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Enable Administrators to Morph into Managers by Leveraging Real-time Analytics and Automation
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Multitouch gestures coming to Ubuntu 10.10
Multitouch gestures are coming to Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat," or so says Canonical's Mark Shuttleworth.
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Defining a notation system for multitouch input
On his blog, developer Matt Gemmell recently proposed a novel system to describe touch gestures in documentation. His description of the process and considerations make very interesting reading....
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Cheaper and more fashionable gesture-based computing
MIT researchers have developed a system for gesture-based computing using an ordinary webcam, a pair of brightly colored lycra gloves, and software that combs a database of images. The...
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How to use Multi-touch in Android 2: Part 6, Implementing the Pinch Zoom Gesture
Over the course of this series we've been working on a simple image viewer that lets you move and zoom a picture on the screen with touch gestures. This part wraps up the example with the code...
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How to use Multi-touch in Android 2: Part 5, Implementing the Drag Gesture
This will probably get lost in all of today's iPad coverage, but it's time for another entry in the Android multi-touch series. In this part we fill in the touch event code to let us drag an image...
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Verizon changes tune on handset exclusivity. Will AT&T follow? Will it even matter?
updated: Verizon is planning to loosen the noose on exclusivity deals with phone manufacturers, reducing the time of those deals to just a few months - a gesture to the lawmakers in Washington who...
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Get started using the Palm Pre
The Palm Pre's WebOS is interesting, beautiful, and even fun. But it takes some getting used to. Molly Wood helps you get started by navigating you through the user interface.
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Microsoft seeks the right touch for Surface
While much of the attention on multitouch surrounds what devices the interface will next find its way onto, Microsoft is also looking at how to improve the gestures themselves.
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Forget the economy! Saturday is Pi Day!
It's official: this Saturday is Pi Day. I don't mean official in the sense that all of us mathy, geeky types have always celebrated March 14th (3/14, kind of like 3.14, the first three digits of...
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Green is still Gold (But Beware of the Politics of Gesture)
Foolhardy it may be to go out on a limb here to take on my boss (in this carnation I mean my editor, Larry Dignan) and a force of nature that is my fellow ZDNET blogger Dennis Howlett but I...
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IT's challenges: The end of device charging; ROI; Super programmers
Gartner on Tuesday outlined its grand IT challenges from 2008 to 2033 and it includes a world where you'll never have to charge your device. That was one of the futurama type predictions outlined...
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Perfecting the potato
Today, a couch potato still needs to operate that remote, which keeps his right thumb fit and toned. Gaze tracking could make his potato-hood complete.
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Perfecting the potato
New Scientist is reporting on new gaze tracking technology designed for use in 3D virtual worlds. Gaze tracking has been used for years by people with motor neurone disease, cerebral palsy and...
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Multi-Touch gestures in any application
Apple's Multi-Touch technology from iPhone and iPod touch has trickled down into the MacBook Air and most recently into the MacBook Pro. The gesture-based trackpad technology allows you to pinch,...
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Flippin' off Microsoft: Patent app describes fingerflip-powered document navigation
A newly published and quite intriguing Patent application from Microsoft describes technology for hand-activating page turning of Microsoft documents. Here's how this would work. You're on a...
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Nintendo Wii-like gesture control technology coming to mobile phone cameras
Just got a tip that a company called GestureTek's GestureTek Mobile division is planning a mobile phone "gesture control technology" of the type used in Nintendo's Wii game console. This is...
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Apple Patent app reveals iPhone-compatible Multi-Touch Gesture Dictionary
If you've ever taken guitar lessons, you know that various musical chords are formed via various fingering positions. The "gestural language" Apple uses for onscreen iPhone navigation offers a...
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Leap Motion gesture-control module takes on Microsoft Kinect for Windows
A new rival has just launched a gesture-control device that may not be as powerful as Kinect for Windows, but is definitely cheaper.
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New gesture toolkit available for Kinect for Windows developers
GesturePak is a new third-party toolkit for Kinect for Windows developers that requires little coding.
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Gesture control -- from Kinect games to Samsung Smart TV
The first really major consumer hardware application for gesture control was Microsoft's Kinect. This high-tech camera accessory plugged into an Xbox 360 to add gesture and motion control, as...
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