows Phone's built-in group sharing feature, Rooms, will end next month, advising that users seeking similar functionality consider "an alternative solution". Read more...

Leaked video shows off a hidden 'People Sense' app for Windows Phone

Usama Jawad — Sat, 21 Feb 2015 15:38:01 +0000

Microsoft is apparently working on a new 'People Sense' app for Windows Phone which will allow users to interact with each other maximizing the potential social features of Windows Phones. Read more...

Microsoft kills Rooms feature on Windows Phone and Windows 10 for phones

Vlad Dudau — Wed, 18 Feb 2015 09:56:01 +0000

Microsoft has decided to kill one of the features it had previously touted for Windows Phone: Rooms. It will no longer be available on devices come March so users might want to back-up data now. Read more...

Facebook's new Rooms app is a modern take on the message board

Timi Cantisano — Thu, 23 Oct 2014 23:42:01 +0000

Facebook is looking to modernize forums and message boards with a new app called Rooms. Rooms will allow users to share pictures, texts and videos with moderation privileges. Read more...

Windows Phone advert highlights rooms, HTC 8X

Brad Sams — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 15:02:33 +0000

Microsoft's latest Windows Phone advertisement that features Ben Rudolph highlights rooms, which allows you to quickly connect to a selected group of contacts with only a few taps on the screen. Read more...

Microsoft details how to use WP8 Rooms on other smartphones

Paul Ferson — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 22:44:23 +0000

Windows Phone 8's Room functionality is exclusive to WP8 phones, right? Wrong, it seems, because the company has explained how the technology can be used on other smartphones you might own and love. Read more...

Rumor: Windows Phone 8 to include "Rooms" group chat & sharing feature

Tim Schiesser — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 16:36:37 +0000

The latest Windows Phone 8 rumor has pegged a new feature called "Rooms" that will allow friends and family to share a bunch of content via private interactive rooms, as well as chat. Read more...

Chat rooms could face expulsion

Sat, 29 Jul 2006 23:19:24 +0000

By a 410-15 vote on Thursday, politicians approved a bill that would effectively require that "chat rooms" and "social networking sites" be rendered inaccessible to minors, an age group that includes some of the Internet's... Read more...

Yahoo Shuts Chat Rooms Amid Child sex Concerns

Fri, 24 Jun 2005 14:52:42 +0000

Yahoo Inc., the most-used Internet site, has shut down all its user-created Internet chat rooms amid concerns that adults were using the sites to try to have sex with minors. The giant Internet media company... Read more...

AOL Shows Safe Chat Rooms

Wed, 27 Oct 2004 14:15:03 +0000

America Online is showing a "safe chat room" for children and teenagers that uses so-called "multifactor authentication" technology from VeriSign to verify a child's age. Equipped with secure tokens that plug into computer... Read more...

Noomy.A virus spreading via chat rooms

Thu, 07 Oct 2004 21:35:08 +0000

Security experts have warned internet users to update their antivirus systems to protect against a newly discovered worm dubbed Noomy.A, which "could represent a new trend in malicious code techniques". PandaLabs said that, although this... Read more...

Nintendo Upgrades Hotel Rooms

Marcel Klum — Tue, 24 Jun 2003 19:33:31 +0000

LodgeNet and Nintendo issued a joint announcement today that they would begin offering Nintendo GameCube titles through its sigNETure TV system. The sigNETure system consists of on-demand delivery of theatrical movies and other services in... Read more...