News tagged with touch


The Golden Gate Bridge

San Francisco tapping into tech-savvy citizens

Technology / Software

created Oct 02, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

San Francisco is letting citizens create software tools to exploit city data for the public good.


mSpot on Tuesday began offering full-length movies for streaming to mobile phones

mSpot streaming Hollywood movies to mobile phones

Technology / Internet

created Sep 29, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

US mobile entertainment company mSpot on Tuesday began offering full-length movies for streaming to mobile phones.


Among the new features in CNN iPhone app: a price

Technology / Software

created Sep 29, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- CNN is coming out with an iPhone application Tuesday that has a feature few other news apps have tried: a price tag.


Apple have sold more than 50 mln iPhone and iPod Touch devices

Apple App Store downloads hit two billion mark

Technology / Software

created Sep 28, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Apple announced Monday that more than two billion applications for the iPhone and iPod Touch have been downloaded from its App Store, just five months after hitting the one-billion download mark.


Dutch company IREX Technologies has unveiled a new electronic reader for the US market

IREX latest entrant in US e-reader field

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Sep 24, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Dutch company IREX Technologies, a spinoff of Royal Philips Electronics, unveiled a new electronic reader for the US market on Wednesday, the latest entrant in an increasingly crowded field.


ThinkPad X200 Tablet PC

Lenovo Adds Touch of Simplicity to New MultiTouch Screen ThinkPad PCs

Electronics / Hardware

created Sep 15, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Lenovo today is bringing business users a new way to work with multitouch screen technology on the versatile and portable ThinkPad X200 Tablet PC and slim and powerful ThinkPad T400s laptop. Lenovo is also ...


Virtual maps for the blind

Technology / Software

created Sep 10, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The blind and visually impaired often rely on others to provide cues and information on navigating through their environments. The problem with this method is that it doesn't give them the tools to venture out on their own, ...


Apple CEO Steve Jobs discusses the new iPod Nano

iPod Nano to come with video camera

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Sep 09, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Apple announced on Wednesday that it was adding a video camera to its iPod Nano and cutting prices of its wildly popular music players.


The Asus New Folding E-Book Reader

The Asus New Folding E-Book Reader

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Sep 09, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (14) | comments 9

(PhysOrg.com) -- Asus has demonstrated a prototype of an e-book reader it is developing. Unlike its competitors, the device resembles a normal book, having two touch screens that will fold up.


Apple logo

Apple telegraphs iPods; fans see Beatles, tablets

Technology / Business

created Sep 07, 2009 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

(AP) -- Once again, it's time to peer into Apple Inc. CEO Steve Jobs' cup and try to read the tea leaves.


A man displays an iPhone along a street in Beijing

Apple's iPhone launch in China no easy task: experts

Technology / Business

created Sep 06, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Apple's iPhone will soon officially go on sale in China, more than two years after its US debut, but it may not make much of a splash, with smuggled units and similar devices available, analysts say.


A visitor checks out Nokia's first notebook, the "Booklet 3G"

Nokia strikes back against 'smart' rivals

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Sep 06, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Faced with increased competition from up-and-coming rivals, Finnish telecom giant Nokia plans to launch a slew of new products this year but analysts say it faces a tough battle to hold on to its position ...


myTouch 3G

New myTouch 3G phone takes big step forward

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Sep 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

When T-Mobile and Google launched the T-Mobile G1 last fall, there were high hopes that the device and its Android mobile operating system would provide a real threat to Apple's iPhone.


Nokia N97 mini

N97 mini, X6 and X3: Nokia unveils new smartphones to rival iPhone (w/ Video)

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Sep 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Nokia, the world's leading mobile phone maker, unveiled Wednesday three new smartphones as the Finnish firm tries to claw back market share from Apple's popular iPhone and RiM's Blackberry.


Researchers Hope to Mass-Produce Robots on a Chip

Researchers Hope to Mass-Produce Tiny Robots

Electronics / Robotics

created Aug 28, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (26) | comments 31

(PhysOrg.com) -- Tiny robots the size of a flea could one day be mass-produced, churned out in swarms and programmed for a variety of applications, such as surveillance, micromanufacturing, medicine, cleaning, ...