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Anshe Chung is an avatar (online personality) of Ailin Graef in the online game Second Life.Referred to as the "Rockefeller of Second Life" by CNN, [1] Graef has built an online business that engages in development, brokerage, and arbitrage of virtual land, items, and currencies.
This month, the ministry said Apple's investment of 1.5 trillion rupiah, or about $95 million, was short of its 1.7 trillion rupiah commitment, the Financial Times reported. Apple has built four ...
The game opened on 5 March 2007 and first appeared in the virtual world of Second Life. [1] Transactions occurred outside of Second Life on the WSE website. [ 2 ] The game initially used the Linden Dollar currency from Second Life and in July 2007 integrated a new virtual currency called the World Internet Currency (WIC, WICS, W$).
Linden Lab reported that the Second Life economy generated US$3,596,674 in economic activity during the month of September 2005, [2] and in September 2006 Second Life was reported to have a GDP of US$64,000,000. [3] In 2009, the total size of the Second Life economy grew 65% to US$567 million, about 25% of the entire U.S. virtual goods market ...
Second Life also has its own virtual currency, the Linden Dollar (L$), which is exchangeable with real world currency. [14] [15] Second Life is intended for people ages 16 and over, with the exception of 13–15-year-old users, who are restricted to the Second Life region of a sponsoring institution (e.g., a school). [16] [17]
Two decades of evolution of mobile phones, from a 1992 Motorola DynaTAC 8000X to the 2014 iPhone 6 Plus. A mobile phone, or cell phone, [a] is a portable telephone that allows users to make and receive calls over a radio frequency link while moving within a designated telephone service area, unlike fixed-location phones (landline phones).
Worldwide shipments of smartphones topped 1 billion units in 2013, up 38% from 2012's 725 million, while comprising a 55% share of the mobile phone market in 2013, up from 42% in 2012. In 2013, smartphone sales began to decline for the first time. [284] [285] In Q1 2016 for the first time the shipments dropped by 3 percent year on year.
The final mintages of these coins were: 136 million (1 rupiah), 139 million (2 rupiah), 448 million (5 rupiah), 286 million (10 rupiah), 1.22 billion (25 rupiah) and 1 billion (50 rupiah). The 10 rupiah coin was issued as part of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization coins and medals program, [2] an international issue by ultimately 114 ...