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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 environment and the game World of Warcraft with users able to set... [27 Jun 2007]
Photos: Inside the Entropia Universe
Photo The Entropia virtual currency - called Project Entropia Dollar (PED) - even has a fixed exchange rate with the US dollar, letting participants transfer any accumulated virtual money back into real world funds. [26 Jun 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 participants a middle ground... [22 Jun 2007]
China's virtual plans are out of this world
News Aside from creating jobs, David Liu, CEO of CRD, said environmental benefits were an important consideration for the project - the more people working from home inside Entropia Universe the less pollution is generated by people commuting to work. [06 Jun 2007]
Gamers get cash card for virtual money
News The launch of the card means gamers can now access virtual Project Entropia dollars and withdraw them as 'real' cash at certain Versatel cash machines. People who play the online game Entropia Universe can earn and spend real money in the virtual... [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 last year has more than paid for itself. [11 Nov 2005]
Grid computing reaches new prime
News The GIMPS infrastructure is provided by Entropia, a company that sells distributed computing software. The machine - a Dell with a 2GHz Pentium processor - was one of 211,000 run by about 60,000 volunteers involved in the project. [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 software have begun an overhaul... [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]
