While reading a profile of Turing Prize winner Charles Thacker, I came across the statistic that handwriting recognition on tablets is up to 92 percent accuracy. That reminded me of how well tablets ...

Puzzazz has developed a method to recognize handwriting on a Kindle Touch, available within a Soduku ebook. Puzzazz has developed a method to recognize handwriting on a Kindle Touch, available within ...

GeekWire chronicles the Pacific Northwest startup scene. Sign up for our weekly startup newsletter, and check out the GeekWire funding tracker and VC directory. by Todd Bishop on Feb 14, 2012 at 1:45 ...

Handwriting recognition on smartphones and tablets has never been the best, but a new Android app from Google does it better than any we've ever encountered. Google Handwriting, as it is imaginatively ...

The Amazon Kindle Touch is a $99 eBook Reader with an E Ink display and support for touch input. For the most part you use touch to flip pages in books, type on an on-screen keyboard, or navigate ...

A pair of patent applications published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on Thursday reveal Apple is investigating the use of heuristics in its mobile devices to deliver a more realistic ...

A faster and more natural text input app for small devices, which mimics handwriting and eliminates typos. Sounds good? That is what the 8pen app for Android touch phones offers. The 8pen replaces the ...

The puzzle technology startup has developed a new technology called TouchWrite that can convert handwritten letters and numbers into digital on-screen versions. CNET contributor Don Reisinger is a ...

If you thought the Kindle Touch was limited to page-turn taps and a pokey on-screen keyboard, it’s time to re-evaluate. A start-up is now demonstrating software that lets the eReader handle ...

Apple has seeded developers with a new version of Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) tonight. The build (10A354) adds one particularly interesting new feature to Apple's Mac operating system: Chinese ...

Puzzle technology startup Puzzazz is giving Amazon’s Kindle Touch a capability that even Amazon didn’t envision — letting users input numbers and letters by writing them naturally with a finger on the ...