Nuance Communications has agreed to buy the developer of the T9 predictive text input software for mobile phones from current owner Time Warner's AOL. Tegic developed the T9 interface in 1995 to simplify the typing of text messages on mobile phones. Rather than press 9-9-6-6-6-8-8 to spell the word "you," T9 users can type 9-6-8 and let the software predict which word they are trying to spell. Nuance plans to integrate Tegic's T9 predictive text with its Voice Control software, obtained through ...