) November 23, 2008 -- More and more companies are becoming globally distributed and the number of employees telecommuting is on the rise. While the benefits of working remotely are clear, employees often complain that they don't feel connected to their co-workers or company. But now with the arrival of the Meetsee Virtual Office, which has just entered public beta testing, companies can connect their distributed workforce. Meetsee makes it easy for co-workers to communicate, share files, collaborate on documents, and get to know each other in virtual offices and meeting rooms.

Singapore Metaversum GmbH has announced that it plans to build virtual replicas of real metropolises in the 3D online world Twinity. Berlin will be the first virtual city that Twinity members can enter and explore, with other international metropolises set to follow.
This is the first time that Germany's capital has been rendered true-to-scale within a virtual world, thus enabling its members to directly interact with the city. Visit virtual galleries, make new friends in caf and bars, or go on a virtual shopping trip these are only a few of the many things to discover in Twinity.
During the current private beta phase, Twinity enables its members to create unique avatars, and move into and style virtual apartments anywhere in the world.

) March 13, 2009 -- General Patent Corporation (GPC), a leading patent licensing and enforcement firm, announced today that its client, Worlds.com, Inc. (OTC BB:WDD), has been issued U.S. Patent No. 7,493,558 titled "System and Method for Enabling Users to Interact in a Virtual Space."

The Patent relates to computer architecture for a three-dimensional graphical multi-user interactive virtual world system. Such systems are utilized in Massive Multi-Player Online Games (MMORPG) of the type known as Graphical Multi-Dimension (GMUD) games, which provide a graphical representation of the player's character (avatar) wherein movement of the character in virtual space alters what the character views.

) March 13, 2009 -- General Patent Corporation (GPC), a leading patent licensing and enforcement firm, announced today that its client, Worlds.com, Inc. (OTC BB:WDD), has been issued U.S. Patent No. 7,493,558 titled "System and Method for Enabling Users to Interact in a Virtual Space."

The Patent relates to computer architecture for a three-dimensional graphical multi-user interactive virtual world system. Such systems are utilized in Massive Multi-Player Online Games (MMORPG) of the type known as Graphical Multi-Dimension (GMUD) games, which provide a graphical representation of the player's character (avatar) wherein movement of the character in virtual space alters what the character views.

Virtual PBX systems are affordable virtual office solutions that can promote your established business by providing various call management functions.

) January 13, 2009 -- Horseland™, a popular online virtual pet community, has announced a revamped website that now includes an interactive 3D world with customizable horses and avatars.

Horseland is an imaginative online game where you can customize an avatar and ride your horse with friends around 3D interactive world.

VOSI.biz launches Chinese version (http://cn.vosi.biz/) remote virtual server & virtual IT service for business, incl.: Remote File server, FTP server, Email Server, Offsite Online Backup, etc.

Virtual Bridges’ new VERDE 2.0 now integrates client-side hypervisor for offline PC use.

) February 10, 2009 -- The power of virtual worlds as a means of advanced social networks, sophisticated business tools and education tools is now accessible to all Web users with the commercial launch of Gogofrog. Two years after its Beta launch, Gogofrog has taken the advice and input of its global user base of more than 30,000 to remove the prime impediments to making virtual worlds a mainstream Internet tool, access. Fully browser-based, Gogofrog enables anyone with an Internet connection to set up their own world: simple worlds for free and complex worlds for as little as a $10US monthly subscription. No software at all for Users or Visitors to download.

The Association of Virtual Worlds today announced the appointment of Andrew Peters, virtual world advocate and community creator to the position of Marketing Director. Peters is well known to the Virtual Worlds Industry and has served as a member of the Associations' Advisory Board. He will be chartered with launching the AVW Platinum Membership Program as well as building the community which has enjoyed rapid growth in just a few short months to become one of the largest groups in the virtual worlds' arena located at www.AssociationofVirtualWorlds.com (PRWeb Dec 4, 2008)

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RocketOn, Inc., a venture-funded startup located in South San Francisco, is rolling out its virtual world platform by embedding virtual worlds on partner sites. RocketOn's partners range from comedy, music and game sites to community networking sites and college magazines. (PRWeb Feb 4, 2009)

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) March 30, 2009 -- Koinup, leader company in social networking for virtual worlds, is glad to announce the launch of the 1st Second Life Comics Competition.

Koinup logo

Virtual worlds and comics strips are the two major entertainments for millions of people. Koinup partner with the metaverse developer Deep Semaphore to create the 1st Virtual Worlds Comics Contest. The initiative is open to all the Comics enthusiasts and to all Second Life residents.

September 10, 2008 --
Easyspace, one of the largest Web Service providers in the UK, has won the "No .1 Virtual Servers Provider" award for the third month running for its range of high quality, low cost, Virtual Private Servers.
The award comes from the influential Web Host Directory who each month encourage its visitors to for vote for the Top Web Hosts in each of its Web Host related categories. At the end of each month the Web Host Directory awards panel visits the top voted Web Hosts in each category, and determines which are most worthy of receiving an award.

) December 11, 2008 --
General
Patent Corporation (GPC),
a leading patent licensing and enforcement firm, announced today that it
retained on behalf of its client, Worlds.com,

) May 26, 2009 -- Influxis, the leading Flash Media Server specialist company, has built and released the first Flash 3D massively multiplayer online chat application for the Adobe Flash Media Server (FMS) using a framework combination of custom code, FMS, and the Away3D platform, a real-time 3D engine for Flash. The application is called Massiva 3D and introduces the never before seen possibility of having a 3D multi-user chat environment over the Adobe Flash Player plug-in, a media player already installed on 98% of computers in the world.

Grandview Design has announced plans to develop a light or personal use version of their popular virtual tour software.
Grandview Design current interactive virtual tour software is available only through contract services with the company, however the new software will be an out of the box alternative to the full service package.
While the new software will require users to obtain their own panoramic photography, it will give them full capability to recreate the fully immersive virtual tour environment themselves. At the click of a few buttons, anyone from anywhere and with any level of web expertise, will be able to assemble an interactive masterpiece.

) May 7, 2009 -- Easyspace, one of the largest providers of Virtual Servers in the UK, has had its services recognised with a 3rd place award in the Virtual Server category for May in the monthly awards given out by the influential Web Host Directory. It's the 3rd time the virtual servers range from Easyspace has been recognised in 2009 after already achieving a runner up 2nd in January and an impressive 1st place in March.

A Virtual Office has all the attributes of a real office like telephone numbers, meeting rooms, files and databases. But there is one basic difference here.

) October 24, 2008 -- Today, ISC announced the availability of the public beta release of MapDotNet UX, the next generation .NET GIS platform. MapDotNet lets organizations visualize, analyze and maintain their geospatial data. Application developers can build easy to use desktop and web-based mapping applications that can be used by an executive, manager, analyst or the general public. The beta release can be downloaded at www.mapdotnet.com.

) October 10, 2008 -- Due to the growing popularity of World of Kung Fu, Vestgame Entertainment has decided to open a new server to keep pace with the large number of new accounts. The new server will increase speed and access times for our East Coast and European players.

World of Kung Fu is a virtual world set in ancient China

Code named "IronMonkey", the new server will complement the "JadeDragon" and "GoldenSerpent" servers already in operation. The two existing servers are located in the American Midwest.

New book targeted towards enterprise users includes virtual worlds overview, how-to hands-on knowlwdge and case studies from Fortune 100 companies

) June 17, 2009 -- 4Domains, Inc. announced today that they have launched their new Open Source Virtual Private Servers (OSVPS) products on linux. 4Domains is one of the few web hosts in the world to provide this as their main offering.        

"We are excited to offer this new OSVPS product offering to our legacy VPS customers and that of new potential customers," said Dave Snyder, of 4Domains, Inc. "We have already migrated several legacy customers and so far the feedback is very positive on the new Virtual Private Server features."

VOSI.biz leads technology innovation on cloud-computing, offering a complete set of virtual IT services for small businesses, incl.: Remote File server, FTP server, Email Server, Offsite Backup, etc.

) February 24, 2009 -- Raxco Software, the leader in disk and virtualization defragmentation software, today announced the release of the PerfectDisk® 10 Virtual Enterprise Edition for virtual environments using VMware ESX Server and Microsoft's Hyper-V or other Windows®-based physical hosts.

1&1 upgrades all Virtual Private Servers with more RAM . Windows Server 2008 introduced into 1&1’s all green dedicated server range

Announces the departure of Xivio's CEO David Wisotzky to join the newly formed Virtual World developer Nu Ko Mi Inc. as their new CEO.

In response to the increasing demand for web and data hosting space by SMEs with restricted budgets, BlueSquare Data has launched the Virtual Server Platform via its PoundHost brand.

The Web3D Consortium will showcase innovative, open standards based multi-user 3D applications at the Engage virtual worlds show in San Jose, California September 23-24, 2009. The Consortium is also announcing a call for participation to assist in developing the "last mile" of it's full featured, open standards based multi-user platform specification focused on open chat and server technologies. Visit them in booth #3 and explore their multi-user applications and see how you can use X3D for your real-time 3D graphics needs. (PRWeb Sep 21, 2009)

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) June 16, 2009 -- VDIworks, a virtual desktop software provider with a long history in centralized computing, today announced the release of its new high-speed connection protocol for virtual desktops, VideoOverIP 1.0. This release drastically improves the user experience delivered in a hosted virtual desktop model, while also allowing customers full freedom to choose their preferred client and host hardware.

) September 17, 2008 -- Raxco Software, the leader in disk defragmentation software, confirmed today that PerfectDisk 2008's multiple scheduling options enhance virtualization performance and prevent bottlenecks that are common with "on-the-fly" disk defragmenters. This flexibility provided by PerfectDisk® helps ensure peak performance in virtual environments.

Raxco Software's PerfectDisk 2008

) May 20, 2009 -- Games have evolved from a two-dimensional realm with unrealistic characters to three-dimensional worlds that a player can immerse himself/herself into as a character in the story. Some of the most popular games have online play in which a player can interact with gamers from around the world. These Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games (MMORPG) charge a monthly fee for endless hours of play in a world that changes when they are away. The virtual world they play in is sustained by the game's publisher.

The technique is VPN account available at Pure VPN. VPN or Virtual Private Network as it is called is basically connecting to a secured remote server and exchanging data between just on physical.....

Tots to Teens: A Parent Guide to Virtual Worlds is a new, 'must have' directory of over 300 virtual worlds, online games plus kid-friendly portals to thousands more web-based destinations for kids from preschool to high-school and is now available free from OneClickMoms.com, singular sites for savvy moms...and dads. (PRWeb May 7, 2009)

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) July 1, 2009 -- WildTangent, the leading online game publisher and vertical ad network, today announced it has added one of the world's most popular and successful children's virtual worlds in history - Club Penguin - to its growing catalog of casual and core online and downloadable games.

The move provides direct access to Club Penguin for the tens of millions of consumers who own PCs or laptops from Dell, HP, Acer, Toshiba or Lenovo, which all come pre-loaded with the WildTangent ORB game service.

) January 7, 2009 -- Service focused UK VPS hosting brand, 34SP.com, has announced a new promotion for virtual server clients that aims to ease the first time transition from shared hosting or a dedicated server to VPS hosting. The company will offer the first month on any VPS hosting account for just 10 cents. This is also in addition to free setup on all VPS accounts.

Details on the special VPS offer can be viewed at: http://www.34sp.com/vps-hosting.

) August 11, 2009 -- Raxco Software, the pioneer in disk defragmentation for virtual environments, today announced that William Newton Hospital has replaced Diskeeper® with PerfectDisk® 10 Server Virtual Edition for its disk defragmentation needs. The hospital employs approximately 340 people in 5 locations, serves a community of 40,000 people and has revenues of over $40 million, which allows it to continually upgrade its infrastructure with the latest technology.

) May 20, 2009 -- The 2010 Olympic Games are less than a year away, so it's time to start cultivating peoples' national pride and "victory spirit". VINT (Virtual National Team, http://www.vintsport.com) is a new social networking site that allows users to do just that. Whether a person is an athlete, a sports fan, or a sports memorabilia collector, VINT allows him/her to connect with other like-minded individuals to share their passions.

Official Virtual Goods from Top Collegiate Institutions to Debut in Social Networks, Virtual Worlds, Mobile Apps (PRWeb Aug 11, 2009)

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) February 8, 2009 -- In an effort to maintain the affordability of Linux infrastructure solutions for entrepreneurs and small businesses, VPSLink has dropped the price of its virtual private server hosting plans by as much as twenty-five percent. Virtual private server (VPS) hosting is already an affordable alternative to the purchase or lease of dedicated server hardware. VPSLink targets the needs of growing organizations by offering scalable Linux server environments to support a broad range of business applications.

September 13, 2008 --
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