I have been using converged (mobile phone and PDA functionality in one) devices for a few years now and most of the Windows Mobile devices that I have preferred have been ones with QWERTY keyboards ...

Before smartphones took away keyboards and replaced them with slick touchscreens, T9 was the king of software on mobile devices. The predictive text entry method changed how people composed messages ...

Cliff Kushler was on the team that invented T9, the life-saver mobile phone input technology that meant us adults could keep up with the ten-thumbed kids. Now, as touch screens take over from actual ...

Nuance Communications has agreed to buy the developer of the T9 predictive text input software for mobile phones from current owner AOL. Tegic Communications, in Seattle, developed the T9 interface in ...

Tegic might not be a household name, but it's a solid bet you've used their software -- the company is responsible for the T9 predictive-text input system that's installed in virtually every cellphone ...

SEATTLE — Back in the 1990s, typing out “hello” on most cellphones required an exhausting 13 taps on the number keys, like so: 44-33-555-555-666. That was before the inventor Cliff Kushler, based here ...