Neowin News Feed for: Multitouch

GNOME 49 is a big release with major app overhauls

Paul Hill — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 11:58:01 +0000

GNOME 49 is here. This new release overhauls two core apps and brings major performance boosts. Read more...

Mod team puts multi-touch support into HP TouchPad [Update]

John Callaham — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 08:18:30 +0000

A group of modders calling themselves Team Touchdroid has successfully got a HP TouchPad tablet to enable multi-touch support with a version of Android 2.3 running inside. Read more...

Apple's Magic Mouse may include multitouch display in future

Colby Swandale — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 19:00:08 +0000

It seems that Apple may be keen on bringing the user experience of the multitouch display from the iPad & iPhone and put it inside the Magic Mouse, in a new patent application which apple... Read more...

Microsoft Touch Pack for Windows 7 released for download

Tom Warren — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 07:00:01 +0000

Microsoft announced the Windows 7 Touch Pack back in May 2009 but originally it was meant for OEMs only. Today the company released the Touch Pack download for the masses. Microsoft's Brandon LeBlanc confirmed the... Read more...

Apple sued over multi-touch patents

giga — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 20:40:01 +0000

Hot on heels of the iPad launch, a Taiwanese company by the name of Elan Microelectronics is suing Apple through the International Trade Commission (ITC) over a multi-touch patent that they filed back in 2003. Elan... Read more...

Nexus One has a major multitouch problem

Benjamin Rubenstein — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 21:56:01 +0000

Android and Me has posted an interesting tidbit of information regarding the Nexus One's touch screen. Apparently, the phone seems to have a problem with following multiple touches moving across the same axis. The problem... Read more...

Windows Mobile 7 UX mock-ups show multi-touch gesture support

Benjamin Rubenstein — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 17:44:40 +0000

According to Microsoft Kitchen, Jeremiah Whitaker, who is a freelance UX designer that's done some prototype work for the Windows Mobile 7 team, has posted some interesting mockups on his personal site (ascendesign) that seem... Read more...

Linux gets multitouch support

Benjamin Rubenstein — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 21:25:54 +0000

Regardless of the fact that the majority of people don't even own a touch capable screen, multitouch is still something that Windows 7 users across the world are privy to. If the screen can support... Read more...

Dell launches Latitude XT2 tablet PC with multitouch feature

Chakkaradeep Chandran — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 10:13:09 +0000

Dell announced this week its Latitude XT2, industry's first Tablet PC with multitouch screen capabilities which will allow users to use natural gestures like a pinch or tap for scrolling, panning, rotating and zooming. There's... Read more...

Want to see a MultiTouch laptop?

Fri, 26 Oct 2007 19:43:17 +0000

Channel 9's Charles Torre has put together half an hour of footage of his trip to Microsoft Research in the UK where he got to take a look at some of Microsoft's work behind MultiTouch... Read more...