- The mighty mouse: enhancing spreadsheet
productivity.
The mouse became popular in the early days of personal computers because it simplified their use. Today the mouse and other pointing devices increasingly are being integrated into mainstream accounting applications, especially those for Windows. Richard A. Johnson, CPA, PhD, associate professor of accounting, Frostburg State University, Frostburg, Maryland, provides ......
- Avago sues EM Microelectronics over optical mouse
It may well be a case of pointing fingers over pointing devices. Avago, based in Singapore, claims that Marin, Switzerland-based EM Microelectronics is infringing on a patent involving a screen pointer with a velocity-based frame rate—also known as an optical mouse. What makes this mouse different, however, is the ability ......
- How to Keep Your Keyboard and Mouse From Killing You
Despite the promise of voice recognition and the allure of HAL, the talking (and listening) computer from the film 2001: A Space Odyssey, the vast majority of us still peck at a keyboard and push around a mouse to get our computers to do what we want. Voice recognition, except ......
- Industrial keyboard has high protection in low profile
IKey Industrial Peripherals is gaining attention by decreasing its profile, at least with respect to its new SlimKey industrial keyboard. With an ABS polycarbonate case, SlimKey is 0.8 in. (20 mm) thick, and includes a three-button HulaPoint pointing device, eliminating need for an external mouse. This offering adds to iKey's ......
- P.I. Engineering Leads Industry in Computer Input Devices
As a reminder of how quickly technology changes, Michael Hetherington's office wall features a framed 16-bit memory board that was hand-wired by his father in 1961. Today's computers feature nearly 300 million times more memory. As president of P.I. Engineering, Inc. in Williamston and winner of the 2002 Entrepreneurial Award ......
- Pick the right input device for your POC
systems.
Multiple data input devices exist. However, the type of input device you select ultimately comes down to the software running on your system. Now that you've selected the best possible point-of-care software for your facility, the success of your entire information strategy now comes down to how well you input ......
- Microsoft does hardware
Conventional wisdom says that Microsoft is a great big software firm, but sometimes conventional wisdom is wrong. For two decades, Microsoft has also been one of the world's leading providers of keyboards, mice, joysticks and gamepads. With the Xbox game console, released in late 2001, Microsoft now ships as many ......