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- Student Technology Day: session videos now online
- Last month I attended the Microsoft Student Technology Day 2008 full coverage here in London, with Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft, Andy McLoughlin, CEO of Huddle.net and many others. It was really quite an eye-opening day to some of the work at Microsoft, and from the many emails I got...
- Tags: Multi-touch, Steve Ballmer, Video, Microsoft Corp., Corporate Communications, Marketing, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-11-21
- Multi-touch smart desks surface in the classroom (<b>Gallery:</b> Amazing technology)
- Multi-touch smart desks surface in the classroom (Gallery: Amazing technology)The "Mini-nuke" and ....Both the mini-nuclear power plant and the "salt spray" ships remind me of past hoaxes to try to get gullable politicians to pony up "research grants". Some of the others are interesting "out of the box" thinking...
- Tags: mini-nuke, AMAZING TECHNOLOGY, multi-touch, Gallery
- Discussion threads 2008-11-20
- (Gallery: HP offers multi-touch consumer notebook/tablet)
- (Gallery: HP offers multi-touch consumer notebook/tablet)Me wantThis is my computer. Only feature left to complete before the implant is to make it all roll-up or fold to pocket size.But... this'll work in the mean time.RE: (Gallery: HP offers multi-touch consumer notebook/tablet)me want 2!RE: (Gallery: HP offers multi-touch consumer notebook/tablet)Does the...
- Tags: Tablets, Notebooks, tablet, multi-touch, multi-touch consumer notebook tablet, consumer notebook tablet, Gallery, Hewlett-Packard Co., notebook
- Discussion threads 2008-11-20
- Gallery: HP offers multi-touch consumer notebook/tablet
- The TouchSmart tx2 Notebook PC was modeled after HP’s desktop version of the same name and can be used as a PC, display, or tablet. by Andy Smith
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., PC, Multi-touch, Tablets, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Andy Smith, HP, notebook, multi-touch
- Image galleries 2008-11-19
- HP unveils multi-touch consumer laptop
- HP unveils multi-touch consumer laptopUnfortunately its an HP and HP computers suck.Their printers rock, but I've already dealt with crappy HP computers with low quality parts.HP is the reason why I started building PCs.If only I could build a tablet pc...RE: HP unveils multi-touch consumer laptopIt looks like a good...
- Tags: Notebooks, Tablets, Keyboards, BlackBerry Storm, Hewlett-Packard Co., multi-touch consumer laptop, multi-touch, consumer laptop, laptop computer, tablet
- Discussion threads 2008-11-19
- HP unveils multi-touch consumer laptop/tablet
- Hewlett-Packard on Wednesday launched its first multi-touch notebook for consumers. The TouchSmart tx2 Notebook PC was modeled after HP's desktop version of the same name (statement, Techmeme). The move ups the ante in the notebook race--assuming you think multi-touch is important. The laptop also...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Multi-touch, Laptop Computer, Tablets, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-11-19
- Who wants multi-touch? I think I just might.
- Who wants multi-touch? I think I just might.Multi-touch with one hand is nearly impossible[i]in an environment where you have to hold the thing in one hand nowhere to put it down or you are constantly on the move and control it with your other.[/i]I totally agree with your premise...
- Tags: Keyboards, Monitors & displays, Tablets, What-if IT, multi-touch, touch screen
- Discussion threads 2008-11-05
- Who wants multi-touch? I think I just might.
- Fellow blogger, Mary-Jo Foley, asked an interesting question the other day about the multi-touch capabilities of Windows 7: Is it a technology looking for a solution and does anyone actually want it? Overall, I'm with Mary-Jo. Touching my screen is something that holds no allure for...
- Tags: Multi-touch, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-11-05
- Show of hands: Who wants multi-touch on a PC (and why)?
- Show of hands: Who wants multi-touch on a PC and why?Touch HandheldsMulti Touch is really for handhelds. I wouldn't want to use my notebook or a media center pc using touch. I'd rather use a remote for a media center pc and a mouse with my notebook. I don't know...
- Tags: Keyboards, Monitors & displays, Desktops, multi-touch, PC, touch screen
- Discussion threads 2008-11-04
- Show of hands: Who wants multi-touch on a PC (and why)?
- Even after seeing all the glitzy multi-touch Windows 7 demos last week, I still don't understand the appeal. Who really wants to have to touch their laptop or desktop screens to perform tasks that are easier and better done with a mouse and keyboard? by Mary Jo Foley
- Tags: Desktop, PC, Multi-touch, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-11-04
- The technologies which will change our lives
- We are at a strange place in this world's history, where the Industrial Revolution is over, and we're in the new technological age. So many things have been discovered over the course of the last and this century, and we're still no closer to reaching a technological...
- Tags: Earth, Multi-touch, Computing, Technology, Microsoft Research, MSR, Rootkits, Internet, Security, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-10-24
- Cambridge develops super thin e-paper
- This is something for sore eyes; it certainly got my lower jaw dropped to the desk. The University of Cambridge, besides being loathed by almost everybody at my university (long story, another day) have once again excelled themselves in the technological field by developing this idea, whereas Plastic Logic, are...
- Tags: Device, E-paper, Multi-touch, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-10-17
- New notebooks: What Apple didn't announce
- While Apple delivered a lot of new features in the new MacBooks today (glass trackpads, unibody contruction) and they also removed one – Firewire from the MacBook. There are some other key features that that were rumored to arrive in Apple's new notebooks that just didn't pan out. ...
- Tags: Multi-touch, Apple MacBook, Apple Inc., Notebooks, Keyboards, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Peripherals, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-10-14
- MacBooks: out with the old, in with the new
- MacBooks: out with the old, in with the newMulti-touch trackpad: gimmick or useful feature?The thought of having to use gestures with 4 fingers on a small trackpad as opposed to a touch screen display sounds absolutely nightmarish in terms of UI usefulness. Multi-touch on the iPhone is a total joke...
- Tags: Keyboards, Notebooks, multi-touch, Apple MacBook, keyboard, Apple Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-10-14
- Highlights from the Apple notebook event
- Highlights from the Apple notebook event at Apple headquarters in Cupertino.Steve Jobs takes that stage and introduces Tim Cook who discusses Apple's 2-3x the market growth, Vista and their retail successes. US retail market share grows from single digits to 17.6% From 15 -...
- Tags: Multi-touch, Nvidia GeForce, NVidia Corp., Apple Inc., Graphics, Aluminum, GPU, Steve, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-10-14
- Microsoft Student Technology Day (1 of 2)
- The first half of the day before lunch with Andy McLoughlin from Huddle.net, some photos of the Live Search product, and Steve Ballmer's keynote. by Zack Whittaker
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Zack Whittaker, Photograph, Microsoft, Windows Live, Huddle, Startups, Enterprise, London, Online, Careers, Steve Ballmer, Surface, Multi-touch, Windows 7
- Image galleries 2008-10-03
- Rumor Mill: Some juice on the new MBP
- Rumor Mill: Some juice on the new MBPAs long as I can still choose a matte screen, I'll be happy. [nt][nt]"Thin" is Not the AnswerIt definitely is time to move forward with the MBP design, but the problem is that Apple has this obsession with "Thin" and it's really not...
- Tags: multi-touch
- Discussion threads 2008-09-26
- Microsoft vs. Apple: the multi-touch war
- Microsoft vs. Apple: the multi-touch warJust doesn't seem naturalThe idea of using both hands and touching to tell the computer what to do, to me seem unnatural. I'd rather have a truly voice directed PC that would seem more natural and useful.here is why I think multi-touch is a...
- Tags: Multitouch, Microsoft Corp., Apple Inc., multi-touch
- Discussion threads 2008-09-23
- Microsoft vs. Apple: the multi-touch war
- Because the Evil Queen of Numbers has kept the Windows branch so quiet about Windows 7, we've been relying entirely on speculation, the blogosphere, leaks and occasionally "that dreaded New Yorker" as Sinofsky would probably say. Multi-touch is the latest craze it seems. Once the technology was...
- Tags: Multi-touch, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Voice Technology, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-09-23
- Multi-touch smart desks in the classroom
- Multi-touch smart desks in the classroomVisit Your Local Builder's ExchangeIf you ask me, the photo of the Woman (teacher?) and the children students using this interactive desk seems very similar to the blueprint drawing table I used at Plan Rooms and Builders Exchange offices in the US. That was...
- Tags: multi-touch
- Discussion threads 2008-09-17
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