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Autodesk net income up 170% in first quarter

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Randall Newton

Revenue might have been higher if not for the late-quarter introduction of 2012 suites. Autodesk makes sweeping changes in how ...

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Turning ‘natural interface’ input into a new data standard

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Kathleen Maher

Khronos Group announces a new open standard working group for advanced device and sensor input. Two game input developers are ...

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Creating an infrastructure for Gaming 3.0

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Randall Newton

Peter Moore of EA Sports outlines the future of the video game industry at the recent MI6 Game Marketing Conference. ...

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Nvidia positions Quadro 400 to seduce AutoCAD users

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Randall Newton

The real competition for this entry-level professional graphics card is not something from AMD but Nvidia’s game-card line. By Alex ...

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3D Systems buys Sycode and Print3D.com for the Deelip mojo

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Randall Newton

The products are good, but not earth shaking. There are only five employees, and one is the CEO’s driver/gofer. Goa ...

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Gamification, why not?

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Kathleen Maher

Games for fun or insight are the next intersection of social technology and graphics. By Kathleen Maher Has gamification gone ...

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John Gage at COFES 2011: the network is next

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Randall Newton

In a wide-ranging, thought-provoking speech, former Sun Microsystems researcher John Gage opened COFES 2011 by pointing out the path of ...

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Graphics board tests are not created equal

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Randall Newton

Most industry benchmarks can be slanted to prefer or avoid performance characteristics. Jon Peddie explains the Pmark, used by Jon ...

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Like how workstation prices are dropping? Thank AMD

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Randall Newton

It may come as a surprise that the company with the tiny market share in workstation CPUs and GPUs is ...

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Manufacturing focus dominates chattering class at COFES 2011

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Randall Newton

Thanks to a generous press/analyst attendance policy, what happens at COFES doesn’t stay at COFES. For a variety of reasons ...