07 Aug
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Microsoft’s hardware group this morning unveiled a prototype of a pressure-sensitive keyboard that can detect precisely how hard each key is being pressed.
The company describes the potential uses as "limitless," saying it has tested concepts including pressing a letter harder to get a capital letter or a larger font size, or hitting the delete key [...]
07 Aug
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Amazon is making progress getting the major college textbook publishers on board with its Kindle electronic reader. Today, McGraw-Hill Education said it will begin offering 100 higher education titles on the Kindle. McGraw-Hill joins the other major textbook publishers, Cengage Learning, Pearson, and Wiley, which are already selling Kindle [...]
Microsoft this afternoon released an update for Mac Office 2008 that the company says will fix a file-format problem encountered by users after the July 20 release of Service Pack 2 for the Mac Office suite. You can download the fix here.
Mac PowerPoint users originally brought the problem to our attention, saying that the previous [...]