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Microsoft has improved on an earlier offer to those who buy Office 2004 for Mac in the US before the new version of Office is released in January but have decided not to extended the offer to Australian customers.
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Brisbane-born start-up Particls promised a better way of organising information from the web. Now, however, it appears to have given up the battle, with both the Particls website and that of its parent company Faraday Media disappearing from the web.
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TC's Touch Pro fixes many of the problems with the Touch Diamond and adds a superb keyboard. It remains neat and compact, while battery life is improved (if still not perfect).
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