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Microsoft files patent for new open windows viewer

Microsoft last week filed a patent application for a new method of browsing through open windows on the desktop that builds on an older, now-abandoned feature in Windows Vista and Windows 7.

By Gregg Keizer | 18 April, 2013 16:38

Tags: Microsoft, Emerging Technologies, Windows, o2, hardware systems, software, operating systems
Microsoft collects 13 design patents for Surface, keyboard covers

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office yesterday awarded Microsoft 13 design patents for its Surface line of tablets, including their innovative Touch keyboards-slash-covers, according to published documents.

By Gregg Keizer | 27 March, 2013 19:54

Tags: Microsoft, Emerging Technologies, o2, Windows, hardware systems, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, tablets, software, operating systems
Google smartwatch may be next part of wearable computer family

Move over Glass. Google is also reportedly working on an Android-based 'smartwatch.'

By Sharon Gaudin | 22 March, 2013 18:29

Tags: web apps, hardware, Google, o2, hardware systems, internet
Google Glass may someday fire up your coffee maker

Google filed a patent application for technology that will enable Google Glass to control everyday devices such as coffee makers, home alarm systems and garage doors.

By Sharon Gaudin | 21 March, 2013 20:11

Tags: consumer electronics, Reuters, Google, Emerging Technologies, o2, hardware systems, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, Personal Technology
Two million iPhone 3GS units to be produced in Q4 2011

There will be two million iPhone 3GS units produced in the quarter ending December 2011, despite the handset now being more than two years old, it has been claimed.

By Ben Camm-Jones | 10 December, 2011 06:05

Tags: consumer electronics, at&t, smartphones, o2, hardware systems, iPhone, tablets, orange, iPad, Apple

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