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Pachube crowdsourcing real-world data for fun and progress

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Kathleen Maher

Want to track radiation levels in Japan? How about harnessing the data from the world’s Internet-enabled refrigerators? Where there is ...

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Plume digs deeper to add quality haze to Rango

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Randall Newton

Industrial Light and Magic’s first full animation needed a retooling of their famed fluid solver/renderer and faster GPUs. Tools from ...

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Bentley launches newest Bentley Map products

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Kathleen Maher

Bentley consolidates its mapping and GIS tools into three interoperable modules: Bentley Map PowerView, Bentley Map, and Bentley Map Enterprise. ...

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PTC extends mechatronic reach with MKS acquisition

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Randall Newton

Managing embedded software as part of product development continues to be a major trend in PLM. When John Deere became ...

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Excellent new white paper compares four neutral 3D formats

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Randall Newton

If you don’t understand the differences between STEP, 3D XML, JT, and 3D PDF, this free white paper from interoperability ...

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CUDA 4.0 Toolkit now publicly available

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Randall Newton

The latest release-candidate version enables software developers to port their applications to Nvidia Graphic Processor Units. NVIDIA today announced the ...

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Autodesk rides the manufacturing rebound

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Randall Newton

Business trend lines show industrial growth, and Autodesk sees itself beating its peer group for the new business. A year ...

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Siemens PLM launches Teamcenter Mobility for iPad

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Randall Newton

Five million Teamcenter PLM users are today adding the Apple iPad to their requisition lists. This is the first PLM ...

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US Air Force civil engineering to buy $26 million in Autodesk software

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Randall Newton

The five-year deal was the work of reseller DLT Solution. Autodesk today announced the United States Air Force Office of ...

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The SmartGeometry Conference explores new approaches to design

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Kathleen Maher

Copenhagen was the site of this year’s SmartGeometry Conference, a heady blend of theory and practice that lets participants unplug ...