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ROME (Reuters) - Italy became the first European country to adopt a Microsoft system for combating child pornography on the Internet, something the government and the computer firm believe the whole continent is set to take up.

LONDON (Reuters) - Users of online worlds such as Second Life and World of Warcraft transact millions of dollars worth of virtual goods and services every day, and these virtual economies are beginning to draw the attention of real-world authorities.

LONDON (Reuters) - Philip Rosedale and his team at Linden Lab have almost godlike powers in Second Life, the virtual world they created, powers that Alan Greenspan could only have dreamed of when he chaired the U.S. central bank.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - High-tech crooks are hijacking online brokerage accounts using spyware and operating from remote locations, sometimes in Eastern Europe, U.S. market regulators said on Friday.