adobe in comment and analysis
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 conversations with Adobe it's just... [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 the pirates. [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 standard, and enables users to open... [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 publishing tools and DTP stalwart Quark... [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 when it emerged one female employee had felt... [22 Dec 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 Adobe will once again beat analyst expectations and the merger... [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 of his two-part column on... [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 world where Microsoft usually comes along... [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 Schwarzenegger or Bill Gates? [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 Adobe... [09 Sep 2003]
Software pirates: To jail or not to jail?
Comment A software pirate was today sentenced to 15 months in prison for selling counterfeit Adobe, Macromedia and Microsoft products. This is great news for the Business Software Alliance, who considered even getting the case to the sentencing stage a... [04 Jul 2003]
The Bloor Perspective: Mobile IDs, Novell does Linux and Adobe PDF mindshare
Comment Another Adobe - Microsoft battle looming? Adobe Systems has recently announced a comprehensive XML architecture by exploiting its ability to embed other file formats within PDF documents. All standard XML tools including Namespaces, XSLT, XPath... [28 Apr 2003]
Activists cheer the acquittal of 'DVD Jon'
Comment In the ElcomSoft case, a jury ruled in December that the company did not violate US copyright law by offering software that could remove protections from Adobe's eBooks. By Lisa M. Bowman Internet and technology activists are hoping the acquittal... [09 Jan 2003]
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