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Virtual Keyboard Makes Smudges a Must

Do you love your smartphone but hate its on-screen keyboard? From an efficiency perspective, virtual keyboards offer lots of advantages like shortcut buttons that appear when you need them (think of a...

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Casual Contestant Shatters Texting Speed Record

Melissa Thompson, 27, of Salford, England, was out shopping over the weekend when the folks at a Samsung booth persuaded her to have a go at texting the official 26-word sentence used in determining...

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Swype Grabs More Funding, Looks to Trace Path Into New Areas

Swype, the Seattle company known for its fast text-entry method, is looking to speed its growth even further. The 70-person start-up is in the midst of rolling out new versions of its software and...

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Swype Keyboard Gets New Features in Software Update

Swype, the maker of the speedy keyboard software, said on Monday that it has a new version of its beta that aims to make it even easier for those looking to enter text on their mobile devices. The...

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Exclusive: Swype Grabs More Money for its Virtual Keyboard Push

Swype, the company best known for an on-screen keyboard that lets users trace entire words, has scooped up a further $2.5 million in funding, its CEO told AllThingsD this week. In an interview, CEO...

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SwiftKey X Adds Yet Another Virtual Keyboard Option for Android

Windows Phone 7 and iPhone owners have just one option when it comes to software keyboards — use the virtual keyboard that is built into the operating system. Android device owners, meanwhile, have a...

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Swype, Sprint Giving Nexus S 4G Owners Early Access to New Keyboard Software

Software keyboard maker Swype said it has reached a deal with Sprint to give owners of the Nexus S 4G Android phone the first crack at a new version of the company’s flagship keyboard software. The new...

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Nuance to Buy Virtual Keyboard-Maker Swype for $100 Million

Nuance, a voice recognition technology company, has acquired Seattle-based Swype, which is known for its very popular virtual keyboard commonly found on Android phones, according to a person close to...

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Nuance's Swype Bill: $102.5 Million

Nuance has spelled out its acquisition plans for Swype, the company that makes virtual keyboard software for Google’s Android handsets. Nuance will pay $102.5 million in cash for the start-up, with...

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Loading Photos Into the Kindle Fire

Q: How do I load family pictures into the Kindle Fire that I just bought for my 94-year-old mother? A: One of the weaknesses of the Fire is that it is heavily tied into Amazon’s cloud services, and,...

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How Touchscreens Are Forcing the Reinvention of Keyboards

Last week at the Consumer Electronics Show, an Israel-based company called Snapkeys invited showgoers into a booth to test its new keyboard technology. Within a few minutes of using it, the company...

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Swype Gets First Update Since Selling to Nuance

Nuance on Wednesday is showing off the first update to Swype since paying more than $100 million to acquire the virtual keyboard company last year. The new software adds, among other things, the...

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SwiftKey Keyboard for Android Gets Smarter

The autocorrect function on smartphone keyboards can be helpful, but it can also lead to some hilarious and embarrassing mistakes. SwiftKey, a virtual keyboard for Android, looks to eliminate those...

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Google Will Now Take Your Searches in Writing

Google today announced a nifty feature for users to handwrite search queries from their phones and tablets. Keyboard apps like Swype and SwiftKey are popular on Android, but Google’s version allows for...

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myTouch and myTouch Q: T-Mobile's “Genius” Phones With Old Software

Inexpensive “budget” phones are getting sexier. These days, $50 will get you much more than a flip phone with a low-quality camera and a slow mobile Web browser hidden behind a globe icon. T-Mobile’s...

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Latest Swype Update Adds in Gangnam Style, Cloud Sync

Nuance said the latest update of its Swype on-screen keyboard app will add a number of cloud-based capabilities, including the ability to have a dictionary that remembers nicknames and custom entries...

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SwiftKey Flow Takes Swipe at Competition, Adds Continuous Input

Today, SwiftKey, maker of the popular predictive keyboard app for Android, offered its first sneak peek at the next iteration of its virtual keyboard called SwiftKey Flow. Instead of pecking at...

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Nexus 4 Is a Great Value With Small Improvements

Google’s Android operating system is used on hundreds of smartphones and tablets. But the flagship Android devices, the ones the company calls “the best of Google,” are labeled Nexus. They are meant to...

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Nuance's Swype Android Keyboard Finally Hits Google Play

Looking to getting its product into the hands of more people, Nuance Communications announced today that its Swype virtual keyboard for Android will be available from the Google Play store starting...

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SwiftKey Cloud Brings Your Favorite Slang Terms to All of Your Devices

SwiftKey, makers of the popular Android keyboard app, today unveiled a new cloud service that will help users have a more personalized typing experience across all of their gadgets. Called SwiftKey...

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