Remember when Steve Jobs said that multitouch was a totally new interface

Looks like a bunch of folks are about to put that to test:

H.P., Dell, Intel and Microsoft expect that when companies and consumers increase their spending, touch technology will be one of the things that nudge them to upgrade. Computers with the special screens will probably cost consumers about $100 more than standard machines.

Working together, Microsoft and N-trig have created a type of software interface that lets other companies add touch functions to their programs. Such touch software can handle lots of fingers hitting a screen at once rather than just relying on one or two digits, as most of today’s touch screens do.

SpaceClaim, which makes software for designing objects in 3-D, has taken a business-oriented approach to touch. Its software, which will work with Windows 7, creates 3-D models that can be turned, pinched and altered via two-handed touches. 

Nothing new or compelling other than touch is not particularly useful, me thinks.

Larry Ellison’s net-centric computer won’t die

Network computers, netbooks..

Oracle’s Might Build Netbooks, CEO Ellison Says

Now that he bought Sun, is the network the computer again?

Cube store: location location, location

$440M a year in sales. Wow:

It reveals just how much Apple was pulling in from the Fifth Ave. store: Some $440 million a year in sales.

That’s an incredible amount of money — even if it’s dropped during the recession — and more than 10 times Apple’s average for a retail store. Over the trailing four quarters, the average Apple retail store brought in less than $30 million in sales. And for comparison, Apple’s SoHo NYC store brings in about $100 million a year, according to the Post’s sources