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Five hot outsourcing trends to watch
News Last month news emerged of a hook-up between a Chinese online entertainment company and the Entropia Universe virtual world, to create a virtual economy that could provide as many as 10,000 jobs. Which way is the wind... [06 Jul 2007]
Photos of the month - June 2007
Photo Photo credit: Entropia Universe/Mindark Welcome to the virtual world with a real cash economy - the Entropia Universe. Entropia offers participants a hybrid between the Second Life... [27 Jun 2007]
Photos: Inside the Entropia Universe
Photo Virtual world Entropia Universe is 'more than a game', according to its creators at Swedish company Mindark. Offering participants a hybrid between the Second Life environment and the game-like World of Warcraft,... [26 Jun 2007]
Q&A: Mindark CIO Marco Behrmann
News Virtual world Entropia Universe opened its doors in 2003 and offers participants a middle ground between the 'real life' world of Second Life and the gaming environment of World of Warcraft. Developed at Sweden-based... [22 Jun 2007]
Virtual worlds? Get a life, say silicon.com readers
News Thirteen per cent of respondents admitted to being "occasional users" of the likes of Entropia Universe and EVE-Online, while nine per cent said they make regular pilgrimages to virtual lands. Earlier this month, a... [19 Jun 2007]
China's virtual plans are out of this world
News The collaboration will allow the Entropia Universe to support up to seven million concurrent users, with an overall aim of attracting roughly 150 million users from all over the world. Sweden-based... [06 Jun 2007]
Banks to battle for orcs' gold?
News For example gaming company MindArk recently unveiled a cash card for gamers to withdraw money they earn in the Entropia Universe virtual world from bricks-and-mortar cash machines. Once thought of as an escape from real... [23 May 2006]
Gamers get cash card for virtual money
News People who play the online game Entropia Universe can earn and spend real money in the virtual world. The launch of the card means gamers can now access virtual Project Entropia dollars and withdraw them... [04 May 2006]
Online game space-station sells for $100,000
News An independent film director has invested six figures in a virtual space station in the online game Project Entropia. After all, he explained, a Project Entropia island that famously sold for $26,500... [11 Nov 2005]
Grid computing reaches new prime
News The GIMPS infrastructure is provided by Entropia, a company that sells distributed computing software. An effort in which hundreds of people donate their computers' unused processing power has uncovered the largest prime... [03 Dec 2003]
Grid software gets business connection
News Current contributors to the project include IBM, Sun Microsystems, HP, Microsoft, Platform Computing, Hitachi, NEC, Fujitsu, Avaki and Entropia. Programmers writing the software underpinnings for grid supercomputing... [15 Jan 2003]
Without peers: How P2P will become mainstream
Comment Dr Alex Wild, MD of Entropia, a company developing P2P tools for research purposes, said: "Many industries have CPU intensive problems including pharmaceutical, financial services, engineering, oil and gas. [09 Aug 2001]
