SwiftKey 4 on Android is the best touchscreen keyboard yet

If Android users want to make their iPhone-toting friends jealous, they need only point to SwiftKey, an alternative keyboard which uses semantic analysis and text prediction.

Swiftkey adds Swype-like gestures to its Android keyboard. Swell!

SwiftKey is one of many alternative keyboards available to Android phone and tablet users -- and today it's adding one of the features of its biggest competitors, Swype.

Microsoft launches revamped mice and keyboards for Windows 8

To absolutely no one’s surprise, Microsoft is hastily preparing for the October launch of the Windows 8 operating system. One way the company has prepared is a revamp of its successful hardware lineup of keyboards and mice, which are launching …

The spacebar is pressed 6M times a second & other crazy typing facts (video)

How many times do you tap characters on your keyboard a day? Which letter do you press the most? A new video from popular YouTube channel Vsauce explains these and more.

The video reveals which letter is pressed is most …

The secret to the Windows 8 keyboard design: common sense

Launching a new operating system may not require reinventing the wheel, but it could mean reinventing the keyboard.

That’s the conclusion Microsoft reached as it developed Windows 8, an operating system whose reliance on the touchscreen forced the company to …

Microsoft could bring curved, one-handed software keyboard to Windows Phone

As with 8Pen and Flit, we’ve seen more than a few unconventional mobile keyboards. The latest oddball effort, however, could come from Microsoft.

Windows Phone gadget blog WMPowerUser has unearthed a leaked screenshot of a new keyboard, which was taken …

TouchType uses the entire internet to upgrade its Android keyboard

To upgrade its Android keyboard, TouchType Ltd. drew on the combined linguistic intelligence of the entire online universe.

“We made a copy of the internet,” chief marketing officer Joe Braidwood told VentureBeat.

SwiftKey X, the latest version of the company’s …

New MacBook Air may bring backlit keyboard back

It sure would be handy if this darn MacBook Air had a backlit keyboard. We’re writing today from the disco-dark ballroom of the Palace Hotel in San Francisco during MobileBeat 2011. But soon enough, it may no longer be a …