Telstra has revealed the addition of almost one million new mobile services in the six months to December 2011, but Sensis revenues plummeted 24 percent in 12 months.
Chip manufacturer AMD has become the latest high tech vendor to latch on to the fast growing phenomenon of setting of shop in the cyber fantasy world created by Linden Lab known as Second Life. AMD intends to use Second Life as virtual meeting place to better connect with developers and to help them network with each other.
For its debut on Second Life, AMD has opened the
AMD Dev Central Pavilion on AMD Dev Central Island located within the
Second Life metaverse, to extend its Developer Outreach program into a
virtual space for meetings, lectures, training courses and networking
opportunities for developers.
AMD Dev Central Island is located within the Second Life Developer
Archipelago, a series of interconnected virtual "islands" dedicated to
the Second Life developer community at large. The AMD Dev Central
Pavilion includes the AMD Auditorium, a formal place for tech
chat-style events and the AMD Display Hall, a virtual exhibition hall
featuring interactive booths, scripted banners, informal gathering
places and streaming videos.
“The Second Life metaverse is a gathering place for both new and
established developers,” said Paul Nolte, AMD project manager and contributing builder for the AMD Developer Central Second Life
Pavilion. “Through the interactive virtual experience at the pavilion,
we hope to provide developers with an outlet to learn and grow, such as helping
them to optimize native code for multi-threaded applications.”
As a lure for developers, AMD will host a three-month treasure hunt
contest with interactive Linden scripting language and open source
programming challenges. Developers who successfully complete the
challenges in the Pavilion will be entered into a prize drawing for a
highly configured Dell Dimension E521 system, including a dual-core AMD
Athlon 64 X2 processor, 4GB DDR2 SDRAM, 320GB Serial ATA Hard Drive,
and 20-inch widescreen digital flat panel monitor.
"The treasure hunt and future developer challenges provide a creative
outlet for developers to express their unique abilities," said AMD's
Nolte.
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