Microsoft adds satellite imagery into location-based map search engine called Virtual Earth. NYT View full entry

Where Brazil has lingered for too long on the cusp of global leadership, today they have set out to rival one of the biggest giants of all time. By helping to establish the Organização Mundial de Software Livre, (the World Organization for Free Software) Brazil is... View full entry

James Reserve is plugged in with 100 tiny sensors, robots, cameras and computers. The new WiFi Woodlands offers an expedient snapshot of ecologies. | nytimes View full entry

Nanotechnology + Superconductivity = Spintronics ...a nanoscale technology in which information is carried not by the electron's charge, as it is in conventional microchips, but by the electron's intrinsic spin. Besides faster processing at lower temperatures, this technology could pave the way... View full entry

Engineers at the University of California, Berkeley, have developed a method to quickly scan and model urban landscapes. From New Scientist IMAGINE if the first soldiers to enter an enemy city could map it street by street, recording every window and doorway of the urban battlefield in an... View full entry

Three San Diego entrepreneurs plan to start a cut-rate outsourcing plant for software development three miles off the coast of Los Angeles aboard a used cruise ship moored in international waters. at lavoice.org View full entry

Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq: ADBE) has announced a definitive agreement to acquire Macromedia (Nasdaq: MACR) in an all-stock transaction valued at approximately $3.4 billion. View full entry

keyhole provides an interactive interface for manipulating a global satellite photo database. the omnipotent feeling of spinning the globe is quite a pleasure. 1 month trial for free. View full entry

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The second release of video recordings from the 2004 ACADIA Digital Fabrication Conference are now available on the Architecture Radio web site. Recordings include Education Summit, copyright protection for architectural ("ornamental") works, surface structures and more. The (possibly) final set... View full entry

I just purchased a new graphics card to update my machine, and within my research I found this great deal for an ATI card and Softimage|XSI Foundation. View full entry

Talkin' bout Phily, Victor Shenkar, founder of GeoSim Systems, just outside of Tel Aviv, is busy making a 3-D model of the city, block-by-block, for, well, a whole host of reasons. He plans to create a virtual world of cities for users all over the globe. NYT View full entry

Move fast before this promotion is over : Autodesk (maker of AutoCAD) has released a new Revit Student Kit for under $58. Excellent opportunity to learn this valuable software. Click here to order or for more information. Features: - Fully integrated building information model - Collaborative... View full entry

I have no news to post today so I will link you to a number of useful and not so useful places. A Mapquestkiller and perhaps one day also multimapkiller GoogleMaps - brilliant. More links inside >> For MAC users, schubert-it PDF plugin straight in your browser. And if you want to repair... View full entry

Think your model embodies Computational Complexity? Check David Stainforth's digital model now rendering on PCs everywhere. As the Economist explains, this Oxford University professor has one hell of a render farm”¦ More from msnbc View full entry