Posts Tagged ‘Touchscreen’

Apple to introduce a Touchscreen Tablet Computer?

Saturday, June 20th, 2009

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...

Three ways the iPhone changed the Touchscreen industry

Friday, June 19th, 2009

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...

Touchscreen Industry to Reach $9 Billion

Thursday, May 21st, 2009

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...

Touchscreen, touch screen or touch-screen

Monday, May 18th, 2009

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...

Touchscreen Kitchen PCs from Asus and MSI

Monday, April 20th, 2009

The New York Times reported on a new touchscreen computer designed as a home digital hub–or more accurately called a ‘Kitchen PC’. The new computer from Asus incorporates a 15.6″ Linux-based touch screen and Windows XP for the reasonable price of $599.

MSI offers an even less expensive Kitchen PC at .Read more...