That's right, Big Blue, the 900lbs gorilla of the enterprise services and software world, is going to open up a business group in the Second Life virtual world. According to IBM's Irving Wladawsky-Berger, virtual reality and "virtual interface work" are the next items IBM is aiming to tackle as it continues to expand the business in new and interesting ways. Second Life is an online community that has sparked a very real service market, with users forming businesses in game to provide g...
With less than two weeks left to Christmas, I'm sure some of you are wracking your brains for ideas on what to get for the other gamers in your life. Well, we here in the GalCiv2.com Research Department have been diligently looking for ways to make your gift shopping easier. After careful consideration and exhaustive research into the field of Great Gameplayology (it's a field, trust us, we're experts!) we feel that Galactic Civilizations II: Dread Lords is one of the best gifts you ...
According to my handy little Christmas Countdown Gadget by RomanDA, it is right now 12 days and 7 hours until Christmas. I don't know about everyone else, but I'm still working on finishing up my Christmas shopping and there are a few people I'm smashing my head against the wall trying to conjure up gift ideas for. If only they were geeks, I'd have such an easier time!Well, I'm going to assume some of you out there have friends or family that are of the geeky persuasion, so I'm go...
According to my handy little Christmas Countdown Gadget by RomanDA, it is right now 12 days and 7 hours until Christmas. I don't know about everyone else, but I'm still working on finishing up my Christmas shopping and there are a few people I'm smashing my head against the wall trying to conjure up gift ideas for. If only they were geeks, I'd have such an easier time! Well, I'm going to assume some of you out there have friends or family that are of the geeky persuasion, ...
The holiday award season marches on! This time it's our friends at 1Up.com that are asking for the votes of you, the gamer, to determine their top ranked games of 2006. Again, Galactic Civilizations II is in the running for : Best Strategy Game Game of the Year! The difference between 1Up and GameSpy is that the 1Up awards aren't broken down by platform, so when you're voting in the Best Strategy Game category, you're picking from the best strategy games released across ALL p...
So there you are, sitting at your computer typing away, checking email, doing your usual "thing" when you notice that your desktop is lacking something. It's hard to put your finger on exactly what it is that is missing. Maybe you need to change the icons around? Maybe your WindowBlinds skin is wearing thin. Perhaps those gadgets just aren't as compelling or useful as they once were. Suddenly, it hits you in the head like a brick dropped off the roof of a 10 ...
Lately we've seen a lot of great articles written here on WinCustomize that warrant a little bit of extra attention. Some of you don't browse the articles section very often, so here are a few specific ones you might be interested in taking a look at. WinCustomize Subscriber Benefits - Photo Albums By Island Dog A look at one of the subscriber-only features here on WC, personal photo galleries. Island Dog takes you through the feature step-by-step. Complete wit...
Yes, the old poll has been up for weeks and weeks now. I think by this point we've established what browsers everyone are running and we can move on to new and more exciting topics. Here are the numbers on the "Browser" poll... In the past 6 weeks that the poll has been running, 577 of you voted. Internet Explorer 7 168 29.12% Internet Explorer 6 52 9.01% Firefox 2.0 259 44.89% Firefox 1.5 or earlier 48 8.32% Opera 49 8.49% NCSA Mosaic 0 ...
As the holiday season rolls around, charities start to kick into high gear, asking for donations to all sorts of causes you might like to support. You see Salvation Army Santas on practically every street corner jingling their bells, your office might even do something like a United Way collection this time of year. For me, one of the problems with most charities is you never know where your donation actually goes, you're not sure who you're helping or how, it's just a black box of m...
For some here, technologies such as Instant Messaging are a relatively recent novelty, the latest addition to a string of new technologies that have been steadily marching across our desks for over 20 years. For others, the idea of a world without IM, without the World Wide Web, without cell phones is unimaginable. A major digital divide is forming between current teens and their parents, with current teenagers not knowing a world before the Internet, before word processing and insta...
Two years ago today, Digg left beta status and was unleashed upon the world! Today Digg is at the forefront of the social networking frenzy, focusing on peer-evaluated news content, with the theory that given enough eyes, the best and most interesting stories will filter to the top of the pile, resulting in better coverage of events that actually matter, and not just what individual media outlets want you to see. Whether or not they've reached that goal yet is up for debate, but Digg...
The CTO of Sun Microsystems, Greg Papadopoulos thinks that the world only really needs five computers. Yes, that's right just five, so forget that PC or laptop sitting on your desk right now, Sun thinks you don't really need it... or at least you won't in the future. Sun Microsystems, whose flagship product is the Solaris UNIX Operating System has long been an advocate for the shift back to the master server/terminal paradigm of computing, harkening back to the days of dumb terminals in...
As 2006 winds down, the gaming press begins to look back on the year that was, and tries to determine which games stood out as the best of their class. GameSpy is one of the first of the major media sites to put up their annual Gamers' Choice polls, where any gamer can go and vote for their favorite games of the year across 16 categories (7 of which are reserved for PC Genres). Our game, Galactic Civilizations II: Dread Lords has been nominated in two events: PC Strategy (Non-...
Deck the halls, jingle some bells, roast some chestnuts and build yourself a snowman, it's Christmas Time! As the snow falls outside your window, the fire roars behind you, you start stressing out over going to the mall to shop for all of your 2nd and 3rd cousins twice removed, and you're tempted to heavily spike that glass of eggnog you're currently sipping on, take a break and grab the new Christmas Time theme from Stardock. This is a stand-alone suite that anyone can download a...
Lets say you're a company working on developing, or are trying to sell some whiz-bang AJAX powered Web 2.0 mail client and you want to advertise, get the word out, grow your userbase. What's the best way to do that at the moment? Why, Google AdWords of course! They've taken over the world of web ads, supplanting a great number of the more annoying flashing image sorts. The best part is they're usually relevant to whatever site you're reading at the time! You do what...