Google has rolled out an updated version of Google Docs for Android. It includes better support for tablets and the ability to download documents to your mobile device so you can view them when you’re not online. You still can’t edit documents when you’re offline. But if you make any changes to a document using the Google Docs web interface, Google…
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A few years ago IBM started offering a free office suite called Lotus Symphony. It’s based on code from OpenOffice.org, but IBM has forked the project and created a custom user interface and other tools. Last month IBM released Lotus Symphony 3.0.1 with a number of improvements including support for bubble charts and up to a million rows in spreadsheets….
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OfficeSuite Pro is a powerful office app for Android phones and tablets. It allows you to create or edit Word, Excel, and PowerPoint documents and also view PDF files on your mobile device. You can also link OfficeSuite Pro to your Google Docs account to view or edit documents — or create new documents on your device and save them…
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SoftMaker has been making office software for mobile apps for a very long time. The company’s Windows Mobile apps offer some of the best support for Microsoft Office documents you’ll find on any mobile device. But SoftMaker Office was originally designed back when mobile phones and PDAs were meant to be used with a stylus. Now the company is retooling…
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HP may have discontinued the HP TouchPad and started selling off remaining inventory for as little as $99, but the company and its partners are still supporting the webOS operating system… for now. Over the past few days HP has offered two software packs allowing some users to download paid webOS apps for the TouchPad for free. Now the company…
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Lotus Symphony is a free office suite that IBM has been offering for the past few years. While the software is based on OpenOffice.org, it’s been largely maintained as an independent fork, and much of the code separating Symphony from the main branch of OpenOffice.org has not been contributed back to the original project. Now it looks like that will…
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Google Docs is a free web-based office suite for creating, editing, managing, sharing, and collaborating on text, spreadsheet, and presentation documents. It doesn’t offer all the bells and whistles you get with Microsoft Office, or even free and open source alternatives such as LibreOffice. But for many people Google Docs is good enough to replace a full-fledged office suite –…
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Google is making it much easier to upload a large number of documents to Google Docs in one fell swoop. Last year the company updated Google Docs with a new drag-and-drop file uploader. Now Google is starting to roll out a new upload menu that lets you send a complete directory of documents from your desktop to the cloud. The…
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Microsoft has been offering the full version of Office 2010 for a few months, but users who downloaded and installed the beta software have been coasting along with free access for much longer. Now it looks like Microsoft is pulling the plug on the beta office suite. The software will expire on October 31st. Scary, huh? OK, not really. The…
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It’s been a few years in the making, but Microsoft has finally added a web-based office suite to its line of productivity tools. The Office Web Apps will let you create and edit Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote files all from the comfort of a web browser. You can also upload existing docs for viewing online, share documents with others,…
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ThinkFree isn’t the only company promising that it’s suite of office tools will play well with netbooks. Corel, a company that’s probably best known for its WordPerfect and Paint Shop applications, has introduced a new version of Home Office, which the company says is “netbook-ready.” Of course, netbooks are really just little laptops, so the netbook ready label seems a…
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ThinkFree launched a trial version of its mobile office suite for netbooks back in October. Now ThinkFree Mobile for netbooks is available for purchase. The software suite runs $39.95, but for a limited time you can pick it up for $24.95 by using the coupon code THINKFREE during checkout. That code will also net you an extra 1GB of online…
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