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AutoCAD Drafting News: Autodesk Fined

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Our favorite CAD software manufacturer has suffered a hit. Because of a patent infringement suit filed against them by Z4 Technlogies regarding the product activation software AutoCAD employs, U.S. District Judge Leonard Davis of Texas ordered Autodesk to pay an $18 million fine. This of course will not wreck Autodesk, which has revenues in excess of $1 billion, but still, it’s a tough pill for Autodesk to swallow!

If it’s any consolation, mighty Microsoft was fined too: $140 million !!!

Read more about this event here.

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CAD Services: Finding the Good Ones
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Let’s face it, there are thousands of CAD service providers. How do you find one that’s really good? We now have proven ways to garner opinions using incomparable technology. I’m talking about the Internet. To answer the earlier question, all one has to do is go to good forums related to architecture and either: See…

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How to Minimize Your Risk When Using CAD Services
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You’ve done your due diligence and homed in on a particular CAD services provider. You have told them what you want done, and they have quickly sent you a quote for $1200. They are asking for a deposit of 50%. $600 isn’t chump change. You are shuddering at the thought of how you would feel…

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The Indian Outsourcing Industry May Be Down, but It’s Not Out
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There is interesting news about the current dynamics of the Indian outsourcing industry in The Economic Times newspaper, published in India, in its 7 August 2009 issue. The report studies the performance of the Indian IT and BPO industries. It says that in financial year 2010, these industries are expected to grow in the high…

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Outsourcing: At Last Someone Has the Nerve to Talk About China
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As anyone connected with international business knows, there is a hue and cry in the US about IT jobs being outsourced to India. President Obama has doubled the visa fees for IT specialists coming to the US to work (for companies with less than 50% US citizen/permanent resident employees) and there is the H-1B and…

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CAD Services: AutoCAD Mobile – Too Many Complaints
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AutoCAD 360 is the official AutoCAD® mobile app. Available for Android as well as Apple phones, its earlier versions were called AutoCAD WS. Seeing it in the news and being in the CAD services business, we were of course curious and decided to download it. We were immediately faced with a disincentive for the download….

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CAD Services: All Shapes and Sizes
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There are myriad CAD services worldwide and no two are the same. To make sense of this diverse landscape, here is a classification system. Small, Inexpensive This is the one or two-man show which is how many CAD services start off. The advantage of such a CAD drafting firm is that prices will be very…

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