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The global economy is about grow another limb - The virtual economy. The days when buying virtual products with hard cash was considered weird are now well and truly over. Most people would call $6 million real money, and it was paid in hard cash.
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Sociologist William Sims Bainbridge uses the game World of Warcraft to gain insights into human behaviour. It is not a new idea, but it is a growing field of study.
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A woman divorced her husband after finding his avatar engaged in online sex in the game "Second Life." She spied on him with a virtual detective and caught him in the act.
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Google has launched a new product called 'lively' which allows users to create their own personalised virtual 3-D rooms in the web.
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IBM launched today a 3-D health care island in Second Life, at the 2008 HIMSS Conference in Orlando, FL. Displaying IBM’s strategy for the future of health care, the island promotes the concept of health information exchange for patient care.
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Technology from Japan may soon allow players of "Second Life" to use their bodies to navigate their avatars. As of now, the avatars in this virtual reality stumble around awkwardly, this new technology will allow much smoother, simpler movement.
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Is counterfeit a crime in an online world? It’s a question at the heart of a lawsuit against a New York man charged with selling ‘stolen’ products from other players’ e-shops in Second Life.
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Second Life has had its first financial crisis. Ginko Financial, which operates as a bank on Second Life, suffered a run on funds. The result is a little complex, but it’s interesting to see that virtual life can be as neurotic as real life.
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"In an article in Rome-based Jesuit journal La Civilta Cattolica, academic Antonio Spadaro urged fellow Catholics not to be scared of entering the virtual world which may be fertile ground for new converts wishing to better themselves."
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Stroker Serpentine, the biggest name in Second Life porn is suing another virtual character over the theft of some of his copyrighted sexual source code. Second Life to be taken to court to give up the man's identity and paypal info.
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 The penny's days are numbered, but the Royal Canadian Mint is now looking into a second life for the one-cent denomination in the digital world through a research and developing project called "MintChip."
Neville Lawrence says he is "satisfied" after two men were jailed for life for murdering his son Stephen, whose best friend says the second investigation did a "tremendous job".
The airbag backpack seems to be getting a second look - among other snow-safety tips – after an advanced skier credited hers with saving her life this weekend in an avalanche that killed three others. Elyse Saugstad told ABC News today that when the avalanche occurred...
 Jason Spezza and his No. 8 Ottawa Senators will begin their first-round Eastern Conference playoff series against the No. 1 New York Rangers on Thursday, and few are playing better than Spezza entering the playoffs. All this even though his close friend, Canadian ski-crosser Nick Zoricic passed away in a competition in Switzerland on Mar. 10, and his wife Jennifer gave birth to the couple's second child, Nicola, on Apr. 1.
A cell phone phone call from slain black teenager Trayvon Martin to his girlfriend seconds before he was fatally shot by self-appointed neighborhood watch captain George Zimmerman "blows Zimmerman's absurd self-defense claim out of the water," and he should be arrested "right now," attorney Benjamin Crump, a lawyer for Martin's family, said today at a news conference. Crump spoke after ABC News reported exclusively the existence of the phone call between Martin and his girlfriend, which detailed the last terrifying moments of his life as he was pursued, accosted and shot by Zimmerman.
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