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Organic Motion shows off new technology at Siggraph 2011

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Kathleen Maher

Computer vision technology enables markerless motion capture for more spontaneous performances. The technology has promise for new interfaces in the ...

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UltraViolet delivers movies from the cloud

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GfxS staff

A film industry consortium introduces a way to buy movies and watch them from multiple devices. UltraViolet (UV) is a ...

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Will Fusion propel AMD back into the workstation processor market?

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GfxS staff

It has been a rough few years for AMD as a player in workstations. But JPR senior analyst Alex Herrera ...

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Khronos updates OpenGL cross-platform 3D graphips API

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Randall Newton

Wasting no time on the opening day of Siggraph, the industry consortium is also opening up two working groups to ...

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Apple unleashes Thunderbolt Display

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GfxS staff

The more you can see the more you can do—Apple proves the point with two giant monitors driven by a ...

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JPR: Graphics shipments up 6.3% in second quarter; Intel increases market share

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GfxS staff

It was not a normal second quarter for both graphics chips and PC, with units shipped above normal. AMD and ...

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Adobe introduces Photoshop Elements 9 for the Mac App Store

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Kathleen Maher

Several high-end features from Photoshop’s professional version find their way to a consumer product for Mac users. Adobe cleverly takes ...

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Ansys revenue sets second quarter record

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Randall Newton

Revenue of $162.3 million reflected growth in all product lines and services. High performance computing applications and services are in ...

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Intel entices Taiwan computer makers to build Ultrabooks

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Jon Peddie

The MacBook Air is doing too well, and netbooks doing too poorly. Intel thinks it is time for powerful and ...

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2008: Wide-Ranging Autodesk lawsuit boils down to three letters: D-W-G

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GfxS staff

In 2008 Autodesk filed a federal lawsuit against Dassault Systèmes SolidWorks, opening another front on its DWG litigation war. While ...