Apple shares climb fast on Q3 success (Macworld UK)
Apple shares climbed last night, following news of its profitable third quarter and its 4.8 per cent share of the US PC market.

Asia makes headway in IT standards push SOFTWARE (ZDNet India)
Thailand will soon join the ranks of Hong Kong, Singapore and India to establish a chapter under the IT Service Management Forum (itSMF) in a bid to drive IT service management standards and best practices.

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.