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Autodesk reports 11% first quarter revenue growth
May. 17 | Strong performance by suites drives results. Media and Entertainment revenue was down 5%. The interior of Autodesk's AEC headquarters in Waltham, Mass. (Source: Autodesk) Autodesk (NASDAQ:ADSK) today reported a solid first quarter of fiscal year 2013....
Redefining production in the age of Digital Reality
May. 17 | Software is transforming every stage of the manufacturing process. Small companies with niche technologies are being gobbled up. By Kathleen Maher May Day is over and the workers of the world are still pretty much wearing their chains. Ironically, the...
Nvidia launches the Kepler era of virtual GPU computing and accessible HPC
May. 15 | Nvidia says previously unobtainable performance opens the door to a variety of possibilities including streaming games like movies or doing sophisticated simulations from the cloud. Power efficiency gains are as important as the graphics gains. Nvidia...
3D printing industry grew nearly 30 percent in 2011
May. 15 | The information comes from The Wohlers Report. Now in its 17th year, it has become the authoritative guide to additive manufacturing and related technologies. The 3D printing products for manufacturing market grew at a 29.4% rate in 2011, says the new...
Siemens PLM says there’s new wind in the Velocity sails
May. 14 | Now known as the Mainstream Engineering group, the Siemens PLM division responsible for Solid Edge says business is booming. A reference customer says SolidWorks should be worried. Last week at the Siemens PLM Software annual customer conference the company...
Stratasys sets first quarter revenue record
May. 11 | The company has hired and trained 90 new sales reps for its expanding line of desktop 3D printers. Revenue guidance for the rest of 2012 is raised, due to the Objet acquisition. Stratasys (NASDAQ: SSYS) reported first quarter record revenue of $45.0...
Nvidia preaches the GPU compute gospel at NAB
May. 7 | More than 40 vendors had Nvidia GPU technology in their booths. OpenCL is out there, but CUDA is doing well. Nvidia had no new product announcements at the recent National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) convention, but the company did highlight partnerships...
3D Systems acquires another maker
May. 7 | FreshFiber makes custom cases for smartphones, selling them online and in high-end retail stores. 3D Systems has acquired another vendor of custom 3D printed consumer products. FreshFiber BV, based in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, is best known for selling...
Trimble reports a strong first quarter
May. 4 | Revenue was up 31% from a year earlier. Net income was up 28%. By Kathleen Maher Trimble offices in Denver, Colorado (Source: Trimble) Trimble Navigation, the company that is sneaking up on the CAD and BIM market from its dominant position in navigation,...
