Microsoft music player to take on Apple's iPod (Reuters)
SEATTLE (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp. MSFT.O said on Friday it plans to release a new music and entertainment player and accompanying software under the "Zune" brand this year, in a belated attempt to challenge the dominance of Apple Computer Inc.'s AAPL.O iPod player.

Parallels' Mac Virtualization Software Moves Closer to Store Shelves (Small Biz Pipeline)
"Desktop for Mac" software runs Windows simultaneously with OS X on Apple's Intel Macs. It will sell widely (Apple's retail stores. CompUSA, Staples, Office Depot, Fry's Electronics and Amazon.com) and could remove an historic impediment to the sale of Macs -- the inability to run popular PC software. The software enables Mac us

OpenGL Terrain Generation - An Introduction
The following project is a very simple example demonstrating how to generate a terrain based on a bitmap file. The objective of the project is to generate a three dimensional terrain based on some data file. Please note, that this could have been any data file, but for the purpose of our example, we are going to be using a 32x32 dimensional bitmap file. We could have easily used a text file, and defined logic for each word or letter to represent it graphically.