Creator Of T9 (Text Input Software For Mobile) passes away at 60.

Martin King, the co-creator of software that lets you type rapidly on your mobile phone while guessing your words, died last week after a long fight with cancer.

"It leaves a big hole in the Seattle tech community because Martin was known as a real innovator," said Bill Valenti, the former chief executive of Tegic (the company that owned the product). Tegic Communications was founded in 1995 by King and Cliff Kushler to commercialize the breakthrough mobile technology, with the Seattle company later selling to AOL for $350 million. It is now a part of #-Link-Snipped-#, with T9 deployed on an estimated four billion handsets.

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