My first experiences with typing tutors were frustrating, and as a six-year-old, they were my nemesis. Sessions with the first program I tried often ended in me bashing my rather diminutive fists ...

I've been a tech journalist for almost 25 years and started Pocket-lint in 2003. Over the years I've questioned or interviewed leading tech industry figures from Steve Jobs, Steve Ballmer, Mark ...

Jazmin Jones knows what she did. “If you’re online, there’s this idea of trolling,” Jones, the director behind Seeking Mavis Beacon, said during a recent panel for her new documentary. “For this ...

A generation of adults learned how to type thanks to Mavis Beacon. Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing, an educational software program, launched in 1987 and quickly became a bestseller. To this day, adults ...

I'm not sure how it's possible to keep refining typing tutor software but we've reached Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing 15 so Mindscape obviously knows something I don't. The Mavis Beacon series is the ...

Years ago, back in the days when there were "mainframe" computers but very few "home" computers, a typing teacher brought her brand of instruction to the home-computer monitor. It was late 1987, and ...