Synaptics – who, if you look in your laptop's Device Manager or equivalent, you might find make your touchpad – have announced two new gestures that their hardware supports. ChiralRotate and ...

“Synaptics InterTouch raises the bar on notebook PC interactivity and user experience,” said Tim Bajarin, president and principal analyst at Creative Strategies. “InterTouch is a game-changing ...

This week during our July 4th "break" I had been reading some articles about Synaptics. While Synaptics does still manufacture and has the dominant share in computer touchpads and fingerprint readers, ...

Synaptics has been a serious roll of late, first introducing those luscious multitouch gestures to older trackpads, and last month extending its Gesture Suite to Linux and Chrome OS. Here at Computex, ...

HP Chief Technologist Mike Nash Wednesday told CRN that the Synaptics Touchpad debug tool security issue impacting about 460 HP laptops has been "fixed" with security updates. At the same time, Nash ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about disruptive companies, technologies and usage models. One of the most recent innovations that Synaptics brought to ...

We have more ways of interacting with our devices than ever before: voice, gestures, eye-tracking, as well as simply tapping on keys. Synaptics thinks we need another method: swiping on our spacebar.

Today Synaptics has unveiled a new touch pad in the form of the Forcepad, and has entered the keyboard market with the launch of its ThinTouch keyboard which has been designed for Ultrabook computers.

An Intel executive last week suggested it was abnormal to interact with a laptop using input devices like touchpads, but Synaptics is out to debunk that notion by making touchpads more user-friendly.