virtual worlds
RSS virtual worldsThe Euro in the Electronic Purse: Interoperability Issues of Smartcard Based e-Payments in Europe
White Paper However only smartcard based e-cash has the potential to enable payments in both worlds, the real and the virtual world. Europe was the birthplace of the smartcard and leads in both its manufacture and... [25 Feb 2004]
Secure Virtual Private Networks: the Future of Data Communications
White Paper It has linked peoples and worlds otherwise separated by physical and emotional barriers, and it has provided an inexpensive yet quite reliable means for inter-organizational information sharing and data transfer. [25 Feb 2004]
An Introduction to QuickTime
White Paper QuickTime is a cross platform system-level software package for Macintosh, Windows and Java which adds the capability to play movies, synthesize music, display animations, view virtual reality worlds and... [25 Feb 2004]
EMC in $635m VMware acquisition
News Today, EMC is accelerating the convergence of these two worlds," he said in a statement. VMware's software lets a single server run multiple operating systems simultaneously on different "virtual... [16 Dec 2003]
Game server flaw poses attack threat
News Multiplayer game servers that let players attack each other in virtual worlds could be the latest tool for online scofflaws to digitally attack other computers on the Internet, according to a security firm. [20 Jan 2003]
Let's not be ashamed of TMT - not completely
Comment It was back when it seemed stocks related to IT, the worlds of old and new media and telecoms could only go one way. Nokia still sells handsets at margins most CEOs drool over and there is hope for things like MMS... [19 Jul 2002]
IBM plans million-player computer games
News The new project aims to use grid computing software to build massive artificial game worlds which can accommodate millions of users on a single virtual server. IBM is using its grid computing concept to... [10 May 2002]
Humans face a grim future in call centres
News In the survey 19.4 per cent of the respondents said they had deployed multi-channel (chat, email, fax, SMS and voice) contact centres and 51 per cent said they intend to do so.per cent of respondents stated that they had implemented a... [17 Aug 2001]
Silicon Graphics shuts 3D Web development centre
News Cosmo's product range includes Cosmo Player 2.1 for viewing VRML 2.0, Worlds 2.0 for building VRML-based Web pages and PageFX 1.0, which was launched just last month, for designing interactive graphics. [09 Jul 1998]
