Cisco Systems, Equifax and three smaller companies have partnered to create United Nations Citizens, a virtual world that has a real economy and is geared toward enabling a virtual shopping mall. The virtual world lets consumers create their own 3-D avatars to shop with or hold down jobs inside the virtual environment. Numerous partners have invested millions of dollars into the technologies that provide electronic commerce companies with the ability to conduct transactions in the world. Besides Cisco and Equifax, partners include Heads & Tails TV and Faithful Friends TV & Montage Systems. United [...]

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