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LibreOffice gets milestone 3.3 release

...graphics files, and easier formatting and navigation tools when using Writer, the word-processing component of the package. There are also bundled extensions for importing... Read more

25 January, 2011 by Ben Woods

Oracle takes office suite to the cloud

The company has launched a web and mobile accessible version of its office suite that allows the software to be delivered on a SaaS basis, as well as updating its desktop suite to OpenOffice 3.3 Read more

16 December, 2010 by Ben Woods

Photos: Apple's Pages and Numbers apps for iPad

Word processing and spreadsheets, tablet-style... Apple has reworked its iWorks apps for... Read more

6 July, 2010 by Natasha Lomas

LibreOffice heads for the web and mobile

The LibreOffice project has announced moves to develop versions of the word-processing program for the web and for Android and Apple iOS Read more

17 October, 2011 by Stephen Shankland
SPORC: Group Collaboration Using Untrusted Cloud Resources

SPORC: Group Collaboration Using Untrusted Cloud Resources

...based services are an attractive deployment model for user-facing applications like word processing and calendaring. Unlike desktop applications, cloud services allow multiple users to... Read more

21 October, 2010
Dead IT giants: A top 10 of the fallen

Dead IT giants: A top 10 of the fallen

...text to be edited without requiring the retyping of entire pages. The word-processing business developed alongside minicomputers such as the Wang 2200 (pictured), which... Read more

19 November, 2010 by David Meyer
Google plugs Drive into Chrome OS

Google plugs Drive into Chrome OS

...It is tightly integrated with Google Docs, Google's online service for word processing, presentations, and spreadsheets.For more on this ZDNet UK-selected story... Read more

30 April, 2012 by Stephen Shankland
Bletchley museum treasures vintage tech

Bletchley museum treasures vintage tech

...only occasionally found on desktop systems; its unsuitability for personal computing and word processing led to the ubiquitous 5.25-inch drives that dominated in... Read more

2 May, 2011 by Rupert Goodwins
Dennis Ritchie, father of Unix and C, dies

Dennis Ritchie, father of Unix and C, dies

As one of the founders of modern computing, Dennis Ritchie's contributions to software are legendary within the industry, yet deserve to be known to all Read more

13 October, 2011 by Rupert Goodwins
Steve Jobs's career at Apple in pictures

Steve Jobs's career at Apple in pictures

...words "Macintosh. Insanely great!" After a brief tour of capabilities such as word processing, chess and graphics — see the screenshot here for an example — the... Read more

25 August, 2011 by Jonathan E Skillings
Apple iPad: At last, a third reason to buy one

Apple iPad: At last, a third reason to buy one

...an iPad better than either old style paper note-taking or PC word processing is the cloud. Using apps and services such as Evernote and... Read more

21 June, 2011 by Jason Hiner
Lenovo ThinkPad Edge 11

Lenovo ThinkPad Edge 11"

Lenovo's ThinkPad Edge 11" gives top-end netbooks a run for their money, offering a capable processor, decent hard drive capacity and a screen of reasonable size and resolution. Read more

22 November, 2010 by Sandra Vogel
Zoho Business

Zoho Business

...tests we chose Zoho Business which, much like Google Apps, bundles together word processing (Zoho Writer), spreadsheet (Zoho Sheet) and presentation (Zoho Show) applications with... Read more

8 September, 2010 by Alan Stevens
Dell Latitude 13

Dell Latitude 13

Dell's Latitude 13 is an affordable ultraportable notebook that has sacrificed a lot to slim down. Suitable for immodest people with modest computing needs, it lacks power and expandability but is a good fit for many enterprise tasks. Read more

5 July, 2010 by Rupert Goodwins

Photos: BlackBerry PlayBook - hands-on with RIM's tablet

...PlayBook's software keyboard in use, running in the Word to Go word-processing app. The PlayBook runs the BlackBerry Tablet OS - a new OS... Read more

14 March, 2011 by Natasha Lomas

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