Word: cyberworld
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...cyberworld that scored the biggest gains this past holiday weekend. Online sales rose 35% on Black Friday and 14% on Cyber Monday from the same periods last year, according to Coremetrics, a Web-marketing firm. The average dollar amount per online order shot up 35% on Black Friday and 38% on Cyber Monday from a year earlier, the firm said...
...Toymaker, the brainy bad guy bent on ruling the cyberworld. He holds conferences with three advisers--a steely general, a bald scientist and a blissed-out hippie--all played by the one actor. Sylvester Stallone is simply the guest villain of Robert Rodriguez's 3-D video game, but when the veteran star is onscreen, this Spy Kids plays like Sly Kids...
Last year Internet gaming company NCsoft found it had an embarrassing problem. The Seoul firm is the creator of Lineage, a medieval cyberworld in which players do battle with swords and shields, and use magical rings to change their identities. Players can swap weapons or buy and sell them using virtual assets. So popular is Lineage--and so competitive are its fans--that some players began buying and selling weapons with real money instead of virtual money. Identity rings were going for as much as $300 each. NCsoft didn't like that practice and barred two offenders from using...
...site once a day, sometimes more, says Koh Suk, head of an association of the bereaved, who lost twin girls in the blaze. When the memorial opened last year, Koh still hadn't accepted that his daughters were dead. "Now I believe they are alive and growing in this cyberworld. It has become a source of consolation...
...that feeling stems from concerns that the thing that got us here--the vaunted New Economy--was looking like a big Sony Betamax that had promised a revolution it could not deliver. The New Economy is supposed to be frictionless, tied as it is to the ultra-productive cyberworld of computers, broadband networks and the Internet, and cosseted by low inflation and low interest rates. But nobody told that to OPEC. Or to Arafat. And if the New Economy is rewinding, what will become of the economic expansion that had already started grinding down after an unprecedented 10-year...