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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 blowing in the offshore...
[06 Jul 2007]
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, Entropia is a virtual world with a...
[26 Jun 2007]
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 Mindark, the virtual universe...
[22 Jun 2007]
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 Chinese entertainment company...
[19 Jun 2007]
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 Entropia Universe has been chosen to create a cash...
[06 Jun 2007]
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 world hassles such as money...
[23 May 2006]
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 as 'real' cash at certain Versatel cash...
[04 May 2006]
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 last year has more than paid for itself.
[11 Nov 2005]
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 number so far known.
[03 Dec 2003]
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 software have begun an overhaul...
[15 Jan 2003]
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]
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