Five 3D virtual environments for the enterprise

Five 3D virtual environments for the enterprise

Several companies are offering business-friendly virtual meeting platforms that work right in a Web browser, no software download required, with prices starting at around...

Putting IPads to Work

Putting IPads to Work

Spurred by enthusiastic senior executives and rank-and-file employees, companies are starting to roll out iPads in the enterprise, especially for board meetings and sales...

Watch Your Avatars

Watch Your Avatars

Enterprise software helps set rules for virtual worlds Consumer-friendly technologies like Web-based e-mail and instant messaging, Twitter and Facebook have all brought compliance challenges,...

Next Stop: OpenSim!

Next Stop: OpenSim!

An emerging virtual world platform is the destination of droves of emigrant avatars, as a price hike and the shutdown of the teen-only grid...

The Great Risk Race

The Great Risk Race

As Asia’s dynamic markets demand risk management attention and expertise, financial firms rush to fill a talent gap, with particular urgency in China. Three...

About

MARIA KOROLOV is president of Trombly International, an editorial services company that provides news and features about business in emerging markets to U.S. publications. Latest projects include Hypergrid Business, covering the enterprises uses of virtual worlds, and Hyperica, a directory of destinations on the 3D Web.

She is also the chief operating officer of the China Speakers Bureau, which places more than 300 China experts into speaking engagements around the world.

Recent Blog Posts

Dabble Postmortem

May 17, 2011

Tomorrow is the last day for Dabble DB, an online database services on which I ran my company for...

Give me that old-time COBOL code

May 14, 2011

Just take those manuals off the shelf I’ll sit and read them here all by myself Today’s software ain’t...

Maria and Fons on the radio

December 8, 2010

My business partner Fons Tuinstra and I were interviewed today by David Iwinski of American Entrepreneur Radio on his...

Hypergrid Business Articles

Welcome region checklist

January 27, 2012

With some help from scripters, designers, and other hypergrid travelers, we’ve been bringing the Hyperica directory up-to-date. As part...

Is OpenSim usage falling?

January 19, 2012

Today, Hamlet Au wrote a column suggesting that the OpenSim user base is shrinking — and used Hypergrid Business...

SOPA, PIPA, and OpenSim

January 19, 2012

There’s been a lot written lately about how SOPA and PIPA would affect virtual worlds including Second Life. The...