There, Office Tiger employs 675 young Indians providing a virtual back office to some 20 American and European firms: banks, auditors, consultants and lawyers.
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Amid such chaos, the Onion is a grizzled old prospector, having staked its virtual territory back in 1996.
Players who visit the farm will collect Megamind-branded virtual goods to take back to their own farms.
Hillary Clinton's determination to act as a virtual co-president back in 1993 helped to create a backlash against her husband's administration.
Essentially, when it detects an intruding piece of malware, the program follows the virtual trail left behind back to the attack's source -- disabling every machine it encounters along the way.
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Mr. McCaul says the bungled project called SBInet, which included the virtual fence plan, set back the cause of border security five years.
More than 5, 000 hectares of national park sit in virtual silence, trees arcing back and forth up and down the valleys, which stretch into mountain peaks.
LiveGamer, the back-end virtual currency company, has signed a partnership with online payments company Skrill Holdings Ltd. to provide an end-to-end monetization service for gaming companies.
Using a platform developed by e-commerce and payment processing First Data in use by Cold Stone and other food service companies, the eGift takes the concept of the virtual gift and brings it back to reality.
For American war films that stir the imagination and make you think, rather than ones that offer you a kind of virtual-reality combat, go back to Stanley Kubrick or Robert Aldrich.
Shortly thereafter, he took a post as a scholar-at-large for Microsoft Research, where he has gone back to developing tools for virtual reality.
She hopes when Elmo throws a ball to a child and the child catches the virtual "ball" and throws it back, it will open up brand new experiences for those kids.
He now lives as a virtual recluse, gambling online to try to win back some of his losses.
If you haven't heard by now, the malware exploits a flaw in the Java Virtual Machine, which Oracle pushed a fix for back in February, but Apple didn't patch until a botnet consisting of as many as 650, 000 Macs was identified on March 4th.
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But for now, if a company hands its information technology infrastructure to a vendor like Amazon, it's largely locked in Amazon's proprietary cloud, with no easy way to move its virtual IT infrastructure to another company's service or back into its data center.
Which leads us back to those three Goliath-slaying words: virtual fleet sales.
An upstart organization calling itself the International Association of Virtual Reality Technologies (IAVRT) looks to be out to bring back the VR glory days, recently announcing that it's planning nothing short of an entirely new network that'll be all VR all the time, existing alongside the plain-old, apparently not-suitable-for-VR Internet.
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Back on April 1, Congress held its first hearing on virtual worlds, and no, it wasn't an April Fools prank.
And physical objects need physical benefits: Paul Trowe, whose Leisure Suit Larry revival was successfully Kickstarted, is only one of many kickstartees who have told me how they tried to make as many gifts virtual as possible, to limit the ratio of funds that went straight back into the process of rewarding users.
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The reply that came back was an bigger surprise than his losing streak: they were virtual headhunters hired by his very own father.
The stop was caused by a virtual freeze of capital inflows and lending as Brazilian banks were much more reliant back then on low rate international interbank lending, Volpon says.
He suggests an idea of "virtual towing" where an idle car could pick up on another vehicle and follow it back to a stack, using inter-car tracking software.
Michael Barone showed us a while back that without the youth vote, the 2008 presidential election would have been a virtual tie.
The idea: draw kids under age 12 with a code attached to the back of each card that lets users download players and their stats into their own virtual album online.
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