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In 2012, John McEleney and Jon Hirschtick, the founders of SolidWorks, announced their new enterprise, Belmont Technology. Since then they have been building a team, including many former colleagues, to develop some as yet to be defined product. Given their pedigree and comments to press and analysts, their product will…

IBM unveiled three new Watson services delivered over the cloud. The first, Watson Discovery Advisor, is designed to accelerate and strengthen research and development projects in industries such as pharmaceutical, publishing and biotechnology. The second, Watson Analytics, delivers visualized Big Data insights, based on questions posed in natural language by any business user. The…

IBM announced it will establish the IBM Watson Group, a new business unit dedicated to the development and commercialization of cloud-delivered cognitive innovations. The move signifies a strategic shift by IBM to accelerate into the marketplace a new class of software, services and apps that think, improve by learning, and…

An updated version of GstarCAD8 brings out an end-year package with relevant new additions, commands reinstated and 100% functional, complemented with improvements and bugs fixed making this version more stable by delivering great performance in comparison with previous patches. One of the greatest new additions is Digitizer Integration: This version…

Applied Math Modeling Inc., announced CoolSim 4.2 – the next revision of the company’s popular modeling software. As one of the industry’s only cloud-based implementation, CoolSim 4.2 continues to add important ease-of-use and modeling features. “CoolSim 4.2 is laying the foundation for data center design optimization by allowing multiple design scenarios to…

CGS announced its participation in the 103rd annual NRF Annual Convention & EXPO at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in New York, NY from January 12th to 15th. Tagged "Retail's BIG Show,” NRF's flagship industry event offers unparalleled education, collegial networking, and an enormous EXPO Hall full of technologies…

The winners of the five categories of Tekla Global BIM Awards have been chosen among a vast range of competing models, using all kinds of materials all around the world. In the Total BIM category, the best was Puuvilla Shopping Center in Pori, Finland. The Cast in Place Concrete award…

Virtual product development is becoming increasingly important in the apparel industry. The Human Solutions Group now presents the outstanding features of its simulation software Vidya in detail on its own website at www.vidya-software.com. The high-resolution images are convincing: shirts, pants, dresses and coats – almost any garment can now be very…

Francis Cadin, CEO of Datakit, has embarked on a world tour riding his motorcycle to meet customers and resellers all over the world. The second step of this trip was Dakar, where Francis Cadin met with the LMBA-GEDIX team with more than 25 years of experience. LMBA is involved in…

IMS Software announced CDC as the first IMS distributor in South Africa, representing the full product line including IMSpost™, IMSverify™ and IMSce™. "With IMS integrated post processing and validation capabilities CDC will be able to address the most complex needs of our machining customers” said Igal Filipovski, managing director of…