The Technology of Touch Screens
Here’s a question: What is a technology that you can’t see, but is essential to smartphones, tablets and other mobile devices — and is estimated to generate $16 billion in revenues this year (according to DisplaySearch)? The answer is multitouch touch screens — which have sparked the explosive growth of the mobile device market.
5 tips for defending against advanced persistent threatsIs your organization prepared to do battle against an APT? You’d better be.READ NOWIt was not so long ago that we would tap away on a PalmPilot with a tiny stylus, or exercise our thumbs on a BlackBerry micro-keyboard. Then, in January 2007, along came the Apple iPhone, and everything changed. Suddenly, people were wiping their fingers across screens, pinching images and performing other maneuvers that had not previously been part of the smartphone interface.Now we not only take touch input for granted, we expect to be able to use multitouch (using more than one finger on the screen at a time) and gestures as well. What made this touch screen revolution possible, and where is it likely to take us?
5 tips for defending against advanced persistent threatsIs your organization prepared to do battle against an APT? You’d better be.READ NOWIt was not so long ago that we would tap away on a PalmPilot with a tiny stylus, or exercise our thumbs on a BlackBerry micro-keyboard. Then, in January 2007, along came the Apple iPhone, and everything changed. Suddenly, people were wiping their fingers across screens, pinching images and performing other maneuvers that had not previously been part of the smartphone interface.Now we not only take touch input for granted, we expect to be able to use multitouch (using more than one finger on the screen at a time) and gestures as well. What made this touch screen revolution possible, and where is it likely to take us?
