Also (Zeiss invests half a billion, Photovine site goes live, Photofly spotlight)

Time to round-up some of the latest happenings from the world of the internets.

+ Zeiss is investing half a billion euro in Germany in semiconductors and for other purposes says Photoscala (computer translated)

+ the website of Google's upcoming Photovine photo-sharing service has gone live and you can request invites if you want to use it. More via Techmeme

+ Autodesk's Photofly service gets the spotlight at the New Jersey Times Bits Blog (Photofly creates 3D models out of standard photographs)

PS: "Also" is a semi-silly name for a lightning-round news round-up. The main benefit of the name is that it is only four letters long so it saves space in the headline as opposed to "Newsbytes" or "News Round-up" :)