Previous
Five Years Ago: MicroTouch Puts Finger On Touch-screen Demand
News The 14.5-inch screen has a resolution of 1,024 x 768 and is 2.5-inch thick, said the firm. First published 31 January, 1997 The 10.4-inch, 12.1-inch and 14.5-inch touchscreens are based on displays from LCD supplier Taxan, and are targeted at...
[January 31, 2002, 6:01]
UK Post Office Orders 19,500 Touch-screen Kiosks
News Touch-screen expert MicroTouch has won the £13 million contract with ICL Pathway to provide touch-screens for the kiosks. The first pilot is underway in Gloucestershire and the Post Office said it expects full installation to be complete within two...
[December 12, 1996, 11:45]
Transparent Fingers Of Fun
Blog Neat idea: make PDAs transparent so you can put the touch screen on the back side, and still see where your fingers are to select stuff. That leaves the front side able to display everything, means you can hold the device and still use all your...
[October 12, 2007, 14:26]
TouchTrax
Downloads TouchTrax is a new touch screen based jukebox program. TouchTrax is brought to you by the team that developed The PC Jukebox, another very popular touch screen jukebox. TouchTrax brings you many of the features from The PC Jukebox (with many more...
[April 27, 2008, 23:16]
ScanSoftPOS
Downloads ScanSoftPOS is designed for single or multiple Register use.Touch Screen, Scale/Scanner and Keyboard operation ScanSoftPOS can operate on Single PC or a Multi-Register environment. Compatible with Touch Screen, Mouse or Keyboard.
[March 12, 2008, 14:46]
HTC's Lost Touch
Blog After a pleasantly hot weekend, I noticed that the Touch's screen had some smudging in the centre that wouldn't polish off — because it seemed to be on the inside rather than the outside. Aha', I thought, 'the Touch has a replaceable screen cover...
[June 14, 2007, 11:10]
Hitachi Updates Linux Tablet PC
News The tablet, which is a laptop-sized touch-screen in a frame, is an update to the product of the same name that shipped in December, but adds wireless LAN (IEEE 802.11b) capabilities. Besides the 10.4in touch screen, users can also buy a companion...
[April 18, 2001, 16:18]
Microsoft's Surface Facing A Rocky Road To Market
News The software maker's initial plan was to get partners with the touch-screen machines up and running as early as this month. The product, originally code-named Milan, looks a bit like a 1980s sit-down Ms Pac Man machine, but uses infra-red cameras...
[November 9, 2007, 7:20]
Comdex: Gates' High Hopes For Tablet PC
News Speaking at the opening of Comdex Fall 2001, Gates provided a concrete example with the Tablet PC, which uses a touch screen and a forthcoming version of Windows XP. Some of the devices will be about the width and length of a legal-size pad of...
[November 12, 2001, 9:00]
Linux Tablet PC Breaks $1000 Barrier
News The Helium 2100, from US-based manufacturer Element Computer, is a convertible PC with a sliding screen that can be positioned for use as a traditional notebook PC or folded down for use as a touch-screen tablet device.
[December 2, 2003, 8:40]
Florida E-voting Battle Breathes Again
News They argue that it's unconstitutional for 15 Florida counties to have touch-screen voting systems without paper trails because no manual recount is possible. Wexler's lawsuit claims that it's unconstitutional for Florida to have two different...
[September 28, 2004, 15:55]
Inside Microsoft's Tablet PC
News The Tablet PC will offer a high-resolution touch screen good enough for reading electronic books. Another such PC, which he called Wallboard, would utilise giant touch panel LCD screen. The Tablet PC pen, much like the stylus of a PDA such as...
[November 13, 2000, 9:38]
HP To Offer Three-in-one Tablet PC
News A person can carry the tablet portion of the HP computer, which weighs 3 pounds, into a meeting to take notes, view documents, and write emails and short messages using the touch-screen pen. HP's Compaq Tablet PC TC1000 is based on a 10.4-inch...
[November 6, 2002, 8:16]
Nuggets: Remote Control That Will Keep You In Your Chair
News Most of the work is done through an LCD touch-screen. Four AA batteries or NiMH 4.8V rechargeable battery pack x240 pixel touch-screen LCD For those couch potatoes out there whose worse nightmare is losing the remote control, relief comes in the...
[October 3, 2000, 13:15]
Big Blue Introduces No-tech Notebook
News TransNote owners will be able to enter data via a keyboard, a touch screen or by writing with a pen on a pad of paper. The TransNote's hardware configuration will include a 600MHz Pentium III chip from Intel, 10.4-inch touch screen, 64MB of RAM and...
[January 12, 2001, 9:48]
Photos: Microsoft Shows Off 'Milan'
News Five infrared cameras sense fingers or other objects that touch the surface, while a DLP projector turned on its side generates the screen image people see. Milan's touch-screen capabilities present all sorts of possibilities for visual effects.
[May 30, 2007, 17:58]
A Good PDA And A Decent Phone But...
Member Review It's not useful for other tasks like websurfing or entering info to forms as you have to use your both hands for using the keyboard thus you cannot hold the stylus to operate the touch screen. I think for general operations the touch screen keypad...
[December 20, 2007, 10:44]
E-voting Harbours 'major Security Problems'
News Mercuri also showed data that indicated that the latest touch-screen voting machines don't perform significantly better in elections. While a Diebold touch-screen DRE machine had the lowest error rate in the California election over the issue of...
[July 30, 2004, 13:55]
Exclusive: First Look At The Geofox One E-mail Appliance
News Geofox decided against the touch screen, because it causes display reflections; I think this was a mistake. I know other people will say otherwise, because I have watched customers in computer stores say that they can't stand the Pilot because of...
[November 14, 1997, 11:59]
Microsoft Tries Again With Ultramobile PCs
News While much of the focus remains on touch-screen abilities, Microsoft is also making way for keyboards, noting that they have become increasingly popular even on smaller devices, such as mobile phones.
[December 22, 2006, 8:00]
