I write so frequently about Microsoft Windows that I often forget about people like my friend Sam. Four or five years ago, Sam bought an IBM XT-compatible machine that he uses mainly for word ...

GUIs in handheld devices are becoming more important, but remain hard to patent at the EPO. Anders Hansson of Awapatent suggests ways to avoid valuable research and development disappearing into the ...

Android has long been focused on running mobile apps, but in recent years, features aimed at developers and power users have begun pushing its boundaries. One exciting frontier: running full Linux ...

Where would you be without the graphical user interface (GUI)? Certainly not right here right now reading this. Almost exclusively, everything we interact with digitally has a graphical user interface ...

A graphical user interface (GUI, pronounced “gooey”) is a computer environment that simplifies the user’s interaction with the computer by representing programs, commands, files, and other options as ...