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 ...

QWERTY phones were pretty big a few years ago, and today you can still find a phone with keyboard. It was a natural evolution from the standard keypad, and allowed customers to use their smartphones ...

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 ...