Howard Gutowitz wants to get his girlfriend fired. Only then will he consider himself a true success. She's an operator at France Telecom, where she types in text pager messages. Her job is made ...

NEW YORK – There are only so many ways to lay out the keys on a cell phone for typing words, or so you’d think. There’s the traditional 10-number telephone keypad with the letters of the alphabet ...

Howard Gutowitz wants to get his girlfriend fired. Only then will he consider himself a true success. She's an operator at France Telecom, where she types in text pager messages. Her job is made ...

From the clunky old days of clamshell flip phones where the user had to press a number multiple times to choose the letter they wanted to form a word to slowly create a text message, to the ...

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--How can you find information about Condoleezza Rice on the Internet? Type in "2*#7423". That is if you have a copy of a prototype program from Microsoft Research currently named ...

If you are going to use a cell phone to send e-mail, something has to be done about the keyboard. Photos: Rethinking the keyboard Michael Kanellos is editor at large at CNET News.com, where he covers ...