For many years just about every portable device came with a stylus. Whether it was the revolutionary Eo Slate with its PenPoint OS, the doomed Apple Newton, the very successful PalmPilot, or ...

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Now Jim Marggraff, an entrepreneur with a long string of successful innovations, say he thinks he has figured out the secret of pen computing–and he has done it by playing with toys. Marggraff, a ...

TORONTO, ONTARIO – Microsoft is banking on its new Tablet PC product to convert note pads and pens into nostalgic office supplies. Unveiled yesterday in Toronto, Tablet technology enables users to ...

Top administrators from Brown and Microsoft Research unveiled plans yesterday for the creation of the Microsoft Center for Research on Pen-Centric Computing, a multifaceted initiative of pen-based ...

If you haven't yet heard of the Livescribe Pulse smartpen, it's a pen that both electronically saves everything you write and draw and records sound, such as a lecture or a business meeting. You can ...

Microsoft is upping the ante in the tablet game. The Redmond Empire announced Tuesday that Microsoft Surface Windows 8 Pro, a business-class line of its Surface tablets, will hit stores in the U.S.

Wouldn’t Penn have been the more appropriate Ivy League school at which to launch the Microsoft Center for Research on Pen-Centric Computing? Well, maybe not. Seems Brown University has been ...