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PTC Financials Portend Engineering Software Upturn

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PTC reports positive results for its third quarter of Fiscal 2010. Enterprise revenue jumped 64% from a year earlier. By ...

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Sent From My iPad

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A construction engineering manager sees a bright future for the Apple iPad in construction. By Dave Angelotti Guest Contributor I’ve ...

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Continental to Standardize Automotive Group on PTC Windchill

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Long-term partnership agreement will ultimately affect 12,000 users in 130 locations. Continental says Windchill capabilities in multi-CAD integration, eCAD data ...

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Revenues from Additive Manufacturing Down in 2009

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Unit sales for additive manufacturing devices stayed strong in 2009 due to new low-cost units, but total industry revenue dropped ...

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Emerson Wins Deal to Modernize Largest Thermal Plant in Kazakhstan

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Two contracts call for Emerson to install PlantWeb and Ovation in a plant producing 13% of all electricity in the ...

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One Screen to Rule Them All, One Screen to Find Them, One Screen to Bring Them All and In the IT Bind Them

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Consumer technology pundits say there is a war going on over what screen size will prevail: mobile, desktop, or room-size. ...

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MHT Profiles “Visionary … Hands-on” Incoming PTC CEO Heppelmann

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MHT’s “The Mover” column takes a look at the incoming CEO of PTC, maker of Pro/ENGINEER and Windchill. Online journal ...

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International Team Completes 3D Survey of Mount Rushmore

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A team of digital preservationists climbed all over Lincoln, Jefferson, Washington, and T. Roosevelt with Leica Geosystems 3D scanners to ...

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Survey: Integrated Project Delivery Simultaneously Scary but Intriguing

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A new ZweigWhite survey on attitudes toward IPD show both fear and longing. The results of a new AEC survey ...

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A Brief History of the Minority Report User Interface

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Computer scientist John Underkoffler designed the computer user interface that caused such a stir when it appeared in the film ...