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Google Docs for Android can now store docs for offline access

Brad Linder — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 20:07:11 +0000

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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IBM Lotus Symphony office suite reaches end of the line

Brad Linder — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 17:56:59 +0000

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 for Android phones, tablets is free today only

Brad Linder — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 16:28:20 +0000

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 Office for Android in the works

Brad Linder — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 21:14:32 +0000

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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Now you can edit office documents on an HP TouchPad

Brad Linder — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 11:05:50 +0000

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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IBM Lotus Symphony to join with Apache OpenOffice.org project

Brad Linder — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 17:20:42 +0000

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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Offline support for Google Docs in the works

Brad Linder — Sun, 19 Jun 2011 12:37:02 +0000

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 Docs now supports folder uploads

Brad Linder — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 18:30:09 +0000

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 Office 2010 beta expires on Halloween

Brad Linder — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 21:51:41 +0000

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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Microsoft launches free web-based Office suite

Brad Linder — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 17:06:47 +0000

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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Corel introduces “netbook-ready” home office suite

Brad Linder — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 16:59:12 +0000

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 Office suite for netbooks now available

Brad Linder — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 20:12:55 +0000

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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Why do you use a netbook? ThinkFree releases survey results

Brad Linder — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 15:22:29 +0000

A few weeks ago ThinkFree released a suite of office applications specifically designed for netbooks with low resolution displays. The software runs on your computer, but you can also synchronize documents with ThinkFree's online service. The full version of the software costs $50, but if you filled out a survey when the product was first launched, the company should have...

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ThinkFree launches mobile office suite

Brad Linder — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 20:05:07 +0000

Online office suite ThinkFree has released a desktop version of their software designed for use on netbooks, mobile internet devices (MIDs) and other computers with small screens. ThinkFree Mobile runs on Windows, Mac, and Linux and presents and alternative to OpenOffice.org or Microsoft Office. You can also synchronize your desktop documents with ThinkFree online. Users get 1GB of space for...

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Microsoft offers cheap software for cheap Portuguese netbooks

Brad Linder — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 16:14:53 +0000

As I've previously mentioned, Portugal is getting into netbooks big time. The country's government is subsidizing the cost of about half a million computers based on the Intel Classmate PC design and making them available to students for just about 50 Euros or $70. It costs about 285 Euroes of nearly $400 to pick up a retail version of the...

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