| Date | Title | Description |
| 14.06.2017 | DFJ leads $8.5 million investment in Xealth’s digital prescription service | Xealth, a health care startup that allows doctors to prescribe digital services like apps and devices, today announced a seed round of $8.5 million, led by DFJ.
The company aggregates and filters a range of information in a care provider’s ... |
| 14.06.2017 | DFJ leads $8.5 million investment in Xealth’s digital prescription service | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Xealth, a health care startup that allows doctors to prescribe digital services like apps and devices, today announced a seed round of ... |
| 21.08.2015 | 10 apps that should be core smartphone features | There are mobile apps for taking notes, for keeping fit, for toilet-users to communicate … apps for just about everything. But some apps add such great functionality to a smartphone that sometimes I wonder whether they should be offered by ... |
| 21.08.2015 | 10 apps that should be core smartphone features | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
There are mobile apps for taking notes, for keeping fit, for toilet-users to communicate … apps for just about everything. But some app... |
| 04.10.2014 | Everything You Need To Know About iOS 8 Keyboard Permissions (But Were Afraid To Ask) | By far the most exciting thing about iOS 8 — imho — is the side-door it opens into Apple’s walled garden to allow keyboard app makers to come on in for the first time.
No longer is it true that outlandish Qwertys with a twist are barred fro... |
| 22.09.2014 | The 6 best features in the iPhone's new iOS 8 | Apple released iOS 8 -- the newest version of the iPhone (and iPad) operating system last week, and many people rushed to install it. And, based on feedback in message boards and forums, some have been disappointed by the lack of innovation... |
| 19.09.2014 | iOS 8 keyboards from SwiftKey, Swype, & Fleksy compared: Everybody wins | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Is this real life? Or is this just fantasy? I’m proudly using a non-Apple keyboard on my iPhone 5S — no jailbreaks necessary.
One of th... |
| 02.06.2014 | Apple To Support Third-Party Widgets, Keyboards For The First Time | Apple is opening the floodgates to third party widgets and keyboards on iOS, Apple’s software for mobile devices like the iPhone and iPad.
Users will be able to access widgets directly in the notification center on iPhone. What’s more, thes... |
| 02.06.2014 | iOS 8 will support third-party keyboards, including Swype | Today, Apple announced that iOS 8 will support third-party keyboards — a major shift from the company’s tendency to heavily control the user experience of its products.
Featured in Apple’s keynote presentation at its annual developer confer... |
| 26.06.2013 | Microsoft’s Windows 8.1 Preview Introduces A Smarter Virtual Keyboard For Touchscreens | The Windows 8.1 Preview, which is launching today, includes a number of small improvements, and one of the cooler ones is the new touchscreen keyboard that’s now significantly smarter and allows you to type much faster than before.
While it... |
| 09.06.2013 | What Android Has That iOS Has Not (Yet) | Android is open and customizable. iOS is closed, designed for ease. But iPhone users are maturing, demanding more personalization, and Apple might give it to them at WWDC. At D11, Tim Cook said “I think you will see us open up more in the f... |
| 08.06.2013 | What the future of mobile keyboards will look like | Parham Aarabi is a professor at the University of Toronto and CEO of ModiFace. We’ll be talking about mobile user experience and more at VentureBeat MobileBeat conference in San Francisco, Calif. July 9-10.
It’s the one thing that we do mos... |
| 08.06.2013 | What the future of mobile keyboards will look like | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Parham Aarabi is a professor at the University of Toronto and CEO of ModiFace. We’ll be talking about mobile user experience and more a... |
| 04.05.2013 | Bejeweled jumps to Android, Weatherbug helps wannabe Benjamin Franklins | veggiefrog reader comments 22 with 21 posters participating
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The Android app market saw a few well-known applications get some major updates last week. Amazon’s Kindle app f... |
| 13.04.2013 | GeekWire Radio on stage: Here is our broadcast from Seattle’s Pioneer Square | Technology was the central topic, naturally, as we recorded the GeekWire radio show for the first time in front of an audience this week, at the HUB Seattle in Pioneer Square. But two unexpected themes also emerged from our guests — teamwor... |
| 20.02.2013 | SwiftKey 4 on Android is the best touchscreen keyboard yet | If Android users want to make their iPhone-toting friends jealous, they need only point to SwiftKey, an alternative keyboard that uses semantic analysis and text prediction.
With today’s introduction of SwiftKey 4 ($1.99 on Google Play for ... |
| 20.02.2013 | SwiftKey 4 on Android is the best touchscreen keyboard yet | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
If Android users want to make their iPhone-toting friends jealous, they need only point to SwiftKey, an alternative keyboard that uses ... |
| 28.12.2012 | Home row heroes: alternative keyboard apps for Android | reader comments 91 with 79 posters participating
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With all the various OEM versions of Android available, it's likely you may get stuck with an onscreen keyboard you're not ... |
| 02.11.2012 | Google’s Nexus 4: If You Like Huge Android Phones, You’ll Love This One | The Nexus 4 didn’t surprise me a bit. It is the fastest, brightest, sturdiest Android phone I’ve ever used. The display is big and brilliant. The camera is pretty sharp. Battery life is good. Phone geeks might bemoan the lack of LTE, but I ... |
| 29.10.2012 | The version of Jelly Bean you’ve been waiting for arrives | Gesture based keyboard input lets you type without lifting your fingers. reader comments 54 with 45 posters participating
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| 25.10.2012 | Swiftkey adds Swype-like gestures to its Android keyboard. Swell! | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
SwiftKey is one of many alternative keyboards available to Android phone and tablet users — and today it’s adding one of the features o... |
| 17.10.2012 | Swype adds keyboard features, but no word of iPhone app | Swype is adding new features to its keyboard app for mobile phones, including a personalized dictionary that syncs between devices; additional language support and a number of new keyboard designs. The dictionary even includes updates of ne... |
| 17.10.2012 | Nuance-Owned Swype Keyboard Gets Another Update: Now You Can Sync Your Slang Across Devices (And Tap Into Other People’s Lingo) | Nuance-owned Swype, which makes virtual keyboards for mobile devices, has released a new version (v1.3) of its software which adds the ability to backup and sync your personal dictionary across multiple mobiles devices — so you can take you... |
| 12.09.2012 | Chrome For Android Gets A Stronger Sandbox | Google just launched an update to Chrome for Android that provides the browser with a strengthened sandbox. Google says this will help ensure that malicious mobile sites remain contained and can’t impact the entire browser. It’s worth notin... |
| 16.08.2012 | Creator Of BlindType, A Keyboard App For The Blind Acquired By Google, Reveals New Keyboard App Called Fleksy | Fleksy is a new keyboard replacement app for iOS, originally designed for use by the blind or partially sighted, which was created by co-founders Ioannis Verdelis and Kostas Eleftheriou of Syntellia. Kostas, you might recall, previously cre... |
| 26.07.2012 | Search In Cursive: Google Now Lets You Hand-Write Search Queries On Phones And Tablets | Google just added a new feature to its mobile search page that lets you hand-write search queries in cursive and block letters. Once you have enabled this new feature, you can simply start writing on your screen and Google will translate yo... |
| 23.06.2012 | Swype keyboard gets major update with speech support and word prediction | reader comments 49 with 27 posters participating
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Nuance, the company behind the popular Dragon speech recognition software, has launched a new version of the Swype keyboard... |
| 21.06.2012 | SwiftKey Counters Swype With A Smarter Version, Makes An In-Road Into Healthcare Market | Swype recently announced the newest version of its smart keyboard, and now competitor SwiftKey is launching its new Swiftkey 3 version. This artificially intelligent keyboard predicts what you are going to type based on what you start to ty... |
| 20.06.2012 | Swype raises the bar for mobile text input — here’s how you can take part | Typing is definitely the lousiest part of using a phone or tablet. Despite hundreds of variations on keyboards, gestures, writing, and voice input utilities, tasks like entering email addresses, typing text messages, and (shudder) long emai... |
| 20.06.2012 | Swype makes your keyboard smarter, again | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Swype just announced the newest version of its type-faster-better keyboard for Android smartphones, currently in beta. The promise of t... |
| 20.06.2012 | Swype makes your keyboard smarter, again | Swype just announced the newest version of its type-faster-better keyboard for Android smartphones, currently in beta. The promise of the software? The more you use it, the smarter it gets.
Swype replaces the tap-tap-tap of smartphone text ... |
| 20.06.2012 | Nuance Supercharges Swype, Adds New Keyboard Options, XT9 Predictive Text, And Dragon-Powered Voice Input | Swype lovers, Nuance has some good news for you. The company just released a major update to the predictive keyboard software, even going as far as calling this update the next generation of Swype. And after looking at the new feature list,... |
| 17.04.2012 | Startup Awards: Vote for Mobile App of the Year | Everything is going mobile these days, and some of our region’s most promising services now can be operated in the palm of the hand.
Today’s featured category in the Seattle 2.0 Startup Awards is Mobile App of the Year, recognizing some of ... |
| 21.03.2012 | 10 disruptive individuals who are reshaping the mobile industry | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
The mobile industry is at an exciting stage: There are enough smartphone customers that there’s a huge field of opportunity for device ... |
| 16.02.2012 | New Swype Beta Packs Support For Ice Cream Sandwich | Don’t get me wrong — Ice Cream Sandwich’s stock keyboard is pretty fantastic, but after having spent the past year or two Swyping my way though text messages and emails, most other modes of text input just feel slow in comparison. Thankfull... |
| 22.12.2011 | Dragon voice recognition finally lands on Android, thanks to Swype | Nuance’s purchase of Swype, maker of an alternative keyboard for smartphones, is finally beginning to pay off with the introduction of Nuance’s Dragon voice recognition on the latest Swype Android app.
Swype’s software keyboard lets you swi... |
| 22.12.2011 | Dragon voice recognition finally lands on Android, thanks to Swype | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Nuance’s purchase of Swype, maker of an alternative keyboard for smartphones, is finally beginning to pay off with the introduction of ... |
| 21.12.2011 | Swype Learns To Listen Better, Type More Accurately | If you haven’t taken the time to play with Swype (the trace-to-type mobile keyboard alternative), you’re missing out — and I’m not just saying that because it launched at one of our conferences. As evidenced by the fact that it’s now built ... |
| 21.12.2011 | Textaholics Rejoice! Swype Beta Taps Dragon Dictation | Textaholics, this one’s for you.
Swype — the Android-flavored keyboard that lets you type (or swype, rather) faster than you ever thought possible — has a present for you this holiday season. With Siri on the iPhone 4S, voice control apps a... |
| 07.10.2011 | Swype CEO Mike McSherry Explains His $100 Million Deal With Nuance | Last night, Michael broke the news that TechCrunch50 alum Swype was acquired for $100 million by speech technology company Nuance. The exact number was $102.5 million and, I’ve learned, it was all cash (split between $77.5 million up front ... |
| 07.10.2011 | The inside story of how a Seattle angel investor discovered Swype | Guest commentary from Bill Bryant: I have been in the software business for more than 20 years now, spanning some 25 companies (including such notables as Netbot, Visio, Qpass, Isilon, Medio, and more recently Opscode, Winshuttle and Z2Live... |
| 07.10.2011 | Nuance acquires Swype for $102.5M | The deal could bring Swype's patented swipe-texting solution to iPhones
Texting on a touchscreen is quite the pain in the ass for the fat-fingered and the uncoordinated, which is why texting solutions like the one offered by Swype are such ... |
| 06.10.2011 | Done Deal: Nuance Buying Swype for Around $100M in Cash | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
[Updated 10/7/11, 8 am Pacific] There’s a Tegic Communications reunion shaping up in Seattle. Documents filed with the SEC show that Nuance Communications is buying mobile sof... |
| 06.10.2011 | Nuance in talks to acquire Swype for $102.5M | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
A new SEC document filed by communication technology company Nuance today reveals that the company paid $102.5 million to acquire Swype... |
| 06.10.2011 | Swype, The Maker Of Speedy Virtual Keyboards, To Be Acquired By Nuance For $100 Million+ | Swype has been blowing minds since it first launched at TechCrunch 50 back in September of 2008. For those unfamiliar, Swype is the maker of an awesome app that allows users of touchscreen mobile devices to type messages with one swipe of t... |
| 06.10.2011 | Nuance in talks to acquire Swype for $102.5M | A new SEC document filed by communication technology company Nuance today reveals that the company paid $102.5 million to acquire Swype — with $77.5 million paid upfront and the remaining amount in 18 months.
Swype is best known for its tou... |
| 30.09.2011 | How does Swype really work? | For the first decade of the smartphone it was common to see someone hunched over with both thumbs trying to peck out keys on a Liliputian keyboard. Touch screens have quickly been changing thumb typing into a one-fingered hunt and peck whic... |
| 12.07.2011 | Swype Raises $2.5M |
Swype announced that it raised an additional $2.5 million in Series C financing led by existing investors Samsung Ventures, Nokia Growth Partners, Benaroya Capital, DOCOMO Capital and Ignition Partners.
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| 13.06.2011 | Swype 3.0 Beta To Launch Today, Now Tablet-friendly | Swype. It’s just one of those things where you know if you love it or hate it within about 30 seconds of your first touch. Some people just can’t wrap their heads around dragging their finger from letter to letter rather than poking around;... |
| 11.03.2011 | Swype For Android Updated, Annoying Bugs Patched | Back in the early days of Swype, shoehorning this crazy speedy, tapless-typing keyboard onto your Android handset was a matter of finding a compatible APK. Eventually, Swype started cracking down; they asked anyone hosting the leaked builds... |
| 01.10.2010 | Google Acquires Impressive Touchscreen Keyboard Startup BlindType | Google has just acquired BlindType, a very impressive technology that allows you to type on touch screens without even looking at them. See our past coverage of the startup here.
BlindType doesn’t force you to type using a virtual keyboard ... |
| 16.06.2010 | Get swyping: Swype for Android available now in English, Spanish and Italian | We told you this was coming: Swype has just made it possible for any Android handset owner to download their innovative touch-screen enabled text-input application straight from the website. Which means a whole lot of people can henceforth ... |
| 15.06.2010 | Swype brings its fast touchscreen keyboard app to all Android phones (Updated) | Swype, makers of innovative touchscreen text-input technology, will bring its software to all Android devices tomorrow, the company told TechCrunch, a technology blog. It’s not a full release of the software — its feature-set will be limite... |
| 15.06.2010 | Want Swype? (yes, you do) – Get It Tomorrow For Android Phones | I just heard from Swype, the creators of an amazing touchscreen mobile application that allows text entry way faster than via normal virtual keyboards. They’ll be making the Android version of their application available to anyone who wants... |
| 15.06.2010 | Swype brings its fast touchscreen keyboard app to all Android phones (Updated) | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Swype, makers of innovative touchscreen text-input technology, will bring its software to all Android devices tomorrow, the company tol... |
| 08.03.2010 | Swype for Android rolls into semi-public Beta | Swype for Android’s finger-dragging input method goodness has been available to some extent through other means for a while now — some legit, some not quite as legit. Legitimate means or otherwise, Swype has still only been made available t... |
| 28.05.2009 | AdReady, Swype, TeachStreet Win WTIA Awards | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Seattle-area software startups AdReady, Swype, and TeachStreet won “best in show” at the Washington Technology Industry Association’s Fast Pitch Forum and Tech Showcase yester... |
| 02.04.2009 | Swype Scores $1.3M for Text-Input Tech | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Seattle-based Swype, a maker of text-input technology for mobile devices, has closed a $1.3 million funding round from angel investors and company management, according to Tec... |
| 10.01.2009 | Congratulations To the Crunchies Winners; Facebook Takes Top Prize For Second Year | The second annual Crunchies are over, and 900 people are across the street at the after-party toasting the winners. For those of you who didn’t attend or see it live on Ustream, the nominees, winners and runners up for each category are bel... |
| 02.10.2008 | Is Search The Best User Interface For Mobile? | Google has posted some more information about how search has been integrated into the first Android-powered phone, the T-Mobile G1, which goes on sale October 22.
Not surprisingly, search functionality pervades Android with an array of ways... |
| - | 11 причин, по которым Гай Кавасаки считает, что Android лучше, чем iOS | 11 причин, по которым Гай Кавасаки считает, что Android лучше, чем iOS
26 Марта, 2013, 13:30
Майя Яровая
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Гай Кавасаки, пожалуй, самый известный фанат Apple — с 1980 года он оставался главным евангелистом технологического гиганта. Но... |
