NEW YORK, NY – A new BIM-focused iPad app has been released. The app, goBIM, allows users to navigate models and review data tagged to elements of the model. Learn more about this app.

Bentley has announced "breakthroughs" in 3D geospatial information systems (GIS) software to support the design and operation of intelligent cities.

Intelligent cities, and the intelligent infrastructure they incorporate, take full advantage of information modeling best practices. As a result, they are able to provide better performance with respect to safety, energy, lifecycle costing, and operational efficiency. Bentley's intra-operable portfolio of software features lifecycle support across all classes of intelligent infrastructure, including land management, power generation and energy delivery, water and wastewater networks, roads, bridges, rail, communications networks, and buildings.

"[PC World's] staff of editors hit Las Vegas this week to cover the annual Consumer Electronics Show. [They] braved bedbugs, bad PR people, long taxi lines, and greasy convention-center food, all to find the hottest new gadgets and gear. [They] saw 3D HDTVs, tiny iPhone accessories, and tablets, tablets, and more tablets."

"Microsoft was the butt of jokes in 2008, lampooned for its inept Windows Vista and its refusal to admit anything was wrong, criticized for ongoing security lapses, and targeted for much carping from both Office 2007 users who didn't like the new Microsoft ribbon UI and Mac Office users frustrated by a buggy, even-less-capable version of what their Windows users got."