FBI investigators have visited Second Life’s Internet casinos at the invitation of the virtual world’s creator Linden Lab, but the U.S. government has not decided on the legality of virtual gambling.

“We have invited the FBI several times to take a look around in Second Life and raise any concerns they would like, and we know of at least one instance that federal agents did look around in a virtual casino,” said Ginsu Yoon, until recently Linden Lab’s general counsel and currently vice president for business affairs.

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A US jury has awarded Alcatel-Lucent $US1.5 billion damages for patent infringements by Microsoft involving various versions of Windows including Vista, but the software giant will ask the judge to set aside the verdict.
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