As many of you know, Revision3s servers were brought down over the Memorial Day weekend by a denial of service attack. Its an all too common occurrence these days. But this one wasnt your normal cybercrime ? theres a chilling twist at the end. Heres what happened, and why were even more concerned today, after its over, than we were on Saturd

Jim, I hope you sue them. What they did was reckless and irresponsible, and someone needs to send MediaDefender a lesson that performing illegal acts to fight other illegal acts is NOT right (two wrongs don’t make a right)….

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An increasing number of people are ditching their jobs in the real world to make a living entirely online within Second Lifes virtual economy?making thousands of U.S. dollars selling designs, developing virtual property or creating virtual market branches to offer real products.

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A patent applications stated goal is to create an online shopping experience that doesnt feel sterile and isolating? like a traditional retail website, and includes a diagram depicting stick figures walking around in a retail store with an Electronics, Books, and Music section, underneath a sun? i.e., MacNN speculates, in a virtual world like

What’s more, while the patent office published the application last week, it was actually filed in September 2006– at the height of Second Life over-hype, months after a May ‘06 BusinessWeek cover story convinced…

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The House Committee on Energy and Commerce has a Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet. The members held a virtual hearing yesterday online in Second Life. The hearing’s subject is Online Virtual Worlds: Applications and Avatars in a User-Generated Medium.

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U.S. physicists have made a clock so accurate it will neither gain nor lose even a second in more than 200 million years, a finding sure to please even the most punctually minded.

The clock, described in the Friday issue of the journal Science, outperforms the official atomic clock used by the U.S. Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology, which promises to keep accurate time down to the…

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