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Synaptics to produce touchscreens that can recognize 10-fingers – Video

You know how the OLPC folks promised us a dual-screen netbook that would have a virtual keyboard that could pop up on one screen? It looks like we could be one step closer to getting that virtual keyboard. Synaptics, a company best known for making the touchpads used in millions of notebooks, is working on […]

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MSI Wind gets new touchpad supplier, loses functionality

MSI appears to have changed suppliers for the touchpad in the MSI Wind notebook. Blogeee reports that newer Wind laptops are using hardware and software from Sentelic instead of Synaptics.The change presents a few problems for end users: Synaptics touchpads are far more widely used, which means there’s much better support for them in the […]