The best thing about My Writing Spot is that it syncs with your online account, which allows you to tap out a few phrases on your iPhone on the train, a couple of paragraphs in the coffee shop on your iPad over lunch, and then settle down and continue writing well into the night on your computer at home; all seamlessly, and with no need to email partial documents all over the place.

In the first part of this news feature, ARN investigated why corporate citizenship is considered a smart investment rather than just philanthropy. In part two we look at the pros and cons of working with non-government organisations (NGOs).

Microsoft asked an appeals court for a rehearing in the patent case that requires the software giant to pay US$290 million in damages and prevents it from selling the current version of Word starting on Monday.

Microsoft on Wednesday posted an update for Word 2007 that ditches the custom XML tagging technology a federal court banned the company from including in its software after Jan. 10.

A federal appeals court today heard arguments in a patent infringement case involving Word that required Microsoft to pay nearly US$300 million in damages and barred the company from selling the software starting Oct. 10.

Just a day before a crucial hearing in the patent infringement case between Canadian developer i4i and Microsoft, i4i's top executive said that the injunction that forbids Microsoft from selling Word could be reinstated.

Microsoft marketed Canadian developer i4i's XML software to potential customers at the same time it planned to drive the small firm out of business by infringing its patent, according to court documents filed yesterday with an appeals court.

A US federal appeals court today granted Microsoft's request to suspend an injunction that would have barred the company from selling its Word software next month.

High-end desktop publishing programs, such as Adobe InDesign and QuarkXPress, feature lots of tools to help designers produce stunning pages. But these programs are expensive, and novices require training to use them, factors that render their acquisition difficult to justify for most small businesses.

When a judge halted the sale of Microsoft Word on Tuesday for infringing a patent, many of us wondered about the repercussions of this decision. The patent itself, for the creation of custom XML documents, seemed like an afterthought, and for good reason: The average user never has and never will use Word for this purpose.