From the beginning, the iPhone could read Microsoft Word documents, but now you’ll be able to do basic word processing on it with gOffice for iPhone. Developer Kevin Warnock created this mini ...

In the past, most small-business owners got by with a typewriter, handwritten notes and a basic text-editor program, but modern-day business professionals depend on a word processor. Whether you're ...

When I last reviewed Nisus Writer Express (version 2.1) back in 2005, it was a pretty decent writing tool. It had powerful formatting via styles (character and paragraph), tables, images, columns, ...

I use evernote as my basic word processor on my iPhone (and my iPad). The reason is that it cloud syncs. If you get a paid account it also tracks versions. Once writing is done I switch to my desktop ...

Adobe Systems' beta release of the free Acrobat.com suite Monday should appeal to small-business users. In our early tests, the stand-outs are tools for Web conferencing and directly sharing text and ...

I never thought that teaching my law students basic word processing principles would be part of my professorial duties; but since I started my First Amendment Amicus Brief Clinic, I realized that, if ...

Is Apple’s iWork a viable alternative to Microsoft Office? To find out, we asked Jeffrey Battersby—our go-to expert on word processing programs—to use Word 2008 and Pages ’08 to create the same ...

OpenXchange's new word processor is the first in a set of Linux-based productivity apps. Can it compete with Google Docs and Office 365? Web-hosted productivity suites like Google Docs and Microsoft ...

Before there were personal computers, there were dedicated word processors. These large desktop systems were, in effect, computers that would run only one program-their built-in writing software. The ...