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Welcome to Digital Planet, the weekly BBC World Service programme that reports on technology stories from around the globe.
On this week's Digital Planet Gareth Mitchell looks at downloading emails to your mobile phone without having to go online.
And other than selling virtual accessories in a virtual world - can money really be made in this online environment?
Lemonade - license to enhanced mobile orientated and diverse endpoints - is an open standard for mobile phones which allows the user to download emails without having to log onto an online account.
Not only does this mean that simple feature phones can be used more like smart phones, it also reduces bandwidth usage and therefore costs.
Gareth Mitchell talks to Carsten Brinkschulte from Synchronica - a company developing email gateways for Lemonade.
Buying new clothes for your avatar and trading weapons is common practice in virtual worlds, but can money be made in other ways?
Jonathan Kent looks at how some companies are now advertising virtual artworks and selling them online and in the real world.
Can you imagine playing a massively multiplayer online game via a dial-up connection?
Runescape is one such game that can be played without the need for broadband.
The game currently has around six million players - most of whom use a PC.
Digital Planet met Geoff Iddison and Niall O'Malley from the company Jagex, the firm which designed the game.
It was in 1965 that he predicted how transistors would change our lives; he spoke of the creation of mobile phones and home computers.
We hear how he devised what's become known as Moore's Law; the number of transistor's on an integrated circuit doubling every two years.
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