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Artifex has been continuing in previous business model; to support and develop the SmartOffice technologies and is continuing to both sell end-user products based upon them, and to license them to third party OEMs, based on the original ideas and technologies created by the founders and developers of Picsel.
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and other platforms, and has been well received because of its historical pedigree and market penetration over the last 15 years, prior to
Artifex becoming involved. In March 2011, an updated version 1.5 with cross platform support (via Dropbox service) was made available. However, many sales are to
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and editing documents on mobile devices. Smartoffice went into administration in 2013, and its residual assets were purchased by
Artifex Software Inc, a player in the printer market, in February 2014 and these residual assets were subject to all previous licenses including those sold by the
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The new trading company, Picsel UK Ltd, continued to develop and sell similar products, employing many of the same staff, after the management buy-out led by the original founders, who also took the responsibility of the staff and other debtors into the new company setup.
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Smartoffice
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and tablets. The founders and original team of Picsel produced award-winning and world leading software and technology which led eventually to the
Smartoffice Ltd company branding and selling the SmartOffice application, and other
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An updated version of Smart Office version 2.1 is available on
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