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Tablet prices in freefall reacting to Kindle Fire

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Jon Peddie

Are the competitors now offering great bargains, or were the originals priced as rip offs?  According to sources talking to ...

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Autodesk acquires T-Splines modeling technology

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Randall Newton

The first major advancement in CAD geometry since NURBS has become popular in industrial, commercial, and architectural design. The fate ...

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JPR report: 80% of smartphones will have stereo 3D cameras and screens by 2015

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GfxS staff

A variety of vendors will compete for this rapidly growing space. Stereoscopic 3D in mobile devices will have many applications ...

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Luxion releases updated plug-ins for SolidWorks, Rhino, Creo, Pro/Engineer, SketchUp

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Randall Newton

The KeyShot plug-in allows CAD data to be directly transferred from a modeling session into high-resolution rendering. Luxion has updated ...

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Autodesk’s year of living acquisitively

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Kathleen Maher

All divisions—including their new consumer products group—went shopping in 2011. Here’s our list of companies and technologies now part of ...

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Quantum dot filter displays are the next big thing

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Jon Peddie

Color purity and range have plateaued; new technology from Nanosys promises improvements. By Jon Peddie When LCD displays took over ...

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AutoCAD WS now available on Kindle Fire

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Randall Newton

The new tablet from Amazon.com runs a hybrid version of the Android operating system, requiring Autodesk to tweak its popular ...

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Mobile makes CAD industry submit to Joy’s Law in 2011

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Randall Newton

Most CAD vendors released at least one mobile app in 2011, but some felt pressured to do it.  Joy’s Law ...

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ArtRage realistic painting comes to iPhone 4

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Randall Newton

Ambient Design extends its “natural painting” iPad app to the smaller screen. Ambient Design has released ArtRage for iPhone 4, ...

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Santa rides a Norelco again

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Randall Newton

Re:think Studio re-creates classic TV ad in Modo. People of a certain age can likely recall the Norelco electric razor ...