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            <td width="15%"  valign="top"><span class="mybody">29/07/2010</span></td>
            <td width="80%"  valign="top"><a href="news.cfm?news_ID=1303" class="mybold" title="New White Paper : Outsourcing with Confidence">New White Paper : Outsourcing with Confidence</a><br />
              <span class="mybody">New white paper released by Rapid Quality Systems summarizing the common challenges of outsourcing software development work and and describing Code Rocket: a software visualization and documentation system which offers invaluable assistance for supporting recommended outsourcing best practices... <P></span></td>
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            <td width="15%"  valign="top"><span class="mybody">28/07/2010</span></td>
            <td width="80%"  valign="top"><a href="news.cfm?news_ID=1302" class="mybold" title="Customer Testimonial : Insights Learning and Development">Customer Testimonial : Insights Learning and Development</a><br />
              <span class="mybody">Customer Testimonial : Insights Learning and Development    <P>
   Insights into Code Rocket  Insights experience the powerful benefits of Code Rocket    <P>
Rapid Quality Systems are delighted to welcome Insights Learning and Development as members of the Code Rocket community. Insights developers recognized the benefits of Code Rocket and became early adopters of the technology. What they recognized was a highly effective way of adding value to their existing development toolset and achieving quality and management improvements in their development process but with minimal costs of adoption...   <P></span></td>
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            <td width="80%"  valign="top"><a href="news.cfm?news_ID=1301" class="mybold" title="Facing the future of animation at Abertay">Facing the future of animation at Abertay</a><br />
              <span class="mybody">A University of Abertay Dundee researcher believes his studies into facial expressions could shape the future of animation by making film and computer game characters more credible. Robin Sloan, PhD student and lecturer based in the Institute of Arts, Media and Computer Games, has devised a set of rules to help animators sequence their facial animations to portray a more convincing emotion...      <P></span></td>
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            <td width="80%"  valign="top"><a href="news.cfm?news_ID=1300" class="mybold" title="Japan - UKTI Mission to Tokyo Games Show ">Japan - UKTI Mission to Tokyo Games Show </a><br />
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            <td width="80%"  valign="top"><a href="news.cfm?news_ID=1298" class="mybold" title="Scottish Wrestling Entertainment Re-enacts Final Fight for Proper Games (Watch the Video)">Scottish Wrestling Entertainment Re-enacts Final Fight for Proper Games (Watch the Video)</a><br />
              <span class="mybody">At the recent launch party for Final FightTM: Double Impact, games developer Proper Games enlisted some help from Scottish Wrestling Entertainment (SWE). The wrestlers, including Bravehart and Chaz Phoenix, performed an hour long show for the Dundee games development community in celebration of the Final Fight release... <P></span></td>
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