A reader worries: Do you have more information in the "copyright reasons"? Nobody wants problems with the big red A company. There is a difference between LT-Extender from Germany and the LT add-ons from Australia. I am under the impression that LT Extender modified the code in AutoCAD LT,...

Today's email blast from The Source (the Canadian version of Circuit City) highlights gaming computers. The first item is the ACER ASPIRE AM5700-E5731A DESKTOP COMPUTER GAMING BUNDLE, which comes with a 7200rpm 640GB hard drive.Red all-caps text, however, screams that......

Headlines that generalize irritate me, like this one from Reuters writer Melanie Lee: Nine-year old whiz-kid writes iPhone application (Or maybe we should blame Reuters editor Bill Tarrant.) Generalized headlines make rare events seem regular, such as the one above and the others that appeared today...

The CAD company formerly known as UGS is buried deep inside the Siemens megacorporation, financially speaking.  Siemens PLM Software is part of Siemens' Industry Automation division -- or IA, in Siemens-speak. All this to say, it's hard for me to determine how PLM Software itself is do...

I installed AutoCAD on my new LG X110 netbook. This is a computer with just 1GB RAM and an undersized 1024x600-resolution screen, but a healthy 160GB hard drive and 1.6GHz dual-core CPU assisted by a 4GB high-speed ReadyBoost memory card.First......

I have three SpaceNavigator 3D mice made by 3dconnexion but I use zero of them. I've tried, but here are the problems I've found -- along with suggestions I've made to 3dconnexion: 1. The round shape makes it hard for me to determine its orientation: which side is "up"? Solutio...

Dueling concepts from CNN Technology today:"Unmanned Indian probe lands successfully on the moon.""...the probe transmitted sufficient signals to the mother craft before landing, but no more were expected after the impact.""The probe had a hard landing on the lunar surface......

Cadence Design Systems gets rid of 625 employees + contractors + consultants to save $150 million in annual expenses. Lip-Bu Tan is Interim vice chairman of the Interim Office of the Chief Executive: The decision to streamline our workforce was made with the utmost care and respect for the hard-work...

We had a wonderful evening with architect Pandelis Iatroudakis, who showed us the pedestrian zone in the most ancient part of Athens. We wandered through the warm evening, past the Acropolis, and then to a non-tourist-oriented restaurant. There he selected Greek dishes we've never had back home ...

IntelliCAD 7 The next generation of IntelliCAD changes the focus to "new functions, instead of always trying to keep up with Autodesk," says Mr Lorenzo. "The IntelliCAD 6.x architecture forces us in a constant reactive position -- simply keeping up with database changes is overwhelmin...