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Second Life Millionaire Retracts DMCA Claim
News The husband of Second Life land baroness Anshe Chung said filing a Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) complaint with YouTube to delete a video of her avatar being attacked by a barrage of digital flying penises was a mistake.
[January 16, 2007, 8:30]
Second Life Goes Open Source
News Linden Lab has continued its push to dominate the rapidly growing area of virtual reality, by releasing some of the source code for Second Life under the General Public Licence. This will allow Second Life users to design new features and improve...
[January 8, 2007, 15:57]
Photos: IBM Serves Up Wimbledon In Second Life
News IBM is recreating the action of the Wimbledon tennis championships in Second Life. Ian Hughes, IBM metaverse evangelist, explained the data it gathers at the championships is used to power the website which keeps tennis fans up to date about the...
[June 19, 2007, 14:06]
BT Invites Second Life Users To AvaTalk
News BT is upping its presence in Second Life with a trial of its free AvaTalk phone and texting service. BT built a private island in Second Life called "Area 21" last September where it showed off demos of its virtual-world technology, including AvaTalk.
[March 25, 2008, 14:15]
Cisco's Second Life: Welcome To Cisco Island
White Papers Cisco joins Second Life, the world's fastest growing virtual community, with two islands designed to enhance customer engagement.
[January 27, 2008, 23:00]
Businesses Probe Benefits Of Second Life
News Businesses are unsure about the benefits of using Second Life, with many still just experimenting with the virtual world to discover its true value. When asked how the success of Second Life projects could be measured, Croxford said: "Something we...
[April 28, 2008, 9:38]
How To Become An Accomplished Architect In Second Life
White Papers Building and scripting are two very important skills in the MMOG Second Life. Building is the process by which one creates complex 3D structures. Scripting is the process of using a script language to allow those 3D structures to perform tasks, in...
[July 11, 2007, 0:00]
CRT Monitors Given A Second Life In Africa
News Edwin Martins from Computers for Schools Kenya explains how the IT charity is turning donated CRT monitors from UK organisations into televisions.
[October 15, 2007, 16:07]
Core Duo Gets A Second Lease On Life
News Coming soon to a PC store near you: Core Duo, the sequel. Intel has decided to borrow the sequential naming scheme it used for its famous Pentium brand and apply it to the new Core line of chips, the company announced on Sunday.
[May 8, 2006, 8:50]
Virtual Worlds, Real Problems
Leader The media loves its darlings, and Second Life is very darling indeed. In fact, based on the latest figures Second Life has released, the amount of in-game commerce comes a poor second to the turnover of a single department store.
[June 11, 2007, 17:40]
Nortel: Virtual Worlds May Replace The Office
News Nortel Networks is looking to the next generation of employees to shape the workplace of tomorrow, and high on its agenda is exploring the role of Web 2.0 technologies and virtual worlds such as Linden Lab's Second Life.
[February 1, 2008, 8:17]
Vista Puts The Brakes On XP SP3
News In a posting to its life cycle Web site, Microsoft set a preliminary date of the second half of next year for the release of Windows XP Service Pack 3 for both home and professional editions. We will be releasing another service pack for XP over...
[January 19, 2006, 15:45]
Grady Booch: The Developer's Developer
News You are championing virtual programming environments with IBM's Codestation in Second Life. Spending an increasing amount of time on research, he remains an active participant in IBM's vision for next-generation software engineering, which includes...
[September 26, 2007, 17:34]
Sega Delays Dreamcast Network
News Titles like Sega Rally 2 will no doubt seem inferior to second-generation Dreamcast racers -- and titles like Half-Life and Baldur's Gate will already have sequels or pseudo sequels on PCs. Twelve online titles, including Half-Life, will be...
[September 17, 1999, 9:03]
Japanese Chip 'faster Than Supercomputer'
News Samples of the chip, which was designed for life sciences research, can now perform 230 gigaflops, or 230bn operations per second, while running at 350MHz, better than standard general-purpose chips. RIKEN, which is one of the world's largest...
[August 25, 2004, 7:55]
IBM Simulates Business Software In 3D Game
News IBM intends to make online versions for gaming environments such as Second Life, which will allow people to share scores and compete with people online. Over the past year, employees have been holding virtual meetings in Second Life, for example.
[May 22, 2007, 13:07]
Has Transmeta's Chip Finally Come In?
News For consumers, it means Gateway and AOL are closer to producing high-performance Internet appliances that offer exceptional battery life. The notebooks, which would run Microsoft's Windows operating system, are expected to be small, thin and light...
[May 31, 2000, 8:43]
Mapping A Path For The 3D Web
News But some felt that Microsoft could make a major play to become the metaverse provider and that it may well seek to buy something like the open-ended virtual world "Second Life" as a precursor to a larger play in the field.
[May 9, 2006, 16:20]
Aviva Protects Critical CRM, Oracle, And SQL Server Data With Network Appliance Solution
White Papers Aviva Life Insurance Company is one of India's leading private life insurance companies. A second NetApp system was deployed at the remote DR site in Chennai, and NetApp SnapMirror software mirrors all data to the second NetApp system over the...
[December 9, 2004, 23:00]
Intel Pushes Centrino To Consumers
News These features increase notebooks size and weight and decrease battery life, but many buyers don't seem to mind, PC makers have said. Despite Centrino's stated benefits -- which also include long notebook battery life -- Intel may find the task of...
[February 23, 2004, 9:05]
