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Friday, October 2. 2009
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Court: Reselling AutoCAD OK (if you don't read the license?)
Ralph Grabowski has the latest in the "Vernor sells AutoCAD on e-bay" case.
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Thursday, September 17. 2009
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Autodesk Releases iPhone/iPod Touch Supported SketchBook Mobile
There's a free and $2.99 version of the "professional-grade paint and drawing" program. Its counterpart on the desktop is Autodesk SketchBook Pro, a package you can buy at Amazon for $75 (list is $100). Data created in the mobile version can be opened on the desktop.
- press release
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Friday, August 14. 2009
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Autodesk Beats the Street; Q2 Profit Down 88%
Reuters look at the cup half full: "...Autodesk posted a profit of 24 cents per share, compared with 56 cents per share a year ago, and ahead of analysts' consensus forecast of 19 cents according to Reuters Estimates."
The reasons given by the company for the drop in profits: lower sales and margins as well as restructuring charges.
The numbers look like this per Dow Jones: "For the quarter ended July 31, Autodesk reported a profit of $10.5 million, or 5 cents a share, down from $89.8 million, or 39 cents a share, a year earlier. Excluding items such as restructuring and stock-compensation costs, earnings fell to 24 cents from 56 cents.
Revenue dropped 33% to $414.9 million."
Autodesk's Geospatial group has been virtually silent since the launch of AutoCAD 2010 via a webcast earlier this year (Directions Media coverage.
- Dow Jones
- Reuters
- Earnings call transcript
- press release
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Monday, July 27. 2009
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Update 2: Autodesk to Give Startup "Clean Techs" Free Software
Update 2: Syncromatics did not use the software noted to "to create a more efficient bus-tracking system that utilizes GPS and mobile-location technology." They already had that tech in place. Instead, the company used Inventor to design the solar powered bus shelter signs that tell people when the bus will come. The information is collected using GPS. Thanks to Brett Smith at Autodesk for helping to solve the mystery and pointing me to this press release and video.
Continue reading "Update 2: Autodesk to Give Startup "Clean Techs" Free Software"
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Tuesday, July 21. 2009
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Podcast: First Half of 2009: State of the Industry
![PBBI [MapInfo]](/uploads/mapinfo.blogThumb.jpg "PBBI [MapInfo]: Pitney Bowes Business Insights")
We are halfway through 2009. Directions Media editors have been to about a dozen user and specialty conferences in the U.S. and around the world, including ESRI's huge event last week. What themes are emerging? What can we tease out about the future? Our editors try to make sense of five key themes they've identified.
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Monday, July 20. 2009
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E-mail subject: Invitation to Test Drive Navigation Devices
That was the subject of an e-mail from AUGI (Autodesk User Group International) I received today. I thought: test drive = car, navigation device = GPS. I puzzled: Autodesk no longer has an LBS division and geospatial has been very quiet.... this is very odd! But of course, it referred to a computer navigation device, aka a "mouse" available for a test drive.
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