But others, currently authorized through a local district but serving hundreds of students who come from other districts, use the establishment of a virtual charter school as a source of cash.
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Following a federal investigation, Second Life's parent company, Linden Lab, banned all gambling in the virtual world--a major source of its business.
The software leviathan stunned a rookery of Linux users yesterday at a conference and expo in Boston with the revelation that it will now provide technical support for the open-source software running on Virtual Server, and would make Virtual Server 2005 R2 available free.
In the recently published book The Facebook Effect, Facebook chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg makes some interesting comments about the importance of virtual goods as a new and growing source of income.
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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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We could go on and on about the new software, but it's available for download at the source link below, so run along and throw your own virtual cupcake party!
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Now using the open source code, enterprising hackers have jerry-rigged everything from virtual piano keyboards that let users play the piano anywhere, to an application for 3D drawings and digital puppeteering.
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Applications are also a growing source of revenue beyond advertising for Facebook itself, which sells its own virtual currency that can be used to pay for games.
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These tools must be designed to provide increased visibility to virtual and cloud environment, which will allow IT personnel to more effectively identify the source of issues that arise.
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Virtual goods may be all the rage in social games these days, but an overlooked source of real money for these game developers could be from sales of, well, real goods.
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The tightening of America's trade rules has resulted in a virtual standstill in mining in the volatile eastern part of the country, until recently the source of rare metals used by American manufacturers.
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Were this to be happening to a Washington Post or New York Times reporter, does anyone believe that there would be a virtual blackout on a story where the reporter is threatened with jail time for protecting a source?
The sound experience is further enhanced by Philips' Virtual Surround Sound technology and advanced spatial algorithms that produce a rich and immersive audio experience from one source.
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The Platform was developed with a Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) framework by the University of Witwatersrand, South Africa within the Africa Virtual Open Initiatives and Resources (AVOIR) Consortium comprising of 11 African universities.
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