The service must also recognize gestures to enable a person to page through virtual slides with a hand swipe.
On still other occasions there was so much virtual junk on a page it would take even longer than usual to download.
MySpace, by contrast, allowed so much customization that users could really make their home page into the virtual equivalent of their home.
Also, in contrast to the tiny clips on the Scribe receiver, the large clipboard-style clip on the ZPen is capable of gripping onto whole pads of paper and affixing it to a new piece of sheet starts a new page in the virtual pad, another thoughtful touch.
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The China division of auditing and consulting company Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Ltd. last September offered a "virtual office tour" on its career page on Sina Corp.
On the other hand, when he calls on the netroots to support him against those pesky senators, he might learn that many of his virtual supporters have already clicked onto another page.
One such technology is Third Voice, a browser add-on that lets anyone stick virtual Post-it Notes on any Web page, for the whole world to see.
Social games like FarmVille may have some players paying nickels and dimes for virtual goods, but they could take a page from Second Life entrepreneur Jonty Glaser.
An Augmented Reality piece on the NIVEA website and facebook page will bring users a private performance from Rihanna on a virtual NIVEA Creme tin stage.
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It has visual grace notes like a proprietary page-turning animation and a neat little trick in which a virtual catalog card whirls and tumbles its way down into the download queue.
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The U.S. Treasury Department's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, known as FinCen, last month issued a three-page memo that effectively lays the groundwork to regulate firms that issue or exchange virtual currencies.
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