Printing and Imaging

Why Adobe likes Google better than Microsoft

During my chat with Adobe Systems (ADBE) CEO Bruce Chizen a couple of weeks ago, he mentioned Google (GOOG) a couple of times in ways that illuminated how so much of Silicon Valley envies Google but still hates Microsoft (MSFT).

Inside HP's long-tail strategy for DVDs

Tech titan Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) has an ambitious plan to get a piece of the $35 billion U.S. consumers spend each year on TV and movies. The company wants to help studios automate the process of digitally archiving video and then help retailers sell more of that digital video onto iPods, phones, PCs, TVs, and any other platform that comes along.

Bad blood between Adobe and Microsoft

Adobe's (ADBE) loathing of Microsoft (MSFT) is peaking again, and its relationship with Apple (AAPL) is a marriage that "has to work for the sake of the kids."

Adobe CS3 launch: How big is too big?

Tomorrow is the big announcement of Adobe (ADBE) CS3, the biggest product launch in the software maker's history. It's important on two levels. One, it's the most concrete justification of Adobe's merger with Macromedia announced two years ago – we'll see the first product bundles that include the best of both Adobe and Macromedia software. Two, more than a lot of other software out there, Adobe bundles can spur people MORE

Photoshop CS3 has the makings of an upgrade winner

I spent some time at Adobe Systems (ADBE) headquarters last week, and got a chance to chat with engineers in the Advanced Technology Group who worked on features in Photoshop CS3, which is due in about three weeks.

Kodak inkjets target the heart of HP's profit

Eastman Kodak (EK) today is announcing a line of consumer inkjet printers and a marketing strategy designed to hit market leader Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) where it hurts: in the profit margin.

Design tools to get a Second Life online?

Last week I got a fresh sense of the business potential for Second Life, the immersive 3D world created and maintained by San Francisco-based Linden Lab. But my epiphany didn't come while talking to the Linden Lab folks. Rather, I was chatting with Carl Bass, CEO of Autodesk (ADSK).

Adobe offers sneak peek at photography's future

A few days ago, two of the brightest minds from Adobe Systems (ADBE)

dropped by my office to give me a rare and exciting look at what the

software maker is cooking up in its imaging labs.

eCosto chip to enable more powerful low-cost phones

It's being said a lot these days: The next billion cell phone users won't come from the developed world, because so many of us have phones already. That next wave will come primarily from China and India.

With that in mind, today I talked to Bill Krenik, wireless and advanced architectures manager at Texas Instruments (TXN), about the just-announced second version of its single-chip cell phone platform, called eCosto.

Some Mac loyalists turn against Adobe

Apple Computer and Adobe Systems long have been allies in their underdog struggles against Microsoft. But in the aftermath of Apple's recent shift to Intel chips, some of Apple's most ardent fans are aiming bitter attacks at Adobe, the maker of Photoshop and Illustrator graphics programs.

Their assertion: Adobe is taking too long to release a version of its graphics suite that fully utilizes the new Intel chips.