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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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