Archive - Oct 2009

From large cities like New York and Tokyo, to small towns like Madison, NJ and Dursley, England, a growing number of places around the world have become explorable in 3D with Google Earth. We're working towards an ambitious goal - to display 3D models of all the world's buildings in Google Earth - and we know that in order to accomplish this, keep the buildings up to date, and make them relevant, we need to make the modeling process as open and inclusive as possible.

Building upon its nearly 30-year history of touch innovation, HP today launched the next era of multitouch computing for consumers and businesses.

Racing fans and car lovers the world over are counting down the days until the much anticipated release of Forza Motorsport 3, exclusively for Xbox 360. With the finish line in sight, Turn 10 and Microsoft are looking toward the winner's circle as they officially release the game's full list of cars and tracks on Forzamotorsport.net.

MSI, one of the world's leading vendors of hardware components, including motherboards and graphics cards, has just announced the official debut of its latest GeForce models, the new N220GT and N210 series. Designed for the mainstream market, the new cards have been featured with NVIDIA's latest 40nm DirectX 10.1-capable GPUs, offering a noteworthy level of performance in a compact and energy-efficient form factor.

The weakened immune systems of people with HIV puts them at increased risk for at least seven types of cancer, but early diagnosis and treatment of HIV infection could help delay the onset of some of these cancers, a new study suggests.