Stories by Nick Barber

New interfaces challenge touch

Touchscreens could be extinct if researchers pioneering new human-computer interfaces have anything to say about it. From brain-controlled machines to gesture-driven devices, there's a range of technologies in development that may find their way into everyday electronic devices.

VIDEO: World Tech Update, Oct. 28, 2011

Coming up on World Tech Update this week: Nokia launches two Windows Phones, Sony buys Sony Ericsson, Amazon boosts Kindle Fire production, Wikileaks stops publishing classified files and new technology tracks researchers at MIT.

RIM co-CEO addresses Blackberry outage, touts new software.

Disappointed Blackberry users heard from Research in Motion founder and co-CEO Mike Lazaridis at the start of Blackberry’s developer conference in San Francisco Tuesday. Lazaridis offered a quick, apologetic reference to the service outage that customers suffered through last week. Customers had reported not being able to make calls or send e-mails for days.

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