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‘Mac Security’ Trojan adds to Apple malware worries, but not much

by Adam Banks on 6 May 2011 in Analysis

While Windows PCs are plagued with myriad varieties of malware, making anti-virus protection essential, Apple users have traditionally had very little to worry about. Recent reports of a Trojan calling itself Mac Defender have provoked headlines crowing about Apple users no longer being immune to the threats faced by everyone else, but this isn’t the [...]

Adobe ignores the moral of its own story at its peril

by Adam Banks on 3 May 2011 in Analysis

By Ian Betteridge Once upon a time, there was a software company called Quark. Quark had, through a combination of smart engineering and aggressive business practices, become the dominant player in the nascent field of desktop publishing. If you were a pro publisher, you used QuarkXPress. The only real alternative – Adobe’s PageMaker – was [...]

Publishing enters a new Dark Age

by Adam Banks on 29 April 2011 in Editorial

A quarter of a century ago, the publishing industry was revolutionised. The Mac, the laser printer and Aldus PageMaker made what previously required huge investment available to almost anyone. For publishing houses, it meant dramatic reductions in cost and increases in flexibility. For the rest of us, it meant we could make magazines just like [...]

First they came for internet users by the front door. Now they’re coming for websites by the back door

by Adam Banks on 15 April 2011 in Editorial

In this guest column, Jim Killock of the Open Rights Group explains why minister Ed Vaizey is wrong to consider plans for blocking websites. Website blocking is being discussed by ministers in the UK Government to deal with the supposed scourge of illicit downloads. Last year, the Digital Economy Act sought to create legal powers [...]

Non-stick plan

by Adam Banks on 15 April 2011 in Editorial

Ed Vaizey, this week’s minister for everything beginning with C, has a cunning plan. Ed often has cunning plans. Last autumn, he had a cunning plan to support net neutrality by making a speech saying internet service providers (ISPs) ought to be allowed to ditch net neutrality. In December, he had a cunning plan to [...]

Apple announces Final Cut Pro X

by Adam Banks on 13 April 2011 in News

As widely predicted, Apple used its platform at a user event within the NAB video industry show yesterday to announce a new version of Final Cut Pro, its professional video editing package. Although it’s the eighth version of Final Cut, the upgrade will be known as Final Cut Pro X, reflecting the fact that the [...]

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