Apple Acquires Mapping Company, iMap Probably Not Far Away

10/29/2011, News is out that Apple was the company who had acquired C3 Technologies last August (and shut it down). C3 is a mapping company known for its capacity to build maps that include 3D buildings,  textures and all (like Nokia [...]

Mini bots used to map out building interiors

05/16/2011, Some researchers over at the Georgia Institute of Technology, University of Pennsylvania and California Institute of Technology/Jet Propulsion Laboratory are developing a new way to map out building interiors quickly and accurately; by using tiny, swarming robots. Similar to the [...]

Internet Explorer 9, GPU-accelerated (video demo)

03/31/2010, NVIDIA has posted a video of Internet Explorer 9 which is built to fully support graphics processors (GPUs). Obviously, the NVIDIA shows that life is indeed better with a GPU (here it’s an Ion Netbook, versus a non-Ion netbook. Ion [...]