Land Mafia In Virtual World?

Virtual Island

What is the most you’re willing to pay for a virtual item in a videogame or virtual world? Five, ten dollars? How about $26,500?

That’s the amount David Storey, a 27-year-old graduate student living in Sydney, Australia, paid for a virtual island, the “Most valuable object that is virtual,” according to Guinness World Records.

Microsoft Taking Clouds Seriously

Microsoft

Microsoft Corp’s business-software unit expects to get at least $1 billionĀ  from web versions of its Office and e-mail programmes in the next three to five years, said Stephen Elop, head of the division.

Gmail Security Under Threat

Google has rushed to step up the security of Gmail, its web-based e-mail system, following the admission that hackers based in China had been partially successful in cutting through its security defences.

Skype Breaking VoIP

skype going peer to [...]