Passing of Textware Founder

By Bruce Keener, Submitted Wednesday, January 31, 2007

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Pocket PC Thoughts has reported that Jean Ichbiah, founder of Textware Solutions (makers of FITALY) passed away on January 26, 2007.

FITALY is one of my all-time favorite text entry tools. It reflects genius in its concept and implementation, paying a bit of a tribute to Jean's genius.

I trust you will join me in putting Jean and his family in your prayers and thoughts. He will be missed.

Submitted by halguest on February 3, 2007 - 8:17am.

I too had the pleasure of conversations and E-mail with Jean. He spent a lot of time conveying to me his passion and research involved in developing FITALY. He also authored programming language ADA in his past efforts.

Yes it's quite sad and a loss to the Windows Mobile community.

I wrote about FITALY a number of times, starting in 2001
http://www.smartphonemag.com/_archives/may01/PocketView.asp

and as recently as 2006 http://www.smartphonemag.com/_archives/oct06/pocketview.aspx