Simple premise: Measure your typing speed on a keyboard and your tablet. Part of the contention is that tablet text entry is much slower than keyboard and that a tablet with a keyboard cover would be ...

Swiss startup Wrio has launched a new keyboard app for iOS which claims to speed up typing by between 20 and 70 percent compared to standard Qwerty layouts. The developers of Wrio say they achieved ...

Last year we told you about the CharaChorder Lite, a special keyboard that lets users type faster by using groupings of keys to represent entire words. Well, any keyboard can now do that, if it's ...

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 ...

Increase your typing accuracy by learning shortcuts built into iOS that give quick access to the number keys, undoing and redoing entries and more. Image: CNET Apple wowed the world when they ...

Whether you’re punching up an email or crafting the next great American novel, a solid keyboard is a must-have if you spend a lot of time writing. Having a great keyboard for writing will improve your ...

Get the latest federal technology news delivered to your inbox. The research also finds that 10-19-year-olds can type about 10 words per minute faster than can people in their 40s. The participants ...

Many office job roles require employees to be able to type large amounts of text quickly and accurately. Good typing technique is more than a useful skill, as a mistake by a data entry clerk or ...

Good typing speeds are relative to job descriptions. For example, data entry positions usually require 60-80 words per minute. Medical transcriptionists, paralegals and executive secretaries should be ...

There’s a newish development in the world of keyboards; the optical switch. It’s been around for a couple years in desktop keyboards, and recently became available on a laptop keyboard as well. These ...

Chances are, you use keyboard shortcuts regularly on your laptop or desktop, but how often do you use them on your iPhone? While the iPhone's limited keyboard doesn't offer as many keyboard shortcuts ...