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Virtual tech will 'kill the office'
News He said: "If you get these students coming out of university and they're used to doing their homework with their friends on IM, they're used to Facebook, they're used to virtual worlds - how do you recreate that... [31 Jan 2008]
Microsoft pours $235.5m into school tech
News One of the initiatives in the Partners in Learning programme is the Gateway Project, which is a virtual school environment for pupils across England, France and Spain to work collaboratively to learn foreign languages. [23 Jan 2008]
Second Life clamps down on virtual banks
News Virtual world Second Life is banning unregulated banks from operating within its borders in order to protect its users' investments. From 22 January organisations will have to provide the relevant... [10 Jan 2008]
Microsoft shells out for Multimap
News Microsoft said the Multimap applications will be complement its other online services such as Virtual Earth, Live Search, Windows Live and MSN in the near future. Jeff Kelisky, Multimap's CEO said the deal gives the... [13 Dec 2007]
Cyber spies plan attacks next year
News Other major trends over the coming calendar year include an increasing threat to online services - such as banking - and the emergence of a complex and sophisticated malware market, according to the annual Virtual... [30 Nov 2007]
E-payments: Cheap as chips
News The e-payment push is not only coming from the price of payment processing: virtual worlds are contributing to the drive to use electronic currencies such as Second Life's Linden dollar, with some unwanted consequences. [27 Nov 2007]
Microsoft does bundling U-turn on hypervisor
News Microsoft's primary competition in the virtualisation world is industry leader VMware. Microsoft has said it will sell its new virtualisation technology separately from its Windows Server OS, in addition to as a bundle -... [13 Nov 2007]
CIO Essentials: Virtual worlds, biometrics and green IT
News Real world terrain coming to the virtual sphere I think virtual worlds are a huge untapped market currently suffering from a lack of business-savvy input. Companies are now realising... [16 Oct 2007]
Google Earth gets YouTube vids
News A YouTube video layer has been launched as a featured content folder in Google Earth which allows users to watch videos about the places they visit on the virtual globe. The layer places the videos in geographical... [12 Oct 2007]
Real world terrain coming to the virtual sphere
News If you want to build a virtual world centred on, say, downtown San Francisco, you could use the new technology to create the area itself and populate it with the digital versions of... [09 Oct 2007]
Adobe buys web word processor
News The company is expected to announce it has acquired an 11-person start-up, called Virtual Ubiquity, that has built a free web word processor called Buzzword. Rick Treitman, CEO of Virtual Ubiquity, said... [01 Oct 2007]
Young targeted by "Revitalise IT" scheme
News Employer-hosted events, an online virtual careers fair and an interactive online product design competition are also planned. Price added: "Strengthening relationships between employers, universities and schools is at... [19 Sep 2007]
VMware shows off next-gen virtualisation
News But it's clear that the company is heading in that direction, a significant shift as rivals such as Microsoft, XenSource, Virtual Iron and Parallels are still working to get the basic virtualisation technology in place. [14 Sep 2007]
Google proposes global privacy standard
News Google will take its message to the public through a virtual debate it plans to open on YouTube soon, and it will participate in meetings in Montreal on Sept.with global privacy commissioners and in Washington, D.C.in... [14 Sep 2007]
Second Life steps up ID checks
News Second Life creator, Linden Lab, is tightening security in its virtual world by introducing an identity verification (IDV) system for its residents. The technology is currently available in a beta... [30 Aug 2007]
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