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edadams sends in a story about the legal questions that are starting to crop up over property disputes in virtual worlds. A lawsuit in March 2008 that stopped one Second Life user from selling a virtual product created by another user marked the beginning of a significant amount of casework for several law firms, in large part due to the way Second Life’s currency interacts closely with real money. (And yes, apparently the product in that particular case was for cybersex — did you have to ask?) “As transactions grow in volume, it’s inevitable that disagreements will crop up. Linden says that although it will enforce its terms of service, including its ban on violating other users’ intellectual property, it can’t settle most disputes for users.” A lawyer for one intellectual property firm handled a case in which the co-ownership of virtual real estate had to be determined, ending with a financial settlement given to two users who helped a virtual land developer run a group of Second Life islands. As virtual worlds get more popular and their business models more directly affect real-life finances, we can expect these legal issues to become more common as well.

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Citrix Systems, Inc., the global leader in application delivery infrastructure, today reported financial results for the first quarter of fiscal 2009 Read more at VMblog.com.

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BOSaNOVA, Inc., the emerging market leader in development of Thin Clients, Security Solutions, and Network Appliances, today announced their name… Read more at VMblog.com.

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BlueCat Networks, the IPAM Intelligence Company™, today announced that its virtual appliances have proven a massive hit with its channel partners worldwide. The virtual appliances enable resellers to sell to customers that might not have previously had the budget, rack space and/or internal IT expertise to purchase BlueCat’s market-leading Proteus™ IPAM and Adonis™ family of DNS/DHCP solutions.

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Time Doctor writes “The de-facto standard in Quake 3 engine technology, ioquake3, has hit version 1.36 recently. It includes a garbage bag full of improvements: in-game VOIP; optional external Mumble (voip); OpenAL; IPV6; anaglyph stereo rendering; Full x86-64 architecture support; Rewritten PowerPC JIT compiler, with ppc64 support; new SPARC JIT compiler, with support for both sparc32 and sparc64; improved console command auto-completion; persistent console command history; improved QVM (Quake Virtual Machine) tools; colored terminal output on POSIX operating systems; multiuser support on Windows systems (user-specific game data is stored in their respective Application Data folders); PNG format support for textures. Of course, there are even more fixes for security holes and other bugs in there. So, if you don’t like ads and queues in your Quake 3 experience, get a copy of Quake 3 off Steam and copy your data files and key into your ioquake3 directory.”

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This expert E-Guide, brought to you by SearchServerVirtualization.com and ePlus Technology, Inc., discusses key virtualization strategies for any organization. Discover how virtual system management can be used to effectively improve your infrastructure.
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Whether you’re new to virtualization or a veteran looking to improve your current infrastructure, this HP resource center will show you how HP improves storage infrastructure economics through lower storage administration costs, simplified operations, and higher utilization.
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New software options will provide HDS’s customers with a more extensive management view beyond the storage system, so they can better monitor and utilize current IT assets tied to business applications, virtualized servers and the data center, the company said.
- Hitachi Data Systems has partnered with storage optimization software provider Aptare in an initiative that modernizes its software portfolio.

HDS said April 28 that it has expanded its management software portfolio with three new offerings: the Hitachi Virtual Server Reporter, supplied by Aptare…

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Ipswitch, Inc. File Transfer division, the leading developer of secure and managed file transfer solutions for individuals up to large enterprises,… Read more at VMblog.com.

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Certeon Inc. , a Microsoft Certified Partner, announced today a new Application Acceleration Blueprint™ for both Microsoft Application Virtualization Read more at VMblog.com.

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