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Apple brings inertial scrolling and three finger drag gesture to line of MacBooks
These Mac portables support inertial scrolling and the three-finger drag gesture after you install Magic Trackpad and Multi-Touch Trackpad Update 1.0: MacBook MacBook (13-inch, Early 2009) MacBook (13-inch, Mid 2009) MacBook (13-inch, Late 2009) MacBook (13-inch, Aluminum, Late 2008) MacBook Pro MacBook Pro (17-inch, Mid 2010) MacBook Pro (15-inch, Mid 2010) MacBook Pro (17-inch, Mid 2009) MacBook Pro (15-inch, 2.53 GHz, Mid 2009) MacBook Pro (15-inch, [...]
Continue reading...Photos of 3×3 cm Apple touchscreen hit the web
Friday, July 9, 2010
Tw.apple.pro recently posted a few photos of a 3×3 centimeter touchscreen which purport to be from an upcoming Apple product. While it remains unclear what plans Apple has for the component, some are speculating that it may be an iPod Touch nano, an iPod Touch shuffle, or believe it or not, a multitouch wristwatch. via MacRumors
Continue reading...Apple’s Magic Trackpad uncovered?
Monday, June 7, 2010
Mere hours before the WWDC keynote, Engadget got their hands on photos of a device purporting to be a mythical Apple multitouch trackpad device for desktops. What we appear to be looking at is a brand new input device that Apple has dreamed up which connects to desktops (and laptops, if you like) via Bluetooth, much [...]
Continue reading...Apple granted patent for new multitouch gestures
Friday, April 30, 2010
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Patently Apple reports on a newly granted patent issued to Apple which covers an assortment of new multitouch gestures. According to the description, these new multitouch gestures take into account finger placement at the beginning of a multitouch gesture, which as you can tell, opens up a multitude of new possibilities while also making some [...]
Continue reading...Elan Microelectronics files ITC complaint against Apple, seeks to ban import of iPad and iPhone
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
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Apple once again finds itself at the center of a controversy brought before the International Trade Commission (ITC), a governing body tasked with preventing unfair trade practices and equipped with the power to outright ban the import of a company’s products. Bloomberg News is reporting that the Taiwanese based company Elan Microelectronics has asked the ITC [...]
Continue reading...Behind Google and Apple’s growing and heated rivalry
Monday, March 15, 2010
Apple and Google have been on the outs for a few months now, and with Apple taking a jab at Google’s Android OS via their lawsuit against HTC, it doesn’t seem like the 2 tech heavyweights will be best buds again anytime soon. In a fascinating article from this past weekend, the New York Time chronicles [...]
Continue reading...Google publicly backs HTC in its legal battle against Apple
Tuesday, March 2, 2010
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Well it sure has been an interesting day for Apple legal hounds. Earlier today, Apple sued HTC for infringing on 20 of its patents that span everything from UI design down to OS architecture. A lot of people have chimed in stating that Apple’s lawsuit is more about its fight against Google’s Android OS than [...]
Continue reading...Dumping the Palm Pre
Monday, February 22, 2010
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Sachin Agarwai of Silicon Alley Insider recently decided to dump his Palm Pre after just 3 weeks of use. While his experience is obviously not universal, his complaints about the Pre’s touchscreen and other software shenanigans seem to be a recurring theme.
Continue reading...Amazon buys multitouch company, looks to make Kindle more appealing
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
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It looks like Amazon won’t be taking Apple’s iPad lightly. The New York Times reports that Amazon recently purchased a New York based company named Touchco that specializes in touchscreen technology, a feature which the Kindle obviously lacks. Amazon will reportedly merge Touchco’s employees and technology into its Kindle hardware division, a move which is an obvious [...]
Continue reading...Sweeping multitouch comes to the Nexus One
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
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Google yesterday announced that it had issued a software update for Nexus One users to enable broad multitouch functionality, including the much desired “pinch to zoom” feature for Google Maps. A few months ago, we reported that the initial Android phone, the G1, didn’t include multi-touch functionality because Apple asked Google not to implement it. [...]
Continue reading...Rumor: Apple to launch 22-inch touchscreen desktop in 2010
Monday, January 18, 2010
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DigiTimes briefly comments that Apple is planning to launch a 22-inch multitouch desktop computer in 2010 Apple reportedly plans to launch a 22-inch touch-enabled all-in-one PC in 2010, in addition to the current non-touch 21.5- and 27-inch iMacs, according to a Chinese-language Commercial Times report. Apple will outsource production of the 22-inch model to Quanta, with Taiwan-based Sintek [...]
Continue reading...Tablet OS to include advanced multitouch gestures along with multitouch version of iWork
Saturday, January 9, 2010
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Apple has been working on a tablet in one form or another for years, and now that Steve Jobs is sufficiently satisfied to release one out into the wild, it’s a good bet that the device will blow users away much like the iPhone did when Jobs first unveiled the iconic smartphone back at Macworld [...]
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Tuesday, July 27, 2010
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