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Apple patents multitouch gestures

by Mike Schramm (Apr 30th, 2010)

Patently Apple reports that Apple has picked up a major patent from the USPTO for a long list of mutitouch gestures. The gestures all involve moving two or more fingers on a multitouch surface, and cover everything from cut and copy shortcuts to global search and find and replace motions. I'm sure ...

Apple considering stylus for the tablet? They've applied for a patent, but...

by Steven Sande (Jan 15th, 2010)

Steve Jobs hates styluses (styli?). At the January, 2007 Macworld Expo keynote where Jobs introduced the iPhone to the world, he went so far as to ask "Who wants a stylus?" and expressed his distaste for stylus input with a "Yeccch!" However, that hasn't kept Apple from applying for a patent on ...

Rumor: Apple tablet said to be "iPhone on steroids"

by Sang Tang (Jan 13th, 2010)

If there's anything consistently consistent about the purported Apple tablet, it's that it's said to be, in essence, a larger iPhone. Expanding on this, Boy Genius Report cites its "close Apple contact" that claims the device is "an iPhone on steroids." Like its iPhone brethren, the tablet is said ...

Former Apple engineer: FingerWorks may be a part of the tablet

by Mike Schramm (Jan 11th, 2010)

The New York Times is the latest big source of tablet rumors today, and they went way back for the latest stab in the dark. All the way back to 2005, when Apple purchased a little company called FingerWorks, known for their work with gesture recognition on a multitouch interface like the ...