Archive for July, 2007
Microsoft’s Ballmer asks investors for patience
At Microsoft’s annual analyst meeting, CEO emphasized the importance of attracting new talent and reminded investors that IT successes don’t happen overnight [...]
Researchers Crack the iPhone
A security firm has run the first remote exploits on Apple’s iPhone, proving that the widely popular smart phone is vulnerable not only to data theft but also to being turned into a remote snooping device.A trio of researchers from Independent Security Evaluators—Charlie Miller, Jake Honoroff and Joshua Mason—have created an exploit for the iPhone’s [...]
HP hopes for a Midas touch from the TouchSmart
The official name for it is “gesture-recognition technology,” but no self-respecting geek would call the process of poking your finger at a computer screen anything but “touchy-feely computing.”The tablet PC, which uses this kind of interface, has been around for a few unremarkable years now, as have those cash registers one sees in sports bars [...]
Microsoft Surface…
Via: vPod.tv
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Microsoft Research’s PlayAnywhere: A surface computer for the rest of us?
PlayTable finally saw the light of day in the form of Microsoft’s Surface multi-touch table. But there’s a related technology that’s been under development by Microsoft Research — “PlayAnywhere” — which still has yet to go commercial.At this week’s Faculty Research Summit, Microsoft researchers showed off, yet again, PlayAnywhere. Here’s how the IDG News Service [...]
More details on “Multi-touch support for MPX” from Peter’s Blog
MPX already supported multiple input devices. Which blows pretty much all assumptions in user interfaces (input) out of the water. Now I’ve gone one step further and added support for multi-touch displays. Have a look at this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olWjnfBoY8E
Upfront:
I did not build some kind of touchscreen or tracking system.
I did not build some [...]
MultiTouch from Linux is here….
The Multi-Pointer X Server (MPX) is a modification of the X Server. A standard X Server only provides one mouse cursor (pointer) and one keyboard focus, regardless of the number of input devices connected. MPX provides the user with multiple mouse cursors and multiple keyboard foci. Multicursor applications have been developed in the past [...]
Demo’s from WorldWide Partner Conference
More than ever before, WorldWide Partner Conference was a serious demo fest with lots of cool technology shown off during the keynotes. Silverlight, Photosyth, Seadragon, Surface and more. Hats off to the WPC folks for showing off our innovations to an audience that sometimes only really gets to see (and sell) our business software. I [...]
Atracsys’ beMerlin Makes Touching Good
We’ve seen Ewan McGregor draw a boat on a Microsoft Surface like table in The Island, and now it’s time to witness Tom Cruise breaking down as he watches a holographic image of his dead son. Yeah, the comparisons so far this year are numerous to future tech in movies. If the technology [...]
iPhone Nano???
Just when you thought Apple couldn’t do any worse that the iPhone, comes the rumor that they are planning to release a less functional version of the iPhone based on the iPod Nano.This rumor is based on a patent application Apple submitted on July 5th for a multi-function device with a circular touchpad control surface [...]
