Amazon has reportedly acquired Touchco, a New York start-up specializing in touch screen technology in an effort to play catch-up with the Apple iPad. The New York Times reported, the touch-screen technology is developed by Touchco and is substantially cheaper than the capacitative touch screens used for the iPad, their cost is at around $10 per [...]
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Amazon acquires Touchco, a touch screen start-up
Posted by Ray Morrison on February 4th, 2010
Posted in Apple, Electronics, Tech News, amazon, iPad, tablet 
Tags: amazon, display, iPad, touch screen, Touchco 
20 Comments »Wall Street Journal Announces Apple Tablet to Ship in March
Posted by Jeff Gonzales on January 5th, 2010
That’s right. The highly credible Wall Street Journal announced Apple will ship the first tablets in March. Previous reports suggested Apple is planning to announce the touch screen device at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco sometime between Jan. 25 and 27. The tablet, which hasn’t been officially named yet, is [...]
Posted in Apple, Electronics, Mac, Tech News, iPhone, iPod Tags: Apple, Apple Tablet, iphone, touch screen, wall street journal 26 Comments »Who Wants a Stylus? Apple…
Posted by Jessica Moreno on November 13th, 2009
A recently published patent from Apple depicts pen-based handwriting recognition software that would work with tablet-like devices. The described invention (screenshot at right) demonstrates a method to make digital handwriting recognition better than technologies used in the past. An “ink manager” would attempt to recognize full phrases before sending them to the handwriting recognition engine, [...]
Posted in Apple, Electronics, Tech News, iPhone, iPod Tags: Apple, iphone, ipod, stylus, touch screen 2 Comments »
