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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.

Tuesday, September 08 2009 05:08 PM

Tags: Processors, R&D, Integrated Circuit, Manufacturing, Semiconductor, Chip, Singapore, 3D, consortium, transistor

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.

Friday, September 18 2009 05:44 PM

Tags: Web 2.0, Web sites, Mobile platforms/communications, GPS, SingTel, Singapore, 3D, social networking, Web 2.0, Mobile platforms/communications

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.

Monday, October 05 2009 06:40 PM

Tags: GPS, Location-based services, Phone, cell phone, revenue, mobile, SatNav, Smart Phone, 3D, e-mail

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.

Monday, October 12 2009 11:05 AM

Tags: Web 2.0, Web sites, Web services, Web browsers, Khronos Group, WebGL, Web sites, Web 2.0, 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.

Tuesday, September 22 2009 09:29 AM

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.

Monday, August 17 2009 11:46 AM

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.

Wednesday, April 22 2009 09:50 AM

Tags: Web browsers, Plug-in, Google Inc., Web Browser, Graphics, O3D, 3D, CAD, performance, OpenGL

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.

Wednesday, March 25 2009 11:00 AM

Tags: Web browsers, Web Browser, Graphics, Language Performance, Online Game, Mozilla Corp., Web Application, 3D, Hardware, JavaScript

Google building 3D boost into Chrome

News By building its O3D plug-in into Chrome, Google is prepping for faster Web applications in its browser--and later in its operating system.

Thursday, July 23 2009 08:34 AM

Tags: Operating systems, Plug-in, Google Inc., Web Browser, O3D, Google Chrome, 3D, CAD, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Hardware

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.

Friday, December 12 2008 08:00 AM

Tags: Business applications, Operating systems, Monitors and displays, Apple Inc., Patent, Apple Mac OS X, Apple Macintosh, Apple Mac OS, 3D, News.com

Gates: Natal to bring gesture recognition to Windows too

News In an interview with CNET News, Bill Gates notes that Microsoft has broad ambitions for using gesture-sensing cameras in the home and office.

Thursday, July 16 2009 10:46 AM

Tags: Consumer Technology, Bill Gates, Video, 3D, Microsoft Xbox, Windows PC, Microsoft Windows, camera, PC, game