In fact, in most of the privatised sectors both solutions have been applied - an outcome that might be described as giving us the worst of all worlds. The opening up of the telecoms market highlights the deficiencies of economies run by bean...
Having seen web 2.0 reduce them to transport pipes, telcos may yet have a chance to steal a march on other service providers with the advent of web 3.0 - a new era heralded by the arrival of virtual worlds such as Second Life.
Businesses setting up outposts in virtual worlds such as Second Life may find they still have plenty of real world legal minefields to navigate. Second Life is the best known of a number of virtual worlds that are attracting a lot of interest from...
You may be able to fly around chatting to giant rabbits or battling trolls but the lure of virtual worlds such as Second Life is not as strong - for silicon.com readers at least - as you might think. However, a sizeable minority of silicon.com...
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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...