Last month Chrome became a touch-screen-enabled software like Android, and Mr. Pichai said at the time that manufacturers could use Chrome to power tablets.
The Wall Street Journal previously reported that Microsoft also is planning price breaks for its Windows and Office software as part of a strategy to spur lower-cost touch-screen devices enabled by its Windows software.
Now obviously a little of this is going to be required on any touch screen, but the Bobby software doesn't even try to leverage any gestures or motion controls.
Everyone, it seemed, had an opinion about the new technology that made the screen "click" when pressed and the user software RIM re-worked to support the touch-screen.
It runs on specially adapted touch screen systems in voting booths, but it is the software that would form the basis of an online voting system too.
Software giant Microsoft has built support for touch-screen interfaces into the latest version of Windows.
He trotted back out Windows Surface, a touch-screen PC inside a table that uses sophisticated cameras and software to synchronize with other gadgets.
Visually, the software looks like a version of Windows with touch-screen features, like a button to activate the keyboard, duct taped on top.
Like Apple's iOS software, Android also allows consumers to control devices with gestures on a touch screen, run apps and present information via arrays of icons.
Iwata also demonstrated several of the DS's new software titles featuring the innovative features of the DS: voice recognition, touch-screen control and, of course, WiFi.
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Mr. Forlines had created software applications for a device called the "DiamondTouch, " a tabletop touch-screen computer that Samsung discussed at length at the end of Monday's proceedings.
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