Walt Disney has announced that Disney and Pixar will make eight new 3D animated films in the next four years.With the exception of "Wall*E", a robot love story and the hand drawn "Princess and the Frog", all the movies will be in digital 3D the studio said. All the 3D films will also be available in a 2D format.
Google Announces AJAX Language API
Individuals looking to interact with different languages should have an easier time of things thanks to the new Google AJAX Language API. The API offers both detection and translation abilities.
Google Announces Cities In 3D Program
It may be necessary to stop using words like "neat" and "cool"; it’s possibly time to put on a tie. A new push involving Google Earth stresses all the practical (and somewhat implausible) reasons cities should create 3D models of themselves.
ZVents Announces Blended Results
Zvents announced their launch of a new, blended search results page for local content. Now, when you do searches on their site, they’ll bring back results for various businesses, events, performances, movies, store sales and more in your local area. Here’s a screengrab of the newly-blended results page:
Google Announces Trends for Google Checkout
As we come up to the last days of fee-free merchant services from Google Checkout, the Official Google Checkout Blog announced yesterday that they now have Google Checkout Trends. Patterned after Google Trends, GCT shows relative revenues from Google Checkout merchants.
Yahoo Announces Finds Of The Year 2007
This is the sort of thing that I thought we’d wrapped up last week. No matter, though, as it’s still interesting, and "interesting" is, after all, what Yahoo’s Finds of the Year 2007 were required to be.Another condition was that the sites be innovative, and a third was that they be British. This last condition, though a bit limiting, seems fair enough since it’s actually Yahoo UK & Ireland behind the contest.
Adobe Announces Flash Player 9 Update
Adobe today announced the immediate availability of Flash Player 9 Update 3(version number 9.0.115.0), previously code named Moviestar.
Google Announces Android, Open Handset Alliance
Anyone who was still holding out for an antigravity/invisibility/teleportation device in the form of a forthcoming Gphone is in for a disappointment; Google has (re)confirmed that it will not be producing such a product. But Google did discuss some other mobile plans that it feels are quite important.
Google Announces API Connecter For Social Networks
Google has decided that when it comes to Facebook, if you can’t beat ‘em, API ‘em. Google’s OpenSocial, which will launch at code.google.com/apis/opensocial tomorrow, will be a set of APIs that developers can use to create applications that work on any participating social network. Google’s goal is to create an open layer that runs atop all social networks, diminishing the power of all the networks in the process.
Omniture Announces New Genesis Version
Omniture, Inc. (NASDAQ: OMTR), today announced Omniture Genesis 2.0 Platform Edition, a new version of Genesis that streamlines the deployment of Omniture for Authorized Platform Partners that deliver Omniture software as part of an industry-specific platform solution.