Google's Amazon Rainforest Street View Is Ready For You To Explore - with the best links of the day

It's the perfect time for a thorough examination of the most interesting links of the day. I've dug up stuff on Google, Microsoft and Nvidia.

Google: also known as The Big G

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OK, let's see who's been talking about Google? It was techcrunch.com who wrote an article called Google's Amazon Rainforest Street View Is Ready For You To Explore.

What did they point out about Google? They said:

Back in August, Google announced that it was teaming up with nonprofit Foundation for a Sustainable Amazon to map a small section of the massive Rio Negro river (tributary of the Amazon) near Manaus

and went on to say

As expected, it took quite a while, but the results are now available for you to play with

Microsoft: http://Microsoft.com

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Next up we have a site that's been writing about Microsoft - Microsoft's Windows 8 Could Spike PC Market: IDC.

They wrote:

Microsoft mayhave engineered Windows 8 to work on tablets, but it will still need sales ofthe upcoming operating system on traditional PCs if it wants to maintain theWindows divisions profits and margins

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2012 and 2013will bring significant changes for Microsoft and the PC community, Jay Chou,an analyst with IDC, wrote in a March 20 research note. Windows 8 and Ultrabooksare a definitive step in the right direction to recapturing the relevance of thePC, but its promise of meshing a tablet experience with a PC body will likelyentail a period of trial and error, thus the market will likely see modestgrowth in the near term.

Finally it's NVIDIA Geforce GTX 680 Review Roundup: Faster, Cooler and Quieter from techland.time.com, focussing on Nvidia. They made a few good points, particularly

Let's start with AnandTech, my personal favorite (arguably the most thorough of the deep-dive tech portals)

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this has ended up being a launch not quite like any other. With GTX 280, GTX 480, and GTX 580 we discussed how thanks to NVIDIA's big die strategy they had superior performance, but also higher power consumption and a higher cost. To that extent this is a very different launch -the GTX 680 is faster, cooler, and quieter than the Radeon HD 7970. NVIDIA has landed the technical trifecta, and to top it off they've priced it comfortably below the competition.