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Fabric Engine sees five years out

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New Creation Platform allows both custom M&E tools and commercial software to work side-by-side.  Media and Entertainment technol­ogy has followed ...

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Autodesk has plenty to talk about away from the Siggraph show floor

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New management is guiding the M&E into acting more like the rest of the company. A consistent topic of conversation ...

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Southpaw is making money by giving away digital asset management

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The multi-purpose open source Tactic for M&E asset management is finding its market one free download at a time. A year has ...

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Ansys records 10.5% growth in second quarter

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The leader in engineering simulation bought back 988,000 shares of its stock during the quarter. Revenue guidance for the year ...

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Migenius gets Bloom Unit back on track in SketchUp

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The Australian visualization group also now controls the destiny of RealityServer and iRay. Migenius and its SketchUp add-in Bloom Unit ...

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Commoditization is a mixed bag for M&E

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The annual JPR Siggraph Press Luncheon bit into the benefits and problems of a rapidly changing industry. The media and ...

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Dassault Systèmes revenue up 4% in second quarter

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Catia and Enovia were flat globally but strong in China and Korea. The company increased its shareholders dividend by 14%. ...

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PTC says “we told you so” with so-so third quarter revenue results

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Unexpected cutbacks in China make PTC even more accurate when it said June quarter results would be disappointing.   Three ...

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The coolest booth at Siggraph

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Oculus is showing off the next version of its Rift virtual reality gaming goggles by appointment only. In a back ...

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3D needs its Napster moment

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The Khronos Group wants to do for 3D what formats like MP3 and JPEG did for audio and video. At ...