Fingerworks.com Pulls Products Prior To Apple Tablet Announcement
Fingerworks.com who was once a stand-alone company, was purchased by Apple about 5 years ago. Their products were significant in that many of them were intuitive, gesture-based devices made for Apple products. One of the original Fingerworks.com founders was responsible for the Multi-touch input for OSX and also many of Apple’s multi-touch based patents. One of the original press releases from Fingerworks, details an interesting interface:
"The MacNTouch Gesture Keyboard is a complete user interface that serves as mouse, standard keyboard, and powerful multi-finger gesture interpreter. Mouse operations like point, click, drag, scroll, and zoom are combined seamlessly with touch-typing and multi-finger gesture everywhere on the MacNTouch’s surface."
All of these details are nice, but what is the real significance you ask? It appears that a week or so ago this information was pulled from the Fingerworks.com site in the preparation of a possible Apple Tablet announcement.
If the rumors hold true about an unexpected interface, then this could be what we have been waiting for. Only a few short weeks and hopefully we will all know what touchiness ensues.
[MacRumor]
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Orange Chief Confirms Apple Tablet WIth Webcam
The Chief Executive Officer Delegate of the European carrier Orange today confirmed the announcement of an Apple tablet later this month. In his radio interview he basically said the tablet is coming along with a webcam. See the quick interview after the break:
"Jean Pierre Elkabbach: According to Le Point, your partner Apple will launch a Tablet…
Stéphane Richard: Yes.
Jean Pierre Elkabbach: …with a webcam…
Stéphane Richard: Yes.
Jean Pierre Elkabbach: …would Orange users benefit from this?
Stéphane Richard: Sure! They are going to benefit from the web cam, they are going to be able to, in effect, transmit images in real time. We are going to modernize, in essence, the video phone that we knew a few years ago… the size of the resolution, and the quality of the resolution will be better, and it will be available to all in France."
Jump To 6:15 to hear the interview about Apple in French
This confirms what we pretty much already knew, but it doesn’t hurt to have the input from someone most likely to be in the know.
[via Gizmodo] [via Nowhereelse]
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Microsoft Shows Off The New HP Slate
Jumping into the game early is the HP Slate. The display runs windows and during the keynote, Steve Balmer showed it running a Kindle app. The Slate can also run games, is faster than an iPhone, but slower than a full fledged PC. The details at the moment are a bit short at the moment, but when they do arrive we will be sure to let you know. See a quick video of the Slate after the jump.
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Apple Tablet To Use Their Own Chipset?
Some time ago Apple purchased a company by the name of P A Semi. This company was in the market of making their very own microchips and now the newest Apple Tablet rumors are saying a new chipset of their own will be at the heart of the new device. According to Northeast Securities analyst Ashok Kumar, Apple chose to do away with Intel for its tablet and instead use a chipset of their very own design. The rumor would make the purchase of P A Semi make sense instead of just picking them up for their talent. Apple has a tendency of wanting o control every little aspect of their components as much as they can. If this rumor turns out to be true, lets hope they don’t do away with Intel altogether and go back to the days of a PowerPC-like era.
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Fake iSlate Specs Revealed Over The Weekend
This past weekend a supposed internal Apple document was revealed for the upcoming Apple tablet. Although we know this is fake, we thought we would share with our readers the possibilities of a future Tablet and its OS. The first document above shows the "Clouded Leopard" release of OSX 10.7. While it is not hard to assume Apple will be using and innovating in the cloud computing market with MobileMe and the recent purchase of Lala, we find it hard to believe this document to be accurate. Apple does not generally differentiate its consumer OS versions even when referring to the iPhone, but this does not mean they would never split them up.
The other photo offered above is some simple specs that could be in a tablet based Mac. The specs look like they could be something Apple would use, but does anyone honestly think that APple would allow such specs to just sit on the many sites it has made rounds on? Apple is quite, how do you say? … vicious when it comes to upholding their internal secrets.
The one benefit we can obtain from such fakery is the sheer excitement that the tech community shares over the possibilities of such an Apple Tablet.
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