Microsoft denies Tablet PC dive

Microsoft has said it has no reports of sales figures in decline for Tablet PCs, despite Canalys figures showing that shipments were down 23 per cent. The Canalys report showed shipments of Tablet PCs had taken the hit this quarter, and total shipments since launch had yet to reach 100,000. Even so, Microsoft has told us that however many products are shipping into the channel, sales for Tablet PCs have increased sequentially since launch, both globally and here in the UK. ...more

Aibo catches disco fever with software upgrade

The Sony robot dog Aibo has got a software upgrade. The metallic mutt can now play MP3 tunes and dance on command as well as organise your life for you. The latest version of the Mind software features a new range of functions alongside the Aibo Entertainment Player (AEP). ...more

Typing style is the new fingerprint claims US academics

According to Forbes, researchers at a US university have discovered a unique property of humans that could be used to identify users and authenticate them on computers: their typing style. Researchers at Louisiana Tech and Penn State have successfully completed a five-year project that analysed the periods between keystrokes, and the time it took to hit a key. So impressed are security specialists BioPassword that it has signed a joint licensing agreement - the first such commercial agreement for the university. ...more

Epson claims digital paper breakthrough

Epson is claiming a breakthrough in the pursuit of digital paper: a foldable flexible screen that could be used to replace paper. It claims the quad XGA (1536 x 2048) resolution marks out its A6-size sample as the highest resolution prototype in existence. The development was announced on 9 June at the Society for Information Display (SID) international symposium held in San Francisco. ...more

The Content King: Interview with Louis Rosenfeld

The emerging field of Information Architecture is an attempt to grapple with increasing information overload. Lou Rosenfeld, together with Peter Morville wrote the seminal book "Information Architecture for the World Wide Web" which recently published its 2nd edition. We caught up with him at the recent Usability Week conference in London. ...more