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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 ...

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DCC software developers surf on shifting sand

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Randall Newton

Crushing economics and Moore’s Law are forcing changes in how DCC software is delivered and used. Industry analysis by Kathleen ...

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Art and Commerce and Beer Goggles: SXSW

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Kathleen Maher

South By Southwest started as an annual celebration of the arts but has become a conference where a telecom VP ...

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Do tablets have a place in professional graphics?

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Randall Newton

Analysts and reporters are going nuts trying to out-predict each other on the growing size and influence of the nascent ...

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MacBook Pro and iPad 2: a wowser and a whimper from Apple

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Randall Newton

iPad 2 was really a 1.5, while Thunderbolt and no Nvidia makes the MacBook Pro update more interesting. It was ...