'Virtual Girlfriend' Demands Gifts
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HONG KONG - She needs to be coddled with sweet talk and pampered with gifts, but you'll never see her in the flesh. A Hong Kong company has developed a "virtual girlfriend" for new cell phones with video capability...
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Evan Paul, a Lynnfield teenager with a yen for all the latest digital games, is the kind of customer who has made videogaming a multibillion-dollar industry. Now Paul hopes that it is his turn to get rich, as he builds an Internet business that lets gaming buffs swap games, instead of buying them.
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People play games, go shopping and meet dates on the Internet. So why not use the Web to download the perfect mood-enhancing fragrance?
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Steve Jobs and Bill Gates had a non-virtual date this week. What's behind the new romance?
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An avatar made up to look like French presidential candidate Segolene Royal has made an appearance in the popular virtual world of Second Life, though it is not piloted by the politician or her any of her supporters.
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Frankly Speaking: Frank Hayes relates a chat Santa had with an elf about annual gift giving to the IT world. And what's with all the penguins? Santa wants to know.
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By KORKY VANN, THE HARTFORD COURANT  There's a new girl in town  or in cyberspace, to be exact.
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Newbie to the virtual world tries to find her way around the vast continent.
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She needs to be coddled with sweet talk and pampered with gifts, but you&#39;ll never see her in the flesh. A Hong Kong company has developed a &quot;virtual girlfriend&quot; for new cell phones with video capability.
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âGrowing Up Onlineâ asks an increasingly important question: What does it mean to be part of the first generation coming of age steeped in a virtual world seemingly outside parental control?
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The e-tailer has another big holiday season.
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Valentines Day in South Korea means  chocolates, romantic dinners and a high-tech mobile phone  device that can secretly check the passion in the voice of a  lover.
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MS spits, hopes you swallow Exclusive People quick to buy Microsoft's new Vista software face a dilemma never before seen in the operating system kingdom â Do I let my new lesbian 'girlfriend' know that I am really a man?â¦
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in the form of a virtual girlfriend. The Hong Kong company Artificial Life, which developed the new game, says the girl will appear
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Not getting any online dates? Maybe itâs time for an online makeover.
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By Chandra Devi  AS far as hackers are concerned, this is the season to infect as many computers and networks as possible. With the Valentine and Lunar New Year celebrations in the air, cyber criminals are having a jolly good time spreading their "love", "hugs" and "auspicious" wishes.
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To help "sweeten the deal" a bit and encourage you to give towards the causes that the PHP Women are trying to accomplish, they're offering a special little bonus for those who donate at a certain level:   Cal Evans from the Zend DevZone - being the awesome guy that he is - has graciously offered to mail out to the first 10 people who donate to PHPWomen $50 or more, a PHP elePHPant. Yep - you get one of the hard to find and much sought after plushy PHP elePHPants.   You can find out more about the goals for their fund raising in this other post to the PHPWomen.org blog as well as information on submitting whatever you feel like donating (time or money).