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| January 14, 2003 | COPYRIGHT 1999 Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

By Jon Fortt, San Jose Mercury News, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Jan. 14--Have you figured out Graffiti, the alphabet-scribbling system for Palm devices? Well, forget it.

PalmSource, the Palm spinoff that controls the Palm operating system, said Monday it is ditching Graffiti in favor of a different program called Jot.

Graffiti is based on the idea that any letter (except X) can be written without lifting the pen from the device -- which made for confusing and contorted Ts, Qs and Fs. It also helped launch handheld computers into the mainstream.

Jot, from Communication Intelligence Corporation, uses a simpler, more…

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