Cirque Corporation is a United States based corporation which develops touchpad. Cirque was founded in 1991 by George Gerpheide and James O Callaghan. Cirque sells their touchpads to original equipment manufacturers under the brand GlidePoint . They also sell at least 3 models of stand-alone touchpads, available to consumers, branded both Cirque and GlidePoint . Judging by the copyright notices on the documentation that came with mine, they have done so since at least 2000 AD.

Unlike Synaptics, Cirque blocks the features of their touchpad drivers depending on which model you buy. So for example, if you buy one of their cheaper touchpads, you will not have perhaps the zoom function, even though technically there is nothing stopping them from enabling the feature. Their features are also not as advanced as Synaptics, and they also have some basic problems, such as jumping cursors and not being able to perform a double click and drag (which will select text a word at a time). However they are the only people selling a USB touchpad at this time.

Their drivers are not Microsoft Windows certified, and thus many users have complained of various problems, including:

Cirque has been slow to respond to bug reports, with a new Windows certified driver originally promised by Nov 04, then Jan 05. The date slipped without any announcement on their page. Since then, the expected new driver ship dates May 05, June 05 were reported according to support requests. After these dates slipped, support requests could not be contacted. There is currently no indication that any driver fixes are being worked on. The current driver is sill dated Feb 2003.

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