The results of the new study focusing on virtual goods consumption and engagement by age found younger gamers (25-35) spend the most time playing social games, but gamers over 45 buy exponentially more virtual goods than their younger counterparts.

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Recently, I discovered a most disheartening chart: It shows a virtual crash in public consumption of fruits and vegetables.

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Then, with the advent of the newest trends in e-commerce such as flash sales websites, personal subscriptions, and collaborative consumption, virtual shopping became just as overwhelming and complicated as real life shopping.

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Branded badges as virtual symbols of conspicuous consumption can be a strong check-in incentive in the short term among the early adopters, but they will probably have about the same shelf life and the breadth of appeal as a corporate island in Second Life.

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Implenia's engineers could use that virtual world mock-up to remotely track the data center's power consumption and efficiency in ways that would have otherwise been tough without visiting the location.

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Fourth, virtual resources must be linked to the power they consume in order to understand power consumption by applications and how to optimize portable workloads.

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In order to participate as a virtual power plant, you have to have a clear understanding of your data center power consumption, your forecast, and your flexibility for reducing (and increasing) power consumption with different application load.

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Or "Virtual Water, " a wall chart which transforms arcane UNESCO data about water usage into a simple explainer about water consumption.

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