Synaptics Inc announced today its SYNAPTICS | Scrybe 1.5 gesture workflow technology is available for free public download. Scrybe leverages symbol-based gestures to accomplish complete tasks through touch: productivity actions for intelligent directed search, research, and shopping; entertainment actions for listening to music or viewing photos, videos, and recorded TV. Even basic actions to launch applications, open websites, and execute shortc...

Synaptics, a leading developer of human interface solutions for mobile computing, communications, and entertainment devices, announced today that Windows Phone 7 platform developers will have access to native touch support for Synaptics ClearPad capacitive touchscreen solutions.

Synaptics announced the appointment of Russell J. Knittel as Interim President and Chief Executive Officer following the resignation for personal reasons of Thomas J. Tiernan as President, Chief Executive Officer, and a director. Mr. Knittel will also be joining the Board of Directors. The Board of Directors is instituting an immediate search for a successor President and Chief Executive Officer.

Synaptics today announced that its capacitive TouchPad solution is featured in the Philips Dual remote control, that was introduced at IBC 2010 in Amsterdam. To develop their next-generation remote, Philips Home Control combined a variety of leading-edge innovations including ZigBee® RF4CE technology (Radio Frequency for Consumer Electronics), a QWERTY keyboard, and Synaptics TouchPad solution. The 2-inch diagonal TouchPad recognizes gestures su...

Synaptics announced that PCWorld selected capacitive touchscreens as an industry-changing technology. PCWorld highlighted capacitive touchscreens as one of 12 key technology breakthroughs in the recent article “Game Changers: 12 Technologies That Changed Everything.”

Synaptics is helping to simplify the user experience in the digital living room with an adaption of its industry-leading TouchPad solution. Improved digital home entertainment systems including cable and satellite set-top boxes, digital video recorders (DVR), and HD televisions have driven the media and entertainment usage model evolution with a wide range of features and programming, multiple layers of information, and complicated menu structure...

Addressing the growing trend of large touchscreen consumer electronics products, Synaptics Inc. (NASDAQ: SYNA), a leading developer of human interface solutions for mobile computing, communications, and entertainment devices, is announcing its ClearPad™ 7200 Series technology offering. Utilizing the feature-rich capability offered by Synaptics-designed full image sensor technology, the ClearPad 7200 Series is ideal for OEMs designing a wide ran...

Touchscreens are well integrated into our modern commercial landscape. We find them on mobile phones, grocery store check-out counters, ATMs, airport check-in kiosks, gas pumps, and elsewhere. While resistive touchscreen technology still accounts for the majority of the touchscreen market, more manufacturers are employing capacitive touchscreens.

The Mobile Entertainment Forum (MEF) has awarded this year’s prestigious Meffys Outstanding Contribution award to Dr. Andrew Hsu, the inventor of modern touchscreen technology for mobile handsets. The winner was announced as part of the sold-out Meffys Gala Awards dinner held in London’s Grand Connaught Rooms last night. The Outstanding Contribution award recognises the individuals behind the scenes responsible for exceptional innovation in b...

Synaptics Inc., a leading developer of capacitive interface solutions for mobile computing, communications, and entertainment devices, supported the 2010 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF) to help ignite a passion among students for science, technology, engineering, and math. The Intel ISEF is the world’s largest international science competition for grades 9-12, bringing together more than 1,500 high school students from ...

Synaptics Inc has been ranked one of the “Best Places to Work” in the Bay Area by the San Francisco Business Times and Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal. Synaptics placed 46 out of 170 companies nominated in the Large Companies category (101-500 employees).

Synaptics Inc. (NASDAQ: SYNA), a leading developer of human interface solutions for mobile computing, communications, and entertainment devices, today announced the extension of its industry-leading Synaptics Gesture Suite™ to the Linux operating system environment. This release extends the Synaptics Gesture Suite—which includes sophisticated multi-finger gestures—to OEMs that offer Linux-based solutions.

Synaptics Inc. today entered the home appliance market and announced it is providing the capacitive touch control panel solution for the new Samsung Hauzen ZERO air conditioner. Samsung incorporated the Synaptics TouchButtons solution to provide easy operation and a pleasing aesthetic design for the product. The Hauzen ZERO air conditioner is being launched in Korea with a high profile advertising campaign for the 2010 Winter Olympics featuring Y...

Synaptics Inc announced that its ClearPad 3000 Series capacitive multi-touch sensor provides the touchscreen solution in the reference design for Marvell’s ARMADA™ 610 next-generation application processor.

Synaptics Inc. announced that its ClearPad solution provides the capacitive touchscreen interfaces for the OMAP™ 4 processor-based development platform – the Blaze Mobile Development Platform (MDP) by Texas Instruments. The Blaze MDP leverages dual displays, each supported by a ClearPad high-resolution capacitive touchscreen solution with advanced gesture capability. High performance and accuracy combines with seamless gesture integration to ...

Synaptics, a leading developer of human interface solutions for mobile computing, communications, and entertainment devices, today announced that the Nexus One phone uses its ClearPad 2000 capacitive touchscreen sensor.

Synaptics Inc. today announced beta availability for Scrybe gesture workflows, the next generation advancement in TouchPad-based interfaces for PCs. Scrybe leverages finger movements to create fluid gesture shortcuts intended to boost productivity and efficiency by getting more work done with fewer steps. Scrybe delivers a powerful gesture engine to PC manufacturers who want to utilize the latest gesture technology to enhance the overall user exp...

Synaptics Incorporated introduced Fuse, a collaborative mobile phone concept, demonstrating the future of user interaction for handsets. Integrating for the first time multiple interface technologies—including multi-touch capacitive sensing, haptic feedback, 3-D graphics, and force, grip, and proximity sensing—the Fuse concept phone showcases exciting new mobile device usage models.

Expanding its portfolio of ClearPad solutions, Synaptics has introduced its advanced multi-touch ClearPad 3000 Series capacitive touch sensor solution. Building upon the success of Synaptics’ patented, flagship ClearPad touchscreen solution, the new 3000 Series offering combines Synaptics’ best-in-class ClearPad sensing technology with the company’s exclusive design-in services which helps to make it easier for OEMs and ODMs of mass-market ...