Decades before its rediscovery in the Anglophone world, autocomplete was invented for putting Chinese characters into a computer. This is an excerpt from The Chinese Computer: A Global History of the ...

Twenty-one years after the emergence of "Five Strokes" character input method, another original invention by Prof. Wang Yongmin was formally announced in Beijing on June 26. This new set of numeral ...

Mastering the various Chinese input methods will help local students stay 'literate' in the computer age, according to language experts. Today, one new Chinese input method is being created every ...

The increasing use of mobile devices for written communication has made mobile typing an important aspect of our daily life. However, typing on a touch keyboard can be painfully slow and filled with ...

Heads and shoulders better than anything that Windows or Linux have ever come up with. It all has to do with the magic trackpad and the sheer size of it. For Japanese, hand-scrawling is always going ...

One big reason for me to have my iOS device jailbroken is that its pre-intalled input method for Chinese is not convenient to use. Using QWERTY keyboard to input Chinese is slow; you can not really ...

Every Wednesday and Friday, TechNode’s Briefing newsletter delivers a roundup of the most important news in China tech, straight to your inbox. The increasing use of mobile devices for written ...