Linden Lab News

Some companies like IBM have an uncanny attraction to Linden Lab's virtual world, Second Life .

Linden Lab on Wednesday announced it is adding a new dimension to Second Life online world to give businesses private places for virtual meetings.

Here's an interesting development in the metaverse - Linden Lab, creators of Second Life, have announced the formal launch of their "Second Life Enterprise" platform , which is essentially a fragmented piece of the virtual world that runs on corporate servers behind the firewall .

Linden Lab is betting that its " Second Life " virtual world software can do for corporations what it has done for a small community of enthusiasts, cosplayers, and academics: provide a virtual meeting and exploration space.

Two avatars, Leto Yoshiro and Enchant Jacques, met in the virtual world of Second Life in 2005.

Metanomics host Robert Bloomfield welcomed Dr. Leslie Jarmon, Faculty Development Specialist and Senior Lecturer at the University of Texas at Austin, to his show on Wednesday, October 21, 2009, in a multimedia broadcast focusing on the recent University of Texas decision to purchase a virtual archipelago including some 50 regions, with an island ...

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Pirates are pillaging the virtual sex toy business. Kevin Alderman is prepared to do battle.

While the recession has been brutal on most technology companies, one venture that has done relatively well is Linden Lab, the parent company of Second Life .

Second Life and Linden Lab are registered trademarks of Linden Research, Inc. No infringement is intended.

Chalk up another victory for trademark bullying. Linden Lab, the creator of Second Life, apparently just got around to registering certain Second Life trademarks, but wasted no time using them to shove around at least one site that was only helping to get more people to use Second Life.

OK, guys. We get it. Second Life is not a fad. But a rival to social networking sites? We're having a little trouble with that one.

Linden Lab , creator of the virtual world Second Life , today announced that Second Life Residents have transacted the equivalent of more than 1 billion US dollars with each other while spending more than 1 billion hours in Second Life -- significant milestones for the virtual worlds industry.

The Transforming Undergraduate Education Program at the University of Texas System awarded a grant to fund the initiative, driven by a mandate common to many higher education institutions: Reducing or eliminating expensive brick-and-mortar costs while becoming energy efficient.

Raising the stakes on a two-year-old intellectual property controversy in Second Life, a popular seller of online adult novelties filed a federal copyright- and trademark-infringement lawsuit against Linden Lab this week.

Having virtual sex in Second Life isn't what it used to be. The 6-year-old virtual world, run by Linden Lab of San Francisco, is apparently so littered with bootlegged sex toys that it's hard to know whether you're getting the right bang for your buck.

Kevin Alderman alleges that Linden facilitates and profits from in-game pirates copying his IP-protected line of adult-themed virtual goods.

Linden Research was sued on Tuesday for allegedly hosting a virtual Canal Street on Second Life.

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