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News This futuristic vision is almost here says Indian outsourcer Satyam as it unveiled a technology to blend the real and virtual worlds at its R&D labs in Chennai in southern India. You open a door, pass through and close it behind you - nothing...
[25 Apr 2008]
News Technology businesses need to monitor and be aware of such social trends if they hope to succeed - taking advantage of blogs, virtual worlds and online search summaries to help keep up with the kids - he said.
[23 Apr 2008]
whitepaper The goal of the study is to examine use of technologies for 'bridging the physical and virtual worlds'. We explain how the notion of combined virtual and physical navigation is central to the study, which we have just begun.
[10 Apr 2008]
Round-Up Philip Rosedale, chief executive of Linden Lab, the company that runs Second Life, said: "It is likely that virtual world activities are somewhat more 'policeable' and the law somewhat more maintainable within virtual worlds.
[04 Apr 2008]
News Rosedale, chief executive of Linden Lab, the company that runs Second Life, said: "It is likely that virtual world activities are somewhat more policeable and the law somewhat more maintainable within virtual worlds.
[02 Apr 2008]
News When asked about the benefits of Avatalk over other free VoIP services - such as Skype - Brotherton said: "It really comes down to the rich immersiveness of virtual worlds. He added: "Our test bed has been Second Life but we're very much interested...
[20 Mar 2008]
whitepaper Christian is currently Chief Architect of Networked Virtual Environments for Cisco. Hear him share his views on the importance of a communal office space (either real or virtual), the historical role of real-life objects in communication, the...
[16 Mar 2008]
News Nortel Networks is looking to the next generation of employees to shape the workplace of tomorrow - and high on its agenda is exploring the role of web 2.0 technologies and virtual worlds such as Linden Lab's Second Life.
[31 Jan 2008]
News And there was even talk of virtual worlds being involved… Outsourcing made the headlines in 2007 with some huge deals both signed and terminated and the continued rise of the homegrown Indian IT services players competing against the traditional...
[18 Dec 2007]
News And as our cheat sheet explains, there are quite a few uses - from marketing to networking tools and from generating new business to virtual worlds. As well as Apple and Microsoft, other major industry players such as Oracle and SAP, were busy with...
[14 Dec 2007]
Photo It also has a 3MP camera and combines a touchscreen interface with a slide-out Qwerty keyboard in a best-of-both-worlds approach. In the not-too-distant future all manner of payment options could sit as virtual applications on your phone.
[03 Dec 2007]
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]
Photo Follow this link for more virtual views. Virtual-world developers are getting more grounded with the help of 3D models that can be imported from Google's 3D Warehouse. silicon.com's Tim Ferguson went along to a demo of Microsoft's Surface...
[31 Oct 2007]
News I think virtual worlds are a huge untapped market currently suffering from a lack of business-savvy input. Real world terrain coming to the virtual sphere Companies are now realising they can sell their products twice - once in reality and once in...
[16 Oct 2007]
Photo In combination, the models and the terrain will let those making virtual worlds build in all kinds of realistic-looking real-life territory, such as urban centers, national parks or whatever else they choose.
[15 Oct 2007]
AS Analysis Virtual worlds were also discussed. The gaming community is where the "big developments in virtual worlds are happening", according to Agenda Setters panellist and analyst at Freeform Dynamics, Jon Collins.
[12 Oct 2007]
News Virtual-worlds platform developer Multiverse Network is set to announce a partnership that will allow anyone to create a new online interactive 3D environment with just about any model from Google's online repository of 3D models, its 3D Warehouse...
[09 Oct 2007]
whitepaper Web 2.0 is an attitude not a technology. It's about enabling and encouraging participation through open applications and services. By open the presentation means technically open with appropriate APIs but also, more importantly, socially open, with...
[06 Oct 2007]
Comment Virtual worlds are amusing and interesting, but people do seem to be assuming that you have to be able to replicate all real world facilities there, even if there is an easier way! Photos: BT talks big on virtual worlds
[20 Sep 2007]
News Photos: BT talks big on virtual worlds Ever wondered what CIOs are reading on silicon.com? Our CIO Essentials feature puts you in the picture. Each week a leading IT chief picks his or her top stories from the past week and explains why they matter.
[18 Sep 2007]
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