The development of the best three-dimensional graphics in Web-based applications took a step forward recently, when developers began building WebGL nightly builds on Mozilla Firefox, and WebKit, which is used in Google Chrome and Apple’s Safari browser.
The WebGL (Web Graphics Library) is a new open source standard specification which is a continuation of previous projects [...]

A collective shudder rippled thru Silicon Valley on Wed. morning, as Rackable Systems said its acquisition of Silicon Graphics Inc for just $25 million in readies. If you travel all of the way back to 1997, SGI was pulling in close to $4 bill in cash a year.
The company produced some of the flashiest PCs [...]

With Apple under its belt, Nvidia is taking target at Netbooks.
On Wed. , Nvidia is launching its GeForce 9400M “Ion” graphics chipset for Netbooks and little desktop designs.
And the Santa Clara, Calif, company is hoping for another coup like the one it staged at Apple, where Nvidia bumped Intel silicon out of the Apple MacBook [...]