Adobe in comment and analysis
Minority Report: iPhone 3.0 promises geek nirvana
Comment Flash support seems unlikely - Adobe and Apple seem a world away in their view of Flash on the iPhone. Seb Janacek places his bets. Later today, Apple will offer a sneak preview of the next major iteration of the... [17 Mar 2009]
'If you look at iPlayer from a distance, it's still very web 1.0'
Comment For example] you've seen us do some efforts with the embedded media player which is frankly a Flash-based widget, you've seen us deploy the Adobe Air-based iPlayer desktop. Erik Huggers became director of the BBC's... [18 Feb 2009]
Q&A: Ashley Highfield, head of BBC's Future Media and Technology unit
Comment We do believe the next suite of Adobe Air products will enable us to offer a download solution for Macs and we believe that would be possible at some point during 2008. Until we've got hold of the software and had... [30 Oct 2007]
Leader: How to cut piracy overnight
Leader The likes of Adobe, McAfee, Microsoft and Symantec, among the worst hit by piracy, should be looking at how easy it is for them to produce, ship and sell CDs - and realise it is that ease which plays into the hands of... [19 May 2006]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: Simple prescriptions for data headaches
Comment Such people are likely to be using industry standard Microsoft or Adobe products for document creation, even if they then copy them on paper round the organisation. The solution is an implementation of the WebDAV... [05 Apr 2006]
The Minority Report: Macworld predictions
Comment In a recent interview with silicon.com, Adobe CEO Bruce Chizen admitted that recoding the company's software would be a headache. Pro' applications - such as the Adobe Creative Suite, the Macromedia web... [06 Jan 2006]
The Yearly Round-Up: 22.12.05
Round-Up Teller later that evening attempted to confide in Adobe's UK MD about her concerns over what had happened. Events at a party for a group of salespeople from Adobe came back to haunt the company this year... [22 Dec 2005]
The Weekly Round-Up: 25.11.05
Round-Up As a first course of action Teller decided to try to discuss the matter with Adobe's managing director, Gary Fry, while still on the night out at the Tiger Tiger bar in London's West End. Just ask Adobe,... [25 Nov 2005]
Q&A: Adobe CEO Bruce Chizen
Comment Adobe's $3.4bn purchase of Macromedia has been one of the big stories in software this year. What is it that has made Adobe endure? With an 'intra-quarter business update' forecasting... [09 Nov 2005]
Will's Web Watch: Blogging (Part II)
Comment Adobe is one of the most recent companies to launch a blog, and so far seems to be handling the relationship between its corporate location and the necessity for free and un-bureaucratic speech. In the second instalment... [30 Aug 2005]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: Does DRM make sense for business?
Comment The interest in digital rights management (DRM) technology in the workplace seems to be mounting, with products from companies such as Adobe and Microsoft putting their marketing muscle behind the technology. [02 Jun 2005]
Leader: Today's big deals
Leader Adobe's proposed purchase of Macromedia is certainly a big deal in the software world. It's a marriage that is likely to solidify Adobe's position as a stalwart that has for years more than survived in a... [18 Apr 2005]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: The best route to compliance
Comment If we are to store ad hoc data, then we must ensure that we can store it in a legally acceptable form that has a proven life to it - which these days seems to mean an Adobe portable document format (PDF). [17 Sep 2004]
Leader: Arnie versus Bill - go on, pick a winner
Leader And let's not forget rivals such as Adobe, Google, Oracle and Sun are very much Silicon Valley through and through, with all the local goodwill that implies. Who would you back in a head-to-head fight: Arnold... [31 Aug 2004]
Why the punishment doesn't fit the high-tech crime
Comment The disparity between the two-year sentence for the web designer in Wales who infected 27,000 computers worldwide with mass-mailing worms and the 15-month term for the software pirate turning over £300,000 a year selling counterfeit... [09 Sep 2003]
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