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Virtual Worlds Growing in Popularity

1 August 2009

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The virtual worlds consultancy kzero.co.uk reports that membership of virtual worlds grew by 39% in the second quarter of 2009 to an estimated 579 million. Some of these memberships are likely to be unused or inactive but this is still a…

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Sculpture in SL using Blender

20 July 2009

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Chris has been experimenting with Blender again this weekend. He has produced some really nice modern sculptures. You can view the sculptures here in Second Life, or take a look at flickr. You can download Blender here.  Blender is a 3D graphics…

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Australian Government Targets Gamers

28 June 2009

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Stephen Conroy the Australian Communications Minister, has been nominated by the British ISP industry for its annual “internet villain” award. Senator Conroy was nominated for the annual internet villain award “for continuing to promote network-level blocking despite significant national and…

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Digital Britain

7 June 2009

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The UK culture secretary, Andy Burnham, said today that the government intends to acquire powers to apply “technical measures” to crack down on persistent illegal filesharers on the internet. The Digital Britain report is due to be released later this…

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Microsoft’s deal with New Zealand comes to an end

27 May 2009

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Microsoft’s nine-year software licencing deal with the New Zealand government has apparently collapsed according to the Inquirer today. In a statement, the State Services Commission (SSC) said that negotiations for another three-year extension of the agreement failed when it “became apparent during…

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UK ISPs fight back over licensing of legal content

17 May 2009

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The UK creative industries have demanded that ISPs start disconnecting users accused of repeated online copyright infringement. Ars Technica spoke to the ISPA earlier this week: the Internet Service Providers’ Association (ISPA) said that it agreed with creative industry calls for…

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Linux Educational Comicbooks

25 April 2009

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Hackett and Bankwell is an educational comic/cartoon manual designed to teach readers how to get started with Linux-based operating systems. You can download copies of the ebooks here. New users often feel overwhelmed by all of the new information they need to…

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eyeOS

18 April 2009

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eyeOS is an open source web desktop following the Cloud computing concept, but based on private cloud computing which protects your personal information and offers more security. It acts as a platform for web applications written using the eyeOS Toolkit. It includes a Desktop…

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