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 ...

When the A key is pressed on a QWERTY keyboard, the letter 'a' appears on the screen. When that key is pressed in a standard Chinese word-processing program, however, it triggers a dozen or so Chinese ...

Google has launched a self-promoting Chinese-language blog, not long after unveiling its controversial Chinese search engine last month. According to the Washington Post, China already has as many as ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Google does not include a preinstalled way to type in Chinese on an Android device, but it does offer an official application that adds this feature to your smartphone. By downloading the Google ...