SwiftKey analyses your Facebook and Twitter to help you type faster [video]

This video was bought to you bySitePenandViadeo. If you have chubby fingers like mine, you will have experienced the annoyance of typing on smartphone keyboards and the pressing the wrong keys turning ‘song’ into ‘dog’, making your texts incoherent(Damn You Auto Correct)and leaving the recipient wondering if you had one too many drinks last night. Solution?SwiftKey, the keyboard app for Android that saves you time by predicting your text is due to launch version 2 for smartphones at MWC in Barcelona....

2 min · 300 words · Jeremy Johnson

SwiftKey updates its smart Android keyboard, extends it to tablets

We’ve been big fans ofSwiftKeyfor some time. As well as being really easy to use, the Android keyboard replacement learns how you use language and offers up suggestions of the word you will want to type next. It’s a intelligent solution and works really well. Now SwiftKey is rolling out its latest update and extending the service to Android tablets too. The latest version of SwiftKey X, whichlaunched in betaearlier this year, sees a big upgrade to its prediction technology....

2 min · 364 words · Belinda Christian

SwiftKey’s intelligent Android keyboard gets even smarter

We’ve been fans ofSwiftKey‘s smart auto-correct keyboard solution for Android for sometime and today it has launched a major new version, SwiftKey X. As with previous version, the keyboard analyses your Gmail, Twitter and Facebook accounts, as well as your send text messages to learn about the way you use language. However, UK startupTouchTypehas now introduced a new version of its ‘Fluency’ language inference engine, which should make its predictions even smarter....

2 min · 307 words · Jennifer Melton

SXSW 2011 #TNW Hustle results: $4017 raised for Japan using iPhone and Square

SXSW Interactive 2011 is well and truly over the results are in for#TNWhustle Hermione vs Patrick Patrick and I had to survive for48 hours during SXSW without money, having to hustle our way through by taking on dares/challenges and accepting payments via an iPhone and Square. The day before TNWhustle the earthquake and tsunami hit Japan, so we decided to donate all the proceeds to the victims of the catastrophe in Japan....

2 min · 307 words · Angela Smith

SXSW: Follow Big Boi on Foursquare to win “the Golden Ticket”

This week at SXSW, 6-time Grammy winner Big Boi will be checking in around Austin, TX. Foursquare users canfollow Big Boifor a chance to unlock a ‘Golden Ticket Badge,’ which gets you tickets to the rapper’s show. Users have a 1 in 2,000 chance of winning. To be entered, simply check in all over SXSW. If you happen to check-in and receive the Golden Ticket, bring your new badge to the Pepsi MAX Lot at 3rd and San Jacinto between 11am – 6pm on Mar....

2 min · 245 words · Joseph Christensen
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