{"id":534656,"date":"2010-04-19T17:18:10","date_gmt":"2010-04-19T21:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wmpoweruser.com\/?p=15479"},"modified":"2010-04-19T17:18:10","modified_gmt":"2010-04-19T21:18:10","slug":"microsoft-invests-in-pen-and-finger-multi-touch-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/534656","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft invests in pen and finger multi-touch company"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 15px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px\" title=\"microsoft-courier-tablet_2\" border=\"0\" alt=\"microsoft-courier-tablet_2\" align=\"right\" src=\"http:\/\/wmpoweruser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/microsoftcouriertablet_21.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"174\" \/> Microsoft has invested in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ntrig.com\/\" >N-trig<\/a>, a multi-touch technology solution provider from Israel.&#160; <\/p>\n<p>N-trig was founded in 1999 and develops and produces multi-touch systems that works with up to 4 fingers while also allowing the use of a pen at the same time. <\/p>\n<p>Rick Seger, president of N-Trig, said he believed the combination of multi-touch and pen technology would be important, particularly in slate computers. Seger&#8217;s company&#8217;s DuoSense feature pen and multi-touch capabilities made it better suited for both business applications (including the normal multi-touch features like zooming, as well as signing documents) and education, where he said it was better for tasks such as note-taking.<\/p>\n<p>In the past two years, N-trig has signed agreements with HP, Dell, Toshiba, and Lenovo. In addition, its technology is part of Microsoft&#8217;s latest operating system, Windows 7. <\/p>\n<p>Microsoft is also believed to be developing a tablet, the <a href=\"http:\/\/wmpoweruser.com\/?tag=microsoft-courier\" >Microsoft Courier<\/a>, which relies for a large part of its interface on the interaction between the use of pen and finger inputs.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.globes.co.il\/serveen\/globes\/docview.asp?did=1000553797&amp;fid=942\" >Globes.co.il here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\ngoogle_ad_client = \"pub-6210711459792056\";\n\/* 336x280, created 1\/7\/09 *\/\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"0551502062\";\ngoogle_ad_width = 336;\ngoogle_ad_height = 280;\n\/\/-->\n<\/script><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\n<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has invested in N-trig, a multi-touch technology solution provider from Israel.&#160; N-trig was founded in 1999 and develops and produces multi-touch systems that works with up to 4 fingers while also allowing the use of a pen at the same time. Rick Seger, president of N-Trig, said he believed the combination of multi-touch and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6200,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-534656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6200"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=534656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534656\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=534656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=534656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=534656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}