IBM and Circuit City Join to Explore the Application of Virtual Worlds to Business
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SECOND LIFE -- IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced it is working with Circuit City Stores, Inc., a leading specialty retailer of consumer electronics, to explore how to apply virtual worlds and 3-D environments to retail business models.
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Businesses need to exercise caution in this new virtual environment by understanding the complexity that virtualization introduces.
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Retailers and manufacturers are setting up shop in Second Life, the three-dimensional online world, hoping that users will steer their avatars to real world stores.
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Entertainment companies increasingly turn to virtual worlds as a source for new content.
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Sprawling virtual worlds in which  electronic avatars do battle with mythical beasts may offer  game publishers a unique chance to combat piracy, especially in  Asia, where the format is wildly popular.
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What the business press didn't tell you Analysis Two weeks ago, business leaders at Davos gave their blessing to Linden Lab's Second Life. They hailed the spectacular growth of its virtual economy while politicians spoke of democracy itself moving into its online world.â¦
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Officials at Oracle (Quote, Chart) used its Open World show in London as a springboard to launch an application server offering for small- to medium-sized businesses (SMB) Tuesday.
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IBM today announced new virtual resources to help business partners more quickly build and deploy on demand business applications tailored to meet customer requirements across all vertical industries.
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DECEMBER 07, 2004  - IBM yesterday announced virtual resources to help business partners more quickly build and deploy on-demand business applications tailored to customer requirements across all vertical industries.
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3D Connexion introduces a new peripheral that helps users navigate virtual 3D spaces.
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Some companies are turning to online games to motivate staff and remake the workplace, say researchers.
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This morning, IBM, in conjunction with Vivendi game developer High Moon Studios and Canadian high-performance developer RapidMind, launched a coast-to-coast event to interest developers into building a new gaming platform around the Cell.
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IBM's Atlas tool aims to help businesses visualize connections between colleagues.
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TechWeb - IBM will allow non-IBMers to traipse through the 3D replicas of its real world premises that are located in the virtual world of Second Life.
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IBM (NYSE: IBM) has contributed a new social computing software called 'Many Eyes' for use during the OECD (Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development) World Forum on Measuring and Fostering the Progress of Societies, this week in Istanbul.
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As the virtual world booms, users yearn for something more than a subpar search engine--and work is now under way.
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DALLAS, Texas - Taking a step into the new frontier, NASA Ames Research Center, under the direction of Simon &quot;Pete&quot; Worden, has launched an island in Second Life, an online 3-D virtual world created, shaped, and owned by its participants.