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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 Microsoft Corp’s business-software unit expects to get at least $1 billion from web versions of its Office and e-mail programmes in the next three to five years, said Stephen Elop, head of the division. Share on Facebook 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. Share on Facebook skype going peer to [...] Google China London : The cyber-attacks that Google said had led it to rethink its position in China mark the first known case in which Google has seen its defences penetrated so comprehensively, forcing the world’s biggest internet company on to the back foot in an attempt to limit the damage. Share on Facebook Sony DSLR With the end of the pixel arms race and film-loaded devices, companies tempt users with better technology for their digital SLRs Tokyo : It was one of the gadgets of the decade. From sales of a few million basic models in 1999, the digital camera market exploded to a peak of around 130 million [...] |
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