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January 14, 2003

Graffiti's Dead, Long Live Graffiti 2. Palm is dropping the Graffiti stylus text entry system for legal reasons. Apparently, it's too close to a Xerox technology. Palm will be using a modified version of Communication Intelligence Corporation's Jot handwriting recognition technology, renamed Graffiti 2, which might turn out to be easier to use than the old system anyway. According to the article, many Pocket PCs already use Jot. I'll miss Graffiti, if only because I got really fast at it at one point...