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PTC’s upturn continues

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Randall Newton

New product sales rose dramatically but the company took a net loss of $13.4 million in the quarter due to ...

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The big do-over

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Kathleen Maher

Print as a communications medium is not dying, but the transformation is not going to be easy. Kathleen Maher examines ...

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Dassault gets sim win with EADS

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Kathleen Maher

PTC won the big PLM contract EADS let out a couple of years ago, but Dassault Systèmes strikes back with ...

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What happens to Dassault Systèmes’ sales surge after the IBM glow is gone?

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Steve Wolfe

The maker of CATIA and SolidWorks reported revenue up 38% in the third quarter, with profits up 44%. The fall ...

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Power and Potential: GPUs for Engineering Simulation

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Randall Newton

Engineering simulation and analysis is getting a major hardware upgrade, due to the rise of general purpose graphics processing units. ...

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Stratasys 3Q10 revenue up 24% on record unit volume

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Randall Newton

The benefits of the HP deal are starting to kick in, with sales in Europe double what Stratasys did there ...

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Apple disses Intel graphics with new MacBook Air CPU choice

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Randall Newton

The new MacBook Air is a complete refresh of the product line, except for the CPU. What’s up with that? ...

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FloTHERM update adds industry-first thermal analysis bottleneck and shortcut processes

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Randall Newton

One early tester of the patent-pending processes says it significantly reduced development costs on an Energy Star-compliant design for a ...

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New JPR Report: Understanding the new generation of embedded graphics processors

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Randall Newton

Jon Peddie Research has just published “Opportunities, Threats, and Changes Created by the Embedded Graphics Processors.” The once-unthinkable marriage of ...

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Evolution: 3ds Max Entertainment Creation Suite

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Kathleen Maher

3ds Max has grown to become a suite of products. The latest release has more than 100 new features. Jon ...