Most laptops and netbooks on the market come with a Synaptics touchpad built in, but not all computer users are fans of the pointing device. A touchpad might be suitable when performing basic tasks ...

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 is getting into the keyboard market, and adding a pressure-sensitive touchpad with no buttons, no click, and no thought of blasphemy. Synaptics is getting into the keyboard market, and ...

Synaptics said this week that it is working with Microsoft to bring touchpads with integrated fingerprint sensors to PC hardware makers, making Microsoft’s Windows Hello technology available to more ...

How you interact with your laptop is about to change forever. Synaptics, the company that develops software and firmware for the clickpads and touchpads found on any number of laptops, has debuted a ...

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.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about disruptive companies, technologies and usage models. After Apple’s announcement of their newest notebook, plainly ...

We spend an awful lot of time in laptop reviews railing against modern trackpads -- you know, the ones that mistake left clicks for right ones, or have a really stiff button mechanism. Well, it looks ...

Just sharing this little nugget I found on the Internet after I found Synaptics' drivers for my Precision M3800's trackpad wanting. There are some (eg those with an HP Spectre) saying they need some ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about disruptive companies, technologies and usage models. As I've been following and writing about Synaptics over the ...