UN Secretary-General Calls For Cyberspace Child Protection

In a press release on May 15th, the UN Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon called for better protection of children in cyberspace.
“As they surf through cyberspace seeking information and entertainment and building social networks, they are also among the most vulnerable to exploitation. Without safeguards, their precious lives are at grave risk in the vicious world of [...]

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Secretary Clinton and the Virtual Student Foreign Services Initiative

Virtual Student Foreign Service (VSFS) Internships, announced by Secretary Clinton at the 2009 New York University commencement speech, are part of a growing effort by the State Department to harness technology and a commitment to global service among young people to facilitate new forms of diplomatic engagement. The VSFS Internships will be developed over the [...]

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WWF Use Augmented Reality To Highlight Wildlife’s Fate

The WWF – that’s World Wildlife Federation and not the World Wrestling Federation – has opened up a new campaign aimed at getting China’s young people to be more aware of the fate of wild animals.
“We developed the world’s first mobile application where a virtual bear interacts with real environment, in real time. Through your [...]

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“Baby Shaker” App Shakes Nerves

“On a plane, on the bus, in a theater. Babies are everywhere you don’t want them to be! They’re always distracting you from preparing for that big presentation at work with their incessant crying. Before Baby Shaker there was nothing you could do about it,”
So went the tag line for Sikalsoft’s Baby Shaker application, a [...]

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Suing For Fun and Profit: Worlds.com’s Answer to Recession

Suppose you have a business that is sucking. Then suppose a recession comes along and makes it suck more. What do you do? Well, one solution to sue as many people as you can based on some vague patent from ten years ago.
Welcome to Worlds.com’s new strategy!
Anyone with access to the Internet (and that includes [...]

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Sony Introduces Virtual World Home Censors

Banning words in a virtual world is so gay. Why, I wouldn’t even allowed to talk to my virtual friends about my lesbian daughter unless I referred to her as “my man-hating daughter” or “women-preferring little treasure.” As for mentioning that you can have a gay old time at a virtual dance, that would be [...]

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