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 ...

The inventor of the text message, Matti Makkonen, has died aged 63. The Finnish engineer left us with a means of communication that has literally changed the world. Who hasn't mistakenly sent a text ...

The man who helped pioneer one of the greatest mobile phone inventions, texting, has died. Matti Makkonen was 63-years-old and had told colleagues he was looking forward to many years of happy ...

Martin King, the co-inventor of the Tegic <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T9_%28predictive_text%29">T9</a> text-input software for mobile phones, died last week ...