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Why Microsoft Needed Perceptive Pixel & Vice Versa

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Microsoft is set to buy multi-user large display touch screens this summer the firms announced Monday. Microsoft is probably making the costly screens available for the public and embedded with their Windows 8 operating software and some hardware additions. Windows 8 also works well with the PPI screens.

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Productivity in Your Pocket

Xconomy

Today, larger mobile screens and touch interfaces are allowing people to do real work—not just e-mail—with the computer they have, wherever they are. The screens were still pretty small in those early years, the iPad arrived in 2010, and with it a bigger touch canvas to do real work. inch screen. But First iPad.

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Southern California Venture Investments See Big Drop In Q1

socalTECH

invested in 95 deals, and dramatically down from the nearly $959M and 96 deals in Q1 of 2012. The largest funding round was for PICS Auditing , which provides screening of contractors, which is in Irvine; the firm raised $35M in funding. That''s a 44 percent drop year-to-year for deals in Q1. billion in 863 deals.

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Break Some Rules This Summer | Call or SMS as You Drive

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The firm this week launched a new feature for the 2012 BMW 7 Series, dubbed the Dragon Drive! The voice technology enables a driver to dictate a phone call, an email or SMS, edit it or read (listen) and respond to emails and SMS texts received without the touch of a button or touch screen. Driver’s speech into email or SMS.

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Changing the Face of Digital Signage: Nanxi Liu of Enplug

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In Spring of 2012, a former colleague at Goldman Sachs suggested she connect with David Zhu, an entrepreneur with an eccentric but compelling background (professional poker player, dropped out of MIT). ” The large social media screen is Enplug, five iterations later. We started small, but wanted more innovation. All inclusive.

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UCLA DEV Contest Proves Grand Ideas & Teamwork are Essential to LA Tech

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With software developed, tested and turned in, the results of UCLA Anderson School of Management’s DEV Contest were announced on Sunday afternoon to a room full of smiling faces. By Sunday afternoon, all software had been tested and submitted. I say, goal attained.

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YouTube Introduces its Own App for iPhone and iPod touch | Google Adds Editing to the iOS Drive App

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YouTube also boasts of a new channel guide available at just a swipe from the left edge of the screen into one’s subscribed channels giving users instant access to videos they like. In Quarter 2 of 2012, Google ad revenues were $10.96 The presentations have speaker notes, full-screen mode and can be swiped between slides.

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