Kathy White

SAN FRANCISCO—There was no question about the message graphic-arts consultant David Blatner was sending to the attendees of the InDesign Conferenceat the Hotel Nikko on Wednesday. QuarkXPress is old and tired, and Adobe Systems InDesign CS2 is the future of desktop publishing. “I used to be a die-hard Quark user,” Blatner told the crowd of […]

InDesign is only as good as its parts—all 140 or so plug-in parts, to be exact—according to Adobe Systems Mark Niemann-Ross. “With InDesign, youre buying a platform, but with all the plug-ins, youve just doubled or tripled its capabilities and your investment,” said Niemann-Ross, the evangelist for Adobe System Inc.s Creative Professional Unit, which includes […]

The Federal Trade Commission is proposing five changes to the CAN-SPAM Act and is seeking comment on these proposals by June 27. The CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 (Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing Act) establishes requirements for those who send commercial e-mail, spells out penalties for spammers and companies whose products are advertised […]

For some in the tech industry, the chance to see Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith in its opening couple of days is just not something theyre willing to pass up—at any cost. And while that early viewing may be a badge of honor for geeks around the world, the “Star Wars flu” […]

After more than two years of development, Microsofts consumer PC security bundle is (almost) ready for prime time. The software giant plans to roll out an internal beta of the service—dubbed Windows OneCare—to employees next week, the first official step in an ambitious plan to bundle anti-virus, anti-spyware, firewall protection and PC cleanup tools to […]

It was a long time coming, but Gateway Inc. and Microsoft Corp. announced Monday that Microsoft has agreed to pay Gateway $150 million over four years as part of an agreement to settle antitrust claims brought by the computer maker in the mid-1990s. The agreement, reached in a recent mediation between the parties, stems from […]