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China To Begin Taxing Profits From Virtual Currencies

The Wall Street Journal reports that the Chinese government will collect a 20% personal income tax on any profits obtained through the redistribution of virtual currency. The legislation is intended to curtail speculation in virtual markets, which can be quite profitable. Quoting: "The announcement, which was distributed to local tax bureaus, specifically takes aim at those who buy virtual currency from gamers and surfers and sell it to others at a mark-up. Taxation officials are granted the right to determine the original price of online virtual currency if the individual fails to provide proof of an original price, it says. The policy would cover China's legions of online gamers, who can use online virtual currency to buy better equipment and new powers for their online warriors.

The Second Coming of Virtual Worlds

An anonymous reader writes "Things have been a bit quiet on the virtual world front recently, but according to an article in Silicon.com, things are about to change. Apparently it's only now that virtual worlds are really going to become a force to be reckoned with. 'Now experts predict the virtual world phenomenon is entering a second phase in which businesses will become shrewder about their involvement in such environments and look more carefully at the tangible benefits they can realize. Emerging technology specialist at IBM, Robert Smart, is confident virtual worlds will become more important to businesses in the coming years.'"

McAfee debuts protection for offline virtual environments

Offline virtual images, those kept as backups for disaster recovery or as gold images for new virtual machines, are an oft-forgotten security hole in virtual environments. Vendors and developers are quick to note the ease and speed which these images can be brought up into production or test environments. But images are often brought up without being scanned for tampering, or to determine whether antimalware signatures are up to date or their configuration is still in line with policy.

Qasara Demonstrates Virtual LTE Mobile at LTE World Summit

Qasara has announced the availability of a virtual LTE mobile platform. Qasara’s product, developed in collaboration with Rohde & Schwarz, incorporates a fully instrumented LTE protocol stack, emulating an LTE mobile device. Qasara’s Virtual LTE Mobile is fully interoperable with the Rohde & Schwarz's 3GPP LTE Virtual Tester, providing a coherent platform for infrastructure and terminal software development.

Startup firewalls inter-virtual machine traffic on VMware ESX

Redwood City, Calif.-based startup Altor Networks has announced what it describes as the first "purpose built" virtual firewall, Altor VF, for securing network traffic between virtual machines (VMs) on a VMware ESX host. With its new offering, Altor Networks strives to address some of the persistent security concerns for VMs, and particularly for migrated virtual machines that become vulnerable to security breaches when they are moved to a new virtualization host.

AEP SSL VPN goes virtual

AEP Networks has introduced the latest version of its SSL VPN product family, AEP Netilla SSL VPN Virtual Edition (VE). The pre-packaged software-only virtual appliance streamlines secure remote application access installations on virtual server offerings such as VMware ESX. Netilla VE enables enterprise customers and services providers to quickly spin-up new remote access projects on demand within an existing virtualized server infrastructure without requiring new appliance hardware. The new Netilla VE product also allows IT security managers to take advantage of streamlined hardware maintenance processes, lower data-center power consumption and improved business continuity benefits inherent in server virtualization deployments. Netilla VE is made further cost effective for service providers and enterprise deployments as a result of a bl

Sony, Microsoft Begin Battle of Virtual Worlds

Slatterz writes "Sony and Microsoft are poised to do battle in virtual worlds. The console kids both announced Second Life-style virtual environments at the Tokyo Game Show today. Both games show striking similarities to Linden Lab's creation. Players are represented by avatars which live a virtual life — engaging in relationships, going about day-to-day business."

DeviceAnywhere a Top Nine Innovator in the GSMA's Virtual Online Tournament - Part of the 2009 Mobile Innovation Global Award Competition

SAN MATEO, Calif. (Business Wire) -- DeviceAnywhere(TM) (www.deviceanywhere.com), a leader in end-to-end mobile application development solutions, was recently recognized by the GSMA , the global trade group for the mobile industry, as one of the top nine innovators in the organization's Virtual Online Tournament, which is part of the 2009 Mobile Innovation Global Competition virtual tournament. The company was a finalist in the "Most Innovative Consumer Application or Service" category for its DeviceAnywhere Consumer product, a ground-breaking service that enables more efficient customer service and education through interaction with virtual mobile devices.

Virtual Training for Disaster Response

Virtual worlds might be the perfect place to conduct disaster training, with their ability to simulate the physical world minus the dangers. A UK company has created a virtual sandbox similar to Second Life in which companies and government agencies can simulate disastrous situations to test people's responses.

Virtual World Vivaty: We're Not Like Google Lively, We Have Freddie Mercury!

freddie_mercury.jpgEnglish rock band Queen may have largely ceased to be following the death of lead singer Freddie Mercury in 1991, but Freddie's spirit lives on -- in browser-based virtual world Vivaty. As part of a marketing deal with Universal Music Group, Vivaty is celebrating the launch of its new "Vivaty Everywhere" product with a Queen-themed virtual world where avatars can hang out.

"Virtual platform" targets Linux device developers

CoWare and MontaVista Software are shipping a joint "virtual platform" development product for Linux device developers. The product is based on CoWare's electronic system-level (ESL) virtual platform technology, runs MontaVista Linux, and offers the Eclipse-based DevRocket integrated development environment (IDE), according to the companies.

A Virtual Path Into a Once-Forbidden City

A team from IBM has spent the past several years constructing a virtual-world version of China's Forbidden City. The group used photos, video and satellite images of the former imperial palace to render it in 3-D. It's now open to virtual visitors.

realXtend Open Source Virtual Reality Platform Accelerates With Growing Ecosystem

Global Standardization of 3D-Web of Virtual Worlds Made Possible With Cutting Edge, Virtual World Technologies Available to Everyone, Free of Charge

MXP4Caf is the New Virtual Meeting Place for Interactive Digital Musicians

MXP4Café is the New Virtual Meeting Place for Interactive Digital Musicians - MXP4Café mxp4 will act as a virtual meeting place where forward thinking artists can drop and share interactive MXP4 music files with fellow musicians. Musinaut hopes the site will provide the perfect space to encourage song writers, producers, djs, band members and composers of any genre to develop their musical creativity; becoming part of the an new generation of interactive digital music artists, using the MXP4 digital audio file platform.  MXP4 Technology was launched in September 2008 and is the digital audio format that transforms an artist’s recorded music into an interactive, multi-sensory experience that can be creatively varied and individually adapted for greater personal listener enjoyment.

Altor releases virtual firewall.

Altor Networks is announcing the availability of its firewall designed for virtual environments that overcomes some shortcomings of traditional firewalls that have been adapted to run on virtual machines.

Inside VMware's 'Virtual Datacenter OS'

snydeq writes "Neil McAllister cuts through VMware's marketing hype to examine the potential impact of VMware's newly pronounced 'virtual datacenter OS' — which the company has touted as the death knell for the traditional OS. Literally an operating system for the virtual datacenter, VDC OS is an umbrella concept to build services and APIs that make it easier to provision and allocate resources for apps in an abstract way. Under the system, McAllister writes, apps are reduced to 'application workloads' tailored through vApp, a tool that will allow developers to 'encapsulate the entire app infrastructure in a single bundle — servers and all.' The concept could help solve the current bugbear of programming, parallel processing, McAllister concludes, assuming VMware succeeds.

Researchers use open source virtual world for language teaching

An international team of researchers is using a wireless open source virtual world to help promote language learning and let students practice. Dubbed ‘Realtown’, the newly developed wireless environment incorporates a virtual supermarket, schools, pharmacy, and bank, as well as background sounds that may be enabled to increase the environment’s realism.

Deliver Linux High Availability With a Xen Virtual Server

"These steps help you implement Xen virtual server high availability using the IBM System Director Virtual Availability Manager. These steps are based on IBM Blade Server HS21 and IBM Storage DS4300.

Online gamer arrested for 'virtual murder' in Japan

She isn't accused of homicide, exactly, but a woman in Japan could spend five years in jail on charges related to "murdering" her virtual husband in revenge for a virtual divorce.

Ulteo unveils the first Open Source virtual desktop, providing businesses with quicker, cheaper deployment and easier applications management

Following its commitment to desktop virtualization solutions, Ulteo, an Open Virtual Desktop Infrastructure company, announced today that they were releasing the first installable version of their Open Virtual Desktop solution for enterprises. Delivering faster deployment times and ease of management for the IT department, this first release can be integrated easily into an existing professional Linux or Windows IT environment. The solution can be up and running in a few minutes, delivering rich desktop applications to corporate users.

Ulteo unveils the first Open Source virtual desktop, providing businesses with quicker, cheaper deployment and easier applications management

Following its commitment to desktop virtualization solutions, Ulteo, an Open Virtual Desktop Infrastructure company, announced today that they were releasing the first installable version of their Open Virtual Desktop solution for enterprises. Delivering faster deployment times and ease of management for the IT department, this first release can be integrated easily into an existing professional Linux or Windows IT environment. The solution can be up and running in a few minutes, delivering rich desktop applications to corporate users.

AMD and Red Hat Demonstrate Live Migration of Virtual Machines

AMD, in collaboration with Red Hat, have demonstrated the “live migration� of a virtual machine across vendor platforms. Live migration enables the movement of running virtual machines from one physical server to another without disrupting service to the end user, something that, t...

AMD and Red Hat Demonstrate Live Migration of Virtual Machines

AMD, in collaboration with Red Hat, have demonstrated the "live migration" of a virtual machine across vendor platforms. Live migration enables the movement of running virtual machines from one physical server to another without disrupting service to the end user, something that, till now, has only been demonstrated across systems based on one vendor's platforms. The live migration demonstration moves a live VM from an dual socket Intel Xeon DP Quad Core E5420-based system to a system based on the forthcoming 45nm Quad-Core AMD Opteron processor, utilizing Red Hat's high-performance open source virtualization software.

AMD and Red Hat Demonstrate Live Migration of Virtual Machines

AMD, in collaboration with Red Hat, have demonstrated the "live migration" of a virtual machine across vendor platforms. Live migration enables the movement of running virtual machines from one physical server to another without disrupting service to the end user, something that, till now, has only been demonstrated across systems based on one vendor's platforms. The live migration demonstration moves a live VM from an dual socket Intel Xeon DP Quad Core E5420-based system to a system based on the forthcoming 45nm Quad-Core AMD Opteron processor, utilizing Red Hat's high-performance open source virtualization software.

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