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blog.wired.com - 1/14/2009

Dell Plans Its Own Smartphone, Analysts Say

— blog.wired.com — The new Palm Pre may be the most-anticipated new phone since the iPhone 3G, but there's yet... another new player on the way: PC maker Dell may be readying its own smartphone, to arrive as early as next month. Dell could make an announcement ... (more) Dell Plans Its Own Smartphone, Analysts Say

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gartner.com - 1/15/2009

Gartner Says In the Fourth Quarter of 2008 the PC Industry Suffered Its Worst Shipment Growth ...

— gartner.com — STAMFORD, Conn., January 15, 2009 — In the fourth quarter of 2008, the worldwide PC industry suffered... its worst growth rate since 2002 as worldwide shipments totalled 78.1 million units, a 1.1 per cent increase from the fourth quarter of 2007, ... (more) Gartner Says In the Fourth Quarter of 2008 the PC ...

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techcrunch.com - 1/8/2009

Microsoft Releases Tag, Its Second iPhone Application

— techcrunch.com — At CES, Microsoft has introduced its second iPhone app after dipping its toe with the release of... Seadragon Mobile last month. The name of the application is Microsoft Tag , and it enables users to instantly access mobile content, videos, music, ... (more) Microsoft Releases Tag, Its Second iPhone Application

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When Touch Is Inappropriate [GigaOM]
GigaOM Network — Microsoft continues to push touch as a user interface, this time as a participant in the $24 million funding round for Israeli startup N-Trig, whose technology enables multitouch, or the use of more than one finger for input. Multitouch hit it big on the iPhone, where one uses multiple fingers to zoom in rather than one finger to drag things around the ...

Microsoft Leads $24 Million Round In N-Trig To Bring Multitouch To PCs
TechCrunch — ... We’re going to be seeing a lot more touchscreen computers. One of the features of Microsoft’s Windows 7 operating system is that it supports a multitouch user-interface (much like on the iPhone or a Tablet PC). To further the adoption of such touchscreen technology, Microsoft led a $24 million round in Israeli startup N-trig. Other investors included Aurum Ventures, Challenger Ltd., Canaan Partners, and Evergreen Venture Partners. In just the past two years, the company has raised $52 million. ...

Touch-enabled PCs and browsers: Do not want
All about Microsoft — January 12th, 2009 Touch-enabled PCs and browsers: Do not want Posted by Mary Jo Foley @ 8:56 am Categories: Windows client , Corporate strategy , Internet Explorer , Apple , Windows 7 , Surface Tags: Touch Screen , PC , Microsoft Internet Explorer , Microsoft Corp. , Web Browser , Keyboards , Desktops , Monitors & Displays , Hardware , Peripherals If you have any doubts that Microsoft is going to keep pushing touch down users’ throats, the company’s investment of $24 million in N-Trig , which develops ...

Microsoft news roundup: Bet on touch has detractors; 'Everybody's business' is new ad tagline; Windows 7 Beta arrives;
The Seattle Times: Microsoft Pri0 — ... Microsoft and several venture firms are investing in N-trig, an Israeli company working with "OEMs to create multi-touch notebooks and convertible computers for the mainstream marketplace." Microsoft is the lead investor in the $24 million financing round, ...

With a big N-trig investment, Microsoft is racing Apple to multi-touch
VentureBeat — The keyboard has been around since the 19th century. The mouse is 40 years old. Yet we still use both as our main points of interaction with computers, even as their technology grows by leaps and bounds each year. But a new $24 million investment, led by none other than Microsoft, in Israeli startup N-trig, points to a different future for input mechanisms. N-trig already provides a range of touchscreen technology to companies like Dell and HP, but the key component — and what Microsoft is most interested in — is multi-touch. Multi-touch is a term used for touchscreens that can recognize multiple contact ...

Noted: Microsoft invests in multi-touch company
The Microsoft Blog — ... of Windows Media Center at work in a touch-enabled PC. N-Trig, based in Kfar Saba, Israel, said in a statement that it plans to announce additional deals to put its touch technology in PC models in the coming year. Other investors in the round of financing include Aurum Ventures, Challenger Ltd., Canaan Partners, and Evergreen Venture Partners.

Microsoft Leads $24M Investment in N-trig’s Pen and Touch Interface
Xconomy — deals, Interfaces, Mobile Gregory T. Huang wrote: N-trig, a computing-interface company based in Kfar Saba, Israel, announced today it has received $24 million in new funding from Microsoft and other investors, including Aurum Ventures, Challenger, Canaan Partners, and Evergreen Venture ...

OK, so that’ll be one multitouch PC and a gross of screen wipes
GMSV — The downsides may be as obvious as your smudgy glass coffee table or your spattered and sticky cookbooks, but Microsoft is convinced that multitouch screens, all the rage in handheld devices, will be making their way into the mainstream of home computing. And putting its money where its fingers are, Microsoft is reaching out to help Israeli touch technology start-up N-trig as the largest investor in a new $24 million round of funding . Redmond is giving the technology a hand so that it’s ready to take advantage of ...

N-Trig Raises $24 Mil For Text Technology, With Help From Microsoft
Gearlog — ... The company announced today that has raised $24 million from investors, including Aurum Ventures, Challenger Ltd., Canaan Partners, Evergreen Venture Partners, and the folks in Redmond. ...

Microsoft Leads $24 Million Round In N-Trig To Bring Multitouch To PCs
CrunchGear — We're going to be seeing a lot more touchscreen computers. One of the features of Microsoft's Windows 7 operating system is that it supports a multitouch user-interface (much like on the iPhone or a Tablet PC). To further the adoption of such touchscreen technology, Microsoft led a $24 million round in Israeli startup N-trig. Other investors included Aurum Ventures, Challenger Ltd., Canaan Partners, and Evergreen Venture Partners. In just the past two years, the company has raised $52 million.

Microsoft Invests Millions in Multitouch Company
Technologizer — N-Trig Multitouch In an effort to make Windows 7’s multitouch user-interface one of the OS’s top selling points, Microsoft has invested millions in Israeli startup N-trig to provide PCs with touchscreen technology. Today, N-trig announced that it had completed a US$24 million fund raising round ...

Microsoft leads $24 million investment round in multitouch outfit N-trig
Gadgetell — Section: Computers As we saw at CES this past week, Microsoft is ready to look past Vista and move onto their new Windows 7 operating system, which features full multi-touch support.  To further push for the advancement of multi-touch technologies and speed up the adoption of the technology in the PC market, the company has just led the latest round in financing multi-touch panel and sensor company N-trig, an Israeli start-up.  Other investors in this round include Aurum Ventures, Challenger Ltd., Canaan Partners, and Evergreen Venture Partners. Multi-touch anywhere and everywhere possible. While Erick ...

N-Trig Multitouch beta drivers updated; Company receives $24m funding
SlashGear — Microsoft has taken part in a $24m funding package in N-Trig, manufacturers of multitouch-capable touch panels already in use in a number of Tablet PCs, in what looks to be a strategy to boost hardware support for Windows 7’s upcoming multitouch support.  Back in November, however, the initial multitouch beta drivers from the company delivered a shockingly poor user experience on the Dell Latitude XT; N-Trig have recently released new drivers, and the experience seems - with an odd omission - much more successful. Gestures - such as pinch-zooming, rotation and similar - are all much smoother than ...