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  • Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, CEO Steve Ballmer - Windows 7 Preview

    05/27/2008 10:31:41 PM PDT · by HAL9000 · 143 replies · 356+ views
    Wall Street Journal AllThingsD.com (excerpt) ^ | May 27, 2008 | John Paczkowski
    Excerpt - Switching gears. Walt asks about Vista and the lousy reception it’s been given. Is Vista a failure? Ballmer: Vista is not a failure. Is it something we’d like to improve? Of course. Is it something that with 20/20 hindsight we’d do differently? Sure, he confesses. But Vista has sold a lot of copies, he adds. Walt jumps in and asks about the percentage of Vista sales that result in downgrades to XP. Ballmer dodges. Gates looking a little depressed. Walt asks if Vista has damaged with Windows brand. Gates says Microsoft’s philosophy is to “do things better.” And...
  • Microsoft Unveils New Surface Computer

    05/29/2007 10:24:47 PM PDT · by HAL9000 · 25 replies · 520+ views
    Excerpt - Microsoft Corp. has taken the wraps off "Surface," a coffee-table shaped computer that responds to touch and to special bar codes attached to everyday objects. The machines, which Microsoft planned to debut Wednesday at a technology conference in Carlsbad, Calif., are set to arrive in November in T-Mobile USA stores and properties owned by Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide Inc. and Harrah's Entertainment Inc. Surface is essentially a Windows Vista PC tucked inside a shiny black table base, topped with a 30-inch touchscreen in a clear acrylic frame. Five cameras that can sense nearby objects are mounted beneath...
  • Apple announces iPhone

    01/09/2007 9:46:19 AM PST · by HAL9000 · 9 replies · 308+ views
    MacRumorsLive.com ^ | January 9, 2007
    Live coverage at MacRumorsLive.com
  • FTIR technology - The future user interface?

    02/27/2006 10:38:49 PM PST · by HAL9000 · 4 replies · 222+ views
    NYU.edu ^ | January 2006 | Jeff Han
    Brief excerpt - go to the source for amazing video - While touch sensing is commonplace for single points of contact, multi-touch sensing enables a user to interact with a system with more than one finger at a time, as in chording and bi-manual operations. Such sensing devices are inherently also able to accommodate multiple users simultaneously, which is especially useful for larger interaction scenarios such as interactive walls and tabletops. Since refining the FTIR (frustrated total internal reflection) sensing technique, we've been experimenting with a wide variety of application scenarios and interaction modalities that utilize multi-touch input information. These...