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Tegic was a predictive text
Predictive text

Predictive text is an input technology most commonly used on mobile phones, and for accessibility. The techno






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Tegic was a predictive text
Predictive text

Predictive text is an input technology most commonly used on mobile phones, and for accessibility. The technology allows some common words to be entered by a single keypress for each letter, as opposed to the multiple keypress approach used in the older generation of mobile phones....
 company based in Seattle, Washington
Seattle, Washington

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, United States
United States

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. It was acquired by AOL
AOL

AOL LLC is an United States global Internet services and media company operated by Time Warner and was headquartered in Loudoun County, Virginia until late April 2008 when it was moved to new offices at 770 Broadway in New York City....
 on December 3, 1999, and subsequently, on August 24, 2007, acquired by Nuance Communications
Nuance Communications

Nuance Communications is a multinational computer software technology corporation, headquartered in Burlington, Massachusetts, USA, that provides speech and imaging applications....
, whereafter it ceased to exist as a separate company.

Tegic developed T9
T9 (predictive text)

T9, which stands for Text on 9 keys, is a patented predictive text technology for mobile phones, originally developed by Tegic, now part of Nuance Communications....
, the original predictive text
Predictive text

Predictive text is an input technology most commonly used on mobile phones, and for accessibility. The technology allows some common words to be entered by a single keypress for each letter, as opposed to the multiple keypress approach used in the older generation of mobile phones....
 software that is used for most mobile phone
Mobile phone

A mobile phone is a long-range, electronic device used for mobile voice or data communication over a network of specialized base stations known as cell sites....
s for text entry.