STMicroelectronics released v0.2 of Bellagio, the open source sample implementation of OpenMAX IL for Linux. Bellagio enables Linux software developers and ISVs to familiarize themselves with OpenMAX IL API and to develop their own OpenMAX components for multimedia codecs and controls.

KML, the geographic markup language for Google Earth, now supports the COLLADA digital asset exchange schema. COLLADA enables Google Earth to take advantage of 3D models with enhanced geometry and support for textures for greater realism. The COLLADA 1.4 schema is already supported in many popular 3D content creation applications as well as middleware and 3D applications.