Graphics software company Adobe and security specialist Symantec have both used Microsoft's status as a monopoly to jab at Microsoft, particularly in Europe.
Professional graphics card growth will be aided by increased adoption of computer-aided design technology in various industries and easier-to-use 3D graphics software and applications.
He also owns shares in graphics software maker Avid Technologies (AVID).
The machine itself ships with a couple of good games, the AppleWorks (formerly ClarisWorks) word-processing and spreadsheet package, some graphics software, both the Microsoft and Netscape Web browsers, and a good e-mail program.
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Second, Ari Rapkin, a computer graphics software engineer at ILM, introduces an amazing paradox: What the special-effects crews are doing is often not emulating physics but tweaking it--because storytelling is better served by showing the audience what it expects, not what would actually happen if a 3-foot-tall creature drew his light saber.
Digital materials include texts, databases, still and moving images, audio, graphics, software, and web pages, among a wide and growing range of formats.
Spring, who founded the company in 2007, worked previously at Electronic Arts, Disney and Sony (Tokyo:SNE), heading up graphics and software tools departments.
Later he also said that developing software for the Apple Macintosh computer led Microsoft into graphics-intensive software, setting the stage for Microsoft applications and its breakthrough Windows 95 operating system.
He bought Finnish mobile software developer Hybrid Graphics and Indian mobile video software developer Pace Soft Silicon in early 1996.
The company is speeding up production of 64-megabit DRAMs, which are in great demand for computers hungry for memory to run graphics-intensive software.
Mr. Brichter got his start in the mobile industry while at Apple from 2006 to 2007 as part of a five-person group working out early kinks in technology that made the iPhone's graphics hardware and software communicate.
The company predicts PC vendors will configure entire systems with the necessary boards, monitors, and Windows software, and individually sold graphics cards will come bundled with the software.
To really see the 660LX in action, download Silicon Graphics' outstanding handwriting recognition software, CalliGrapher, and turn heads by handwriting memos, notes and E-mails.
The retired US-based software writer developed the Graphics Interchange Format in 1987 while working at the internet service provider Compuserve.
The user-friendly site, which runs on open source Chinese wiki software, has colorful graphics and icons to click on imaginatively designed sections.
The Up software's brightly colored graphics celebrate achievements, and offer "insights" to encourage better behavior.
In this case the desktop computer's processors power the software, offering higher quality graphics than could be rendered by the mobile processor.
He gave up Nvidia's software to focus on the DirectX graphics standard that Microsoft was building into millions of PCs.
Copyright, for example, arises through the player-supplied software, architectural designs, and graphics that are employed to help run and populate the virtual world.
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Adobe's Flash software, the standard for rendering graphics and video online, is taking a p.r. beating by Apple, which refuses to use it in its phones and tablets.
He gave up Nvidia's software to focus on the DirectX graphics standard that Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) was building into millions of PCs.
Huang used an iPad and MacBook Air to access rich computer-aided design files and special effects software that typically require a burly graphics processor running on a dedicated workstation or server.
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Despite the slick real-time 3D interface, Play says that the software doesn't require a 3D graphics card.
Last October James bought a company called Corda, which makes software that turns corporate data into intelligent graphics, a business that could become a threat if Omniture technology moves into analyzing corporate behavior.
When the target audience members fired up their Palm devices, they were greeted with a simple text-and-graphics message, which described Intraware's online software sales and services and asked them to submit their e-mail address for more information.
Computer graphics, for example, have already been through this transition from software to hardware.
The software obviously remains the same besides new trackpad options, graphics chip switching, and other minor changes (that we've seen so far), though there are some odd tweaks.
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They use high-speed graphics cards to run a customized rendering platform called Gocad, built by software maker Paradigm.
Microsoft suggests the facility would be preferable to current presentation software, including its own Powerpoint program, in which such graphics must be prepared in advance of a presentation.
"When I'm out doing these trips I feel I'm doing something useful, " says software engineer Thomas Davis , 52, a cofounder of Silicon Graphics, who retired two years ago.
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