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Increased role Second Life is playing for governments worldwide

It’s really interesting to see the increased role Second Life is playing for governments worldwide, and here is another story that involves US Representative Edward Markey who was not able to attend the Bali United Nations climate change summit.

So he had a Second Life avatar modeled after him, Mashable reported Edward Markey told the audience “I have teleported here over the Internet” Read more

Vodafone InsideOut: actual phones interact with Second Life characters

Things are getting a bit more exiting for Vodafone customers as they will have access to a new service which is called InsideOut, this will allow for interaction of characters from the virtual world Second Life and will use Read more

Jihadist terrorist groups using Second Life as training camp

It does not matter if terrorists have been run out of Afghanistan, as it now seems as if Jihadist terrorist groups are using the virtual reality environment of Second Life as one massive Jihadist terrorist training camp. In Second Life, there are Read more

Second Life has Officially Banned Gambling

Second Life now has a new policy where they have Officially Banned Gambling, it is now a violation for people to wager in games. Second Life have Read more

HiPiHi faces hard times with China’s censorship: Great news for Second Life

HiPiHi, which is the new virtual world to come out of China, looks set to have some hard time ahead. The problem is China has so many censorship laws that anything that is Read more

Second Life Companies Leaving for First Life

It seems people do love Second Life and as we reported to you before, there are many users who play in bands, dance and many other things that they cannot do in the real world.

Now the problem for Second Life seems to be how much it costs companies to be there and set up business compared to how much money they are making out of it Read more

Virtual Worlds Taxed from Today by South Korea: oh second life

We have spoken before on the debate (is second life a game or more than that), I am convinced that it is much more than a game and in that virtual world people are able to live and do things they never can in the real world.

Countries are starting to get involved when it comes to loss of income for the government that will always want their money and tax.

The Korean National Tax Service will be taxing virtual worlds from today Read more

How did you celebrate Second Life’s fourth birthday

June 23rd was the fourth birthday of the ever popular Second Life, but how did you celebrate it. It would have been hard to have much of a good time as organisers of the big event issued some rules which in my opinion were Read more

Trademark Infringement on Second Life: Right or Wrong

Following on from the is second life a game post the other day, I had a totally different outlook to second life after reading some of the comments left by users of the virtual world (and no it does not seem to be a game).

I have since seen that people trade everyday and earn money from second life as well as Read more

Amazing Story Second Life: People with Disabilities live better than real life

We had a comment over on the article asking is Second Life a Game?, this comment was so good we have featured it as today’s best comment and one that touched us here at products-reviews.net Read more

Is Second Life a Game?

It’s a simple question which is sure to have mixed views, as I was just talking to a member of my family about Second Life and how big it has become.

Yes Second Life is and has taken over the online world and as he was talking about how amazing it is we had a little debate about Second Life being a game Read more