currency in news
RSS currency in newsVirtual worlds under siege from cyber crime
News The paper says: "Typically, when a gaming account is compromised, attackers will convert the objects they steal into virtual currency - and then convert the virtual currency into real money. The in-game... [28 Aug 2008]
Tech spend to top $3.4tr
News The decline of the US dollar is at the heart of this growth, although when adjusted to constant currency growth is still predicted to hit 4.5 per cent. Despite a shaky global economic market, worldwide IT spending will... [19 Aug 2008]
Offshoring: India still number one
News Griffin said Auckland's ranking was influenced by factors such as greater government support, an increased emphasis toward a digital economy and currency depreciation. Bangalore has retained its position as the ideal... [27 Jun 2008]
Cool tech gets down with the kids
News This is reflected in the fact technology users often come up with new applications for the tech they adopt - such as mobile pre-pay, which is used as an alternative currency in some parts of the world, or text messages... [23 Apr 2008]
London Stock Exchange injects competition into post-trade costs
News At the moment the LSE offers this through a third party, Crest - the multi-currency electronic settlement system for UK and Irish securities. The London Stock Exchange (LSE) plans to introduce a post-trade router to open... [04 Feb 2008]
Second Life clamps down on virtual banks
News Unrecognised 'banks' will no longer be able to offer interest or direct return on investment on Second Life's own currency, Linden dollars. Virtual world Second Life is banning unregulated banks from operating within its... [10 Jan 2008]
E-payments: Cheap as chips
News In 1998, the Board of Commissioners of Currency in Singapore proposed to create an electronic currency - Singapore Electronic Legal Tender (Selt) - which Kyte said will go live at the end of next year. [27 Nov 2007]
Web 2.0 techies sacrifice pay for shares
News Nathan Callaghan of ReThink said start-ups have always offered equity to secure top talent but this lost currency following the dot-com crash. The majority of people looking to work for web 2.0 start-up companies are... [13 Nov 2007]
IBM turning green over data centres
News IBM is launching an initiative to give its corporate customers a way to measure and potentially monetise energy-efficiency measures in their data centres using an emerging form of currency. The computing giant has... [02 Nov 2007]
Q&A: Mindark CIO Marco Behrmann
News We are unique in the aspect that we have a fixed exchange rate to the US dollar with our virtual currency - called the Project Entropia Dollar (PED). Virtual world Entropia Universe opened its doors in 2003 and offers... [22 Jun 2007]
Second Life - outsourcing's next frontier?
News Unusually, perhaps, it turned out that the best man for the job was an enormous rabbit, and one which wanted to be paid in an electronic currency that didn't exist a few years ago. As well as finding a rabbit to build... [12 Jun 2007]
Troublesome 'dong' leads to VSO email overhaul
News As an example we have a Vietnamese office and the currency in Vietnam is called the dong. Voluntary Services Overseas, the global charity, has hailed a rollout of email filtering services from Postini as a success after... [11 Jun 2007]
China's virtual plans are out of this world
News Anything bought or sold in the Entropia's currency - called Project Entropia Dollars (PED) - can be changed back into real funds at a fixed exchange rate of 10 PED to $1. Sweden-based Entropia Universe has been chosen to... [06 Jun 2007]
Beeb to show off in Second Life
News Second Life's in-game currency, called Linden dollars, can be earned in a variety of ways. The programme, scheduled for TV broadcast tomorrow, will be screened simultaneously inside Second Life - at the Rivers Run Red... [31 May 2007]
Virtual worlds meet real life laws
News And the money they make from these businesses in Linden dollars, the currency of Second Life, can be turned into a quantity of real world cash - a sum that depends on the current exchange rate. Businesses setting up... [15 May 2007]
