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 ...

Five months after being bought by Google, the Writely online word-processing application is now open for anyone who wants to sign up and use it. Writely has been closed to all but its existing members ...

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 ...

While Google Docs might be the first online word processor that comes to mind for most of us, it's by no means the only option out there on the web—and one of the best alternatives is the free, ...

Adobe has acquired Virtual Ubiquity, the maker of Buzzword, an online word processor that offers features like those of desktop competitor like Microsoft Word. (Announcement here.) Terms of the deal ...

Writely allows users to store and work with text documents on the Web. Users can share selected documents with other Writely users of their choosing, enabling groups to collaboratively edit documents.

Showing that it's more than a little interested in enabling people to handle office tasks over the Internet, Google said Thursday that it has acquired Upstartle, maker of a Web-based word processor ...

Microsoft Word has been the default word processor on PC for a long time, and though the program is tremendously powerful, it ...