June20,2009,1:00 pm

Apple to introduce a Touchscreen Tablet Computer?

By Garrick Infanger

Erica Ogg from CNet believes Apple’s newest operating system, Snow Leopard, is a precursor to the allegedly forthcoming Apple touchscreen tablet.

Of course, the Apple tablet has become the Apple press corps’ version of a Bigfoot hunt. Some believe the evidence is overwhelming. Others are, well, underwhelmed. And Apple doesn’t discuss .Read more...

June19,2009,1:57 pm

Three ways the iPhone changed the Touchscreen industry

By Garrick Infanger

Apple released their newest iPhone this morning, called the 3G S, almost exactly two years after the first iPhone forever changed the mobile phone market. Not only did the iPhone revolutionize how we think about phones, but it hastened the advent of touchscreens. Three .Read more...

June4,2009,3:16 pm

N-Trig Makes Splash at SID 2009

By Garrick Infanger

Having just returned from the SID Display Week trade show in San Antonio the most interesting booth was the splashy entry from N-Trig. No doubt this booth was made possible in part from Microsoft’s $24 million in January.

N-Trig is an impressive Israeli company that has made great strides in the .Read more...

May29,2009,9:14 am

Round Hole: Texting; Square Peg: Immersive Messaging

By Garrick Infanger

Immersion Corporation, the company that pioneered haptic feedback in gaming controllers and cellphones, is pushing two new haptics technologies for cell phones. The Wall Street Journal reports:

At D7, the company will reveal two of its newest technologies: TouchSense for touchscreen keyboards and Immersive Messaging. With TouchSense, the user is not .Read more...

May21,2009,9:48 am

Touchscreen Industry to Reach $9 Billion

By Garrick Infanger

A new DisplaySearch report mentioned in the EE Times is predicting that touchsceen sales will hit $9 billion by 2015. This means an aggressive 14% rate of growth from the $3.6 billion last year.

Between the new multi-touch enabled Windows 7, the continuing growth of Apple and BlackBerry and the continued .Read more...

May18,2009,3:00 pm

Touchscreen, touch screen or touch-screen

By Garrick Infanger

A recent Wall Street Journal article continues a long-running debate over how to properly describe our industry: touchscreen, touch screen or touch-screen.

Wikipedia has–after much debate–decided the one word, ‘touchscreen’, is the best option. The WSJ is hyphenating, but plenty of others (like Elo) use two words.

You can see from our .Read more...