For much of human history, written communication was accomplished by hand. Every character had to be painstakingly carved into clay or inked onto parchment. Only in the mid-nineteenth century, with ...

Simple premise: Measure your typing speed on a keyboard and your tablet. Part of the contention is that tablet text entry is much slower than keyboard and that a tablet with a keyboard cover would be ...

The thing with traditional keyboards is that they are not really designed with the greatest ergonomics in mind. Yes, some manufacturers did come out with designs to make keyboard typing comfortable ...

David Nield is a technology journalist from Manchester in the U.K. who has been writing about gadgets and apps for more than 20 years. He has a bachelor's degree in English Literature from Durham ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Technology journalist specializing in audio, computing and Apple Macs. Were you taught to touch type or are you, like so many of ...