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HTC HD2, the high-end device that was launched with Microsoft’s Windows Mobile operating system on board back in 2009, has already seen a few Windows Phone 7 ports. The handset plays nicely with the new mobile platform from Microsoft, though there still are some aspects that are not working. One of them was jus... |
4 January 2012
18:01 GMT |
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XOrg Server, an open source implementation of the X Window System, has been upgraded to version 1.12 RC1, bringing fixes for various issues and implementing new features. XOrg Server 1.12 RC1 has quite some fixes, compared with other releases, but also some features that are really important:· X Input 2.2 whic... |
29 December 2011
02:26 GMT |
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Samsung did say it was making a 40-inch tablet-like multi-touch surface, a table of sorts, and, sure enough, here it is: the SUR40.
Also dubbed Surface 2, it is powered by a dual-core AMD Athlon X2 2.9 GHz CPU and an AMD HD 6750M GPU.
Those, along with 4 GB of RAM and a HDD of 320 GB, lie beneath a 40-inch multi... |
18 November 2011
03:37 GMT |
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It is unclear if touch support actually helps much in boosting ultrabook sales, but it is reported that Intel wants the first touch-based models to show up next year, 2012.
There are at least two things that can be said for certain about Ultrabooks.
One of them is that they were supposed to be the new wonder chil... |
18 November 2011
03:08 GMT |
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Toshiba is making good on its status as supplier of various PCs and consumer electronics by announcing a whole bunch of items, one of which is the DX735 all-in-one PC.
The market for all-in-one computers is one that, though not overly extensive, is, nonetheless, a fairly healthy one.
The fact that general pric... |
27 September 2011
09:21 GMT |
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3M's experience in the field of large-size multi-touch displays is quite extensive, and now, the company's back with yet another interesting product of this type, namely the C2254PW model.Unveiled at the Digital Signage Expo 2011 in Las Vegas, this display offers a 22-inch diagonal size and is based on 3M&#... |
22 February 2011
14:51 GMT |
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Interactive teaching solutions are becoming increasingly popular within classrooms from all over the world and this trend is sure to continue over the next couple of years as well, a company called Promethan has just come up with an interactive whiteboard that also delivers multi-touch support.So, the device in quest... |
4 February 2011
15:51 GMT |
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Japanese-Swedish mobile phone maker Sony Ericsson has promised a while ago the delivery of a software update for it Xperia X10 devices to enable multi-touch capabilities on the handset, and the update has just started to emerge.To be more precise, Sony Ericsson already started to deliver the software update to its u... |
19 January 2011
04:14 GMT |
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Japanese-Swedish mobile phone maker Sony Ericsson is preparing a new software update for its high-end Xperia X10 handset, one that would enable its users enjoy the benefits of multi-touch.Unfortunately, no new OS flavor would be included with that software update, although users would certainly enjoy one, but the ca... |
18 January 2011
13:41 GMT |
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Sony Ericsson’s Xperia Arc, the slim high-end smartphone that was announced at CES with Google's Android operating system on board, is reportedly capable of offering true multi-touch capabilities, with support for 'unlimited' points touchscreen.That 'unlimited' figure is actually reduc... |
17 January 2011
09:24 GMT |
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Sometimes, companies don't manage to meet their own launch schedules, for various reasons, like how Dell failed to release a certain display back in fall, 2010, although it did, finally, surmount whatever difficulties it was faced with, as a certain new page on its web shop shows.Multi-touch monitors aren'... |
3 January 2011
05:53 GMT |
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Without a doubt, Xerox is one of the world's most innovative companies (after all, many inventions that we take for granted today were actually initially developed by Xerox, such as the mouse), so it should come as no surprise that they're also actively involved in the field of multi-touch solutions, the co... |
16 December 2010
13:31 GMT |
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ViewSonic's been extremely active on the market lately (just look at the numerous tablets it launched over the past couple of weeks), but the company's area of interest goes way beyond the aforementioned utra-portable computing solutions, as they've also released a brand-new 22-inch touchscreen AIO (al... |
1 December 2010
01:37 GMT |
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Xperia X10, the first smartphone that Japanese-Swedish handset vendor Sony Ericsson brought to the market with Google’s Android operating system on boards, is about to get even better. Following the release of an Android 2.1 software update for the device, increasing the OS version from the original 1.6, the ... |
17 November 2010
15:09 GMT |
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Following Motorola’s preemptive launch of a declaration judgment action against Apple earlier this month, the Mac maker has fired back, launching patent infringement lawsuits against the cell phone maker.As the licensing negotiations between the two failed to produce an agreement, PatentlyApple reports, Apple f... |
30 October 2010
12:51 GMT |
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Gerry Carr posted last evening, October 14th, a very cool demonstration of the interaction between the new Unity shell and the uTouch gesture and multi-touch stack, on the Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat) Netbook Edition operating system.Announced by Canonical on October 10th, the new Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat) ... |
15 October 2010
10:00 GMT |
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Rumor has it that Apple is gearing up to materialize one of its recently emerged patent applications involving a touch-screen iMac, according to a report citing industry sources, which notes that Sintek Photronics reportedly sent samples of projected capacitive touch panels over to Cupertino “to be incorporated... |
1 October 2010
06:34 GMT |
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Alongside the new iPod touch, Apple unveiled a completely redesigned iPod nano featuring a Multi-Touch interface, a combination of features typical to the existing shuffle and nano lines of Apple players, as well as built-in FM radio.The new Multi-Touch nature of Apple’s 6G nano allows users to navigate their ... |
2 September 2010
06:22 GMT |
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Canonical and Mark Shuttleworth proudly announced a few minutes ago that the upcoming Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat) operating system will have support for gestures, with multi-touch. This is possible via Ubuntu's uTouch 1.0 gesture and multi-touch stack. Now that the new Ubuntu installer has been released, it ... |
16 August 2010
10:07 GMT |
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Of all the products that have been unveiled thus far, few can truly claim to bring a radical level of innovation to the segment they are set to be part of. Nevertheless, from time to time, a hardware maker or another does manage to create something less than ordinary, and the T231H monitor is one such example. Unveil... |
4 August 2010
09:57 GMT |
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Custom PC maker iBuyPower recently made itself heard, again, when it showed off its NVIDIA 3D Vision Surround gaming solution. Still, it appears that the custom PC maker is bent on increasing the appeal of its machines, especially those with multi-touch capabilities. Basically, the company has developed a software ap... |
2 July 2010
02:35 GMT |
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Apple’s renaming of the iPhone OS to iOS has spawned rumors that the company will somehow integrate the software in its Macintosh computers, perhaps in the form of a hybrid OS borrowing key elements from Mac OS X. “A tidbit of information” received by a rumor site now seems to confirm such plans, al... |
23 June 2010
07:36 GMT |
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Apple CEO Steve Jobs is set to kick off his company’s Worldwide Developers Conference with a number of announcements the industry has come to expect following major hardware leaks, as well as planned (confirmed) announcements, such as iPhone OS 4. Surprisingly, a new Apple product has reportedly escaped in the ... |
7 June 2010
08:29 GMT |
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Multi-touch has finally begun to proliferate, but it can be said that displays with such functionality built-in are still relatively few in number. In fact, specialized monitors like AOC's upcoming e2239Fwt aren't exactly widespread, nor are they especially affordable. Albatron, on the other hand, seeks to ... |
17 May 2010
09:52 GMT |
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Though the concept of touch input is fairly aged by now, the ideas of multi-touch input, intuitive controls and true interactivity were not successfully implemented until recently, when Windows 7 and the latest version of Android came out. With these operating systems, consumers could interact with their PCs, manage ... |
17 May 2010
08:43 GMT |
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Display-solution developers have been doing their best to offer consumer-oriented products with as complex and advanced a multi-touch support as possible. Still, such products always need to satisfy certain pricing conditions, which means that they can never truly outpicture the possibilities of multi-touch input. Wh... |
14 May 2010
02:43 GMT |
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Enthusiasts reconsidering the purchase of a Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 following recent news that the device might enjoy multi-touch after all via software updates should hold their horses. The handset vendor said previously that its first Android-based phone wouldn't do multi-touch, and the company's Commun... |
21 April 2010
05:11 GMT |
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Touch interfaces are becoming an increasingly popular way of interacting with devices. It all started with the iPhone, more or less, but today, plenty of laptops support gestures through the touchpad. Apple notebooks have had multi-touch and gesture support for a while now, and Windows users also get to enjoy the fea... |
19 April 2010
11:46 GMT |
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Japanese-Swedish mobile phone maker Sony Ericsson has pushed its first handset powered by Google's Android OS, the X10, to the market only recently and now we learn that some disturbing news emerged for enthusiasts. The device does not come with multi-touch features, something that is reportedly connected both... |
31 March 2010
04:48 GMT |
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There have been significant advancements in touch or gesture-controlled display solutions but, in most cases, the setup involved a display with some new form of touch-tracking technology or another. Granted, there were experiments with displays that could recognize hand gestures or intuitively track multiple touch in... |
24 March 2010
10:34 GMT |
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At last year's CeBIT, ASUS showcased what looked like a dual-display laptop concept that did away with the keyboard, relying solely on touch input. However, touch technology was not as advanced last year as it is now, which is likely the reason why ASUS has not been able, so far, to find a practical implementati... |
2 March 2010
12:01 GMT |
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Initially unveiled at FPD (Flat Panel Display) International Japan 2009, LG Display's 13.3-inch Capacitive In-Cell Multi-Touch screen panel has now managed to pass Microsoft's Windows 7 Touch Logo Certification tests. This in-cell touch panel provides support for two simultaneous touch inputs and, unlike ot... |
23 February 2010
05:27 GMT |
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Apple has been granted a patent for inventing a “multipoint touchscreen,” a touch panel featuring a transparent capacitive sensing medium configured to detect multiple touches or near touches that occur at the same time, at distinct locations. Such a screen would produce distinct signals representative of... |
17 February 2010
10:41 GMT |
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The owners of a Motorola DROID mobile phone have now yet another reason to rejoice, as the mobile phone maker has announced officially that it plans on delivering the Android 2.1 update for their handsets as soon as this week. The software update for DROID was already rumored to arrive in the near future, yet now al... |
9 February 2010
05:35 GMT |
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Motorola DROID is one of the hottest Android-based mobile phones on the market, and its users will certainly rejoice learning that it might not be too long before the device tastes the latest flavor of Google's Android operating system. The handset is currently running under the Android 2.0.1 version of the plat... |
8 February 2010
11:28 GMT |
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Search engine-based company Google released at the beginning of this week a new version of its Google Maps for Android, namely Google Maps 3.4, which came to all Android phones out there via the Android Market. One of the main features of the new version of Google Maps is multi-touch functionality, which is now avai... |
6 February 2010
03:39 GMT |
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Nexus One by HTC, the first mobile phone delivered to the market with Google's Android 2.1 operating system on board, and also the first of them all to be sold via Google's own web store, has just received its first software update from the Mountain View-based company. Those who already purchased the devic... |
3 February 2010
02:42 GMT |
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Rooting an Android-based mobile phone seems to be one of the main sources of entertainment for some users out there. This process offers access to additional functionality on the device, and other more, so there are a lot of Android phone owners interested in making a move in the area, especially since a rooted devi... |
22 January 2010
05:19 GMT |
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Compared to the very early days of computing, personal computers (PCs) now come in a very wide variety of shapes, sizes, configurations and performance capabilities. Desktops are favored for their expansion and customization options, whereas some high-end notebooks have CPUs and graphics solutions that surpass even t... |
20 January 2010
09:53 GMT |
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As Apple’s “creation” event approaches, talk about the new version of iPhone software continues to intensify. Recently, a source close to Apple has been leaking iPhone OS 4.0 details, including such tidbits as multitasking (the ability to run apps in the background), system-wide multi-touch gestures... |
20 January 2010
06:55 GMT |
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Mobile phone maker Motorola has delivered to the market one of the most popular current Android handsets, the Motorola DROID, launched in the US via Verizon, and which is also available in other markets around the world under the name of MILESTONE. One of the most praised features of the MILESTONE is the multi-touch... |
14 January 2010
04:21 GMT |
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Apple reportedly took down FingerWorks.com five years into the acquisition of the company, whose two founders were hired as senior engineers at Apple. The duo would later see their revolutionary gesture-based tech implemented into the Mac maker's products. It is believed that Apple has taken down the site in a m... |
12 January 2010
03:34 GMT |
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Nexus One by HTC is the first mobile phone that is powered by the Android 2.1 operating system, and also the first one to be sold via Google's Web Store, and it seems that it might soon come in another variant to the market. Google is already known to be working on more handsets that will be sold via its portal... |
11 January 2010
10:24 GMT |
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Even though multi-touch technology has evolved about as rapidly as any other IT industry segment, most implementations only manage to handle, at most, two distinct inputs. This limitation has, so far, outruled touch-based multi-user interactivity and has been unable to cope with those professional or prosumer (profe... |
6 January 2010
04:23 GMT |
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Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia announced today the launch of Qt 4.6, the latest flavor of its cross-platform application and UI framework. According to the company, the new release comes around with new platform support and powerful new graphical capabilities, as well as with support for multi-touch gestures. More... |
1 December 2009
06:39 GMT |
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Motorola DROID, the second Android-based handset launched by Motorola, and the first one launched on Verizon, comes to the market with a feature that many other touchscreen-enabled devices do not have: multi-touch. However, a part of the phone didn't come around with support for the technology, the browser, but... |
30 November 2009
08:15 GMT |
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Netbooks have seen a spectacular popularity surge this past year and developers and manufacturers seem to want to keep consumer interest in such products high by outfitting their devices with more and more features, some of which were hard to implement even in desktops not too long ago. The latest ability gained by n... |
30 November 2009
03:42 GMT |
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Razorfish, a company already known for the touch experiences it is capable of building, has just showcased a new concept, aimed at helping those in search for a mobile phone to enjoy an interactive multi-touch experience: Razorfone. Developed by their Emerging Experiences team, the new conceptual approach towards th... |
27 November 2009
03:46 GMT |
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Touch and multi-touch technologies are becoming an increasingly present feature of today's personal computer systems, providing end-users with a choice for a convenient way to interact with the latest features available on PCs. N-Trig announced today that its DuoSense technology, combining both pen and capacitiv... |
23 November 2009
10:45 GMT |
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Leading manufacturer of computers and computer components MSI debuted its latest in the line of all-in-one PCs, the Wind Top AE2220. This new desktop PC is an addition to the award-winning line of Wind Top systems and combines low power usage and eco-friendliness with top-of-the-line performance capabilities, afford... |
19 November 2009
10:31 GMT |
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