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S'pore forms group to boost 3D chips
News New consortium seeks to advance Singapore's 300mm wafer manufacturing capabilities by focusing on through-silicon via for 3D integrated circuit packages.
Tags: Processors, R&D, Integrated Circuit, Manufacturing, Semiconductor, Chip, Singapore, 3D, consortium, transistor
Bringing back Mickey Mouse's dark side
Insight newsmaker Well-known video game designer will get chance to show the world mischievous side of cartoon icon in Disney's Epic Mickey, a game for the Wii to be released next fall.
Tags: Digital media, Games, Character, Mickey Mouse, Spector, Video Game, CBS Interactive Inc., Animation, EPIC, 3D
S'pore YOG to support multimedia services
News SingTel is official "multimedia services partner" for Singapore 2010 Youth Olympic Games, but details are sketchy regarding which services will be activated.
Tags: Web 2.0, Web sites, Mobile platforms/communications, GPS, SingTel, Singapore, 3D, social networking, Web 2.0, Mobile platforms/communications
WebGL slips into Chrome, too, for 3D Web
News Google's browser is the latest to get support for a nascent standard for building accelerated 3D graphics into Web pages and Web applications.
Tags: Web 2.0, Web sites, Web services, Web browsers, Khronos Group, Web sites, Web 2.0, WebGL, Web-based Application, Web Browser
Firefox gets an early taste of 3D Web standard
News Programmers have begun building WebGL into developer-oriented versions of Mozilla's browser. The 3D-acceleration technology is coming to WebKit, too.
Tags: Web sites, Web 2.0, Web Browser, Programmer, Graphics, Google Chrome, Mozilla Corp., 3D, Mozilla Firefox, blog
Short stay for 3D Networks CEO Avakian
News 3D Networks has lost its chief executive Nick Avakian less than a year after he came on board.
Tags: Networking, Data Management, Mobile platforms/communications, Hitachi Ltd., Nortel Networks Corp., EMC Corp., 3D, CEO, LinkedIn, communications company
Google tries jump-starting 3D Web with O3D
News An open-source browser plug-in gives games and other Web applications the ability to take advantage of a computer's graphics chip.
Tags: Web browsers, Plug-in, Google Inc., Web Browser, Graphics, O3D, 3D, CAD, performance, OpenGL
GPS phones can't plug computing gap
News Some personal navigation device manufacturers are betting GPS-enabled mobiles won't catch up with standalone handhelds anytime soon.
Tags: GPS, Location-based services, Phone, cell phone, revenue, mobile, SatNav, Smart Phone, 3D, e-mail
Mozilla, graphics group seek to build 3D Web
News Khronos Group establishes a group to standardize how Web apps can use accelerated 3D graphics. Expect a draft specification and maybe a Firefox plug-in within a year.
Tags: Web browsers, Web Browser, Graphics, Online Game, Mozilla Corp., Web Application, 3D, Language Performance, Hardware, JavaScript
3D desktop revealed in Apple patent filing
News Apple is working on a user interface that would present the Mac OS X desktop screen in three dimensions, according to a patent application.
Tags: Business applications, Operating systems, Monitors and displays, Apple Inc., Patent, Apple Mac OS X, Apple Macintosh, Apple Mac OS, 3D, News.com
Bringing online marketing to life
News Dream Axis founder, Winne Soh, talks about the marketing green field of virtual spaces and her hopes for growing Singapore's 3D talent.
Tags: Entrepreneurship, Digital media, Training, Singapore, 3D, Digital media, career, marketing, founder, Second Life
Acclaim Machines CD
Product Reviews Acclaim Machines CD
Tags: Unit, Bot, Machine, Acclaim, Terrain Feature, 3D, Gameplay, Pathfinding Issue, Artificial Intelligence, laser
Higher bit-depths from ATI
News One of the fruits of the AMD-ATI merger, the graphics chip-maker's new FirePro brand signifies a fresh start for its professional line-up.
Tags: Digital media, Business applications, Operating systems, Graphics, Singapore, Card, digital content, Radeon, 3D, FirePro
Apple Mac Pro (2x2.26GHz Xeon, 2009)
Reviews Apple's new eight-core Mac Pro shows improvements in high-intensity digital media and multitasking scenarios. We also love the design tweaks that improve on Apple's already industry-leading efforts. Any Apple-bound design professional would welcome this powerful tool.
Tags: Apple Mac Pro, Apple Inc., Intel Xeon, CPU, Chip, Graphics, Card, Apple Macintosh, Model, Memory
Apple Mac Pro
Reviews Apple's Mac Pro has design innovations that we hope will cross over to other systems. Its performance is as strong as you'd expect for a system in its class, and it's priced right, too. You might need more flexibility in your configuration options, especially for 3D design. But otherwise, the Mac Pro is as solid a professional-class PC as we've seen.
Tags: Apple Mac Pro, Apple Inc., CPU, Apple Macintosh, 3D, Apple Power Mac, Exterior, Number System, DivX Video Codec, Default Plan
