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Registration is now open for SIGGRAPH 2011

The 38th International Conference and Exhibition on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques will be taking place this year in Vancouver, the 7th – 11th of August. Registration is open to experience all of the latest ...

PCMark 7 Announced For Windows 7

Futuremark, the developer of popular graphic intensive benchmarking software such as 3DMark 11, announced PCMark 7, a new benchmark offering complete PC performance analysis for Windows 7. PCMark 7 includes 7 separate test suites combining ...

3D is good for kids: We knew it all along

Despite a warning from Nintendo not to buy the 3DS for children 6 or under, American optometrists are welcoming the device. Aside from the fact that the 3DS is good clean fun “The 3DS could ...

Game Technology for Disaster Preparedness and Response

By Ted Pollak (contributions by Jon Peddie) Japan's terrible situation with its nuclear power plant is heartbreaking. Especially sad are reports that some workers are exposing themselves to potentially harmful radiation levels. The bravery of ...

Nvidia introduces new Mainstream AIB

The new GTX 550 Ti enters the mainstream segment checking in at the $149 price point. It will feature 192 Cuda Cores, 900 MHz Graphics Clock, 1GB of GDDR5 with a Texture Fill Rate of ...

Autodesk simulator allows public to test out new roads

Our Golden Gate Bridge is being revamped and the San Francisco Transportation Authority showed off the new Presidio Parkway driving simulator Tuesday at the Autodesk Gallery in San Francisco. The sim includes a steering wheel, ...

Internet Explorer 9, Microsoft’s first GPU-accelerated browser now available

IE9 promises to take surfing the internet to a new level with hardware accelerated graphics and HTML5. Top sites such as Ebay, Amazon, Hulu and CNN are among the first sites to take advantage of ...

Do tablets have a place in professional graphics?

Analysts and reporters are going nuts trying to out-predict each other on the growing size and influence of the nascent market for tablet computers. And its success has caused every analyst and reporter to come ...

New Workstation Report Available! Steady moderate growth for the workstation market in Q4’10

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Jon Peddie Research reports workstation market continues to experience healthy growth

TIBURON, Calif— March 9th, 2011–The fourth quarter of 2010 saw the workstation market take a noteworthy step forward  in its journey back from recessionary lows, setting a new high water mark for quarterly unit volume. ...

Workstation market growth continues at a healthy, moderate pace in Q4’10

Following up on a third quarter with similar, bullish-yet-moderate numbers, the fourth quarter saw about 903.7 thousand workstation ship worldwide, representing a respectable 6.4% sequential growth rate (26.0% year-to-year). JPR is set to release the ...

WebGL arrives

http://www.khronos.org/webgl/wiki/Main_Page