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"Gotta Be Mobile" Innovates With With Its "InkShow" Review Series - And This Just In.... Bob Bushway Strips The Machine Down to Its Bare Bones...

Bob Bushway, over at GottaBeMobile, has an innovative approach to reviewing mobile related devices such as notebooks and tablet PC.s

In this episode, he reviews the pen and touch technology on the Dell Latitude Xt which is based on client, N-trig's Capacitive Touch technology, which he says has the best touch + pen experience on the market. "It is smooth, soft, and accurate, allowing for a more intuitive user experience than currently available in passive or other dual-mode offerings," says Bob.

Check this post, where he tears the unit down to see what's under the hood.  Well done!

Tower Semiconductor Ramps-Up Production of Client, N-trig's Digitizer Chips

Tower Semiconductor, Ltd. (NASDAQ: TSEM; TASE: TSEM), an independent specialty wafer foundry, and client, N-trig, the provider of DuoSense(TM) technology, combining pen and zero-pressure touch for mobile computers into a single device, today announced ramp-up of production of N-trig's A-trig and D-trig - the newest digitizer chipset to be integrated in OEMs computer systems.

N-trig’s DuoSense digitizers are thinner and more integrated solution, providing the ultimate human interface experience.  Its zero-pressure touch enables the best touch and pen experience on the market and is based on capacitive touch instead of traditional resistive touch. It is the only digitizer currently available that fully enables all the capabilities of the latest mobile platforms. DuoSense digitizers are implemented using Tower’s Fab2 0.18-micron advanced process. Tower is the leading provider of the A-trig and D-trig products’ silicon wafers.

Download the press release here.

Client, N-trig, Secures VC Investment Round of $28 Million

Client, N-trig, the provider of DuoSense™ technology combining pen and zero-pressure touch for mobile computers into a single device, announced today that they have completed a fund-raising round of $28 million from Canaan Partners, Evergreen Venture Partners and current investors.        

In addition to the investment round, N-trig has recently secured a credit facility of $5 million from Plenus, a leading Venture Lending Fund in Israel.    

View the press release here.

 

Scoble Posts Dell's Video Highlighting N-trig's DuoSense Technology

Blogger and social media guru, Robert Scoble, just posted the video from the Direct2Dell blog featuring client, N-trig's President of N-trig U.S.

N-trig Video Featuring Demo of DuoSense Technology on Dell's New Latitude XT Tablet Now on Engadet

The video posted on the Direct2Dell blog featuring N-trig's Rick Seger is now on Engadget!
See the post here.

N-trig Translates its Website into Chinese and Japanese

Client, N-trig, the provider of DuoSense™ technology combining pen and zero-pressure touch for mobile computers into a single device, announced today that it has translated its website into traditional Chinese and Japanese.

With our clients' business rapidly growing in the Asia Pacific region it was important to speak to their customers in their native language.

Now that major OEMs are integrating N-trig's technology into their next generation of Notebook PCs, this helps ensure that their customers and partners in Asia are able to easily see everything we N-trig has to offer.

Read the press release here.

N-trig Opens Taiwan Office - Broadcasting Your News in Other Countries and in Other Languages

Our client, N-trig, is continuing its global expansion with its announcement today of the opening of its Taiwan office.  N-trig’s new office will focus on sales as well as technical support.  You may download the news release here.

The Asia Pacific region is very important to our client so that they may directly support its major OEM customers who are integrating the company’s dual mode technology combining pen and zero-pressure touch for mobile computers into a single device.

Watch this blog for continuing news about N-trig and its executing on delivering on the promise of a completely new generation of tablet PCs that are now coming to market.

Broadcasting Your News In Other Countries and Other Languages

BusinessWire and PR Newswire offer the ability for you to broadcast your news around the world - and in local languages / alphabets. 

If you are planning to do, this consult with your local representative on local and regional packages you can buy, which also includes translation.

In the case of N-trig, we used Business Wire's Asia Pack, which gives you the leading Asia media in languages such as Japanese, Korean, Mandarin, Taiwanese, etc.

Rule(s) of Thumb:

1.  Allow three days for translation.

2.  Make sure you get a PDF of the local version of your global press release.  Post it on your site, send it to your lists...it shows you have a real global

3.  Read my previous posts about offerings, techniques, and methods from BusinessWire and PR Newswire.