Keyboards and mice are great when you're typing a report or entering data in a spreadsheet, but next-generation applications are much more likely to be controlled by voice or gesture input. We've ...

A patent (number 8,239,784) for “mode-based graphical user interfaces for touch sensitive input devices” shows Apple is working on an alternative input method for iOS devices. A user interface method ...

Software has never looked cooler, but user interface design and user experience have taken a sharp turn for the worse. When we first got the personal computer, we didn’t worry much about how things ...

Apple's iTunes 10 upgrade brings a number of interesting enhancements to the program, including the "Ping" social-networking option and the new clutter-reducing "hybrid" view for album covers and song ...

The original Macintosh computer may seem quaint today, but the way users interacted with it was game-changing. Mark Mathosian/Flickr, CC BY-NC-SA Technology innovation requires solving hard technical ...

Apple's iPad and iPhone may be continually reshaping the way we interact with computers, but at least one computing pioneer believes the company has diverged from the vision of technology that ...

Over the years we've seen plenty of surface and gestural interface computing systems and prototypes, but nothing mass-market -- nothing consumable, if you will. Microsoft aims to change all that with ...

Amazon's voice-activated assistant Alexa made a splash at CES in 2016, and at this year's show, Alexa is just about everywhere you look. While Amazon has its own motivations for distributing its ...

Restarting the network interface using command lines in Linux is a straight-forward procedure. While the GUI (Graphical User Interface) for Linus network configuration is more graphical and visually ...

Linksys first introduced its Velop whole-home networking solution in January. Now the company is enhancing the kit with a firmware update that adds a web-based interface for PC-based network ...