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ArchiCAD users now have Android access to BIMx models

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Randall Newton

The application extends the BIMx community, which also uses Facebook as a collaboration platform. Graphisoft has released an Android version ...

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Shaking through the mobile phone shakeout

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Jon Peddie

There is computer industry hype, and then there is mobile phone industry hype. Jon Peddie looks at the coming shakeout ...

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Twilight of the desktop tops the Tech Soft 3D agenda

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Randall Newton

It wasn’t the free microbrew that drew 60 developers to the annual pre-COFES customer meeting; it was the opportunity to ...

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Qualcomm shipped the most mobile device GPUs in 2011

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GfxS staff

Apple has highest Q4 quarter-to-quarter growth, according to the latest market research report from Jon Peddie Research. Shipments of graphic ...

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Geometric launches JT-based mobile viewer

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Randall Newton

Glovius runs on Windows, iOS, and Android; requires use of online conversion service. Small vendors are continuing to beat the ...

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IMSI/Design to release TurboViewer SDK

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Randall Newton

As the first movers with a software development kit for mobile CAD viewing, IMSI/Design gains a powerful advantage in the ...

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Mobile makes CAD industry submit to Joy’s Law in 2011

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Randall Newton

Most CAD vendors released at least one mobile app in 2011, but some felt pressured to do it.  Joy’s Law ...

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Autodesk adds force simulation to iPad app lineup

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Randall Newton

The free app uses technology from various Autodesk simulation products to provide real-time solving. Autodesk has released ForceEffect, a new ...

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Adobe the toolmaker listens to its customers, kills Flash for Mobile

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Randall Newton

Tools built for old paradigms rarely fit new situations. Mobile app development is still searching for its Pulaski Tool. It ...

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New JPR report explores exploding mobile processor market

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GfxS staff

More than 750 million smartphones and 300 million tablets will ship in 2016, requiring more than 2 billion processors. How ...