For their phones, LG and HTC are lobbying game developers to create 3-D software for Google's Android smartphone platform.
As far as 3-D software goes, you'll need OpenGL 1.2 or Glide support.
The miniature building began as a detailed 3-D software rendering before the physical model was built to iron out all the intricacies of connecting the units in the full-scale building.
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In a presentation at the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas on Thursday, Patton explained how a piece of free software he'd created can automatically comb social networking sites, collecting and aggregating data based on keywords or other information like contact information, friends, and personal history.
Rocky Rosas, technical marketing engineer at D-Link, said he has fully tested Network Magic for D-Link routers, and found it to be easily integrated with the PC software that comes with D-Link's hardware.
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Before starting Days of Wonder, he co-founded a 3-D-software firm and had a successful career as a venture capitalist.
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Not until the e-mail software company he'd founded in 1990 shot from 3 employees to 45 in 1993 did Heller figure he had to get control of his money.
But the Fusion was the first Ford vehicle developed with advanced 3-D digital software that allowed engineers to instantly make the changes and simulate how the manufacturing process would be affected.
Despite the advent of GPS, radar technology and 3-D computer software, an exquisitely hand-drawn map and carefully collected data often can outdo what a couple of whiz kids can find on a laptop.
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Intelisys was founded in 1996 by Peter Rawlinson, a Brit, and Robert Barnes, a New Zealander who'd launched a software development firm and received a patent on a business process it designed.
Roxio has also worked with the big 3-D technology companies, ATI, NVIDIA and RealD to ensure that its software is compatible with the range of 3-D technologies, formats and accessories out there today.
Admittedly, this was annoying, purely because we'd have expected the software pull this data from the aforementioned services.
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If you'd rather buy the software outright, you can do that today too.
We rarely praise compact camera software here, but we'd be remiss not to note the saturation adjustment tool on this touchscreen shooter.
Asked if he'd consider licensing his software to other companies or individuals looking to create filters like these that they could sell for home use, Aho says no.
Levin named his company Black Duck Software after an orphaned bird he'd rescued as a child.
Earlier this year, Sony announced a software improvement that will allow 3-D gaming on its PlayStation 3 console.
The result: Researchers could move through a 3-D mosaic created by the software.
As for actual handwriting recognition, we'd give LG's software a B-.
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One feature you're not getting with this unit -- besides the inability to record OTA programming -- is DRM support, so if you want to load up your PlaysForSure- or FairPlay-protected tracks, you'll need to strip out the copy protection with one of those handy pieces of software first (not that we'd ever encourage that sort of behavior, of course).
We'd assume so, given the software and form-factor of the demo device.
While there's good money in that market, I'd rather write non-evil software.
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In addition to data-intensive web applications, Shalom sees applications like fraud detection, 3-D animation, and blocking malicious software as some of the beneficiaries.
The early 3-D leader, Japan's Sharp Electronics, has sold 3 million mobile phones that transform 2-D photographs into 3-D images using screen filters and software.
It uses a vehicle-mounted camera, object-recognition software and satellite positioning to create detailed 3-D maps of roads, pinpointing features such as pot-holes.
He also studied Caterpillar trucks, then made 3-D animated films on the sophisticated movie software Maya and obsessed over model trains.
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Caterpillar ( CAT - news - people ) trucks, then made 3-D animated films on the sophisticated movie software Maya and obsessed over model trains.
It instead simply uses a 3-D depth-sensing camera and its iisu software to recognize and interpret user gestures.
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The general design, usability and stability of the Zune desktop software has indeed come a long way, and we'd have no reservations about using it for all day music browsing and listening.
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