Google has acquired Upstartle, the Silicon Valley-based maker of online word processor Writely. It gives Google yet another tool in its kit of applications to take on Microsoft — and brush aside its ...

A software start-up called Virtual Ubiquity is joining the ranks of entrepreneurs convinced they can make a better online word processor. Today, Web-based text editors are typically written using a ...

Writer online word processor, with a look mimicking DOS-based text editors running on a green-phosphor display, makes it easy to create and return to a text file, with no sign-in. Dennis O'Reilly ...

LibreOffice Writer gives me everything I need from Word and Docs without subscriptions, accounts, or cloud lock-in.

Webapp Writewith simplifies word processing for groups, with in-browser document editing and the ability to share and collaborate on documents with other users. Writewith boasts a chunk of impressive ...

Whatever Web 2.0 might turn out be — if anything — it has already spawned its own, slightly new-age vocabulary. There is much talk of goodness and love, as in: this weekend Writely got some Googlelove ...