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 ...

We suggest starting with a simple double-tap in the top-left corner of the touchpad This should work if your laptop has a Synaptics Touchpad. It’s unlocked when the light in the corner of the touchpad ...

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about disruptive companies, technologies and usage models. One of the most recent innovations that Synaptics brought to ...

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 ...

HP Chief Technologist Mike Nash Wednesday told CRN that the Synaptics Touchpad debug tool security issue impacting about 460 HP laptops has been "fixed" with security updates. At the same time, Nash ...

This week during our July 4th "break" I had been reading some articles about Synaptics. While Synaptics does still manufacture and has the dominant share in computer touchpads and fingerprint readers, ...

We have more ways of interacting with our devices than ever before: voice, gestures, eye-tracking, as well as simply tapping on keys. Synaptics thinks we need another method: swiping on our spacebar.

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.

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Sept. 13 /PRNewswire/ — Synaptics Inc. (NASDAQ: SYNA), a leading developer of human interface solutions for mobile computing, communications, and entertainment devices, today ...

Many users who own a laptop or a tablet with a trackpad prefer using an external mouse. The use of this external mouse is undertaken because it boosts productivity. Users are more comfortable and used ...