SANTA BARBARA, CALIF. — Dell finally shipped its long-awaited multi-touch technology for convertible tablet laptops. I applaud Dell for boldness. I’m convinced that nearly all PCs ten years from now ...

— -- Bill Gates says tablet PCs are the future and HP took another step in that direction today with release of the TouchSmart tx2 notebook. The most innovative part of this computer is its ...

Google just landed some impressive 3D desktop software in its purchase of Bump Technologies, but a looming patent battle with Apple suggests that Google also had BumpTop's multi-touch technology on ...

Technology is touching more people’s lives every day. Technology is touching more people’s lives every day. Multi touch-enabled devices and equipment can sense touch inputs in more than one location ...

Supporting thinner displays and supposedly enhancing user experience, the S-Touch FingerTip controller offers true multi-touch capability with unlimited simultaneous touches. Supporting thinner ...

Mashable.com has information on a patent Apple filed last April for Touch screen device, method, and graphical user interface for determining commands by applying heuristics , which essentially ...

So let me get this straight. Company A patents a technology. Company S uses this technology. Company A sues Company S for co-opting its patents, and the courts (so far) agree — and Company A is the ...

But what is known is that Apple already is deploying a nifty touch technology -- called “capacitive touch” -- on its iPhone platform. It would certainly provide the “wow” ...

Today, Patently Apple revealed a whole slew of new multi-touch gestures that Apple might introduce in new products and software updates, most of which are detailed in the image above… which, ...

A Taiwanese maker of chips and touchscreens has asked the U.S. International Trade Commission to ban the import and sale of Apple products for alleged violation of a multi-touch patent. Elan ...

Microsoft has once again quashed rumours that it ll be expanding its Zune system into a phone, or game playing multimedia device. The latest hints at a Zune phone came from a Microsoft Office tweet ...