Since on-screen keyboards have become significantly easier to work with, most phones leave out the physical keyboard. For improved productivity, however, sometimes you need hard buttons to make typing ...

Last month, NPR asked listeners and readers and a Harvard professor what technologies have stuck around a little too long. "The typewriter keyboard for me is the one that is most amazing," said ...

I started my career with CNET all the way back in 2005, when the (original) Motorola Razrs were all the rage. Since then, I've written about everything from consumer electronics to internet culture ...

Apple has just released an update for iOS 8, the operating system that runs on iPhones and iPads, and they’re supporting 3rd party keyboards for the first time in iOS history. Perhaps that’s partly ...

In 1936, August Dvorak, a professor of education at the University of Washington, patented an alternative to the QWERTY keyboard. The QWERTY keyboard, the standard keyboard used all over the world ...

August 27, 2007 The name Christopher Sholes probably doesn’t ring a bell in the mind of the average person, but if they knew of his contribution to modern technology they might well wish to throttle ...

Most modern keyboards are QWERTY. The QWERTY layout has no regularity in the arrangement of letters, and there was some backlash when this layout first came out. Designer Martin Vyčari explains the ...

How intuitive are modern keyboards? It can take a beginner ages to really get up to speed with a QWERTY keyboard, and without some form of formal training, most people wind up becoming one-finger ...

August 4, 2006 We are fully in agreement with Triggerfinger’s company motto of “QWERTY keyboards deserve to die” so please do your bit to let people know that there’s an alternative to the old ...