virtual in comment and analysis
Editor's Blog: William Gibson fan talk
Comment He has famously been interviewed in Second Life and on that virtual world he isn't short of opinions either. Making the journalist's mistake of being a fan (I think I'm allowed to on this occasion), I'm excited because today we've published what I... [06 Aug 2007]
The Weekly Round-Up: 03.08.07
Round-Up Businesses are increasingly using virtual worlds for real purposes and here, once again, a sense of decorum is being called for. However, when among friends in the virtual world and their clients in the real world they can do whatever the hell they... [03 Aug 2007]
Editor's Blog: The Facebook sweepstake
Comment If we are all nodes on these virtual networks then some people, with maybe thousands of connections, are the super nodes, through whom perhaps millions of people are but one introduction away. Heard about the new game? [31 Jul 2007]
Speeding up the net - is it possible?
Comment Virtual private network (VPN) providers use a mix of their own networking facilities and public ones to provide priority wide area services. This often includes the internet, which is anyway a mishmash of privately owned networks - a 'virtual... [09 Jul 2007]
Steve Ranger's Notebook: I, Avatar
Comment But then of course these were press conferences taking place in the virtual world Second Life - which aren't run by quite the same rules as real-world ones. Now, some of the other journalists who turned up to the recent IBM 'virtual' press... [19 Jun 2007]
Steve Ranger's Notebook: Wary of wikis? Cynical about Second Life?
Comment So be careful how you choose to limit access to wikis, blogs, social networking, virtual worlds and more, warns Steve Ranger. And I know companies that are benefiting from the use of social networking to share knowledge internally, creating virtual... [14 Jun 2007]
The hard reality of virtual world litigation
Comment The brave new world of virtual worlds creates a constellation of new - and still foggy - legal questions. Setting itself apart from other creators and operators of virtual worlds, Linden announced in late 2003 that it would recognise full... [14 Jun 2007]
Editor's Blog: My home wi-fi network - in search of fun
Comment I might just change our SSID to 'BEWARE THE VIRTUAL DOG'. My wife is self-employed, so I'm sort of her IT guy. And yes, she's still in business. When I use tech at home, it's normally a case of logging on to our corporate systems over broadband and... [17 May 2007]
Virtualisation gets trendy
Comment An example of the first kind of virtualisation is partitioning a PC disk into smaller virtual drives, while an example of the second is combining a number of separate disks to make them appear as one physical disk (as in a storage network). [15 May 2007]
The Weekly Round-Up: 13.04.07
Round-Up For example, those who need to work from home or mothers with young children could be brought back into the virtual workforce. Some believe Second Life is on its way to becoming a key point of contact for customers, with some consultants imagining... [13 Apr 2007]
The dos and don'ts of VoIP security
Comment Enterprises should deploy the voice traffic on a separate virtual LAN, or VLAN, from the data traffic. Though there is precious little evidence of VoIP security attacks, organisations cannot afford to be complacent. [04 Apr 2007]
The Weekly Round-Up: 23.03.07
Round-Up For the uninitiated (or those that have a 'first life' and are quite happy with that one, thank you), Second Life is a virtual world which claims to have 4.8 million 'residents' across the (real) world. [23 Mar 2007]
Editor's Blog: CIO innovators - a recent chat
Comment But apart from all the virtual slaps on backs here, the serious point is that it is important for these kinds of events to recognise the users, those holding the largest IT purse strings. I was at the Innovation and Growth forum event earlier this... [16 Mar 2007]
The Weekly Round-Up: 09.03.07
Round-Up These were supposed to be the very people to answer such questions (with the exception of the last one) and advise Gemma - and therefore silicon.com's readers - about what can be done to avoid becoming a slave to the virtual grind. [09 Mar 2007]
Crime pays - and pays very well in cyberspace
Comment A recent DTI report to the Parliamentary Science and Technology Committee conceded that the last three to four years have seen the emergence of virtual organised crime groups which are highly organised and operate exclusively via the internet. [07 Mar 2007]
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