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Dassault acquires Netvibes to track brand buzz
Mar. 29 | The cloud-based brand management service was profitable and not for sale before Dassault came calling. It will be added to other enterprise services. By Kathleen Maher During the most recent conference call with investors, Dassault Systèmes CEO Bernard...
The problem with Bulldozer
Mar. 29 | Long awaited and often delayed, AMD’s next generation server CPU is a case study in failed communication, not failed technology. By Alex Herrera Amidst all the bullish future-talk at the AMD Financial Analyst Day in February, the company did take out...
Autodesk 2012 by the numbers
Mar. 29 | Autodesk made its annual pitch to the media this week in San Francisco, and threw out a lot of numbers. When we parse the numbers, the picture emerges of a company happily running as fast as it can to transform digital art and design. There is a shift...
New Numecent already has a cloudpaging spin-off for gaming
Mar. 23 | Approxy will offer a white-label platform delivery service for game developers and publishers, allowing them to publish their games as cloud titles. By Jon Peddie [Editor’s note: For an introduction to Numecent and its cloudpaging technology, see the...
Khronos struggles with keeping Collada relevant
Mar. 21 | The standards group responsible for the graphics exchange standard realizes content exchange is a huge challenge and that so far Collada implementations are falling short on. Commentary by Kathleen Maher. By Kathleen Maher The Khronos Group has published...
Computer graphics pioneer Carl Machover dies at 84
Mar. 19 | Machover was a noted speaker, writer, mentor, and a tireless advocate of the transformative power of computer graphics. Carl Machover, a computer graphics pioneer and cheerful evangelist of the transformative power of computer graphics, died March 6,...
SolidWorks 2013 will launch as legacy software
Feb. 22 | Dassault Systèmes is committed to building a next-generation 3D design platform to replace SolidWorks. Getting it out the door is proving hard; convincing SolidWorks customers to upgrade will be harder. By Randall S. Newton On the final day of SolidWorks...
HP Fort Collins workstation team has super mojo
Feb. 17 | The new all-in-one Z1 is just one more proof that rewards go to the risk-takers. HP’s workstation group is reaping the reward of thinking big. By Alex Herrera The new HP Z1 Workstation running SolidWorks 2012 (Source: HP) It’s no accident that HP...
Sudden departure of AMD graphics chief Demers is a body blow
Feb. 16 | The latest generation of AMD workstation graphics was just starting to find a market. Will this departure start another market decline? By Alex Herrera The hits just keep coming for AMD. Not hits as in hit songs, but hits as in body blows. Yesterday AMD...
