The virtual world Second Life is popular among disabled people, many of whose limitations in the real world appear nonexistent in the digital environment. Assuming alter-egos, they can fly, run, dance ...

The founder of virtual world Second Life sought to reassure U.S. lawmakers on Tuesday that the online community is able to police itself. Second Life founder Philip Rosedale and a handful of other ...

As the Virtual Worlds conference kicked off in Silicon Valley yesterday, IBM announced a partnership with Linden Lab, makers of Second Life, to create portable avatars that you can bring with you to ...

Have you heard of Second Life? It’s a virtual world, where users create virtual characters called avatars that can interact on-screen. You can exchange real dollars into the currency of Second Life ...

SAN FRANCISCO--In the next several months, Second Life avatars may find their long-awaited voice, said Philip Rosedale, CEO of Linden Lab, publisher of the virtual world. Rosedale said during a ...

For more on Second Life and what vendors are doing, read "Making The Second Life Connection." I tried to join the hip crowd last week for an IBM experiment: a storage product launch it chose to hold ...