Virtual News

A $30,000 Scrabble set features lights, sensors, and live-streams to the world wide web and is the most expensive version of the game in the world. It was built for the Prague Mind Sports Festival this December.

Online bookstore Akademos has launched its new Adoption Tool, a virtual site where faculty can go to choose their adopted texts for class.

The White House Cyber Security Adviser Howard Schmidt and Commerce Secretary Gary Locke have recently announced a proposal for mandatory virtual ID cards for Internet users, called the “National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace.”

Kids Worldwide Speak Out on CyberSafety -Not All Fun and Games Online. A new report found 6 of 10 kids continue to have negative online experiences from cam exposure, nudity, violence and having strangers befriend them trying to meet them in real life.

Following on Amazon's offering, Sun Microsystems announced plans to offer free cloud computing services to the public. With a potential IBM acquisition of the company in the works, is this an IBM strategy?

If Sims fever hasn't gotten the best of you yet, you don't know what your missing. For those who have the sickness, you now have the opportunity to add some style and personality to your Sims family as IKEA and EA strike a deal. The Ektorp is now virtual.

Is counterfeit a crime in an online world? It’s a question at the heart of a lawsuit against a New York man charged with selling ‘stolen’ products from other players’ e-shops in Second Life.

That's right! For only $39.95 you can buy a piece of property on Mount Lo'ihi in Hawaii. Interested? Well there's a catch, it's still 3,000 feet under the Pacific Ocean, so you may have to wait at least 10,000 years.

A group of nine international automakers are looking for a few good 'virtual people' to act as crash dummies.

A TV with no screen? Sounds crazy, but Chad Dyner at MIT's MediaLab thought of it and created the Heliodisplay a couple of years back.