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NEWS ABOUT: Microsoft Surface

Microsoft Surface stories: 3 news summaries

 Harrah's Rolls Dice on Surface 

Microsoft's touch-screen tables debut at Rio

Jun 12, 08 12:27 PM CDT
(Newser) - A Las Vegas casino has become the first to roll the dice with the much-touted Microsoft Surface, a touch-screen table that lets gamblers order drinks, watch YouTube videos, and even flirt. Harrah’s Rio hotel yesterday installed 6 of the tables, which start at $10,000, the AP reports. “... More »

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Microsoft • Las Vegas • Microsoft Surface • Harrah's • software • casino • touch-screen technology

Meet the Next Big Interface: Multitouch

The iPhone was just the beginning. Mossberg sees it everywhere

Jan 31, 08 1:00 PM CST
(Newser) - The iPhone was just the coming-out party: The gesture-based touch commands the phone uses, writes Walter Mossberg in today’s Wall Street Journal, have since been ported everywhere from the Macbook Air laptop to a Microsoft coffee-table-sized computer to iPhone wannabes exhibited all over the recent Consumer Electronics Show.... More »

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iPhone • Microsoft Surface • Apple • iPod Touch • multitouch

Microsoft Surface Plays Hard to Get

The company's new table begs to be touched, but price won't allow it

May 30, 07 11:24 AM CDT
(Newser) - The bottom line on Surface, Microsoft's touch-sensitive table being unveiled today? The possibilities are exciting, says PC World's Harry McCracken, but the roll-out is annoying.  Surface—which skips a mouse in favor of an index finger—can interact with multiple users, and even objects. But, too expensive to be... More »

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