E-signatures for 30 million laptops

Synaptics Inc., which makes about 80 percent of the world's computer touchpads, is going to make digital signature software available to its customers.

It has inked a deal with Silanis Technology, a digital signature software company, that will let laptop users apply a single digital signature to Microsoft Word and Excel documents, the company said Tuesday. A law authorizing digital signatures goes into effect in the United States Oct. 1. Full story to follow. -- Ben Charny, ZDNet News