It might be old news to some, but apparently a growing number of Americans would rather play casual video games like Solitaire and Bejeweled instead of watching television or going to movie theaters, according to a new study commissioned by Real Networks…

The Wall Street Journal is now reporting that a purportedly homemade video which portrays Al Gore as the Penguin (the Batman villain) that brainwashes actual penguins and blames everything from the current problems in the Middle East to Lindsey Lohan’s…

Business 2.0 Magazine is featuring a rather interesting article on why Americans aren’t picking up text messaging. All in all, the article, written by Paul Kedrosky, the executive director of UCSD’s Center for Entrepreneurism and Technology Advancement, gives a pretty simple…

Through a bit of surreptitious snooping, Chip Poutine of the fabulous 3pointD blog discovered recently that TELUS, the second largest Canadian telecommunications company, will be making its debut in the virtual world of Second Life on…

Virgin Atlantic Airways is going to start offering an in-flight, text message answering service on its flights. You won’t be able to text all your friends, but you will get to ask the answering service any question you want:

A new art exhibition in Australia features sculpture flowers that react to text messages. Created by Matthew Gardiner, the man behind Oribotics, a melding of origami and robotics, the faux flowers respond to text messages from around the world, opening, closing and growing just as any real…

UPDATE: Sergio Callisto made a nice comment that publications like the Metaverse Messenger, a Second Life newspaper, have been selling advertising placement for quite some time. Cost per column inch are L$50 for Second Life businesses and $7 U.S. for real world businesses…

Steve Rubel points to a fascinating little test on the part of Starwood Hotels, who will be debuting their new brand, “Aloft,” in the virtual world of Second Life before it makes an appearance in the real world.

This is old news and the event’s all over and done, but I thought I’d post a link to some of the neat stuff that’s going on in Second Life. Musician Suzanne Vega, singer of “Tom’s Diner,” performed a live concert in Second Life as part of public radio program The Infinite Mind’s…