Apple, Dell and Google have joined the Khronos Group, an organisation that develops and oversees the OpenGL graphics standard. Khronos Group is an organization that includes over 100 companies that are working together to define open standards for dynamic media on devices ranging from cell phones to computers.

http://www.sda-asia.com/sda/news/psecom,id,10275,srn,4,nodeid,1,_language,Singapore.html

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Before you ask, I think it is because of Google Earth/Sketchup