By AppleInsider Staff
Published: 03:00 PM EST
Microsoft continues to reveal itty bitty details of Office 2008 for Mac one at a time in an effort to spur interest in the now tardy productivity suit. Meanwhile, NBC's rift with iTunes has claimed yet another hit TV show. And smartphone maker HTC is preaching iPhone-like sales numbers for one of its own touch-based handsets.
New Office 2008 for Mac Toolbox
Microsoft's Mac Business Unit on Tuesday began offering the second of what it promises to be "several more exciting Sneak Peeks of Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac."
The latest info -- available via the
Office 2008 Sneak Peek site -- focuses on the Office Toolbox, which has been revamped as a "one-stop destination for some of the most useful tools in Office for Mac."
Microsoft has incorporated the original Office for Mac Toolbox and Formatting Palette into a single user interface -- a Mac-only feature aimed at providing users with "instant access to the tools they need, including Object Palette, Animation Settings, Citations, and Formula Builder."
Office 2008 for Mac is due for a release in mid-January, about the same time Macworld Expo rolls around. Pricing and package details were
disclosed last week.
'House' pulled from iTunes
Meanwhile, it appears that
Fox's hit television show "House" will become an unfortunate casualty of
NBC's rift with Apple over iTunes pricing.
New episodes of show will not be available on the digital download service, a spokesperson for Apple
confirmed to
B&C.
Despite airing on
Fox, "House" is produced by Universal Media Studios, a subsidiary of
NBC Universal, which is
severing its ties with iTunes when its contract expires in December.
HTC claims iPhone-like numbers
Taiwan smartphone maker High Tech Computer Corp (HTC) said on Monday it had sold
800,000 units of its own branded HTC Touch phone, launched in Europe and Asia around the same time that Apple's iPhone hit U.S. shelves in June.
"This is better than I expected ... We feel very good about our success," chief executive Peter Chou told
Reuters in an interview, adding that the smartphone's popularity was close to that enjoyed by the iPhone.
HTC Touch Dual.
Chou was speaking as HTC launched a second "touch" device, the Touch Dual, which has a keyboard function as well as the touch screen system used in the first phone. Orange has signed on as the Dual's pan-European partner but the handset can also be used by different operators in individual markets.
