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- Apple step aside: GUI on Synaptics' concept smartphone is a total game changer
- Apple step aside: GUI on Synaptics' concept smartphone is a total game changerInterestingAs a whole, cel phone interfaces suck nards. Nice to see someone thinking differently no pun intended. The concept device in your video is clearly far too large to work as a phone not pocketable. ...
- Tags: Telecom & Utilities, game, GUI, Apple Inc., concept smartphone, phone, Synaptics Inc.
- Discussion threads 2007-01-08
- Apple step aside: GUI on Synaptics' concept smartphone is a total game changer
- When you take a step back and look at the new crop of cell and smart phones coming onto the market these days, its almost as if all of the entries are working off of one or two designers playbooks. Whereas one handful of entries (ie: Motorolas Q, Samsungs Blackjack,...
- Tags: Smart phones, Cellular phones, game, Apple Computer Inc., Synaptics Inc., telephone, touchpad, GUI, smart phone
- Blog posts 2007-01-08
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- What's happening in Mobile: a peek at new products, services
- Last night, I had the chance to meet with some companies who are exhibiting at this week's CTIA Wireless conference in San Francisco at a press-only event called Mobile Focus. It was a good show - food and drink alongside some new devices and technologies in the mobile space -...
- Tags: Mobile, Lightpole, Streamezzo, Zoomback, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-09-11
- Could the MacBook Air's trackpad support pen input?
- As I played with the MacBook Air at the recent Macworld Expo and tried out its multitouch trackpad, my mind inexplicably went to pen input. What would it be like to write on the trackpad like a pen digitizer pad? Could it be done? Believe it or...
- Tags: Capacitance, Handwriting Recognition, Problem, Apple MacBook, Apple Inc., Pen, Trackpad Control Panel, Tablets, Notebooks, Telecom & Utilities, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, David Morgenstern
- Blog posts 2008-01-31
- Apple's most valuable vendors; New campus on tap; Jobs raise possible
- Apple filed its annual report with the Securities and Exchange Commission Thursday and outlined a few notable items: A list of most valuable vendors, a second corporate campus on tap, component costs and a potential raise for Steve Jobs. Among the highlights: The company outlined its most valuable...
- Tags: Job, Steve Jobs, Apple Inc., Mr., Campus, Company, Research & Development, Benefits, Manufacturing, Business Operations, Human Resources, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2007-11-16
- Google introduces Android and the Open Handset Alliance
- Google announced today in a press release their vision of an open handset along with a list of companies who are part of the alliance. These companies include everything from carriers to phone manufacturers that are all working towards the same common goal -- to revolutionize this industry. ...
- Tags: Google Inc., Handset, Web Site Development, Cellular Phones, Strategy, Internet, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Management, Garett Rogers
- Blog posts 2007-11-05
- Adobe claims Flash's non-PC footprint alone will be 1 billion by 2010
- Last week, in the course of asking if Adobe could or should follow in salesforce.com's platform as a service PaaS shoes, I wondered aloud what 300 million devices Adobe CEO Bruce Chizen was referring to when he cited that number as being the current global non-PC footprint of Flash. I...
- Tags: Prada, Touch Screen, Adobe Systems Inc., Phone, Verizon Communications Inc., LG Electronics Inc., Handset, NTT DoCoMo Inc., Symbian Inc., Keyboards, Telecom & Utilities, Cellular Phones, Hardware, Peripherals, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, David Berlind
- Blog posts 2007-10-26
- Microsoft to take the wraps off 'PlayTable'
- Microsoft to take the wraps off 'PlayTable'This is unpossibleThis is not possible. Everybody knows Apple invented the multi-touch interface when they unveiled the iPhone.Apple even patented their innovation. You must all be lying/confused/brainwashed.[/sarcasm]Funny how some of these technologies only exist after Apple baubalizes them. This is a perfect...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Research & Development, PRODUCTIVITY, Microsoft Corp., PlayTable, Jeff Han, stove
- Discussion threads 2007-05-25
- New Apple patent hints at touch screen ecosystem
- New Apple patent hints at touch screen ecosystemNot a touchscreen.Larry, reading the patent, this doesn't appear to be a touchscreen on both sides. The patent describes a display on top and a "force-sensitive touch-surface" on the bottom. IOW, it describes a mousepad placed on the back of a handheld device.Mousepads...
- Tags: Keyboards, Monitors & displays, Mousepad, touch screen, patent, Apple Inc.
- Discussion threads 2007-05-10
- Doc Searls to hardware OEMs (in gauntlet): It's time to free yourselves and your customers
- Perhaps its serendipitous that, in the process of "personalizing" installations of Linux and Unix, one of the oldest and most oft-used utilities is called "make." The power of self-making things clearly wasnt lost on Tim OReilly when his company first started publishing Make Magazine. Today, Web 2.0, if you want...
- Tags: Software Infrastructure, Personal Technology, Open Source, Hardware Infrastructure, General, Apple
- Blog posts 2007-04-16
- iPhone touch-screen tech could mean legal trouble for Apple-do you agree?
- iPhone touch-screen tech could mean legal trouble for Apple-do you agree?I will patent ... air!We will talk royalties later ...wait wait wait......Did anyone ever really believe Apple innovated anything to do with the iPhone? Be serious please. I called this when I first saw it, only i thought it might...
- Tags: Keyboards, Monitors & displays, touch-screen tech, Apple iPhone, Apple-do, Apple Inc., touch screen
- Discussion threads 2007-02-21
- Microsoft to unveil Windows Mobile 6
- Microsoft to unveil Windows Mobile 6Hmm so if I wanted only the data plan with VoIPI think this can help me get rid of a $29.99 voice plan since a VoIP can be a tad cheaper than a cellular voice plan.Poor iPhone, DBA"Dead Before Arrival". Considering the iPhone was already...
- Tags: Desktops, Operating systems, Handhelds, Microsoft Windows, synaptic, Apple Macintosh, Microsoft Windows Mobile 6, Microsoft Windows Mobile, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-02-07
- The untold part of the iPhone story and FairPlay to get fairer?
- Between CES last week, a holiday weekend, and Mashup Camp and Mashup University this week, Ive been too distracted to circle back to Apples iPhone that many said upstaged all of the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. From a press perspective, that may indeed be true. Almost in shock,...
- Tags: General, Entertainment, Mobile, Personal Technology, Wired &, Wireless, Motorola Q Review, Apple, Telephony, Events, CES 2007, Apple iPhone, Consumer Electronics Show
- Blog posts 2007-01-19
- CES Big Picture #1 (no pun intended): Hi-Def virtuous circle is complete
- On the heels of returning from the Consumer Electronics Show last week, a lot of people are asking the obvious questions:What was the big news?Did you see anything interesting or cool?Given how Ive been reflecting on my visit to Las Vegas in order to answer these questions, it seemed equally...
- Tags: General, Entertainment, Personal Technology, Hollywood On Demand, Events, CES 2007, Disruptive Technology, Consumer Electronics Show
- Blog posts 2007-01-16
- The Onyx phone is packed with features
- Move over Apple, Synaptics shows touch screen phoneAt CES 2007 in Las Vegas, ZDNet Executive Editor David Berlind speaks to Synaptics' Sr. Director Mariel van Tatenhove about the company's innovative touch screen concept phone.
- Tags: telephone
- Videos 2007-01-13
- Apple iPod U2 Special Edition (30GB, video)
- Late last year, amid much hype--and after Steve Jobs repeatedly belittled portable video devices--Apple announced its fifth-generation iPod, dubbed by many as the iPod video. Seven months later, the U2 iPod has caught up to the pack. Originally debuting with fourth-generation technology a monochrome screen with a click wheel,...
- Tags: Digital music, Digital media, Apple iPod, Apple Computer Inc., video
- Product reviews 2006-07-12
- Ubuntu Hacks: Configure a Touchpad
- Most laptops today include a touchpad as a method of controlling the mouse pointer. These touchpads have various configuration options that most people aren't even aware of. Here's how to get all these advanced features working under Linux. Ubuntu includes the synaptics mouse driver by default, and if the laptop's...
- Tags: Ubuntu, Mouse, O'Reilly Media Inc., Mice, Hardware, Peripherals
- Book chapters 2006-06-01
- Firefox fortune hunters
- Firefox fortune huntersGuess this refutes Anton'sargument that Open Source takes jobs away. According to this article these developers of free softeware are making 10-15% more than their closed source counter-parts.Go Mozilla!I don't understand this...Why pay someone to make Firefox applications when Microsoft already provides 100% integration of all products with...
- Tags: Web browsers, Mice, Mozilla Firefox, mouse, Microsoft Internet Explorer
- Discussion threads 2004-11-17
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