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Reuters’ Second Life correspondent, Adam Pasick, reports that Comverse has developed a version of the virtual world of Second Life that runs on a mobile phone. It sounds like the technology is imperfect at the moment (as is SL itself) and requires a PC to be running Second Life at an intermediary position, but it’s an interesting and potentially exciting step toward opening Second Life up to yet more uses. A full Second Life client on a cell phone might be overkill, but a streamlined client would be a great extension of the communication functions of Second Life. It also sounds like Comverse has SMS and Instant Message add-ons in the works that will allow those interactions with SL, though exactly how those fit in isn’t yet clear. Comverse has also developed a version of SL to run on IPTV platforms. Wow, they’ve been busy, and Pasick reports that this was all done in advance of the open-source SL client. Much of this technology will be demonstrated at next week’s 3GSM Conference in Barcelona, Pasick reports. Wish I could be there.