Emoji, accent marks, and other special characters bring an element of fun and accuracy to the texting experience, but what if you’re on your PC and you want to break up plain old text with cool ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Swipe it, type it, set a shortcut, grab a dictionary perfect for texting from your favorite sporting event: Typing on new Apple gadgets gets a lot easier with iOS 8. In addition to ...

Because typing with long nails can be a nightmare. I love having long nails. There’s something so elegant about lengthy claws, and they really elevate an ensemble. I don’t, ho ...

There's the traditional 10-number telephone keypad with the letters of the alphabet bunched three and four to a button. Even with cutsie abbreviations, typing is an arduous affair. If you want a full ...

For much of human history, written communication was accomplished by hand. Every character had to be painstakingly carved into clay or inked onto parchment. Only in the mid-nineteenth century, with ...

Apple’s iPhone needs a much smarter keyboard. I’ve said it before, but here’s evidence Cupertino itself realises that hen-pecking individual letters is a “tedious task”. Apple’s US patent 8,542,206 ...

Want to type faster but can't seem to break the "hunt-and-peck" method? Das Keyboard is holding a new challenge, with prizes for anyone who's brave enough to ditch the crutch of labeled keys and are ...