Picsel
Picsel UK Ltd[1] is a software company that develops products for handheld devices such as mobile phones and tablets. Picsel produces Picsel Smart Office, and other Office suite software for viewing and editing documents on mobile devices. It has also developed other software such as web browsers and user interface development tools.
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[edit] Key features and Recognition
Picsel's key strengths are in cross-platform compatibility, usability, graphic performance and office document compatibility.[2]
In 2008, Picsel won the Queen's Awards for Enterprise[3], and in 2003 won the European IST Grand Prize, as well as a stream of business-potential accolades such as the Red Herring Global 100 over the last ten years. Picsel Smart Office 1.9 was voted Best Productivity App of 2011 on WebOS and more recently Picsel has launched the release of Picsel Smart Office 2 and Smart Office Lite(Free) both of which are initially available on the Android Platform.
[edit] Product availability
Over 600+ million Picsel products have been sold to date. They have been particularly popular with the Korean OEMs Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics, and many Japanese OEMs including Sharp, Kyocera, Fujitsu, Sony Ericsson, Casio Hitachi and others.
Picsel Smart Office is available through app stores for Apple, Android, Symbian, bada and other platforms, and has been well received.[2][4][5][6] .In March 2011 , an updated version 1.5 with cross platform support ( via Dropbox service) was made available [7].However, many sales are to OEMs who pre-install Picsel software to devices while manufacturing them. The Samsung SGH-D600 mobile phone was one of the best known devices on which Picsel products were bundled.
An updated version of Picsel Smart Office version 1.9 is available on HP WebOS, Vodafone, Blackberry Playbook, Windows and Amazon.com. Current Picsel Product line includes Picsel Smart Office 2.0, Picsel File Viewer, Picsel Smart Viewer and Xplatform.
[edit] Litigation
In February 2009, a patent lawsuit was filed against Apple Inc by Picsel (Research) Ltd[8], but did not reach court.
In July 2009, Picsel Technologies Ltd entered administration.[9][10][11] The company continued trading through this despite staff cut-backs, and after three months was bought back by the original senior management team. The new company, Picsel UK Ltd, continues to develop and sell similar products, employing many of the same staff.
[edit] References
- ^ "Picsel web site". http://www.picsel.com/. Retrieved December 2010.
- ^ a b "Picsel Smart Office Review". T3. 2 December 2010. http://best-apps.t3.com/apps/android/tools/paid/picsel-smart-office/.
- ^ "The Queen's Award for Enterprise: International Trade: Winners List". Department of Trade and Industry. 2010. http://www.businesslink.gov.uk/Growth_and_Innovation_files/QA_International_Trade.pdf#page=15.
- ^ "TechDigest review of Picsel Smart Office App". December 2010. http://www.techdigest.tv/2010/12/picsel_smart_of.html.
- ^ "Picsel Smart Office offers best-in-class document editing". What Mobile. 30 November 2010. http://www.whatmobile.net/2010/11/picsel-smart-office-offers-best-in-class-document-editing/.
- ^ "Picsel brings Microsoft Office to Android". TechRadar.com. 5 November 2010. http://www.techradar.com/news/phone-and-communications/mobile-phones/picsel-brings-microsoft-office-to-android-906035.
- ^ http://archiverabhinav.blogspot.com/2011/03/picsel-smart-office-for-bada-updated-to.html
- ^ Picsel (Research) Ltd. et al v. Apple Inc. Filing details of the lawsuit against Apple Inc.
- ^ Technology firm in administration, BBC article on Picsel entering administration.
- ^ Picsel Technologies goes dark, The Register article on Picsel cashflow problems.
- ^ Phone staff 'not paid for 3 months', Evening Times article from May 2009
