Virtual computing offers real benefits, real challenges

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Virtual Real Estate Boom Draws Real
Dollars (Reuters)

Virtual Real Estate Boom Draws Real
Dollars (Reuters) 06/02/2004 03:30 PM
Reuters - Rising interest rates have yet to cool white-hot real estate prices. Perhaps that's why the concept of virtual home ownership has captured the imagination of a growing number of online gamers, who are plunking down real cash for their own slice of the digital frontier.

Virtual Real Estate Boom Draws Real
Dollars

Virtual Real Estate Boom Draws Real
Dollars 06/03/2004 03:29 PM

Real Benefits, Real Risks

Real Benefits, Real Risks 12/30/2004 09:08 AM
Technology Review Dec 30 2004 1:24PM GMT

Uk Businesses Say The Internet Drives
Real Business Benefits

Uk Businesses Say The Internet Drives
Real Business Benefits 04/06/2005 02:26 AM
Prosperity4 Apr 6 2005 5:31AM GMT

"Peter Ludlow is not just a computer
gaming enthusiast. He's also a
philosophy professor, with an abiding
interest in the relationship between the
real and the virtual worlds. So when the
world's most successful virtual-reality
game, the Sims, launched an ..."

"Peter Ludlow is not just a computer
gaming enthusiast. He's also a
philosophy professor, with an abiding
interest in the relationship between the
real and the virtual worlds. So when the
world's most successful virtual-reality
game, the Sims, launched an ..." 01/17/2004 11:07 PM

Virtual Meetings Get More Real

Virtual Meetings Get More Real 01/26/2004 12:34 PM
Forbes Jan 26 2004 4:05PM GMT

The Real Ale Computing Model

The Real Ale Computing Model 04/28/2004 04:32 AM
IT-Analysis.com Apr 28 2004 7:47AM GMT

Virtual Schools, Real Connections?

Virtual Schools, Real Connections? 01/04/2005 03:17 PM
It's not entirely clear why some people still insist that just because communication is done via a computer screen, it's somehow "less personal." Plenty of studies (and personal experiences) have shown that computers and the internet have helped many people build strong personal relationships with others, where it would have been nearly impossible without those tools. However, some people simply can't let go of the idea that it's somehow a lower quality relationship. That's prompted a teacher for an online distance learning K-12 program to write up a response to someone who claimed that students couldn't be truly inspired by a distance learning teacher. The teacher, who previously had taught in traditional schools has found the opposite to be true. Yes, there are differences. Certain aspects of an in-classroom experience cannot adequately be reproduced. But, at the same time, the online interaction can often allow for a much more personalized experience that does inspire the students. It's just not always in the same way as an in classroom experience might.

Real Economies In Virtual Worlds

Real Economies In Virtual Worlds 05/10/2004 02:58 AM
We've had numerous discussions about legal issues associated with virtual worlds, but there are also plenty of economic issues (which often are related to the legal ones). Wired News is running an article looking at some of the economic info available about various online games and comes to the conclusion that the only thing that really matters is if the game is still enjoyable to its players (which seems fairly obvious). It's not important that a virtual economy be a "successful" economy in the traditional sense as long as it's fun for the players. Of course, a disastrous in-game economy isn't going to be that much fun, which is why many more games (usually from the smaller online gaming companies) are paying a lot more attention to the in-game economic situation.

Virtual Worlds Meet the Real One

Virtual Worlds Meet the Real One 07/29/2004 05:01 AM
How did you spend your summer vacation? These students learned about urban renewal -- by playing video games. By Michelle Delio.

Strategies for real and virtual
honeypots

Strategies for real and virtual
honeypots 05/17/2004 02:51 AM

Real verdict in China for virtual loss

Real verdict in China for virtual loss 12/28/2003 09:16 PM
CNET Asia Dec 28 2003 7:42PM ET

Microsoft Virtual Machine Has Very Real
Problem

Microsoft Virtual Machine Has Very Real
Problem 09/19/2002 03:51 PM

Virtual Cash Breeds Real Greed

Virtual Cash Breeds Real Greed 01/23/2004 02:23 PM
A recently launched currency market lets traders swap hard cash for fake currency used in Internet games like The Sims Online and Ultima Online. While the forum is geared to gamers, speculators can turn a profit. By Daniel Terdiman.

360° Virtual Tours for SW Florida Real
Estate - Only $99

360° Virtual Tours for SW Florida Real
Estate - Only $99 03/24/2005 05:28 AM
Listing360 provides quality 360° virtual tours for Southwest Florida Real Estate. Realtors on listing appointments can now have a competitive edge by offering their prospective clients a panoramic virtual tour for the affordable price of only $99. [PRWEB Mar 24, 2005]

Real property rights to virtual game
objects

Real property rights to virtual game
objects 11/14/2003 09:14 AM
The Terra Nova gaming groupblog reports that Second Life, a massively multiplayer online game, has amended its terms of service to allow players to "retain real world property rights in the virtual world products they produce." Link

Researchers Study Real Viruses to Thwart
Virtual

Researchers Study Real Viruses to Thwart
Virtual 09/22/2004 10:51 PM
Boston Globe Sep 23 2004 3:33AM GMT

Virtual hooking, real censorship in The
Sims Online

Virtual hooking, real censorship in The
Sims Online 12/15/2003 11:35 AM
An independent in-game newspaper published in The Sims Online is being censored by Maxis for running ads for underage in-game sex.

So The Alphaville Herald continues to push the edge of the envelope. In this case the envelope has "Underage Child Sexual Solicitation in Virtual Worlds" written all over it. They're running a mind-boggling interview with an avatar who's been turning tricks in TSO since the early days. Since this sexual activity involves real money, an under-age protagonist, and the violation of a serious number of federal and state sexual solicitation statutes, it's your required reading for the day. Call it research.

Oh, did we mention that Maxis, the developers of TSO, have started to delete in-world references to The Alphaville Herald?

Link

REAL Software Announces REAL World 2005
Conference Dates and Location

REAL Software Announces REAL World 2005
Conference Dates and Location 08/27/2004 02:00 PM
AUSTIN, Texas (August 26, 2004) - REAL Software, Inc. announced today that REAL World 2005, The REALbasic User Conference, will be held March 23-25, 2005 at the Austin Convention Center in Austin, Texas. Noted REALbasic authors and experts and REAL Software engineers will be presenting sessions at REAL World 2005.

"REAL World is the perfect opportunity for REALbasic users, both expert and novice alike, to get together to share ideas, information and techniques. Attendees gain critical content that helps make them better, more informed REALbasic developers," offered Geoff Perlman, president and CEO of REAL Software.

Researchers Study Real Viruses to Thwart
Virtual (Reuters)

Researchers Study Real Viruses to Thwart
Virtual (Reuters) 09/22/2004 08:36 PM
Reuters - U.S. university researchers will soon begin a $13 million study of the spread of Internet viruses using methods pioneered in tracking the outbreak of human epidemics, researchers said on Wednesday.

Game Theories: Are these virtual worlds
the best place to study the real one?

Game Theories: Are these virtual worlds
the best place to study the real one? 05/17/2004 08:55 AM
Game Theories: Are these virtual worlds the best place to study the real one? The Gross National Product of EverQuest, measured by how much wealth all the players together created in a single year inside the game. It turned out to be $2,266 U.S. per capita. By World Bank rankings, that made EverQuest richer than India, Bulgaria, or China, and nearly as wealthy as Russia. (by Clive Thompson)

Real-Time & Embedded Computing
Conference en Madrid y Barcelona

Real-Time & Embedded Computing
Conference en Madrid y Barcelona 05/02/2004 04:50 PM

Embedded Macromedia Flash Proliferating
in Mobile and Real-Time Computing

Embedded Macromedia Flash Proliferating
in Mobile and Real-Time Computing 12/17/2004 06:30 PM
Vibren Technologies Experiences Surge in Embedded Flash Projects [PRWEB Dec 10, 2004]

Football: Real boss offers to quit

Football: Real boss offers to quit 09/19/2004 05:46 PM
Real Madrid coach Jose Antonio Camacho offers to resign after the club's poor start to the season.

Agentek, Inc. Wins Enterprise Mobile
Computing Contract with Ferrellgas to
Provide Real-Time Automated Route D

Agentek, Inc. Wins Enterprise Mobile
Computing Contract with Ferrellgas to
Provide Real-Time Automated Route D 09/16/2004 09:28 AM
dBusinessNews.com Sep 16 2004 1:43PM GMT

REAL Software offers Office Power Pack
Vol. 1

REAL Software offers Office Power Pack
Vol. 1 07/14/2004 08:33 AM
REALbasic developer REAL Software Inc. on Wednesday released Office Power Pack Volume 1, a collection of five applications designed to enhanced Microsoft Office v.X and Office 2004 for the Macintosh. The applications include Address Book Merge, which merges Mac OS X Address Book contacts with Microsoft Word to help print mailing labels and envelopes; Address Book Export, which exports Address Book contact information into Excel; Quicken Data Mover, which loads Quicken QIF files into Excel; Fax Cover Sheet Maker, which generates fax cover sheets in Word using Address Book data; and Invoice Maker, which creates professional service invoices in Microsoft Word. The kit costs US$49.95.

Yahoo Offers Real-Time Traffic Reports

Yahoo Offers Real-Time Traffic Reports 01/03/2005 07:10 PM

REAL Software offers Visual Basic
conversion aids

REAL Software offers Visual Basic
conversion aids 07/21/2004 09:16 AM
REAL Software Inc. on Wednesday announced the availability of resources to help developers conversant in Microsoft's Visual Basic development environment to migrate their products to Mac OS and Linux operating systems using REALbasic. The resources include a new white paper entitled "Porting Visual Basic Applications Cross-Platform to Linux and Mac OS X, A Guide for Visual Basic Developers," as well as a tool called VB Project Converter that handles the actual mechanics of the transition. REAL Software makes available a 10-day free trial version of REALbasic as well.

DeskLapz offers real-time images from
live Webcams

DeskLapz offers real-time images from
live Webcams 07/21/2004 04:17 PM
Want to see what's going on around the world? If Then Software has released DeskLapz, a utility for Mac OS X v10.3 or higher that provides users with up-to-the-minute images recorded by Webcams on the beach, in the mountains, and elsewhere. DeskLapz's developer said the inspiration was "Sundial," an old Mac utility that displayed time-lapse video over a 24 hour span. DeskLapz comes with three cameras unlocked; making a donation to If Then Software unlocks seven other cameras.

Hogzilla is real. And now, he's real
dead.

Hogzilla is real. And now, he's real
dead. 03/22/2005 05:00 PM
Xeni Jardin: A team of National Geographic experts with nothing better to do confirmed the existence of Georgia's monster hog, "Hogzilla."

They also noted the super swine didn't quite live up to the 1,000-pound, 12-foot hype generated when Hogzilla was caught on a farm last summer and photographed hanging from a backhoe. Donning biohazard suits to exhume the behemoth's smelly remains, the experts estimated Hogzilla was probably only 7 1/2 to 8 feet long, and weighed about 800 pounds. The confirmation came in a documentary aired Sunday night on the National Geographic Channel; it will be rebroadcast Wednesday and Saturday.

Link (Thanks, Mo)

Real managers use real metrics

Real managers use real metrics 11/26/2002 02:10 AM
CNET Nov 26 2002 1:03AM ET

q-jumper limited announces new virtual
tour and digital imaging group based in
Queenstown, New Zealand - Real Tours
(www.realtours.co.nz)

q-jumper limited announces new virtual
tour and digital imaging group based in
Queenstown, New Zealand - Real Tours
(www.realtours.co.nz) 07/30/2004 03:41 AM
The sudden growth in real estate and tourism in the Southern Lakes area has led to a greater demand for quality website developments and for the niche area of virtual tour photography. [PRWEB Jul 30, 2004]

CaliforniaLicense.com Offers Fast Online
Real Estate Licensing Programs

CaliforniaLicense.com Offers Fast Online
Real Estate Licensing Programs 05/31/2004 07:05 PM
CaliforniaLicense.com has announced they are offering real estate licensing, broker training and loan officer courses tailored to busy individuals, allowing them to obtain a basic license in as little as two months, starting under $100. People do not have to spend hundreds of dollars and spend months in traditional classroom training to achieve a license.

New SuperiorLabels.com Site Offers
Online Label Creation In Real Time

New SuperiorLabels.com Site Offers
Online Label Creation In Real Time 06/05/2005 10:54 PM
SuperiorLabels.com takes advantage of the innate power of the web to offer a level of service and variety of labels that wouldn't be possible without the web. People using the site can select their choice of artwork and label style from over 9,000 graphics and the widest selection of label sizes, fonts and colors, and then preview how the label will look in real-time before they purchase.

Gillaspy Associates to Showcase
Engineering and Network Test Solutions
at the Real-Time Computing Conferences
in Boulder and Salt Lake City

Gillaspy Associates to Showcase
Engineering and Network Test Solutions
at the Real-Time Computing Conferences
in Boulder and Salt Lake City 03/14/2005 04:45 PM
Gillaspy Associates, a leading sales organization for high-speed data SAN/LAN network analysis instrumentation will present test solutions from Finisar, Connecticut Technology Products and other leading manufacturers at the Real-Time Computing Conference in Boulder, CO March 1st and Salt Lake City, UT March 3rd. [PRWEB Feb 28, 2005]

Real-Time Innovations Offers First
Commercial Product Based on Data
Distribution Service Standard

Real-Time Innovations Offers First
Commercial Product Based on Data
Distribution Service Standard 09/15/2004 02:01 AM
NDDS Middleware and Tools Facilitate Building Real-Time Distributed Systems for Industrial Control, Medical, Mil/Aero and Telecom Applications [PRWEB Sep 15, 2004]

Where's The Border For Real World Laws
In A Virtual World?

Where's The Border For Real World Laws
In A Virtual World? 12/04/2003 03:52 AM
Last month when everyone was making a big deal over the news that the online game Second Life had decided that players own any intellectual property they create in the game, I said it was a bad idea, since it basically took all of the problems of our intellectual property system and moved them into the virtual world - where it was likely to get more confusing. Over at LawMeme, James Grimmelmann, has been thinking a lot about that very idea and has written an insanely long - but absolutely worth reading - discussion about intellectual property issues as it relates to games. It's impossible to summarize his points, but he explores many of the issues in-depth and appears to have thought about these issues in much more detail than the designers of the various games. What it really seems to come down to is the question of whether or not in-game actions are simply covered by the End User License Agreement (which basically becomes the Constitution for that game) or if real laws in the real world should apply.

Free online Real Estate Listing Service
Introduces Free Integration with
Existing Real Estate Systems. Now,
Realtors Can Just "Set it and Forget
it." ™

Free online Real Estate Listing Service
Introduces Free Integration with
Existing Real Estate Systems. Now,
Realtors Can Just "Set it and Forget
it." ™ 06/24/2005 03:14 PM
Just Real Estate Listings™, an online real estate advertising company, has launched a new web site offering the Realtor™ community a free way to advertise real estate properties on the internet. This service also includes free data integration services which eliminates the need for users to manually enter data. [PRWEB Jun 24, 2005]

Santa Barbara Real Estate Information -
Free MLS Access, Local Real Estate
Listings and Over 50 Local Links are now
Available at Realestatesantabarbara.info

Santa Barbara Real Estate Information -
Free MLS Access, Local Real Estate
Listings and Over 50 Local Links are now
Available at Realestatesantabarbara.info 03/14/2005 04:41 PM
The most comprehensive source for Santa Barbara, Montecito, & Goleta Real Estate and general information is now available at www.realestatesantabarbara.info - the website was created and developed by Paul Luoma, a sales-associate with Century 21 A Hart Realty, Inc. [PRWEB Mar 13, 2005]
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