Gold-farming employs 500,000 people worldwide
Richard Heeks, the head of the development informatics group at the UK's University of Manchester, estimates that nearly half a million people earn money as "gold farmers" -- players who seek out gold or experience points in online multiplayer games, then sell their loot to other players with less time on their hands.
Scrabulous removed from Facebook again
Scrabulous, the controversial third-party Facebook app, has once again been removed from the social networking site.
Scrabulous returns to Facebook
After being removed from Facebook following a legal wrangle with Scrabble's makers Hasbro, the third-party app Scrabulous has returned to the social networking site.
Microsoft security fix clobbers 2 million password stealers
Microsoft's Malicious Software Removal Tool -- a program that detects and removes viruses and other bad programs from Windows machines -- removed game password-stealing software from more than 2 million PCs in the first week after it was updated to detect these programs on June 10.
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