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Round-Up The hearing was also attended by some two dozen Second Life avatars portrayed on video screens in the hearing room, as well as by real people. However, as it happens, the rather strange but law-abiding denizens of Second Life (no, not these guys...
[04 Apr 2008]
Comment My whole life I have grown up in IT," Bandrowczak says. The second plank of the IT transformation strategy is portfolio management, which involves more rigorous scrutiny of the business case for projects and adopting best practice.
[01 Apr 2008]
Comment If a public sector organisation is embarking on outsourcing with a new provider after having its fingers burned by an old relationship, as in life, it has to stay optimistic and not let the baggage of the past jeopardise future success.
[04 Feb 2008]
Round-Up The other two options in the poll - Second Life and Facebook barely got a look in. Second place in the poll of underwhelming tech events was the launch of the iPhone from Apple. The second is that he used to hang around outside computer makers like...
[04 Jan 2008]
Comment With all the tenacious grip on life of Rasputin - poisoned, shot four times, bludgeoned, stabbed and thrown into the Neva River where he eventually died, reputedly from hypothermia while trying to claw his way out from the ice - Itanium can...
[13 Dec 2007]
Comment Life can be tough for vendors pushing software for a task customers don't really want to undertake. Life may not be so bad for purveyors of AML software after all. For instance, global banking group ABN AMRO was fined more than $80m in December...
[01 Nov 2007]
AS Profile Facebook began life as a tool for Harvard's student base, before being opened up to other US universities and employers, and then last year to anyone in the world with an email address. Zuckerberg is arguably the embodiment of what 2006's Agenda...
[12 Oct 2007]
Comment Dominos will eventually have a presence in Second Life but Kimberlin is conscious of the need to make sure the blurring between reality and fiction is very clear in that arena. If customers order a real pizza, while they are in Second Life, it...
[24 Sep 2007]
Comment He has famously been interviewed in Second Life and on that virtual world he isn't short of opinions either. Very occasionally, I'll see on the street someone who looks as though they have escaped from Second Life.
[06 Aug 2007]
Round-Up Users of virtual worlds such as Second Life are apparently more self-conscious about how they're perceived by other game residents than bloggers, chatroom posters and the like. IBM vice president, Irving Wladawsky-Berger, thinks Second Life is a...
[03 Aug 2007]
Round-Up However, the very same graduates flocking to finance and elsewhere may have been rather hasty in committing themselves to life outside IT for two reasons. Oh yes, it's a heady time - but there's also a second major selling point for a career in...
[13 Jul 2007]
Comment No sign of life anywhere. I suspect my local hardware store buys from a supplier with links in the second or third world with low cost labour operating in less than ideal conditions. Dispatched to silicon.com via free wi-fi from the unreal atrium...
[11 Jul 2007]
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. For a start, in real life I've never met a press officer that actually looked like a seven...
[19 Jun 2007]
Comment And there's your problem right there - whoever it was in the organisation that took the decision to ban Facebook (and probably YouTube and Second Life for good measure), it's the CIO taking the blame from the staff.
[14 Jun 2007]
Comment The defendants, Linden Research and CEO Philip Rosedale (PDF), operate a multiplayer role-playing game set in the virtual world called Second Life. He even created his own avatar and held virtual town hall meetings in Second Life where he discussed...
[14 Jun 2007]
Comment For almost all of my professional life I have been trying to communicate complex concepts to individuals and audiences not versed in science, mathematics, technology and engineering. Mbps takes ~ 1 second
[09 May 2007]
Comment In our second home life became far more complex. Life was simple! Written on BA6947 flying from Malaga to Gatwick Airport and dispatched to silicon.com via a free wi-fi service in London a day later IPTV is gradually taking over my viewing time as...
[30 Apr 2007]
Comment Does goodwill have a shelf life? Patience, is, it seems, the second commandment of this digital microcosm. The second reason is to put some on the wall for decoration. Read the first and second instalment.
[23 Apr 2007]
Comment The clutch has gone and the battery needs recharging," she laments, "but I'm sure it still has some life left in it for a person with mechanical know-how. All life really is here. Welcome to the second instalment of the Freecycle Diaries, in which...
[16 Apr 2007]
Round-Up Over five million Second Life user accounts have been registered and although only a small percentage of those are likely to be actively 'gaming', it still represents a growing marketing and customer services channel for businesses.
[13 Apr 2007]
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