When companies set out to create an iconic brand symbol, an animal can provide a shortcut to its desired identity and meaning. Brand managers are often trying to create a quick association in the mind ...

Apple Inc. has developed an enhancement to its Mac OS X Finder user interface that will allow for different-sized icons within the same window as a means of representing their importance, a recent ...

Is your hard drive the land of the lost files? An experimental software program labels files with images that can be easily remembered. Michael Kanellos is editor at large at CNET News.com, where he ...

A newly published Apple Patent application describes technology that would let users adjust the size of their icons. The Patent app is entitled, Graphical user interface for computers having variable ...

Do you remember faces better than names? A team of university researchers is developing software that applies the same phenomenon to PCs. VisualID is an experimental program that seeks to help ...