E-Commerce TimesE-Commerce Times: the E-Business and Technology Super SiteVirtual Worlds: And the Children Shall Lead- July 1, 2008 Virtual worlds, despite all the press attention of late, are still in the early stages of development. Virtual worlds came into existence several years before YouTube, MySpace and Facebook, but their adoption rates pale in comparison to these services. Only 7 percent of Internet gamers ages 13 and older visit a virtual world on a weekly basis, according to a recent Parks Associates survey.http://www.ecommercetimes.com/rsstory/63616.html Russia's Holding for the iPhone- July 1, 2008 Will VimpelCom be the first wireless operator to sell the iPhone in Russia If Chief Executive Alexander Izosimov has his way, it will. "Nobody's struck a deal with Apple yet, but we would love to," he says. Izosimov says no negotiations are taking place, and he has no idea whether his company will win the rights to sell Apple's coveted device.http://www.ecommercetimes.com/rsstory/63564.html Google Media Server: A Giant Toe in the Door- July 1, 2008 It already dominates the Internet -- why not the TV Probably Google wasn't thinking exactly in those terms when it conceived the idea for Google Media Server, its latest addition to a ballooning product line. But planting a foothold in a medium in which it so far only dabbles is clearly the driver behind this release.http://www.ecommercetimes.com/rsstory/63636.html |