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In a recent interview with the BBC, former Apple CEO John Sculley disclosed quite a few juicy details about his involvement with Apple, and his badly interpreted relationship with the late Steve Jobs. He also gave interviewers a piece of his mind about television.
On his relationship with Jobs, Sculley said, “... |
13 January 2012
11:01 GMT |
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With the exception of a few states in America, it appears that the Steve Jobs doll causing a stir in the media during the past week is good to go.
According to a recent discovery, Apple’s lawyers are shooting their mouths off, nothing more, nothing less. They can’t ban the sale of InIcons’ Steve Jo... |
9 January 2012
03:26 GMT |
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Antonio De Rosa is at it again with a brand new (and downright gorgeous) conceptual design for the next-generation iPhone. He says this one is inspired by Steve Jobs, which makes it even more worthy of nabbing a spot in the hall of fame for iPhone 5 mockups.De Rosa says his iPhone SJ boasts a “totally glass cap... |
6 January 2012
02:42 GMT |
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Steve Jobs action figurines have always been popular. Mainly because they’re banned. And the reason for that is Apple’s legal department which seems to have a thing for suing small companies trying to make a buck selling plastic dolls that look like the iconic visionary.
Chinese company In Icons had sche... |
5 January 2012
05:32 GMT |
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The seller of the iPod shuffle signed by Steve Jobs has contacted us with clarification as to why his auction was pulled from eBay. The reason was: none.“I am writing in regards to the orange/gold Steve Jobs signed iPod that had appeared on eBay a couple of weeks ago,” says Ian Macdonald.“With well ... |
5 January 2012
03:37 GMT |
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The Made in the USA Foundation is calling on Apple for a new year’s resolution: move Mac and iPod manufacturing back to the United States. The foundation blames the late co-founder Steve Jobs for outsourcing Apple. “It's all about Jobs. Steve Jobs. Although he was brilliant, creative and a successf... |
3 January 2012
13:31 GMT |
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Andy Hertzfeld, a member of the original Macintosh development team, is using Google+ to show off a photo of a young Steve Jobs flipping off the IBM logo on a street in Manhattan, NYC.
Hertzfeld writes on his Google+ account, “In memoriam for Steve Jobs as 2011 draws to a close, here's one more rare photo... |
3 January 2012
05:41 GMT |
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A Chinese newspaper is spreading the word that Apple’s third-generation tablet computer will be unveiled on February 24th, the day Apple’s iconic co-founder, Steve Jobs, was born.Citing a story by the Economic Daily News, Focus Taiwan reports that the iPad 3 will make a splash in the market as it is the f... |
27 December 2011
03:00 GMT |
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After commissioning a bronze statue of Steve Jobs earlier this month, Graphisoft officially unveiled the work of sculptor Erno Toth yesterday, Dec 21, 2011, at the architectural software maker’s Budapest headquarters.Graphisoft Founder and Chairman of the Board, Gabor Bojar wanted his company to be the first in... |
22 December 2011
05:47 GMT |
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The Recording Academy has announced its 2012 Special Merit Awards recipients, of whom the late Steve Jobs received this year’s Trustees Award for “outstanding contributions to the industry in a nonperforming capacity.”
According to the official announcement over at grammy.com, this year's Life... |
22 December 2011
05:31 GMT |
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Without any warning, eBay has pulled an ongoing bidding session for an iPod shuffle bearing a Steve Jobs autograph accompanied by a nifty story.
For as long as the auction was live, viewers could witness the bidding skyrocket to $10,000 in just a few hours.
The seller shared the story of how the autographed iPod ca... |
20 December 2011
07:21 GMT |
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One of the advertising executives involved with the “Think Different” campaign has made a startling unveiling regarding Steve Jobs’ original impression of the advertising effort to resurrect Apple from its ashes.Over at Forbes, Rob Siltanen recalls the day he and his partner met Jobs to discuss crea... |
15 December 2011
07:42 GMT |
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After confirming that Walter Isaacson’s hardcover edition of Steve Jobs topped print sales, Amazon has released the list of Best-Selling Books of 2011 that accounts for electronics formats as well.Not surprisingly, the Walter Isaacson biography of Steve Jobs took the number one spot again.Following ‘Steve... |
13 December 2011
14:51 GMT |
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One of the many people whose lives have been touched by Steve Jobs, Stephen Wolfram remembers his first meeting with the man as well as key episodes in their relationship over the years.Stephen Wolfram is a distinguished scientist, inventor, author, and business leader.He is the creator of Mathematica and of Wolfram|... |
12 December 2011
05:21 GMT |
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A Hungarian software company has contracted one of the nation’s talented sculptors to craft a 7-foot-tall statue of the late Apple co-founder, Steve Jobs.The statue, commemorating the former Apple CEO, will be unveiled on Dec. 21, according to major news agencies in the country. The tribute is not only in recog... |
12 December 2011
03:37 GMT |
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A 2003 interview with Apple co-founder Steve Jobs which, for one reason or another, never got published, is now available online.At the iTunes Music Store unveiling nearly a decade ago, Time magazine reporter Laura Locke scored an interview with then-Apple CEO Steve Jobs.Little did she (or anyone else except Jobs) kn... |
8 December 2011
04:02 GMT |
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Virgin Group CEO, Richard Branson has one thing in common with the late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs - he’s a billionaire. Take that away and you have the total opposite, and he admits that with pride.In an interview for his blog, Branson said: “I admired Steve Jobs, although he was completely different fr... |
7 December 2011
13:21 GMT |
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A month and a half after its debut on Amazon, Walter Isaacson’s authorized biography of Steve Jobs has become the retailer's best-selling book of the year.The online retailer is featuring Steve Jobs at the top of its best sellers list, followed by “Heaven is for Real: A Little Boy's Astounding S... |
6 December 2011
14:51 GMT |
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The Computer History Museum has launched an online exhibit dedicated to Steve Jobs. Titled "From Garage to World's Most Valuable Company", the web-based public display tracks Jobs’ life from his youth to his triumphant return as CEO and finally his achievement of surpassing the market cap of Exxon Mobil.Vi... |
6 December 2011
04:37 GMT |
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Every other year the people at ChiefExecutive.net profile companies that are the best and the worst at what they do, and they’re careful to pick different names every time to provide “a fresh set of management insights.” One of the top scoring CEOs listed in this year's rankings is the late Ste... |
5 December 2011
13:01 GMT |
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The Syrian government has moved to ban Apple’s iPhone because of its use as a social platform to share images and videos documenting the violence unfolding in the country.Obviously, protesters are fighting the effort and Abdulfattah 'John' Jandali is chiming in to show his solidarity with the Syrian S... |
5 December 2011
05:39 GMT |
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Web designer Fabio Fiss is offering his own tribute to the late Apple co-founder, Steve Jobs, by means of a stevenote.tv site where anyone can access a wealth of keynote presentations delivered by the visionary genius.Featuring everything from Jobs’ work at NeXT to the iPad introduction in 2010 and even WWDC 20... |
2 December 2011
04:22 GMT |
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The documents that attest how April 1, 1976 saw Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne get together to found Apple Computer Co. is going on auction at Sotheby’s in New York.The agreement papers, making the rounds in pictures across the entire Apple blogosphere today, are expected to fetch between $100,000 t... |
29 November 2011
09:55 GMT |
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The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has opened a huge exhibit entirely dedicated to the late Apple co-founder, Steve Jobs, who passed away last month after resigning from his CEO position with the Cupertino, California computer company.Hosted at the UPSTO’s Alexandria, Virginia museum in the atrium of the Madi... |
24 November 2011
08:35 GMT |
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Lie Jun, a man who is planning on selling a new handset that rivals the iPhone in both specs and price, has admitted in an interview with Entrepreneur that he and others like him were eagerly waiting for Steve Jobs to die.As 99.99 percent of the world’s population were mourning the passing of Steve Jobs last mo... |
24 November 2011
04:56 GMT |
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Screenwriter, producer and playwright Aaron Sorkin is “strongly considering” writing the screenplay for a biopic on Steve Jobs. The movie will be based on the official Steve Jobs biography by Walter Isaacson.It is known that Sony Pictures has already acquired the rights to turn Isaacson’s bio into a... |
24 November 2011
03:19 GMT |
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Two actors who made names for themselves playing ‘doctor’ in a popular TV series called ER, George Clooney and Noah Wyle are battling it out to play Steve Jobs in the upcoming biopic by Sony Pictures.I reported a while back that Sony was interested in seeing a script from Aaron Sorkin, the guy who made th... |
19 November 2011
09:37 GMT |
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Albert Hofmann, the man who created LSD in a Swiss lab in the 1930′s and who is now dead, once sent a letter to Apple’s late co-founder, Steve Jobs, urging him to help promote the chemical for therapeutical purposes.Obtained by Yahoo News and quoted on various blogs and web sites dealing with Apple matter... |
17 November 2011
09:24 GMT |
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Skilled artisan Aaron Kizer made a killer reproduction of the famous Steve Jobs portrait-photo at the 11th Hour Live Music and Arts Show, alongside Nonstop AKA Marquese who held their own on the audio front.In what can be regarded as the artist’s own tribute to the late Apple co-founder, Kizer pulled off the aw... |
16 November 2011
08:33 GMT |
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Silicon Valley venture capitalist John Stanton, who was close to the late Steve Jobs during the iPhone’s development period, said Apple wanted its phone to run on WiFi, not on a wireless operator’s network.A move that would have been most typical of Jobs, the iPhone would have worked on an exclusive WiFi ... |
16 November 2011
04:25 GMT |
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Adobe officials are becoming vocal on the discontinuation of Flash for mobile platforms with one lead developer admitting that it was all Apple’s fault. He also admits that HTML5 is proving to be the right choice for mobile web.Mike Chambers, lead product manager for Flash, has made a blog entry which reveals t... |
14 November 2011
04:00 GMT |
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A seven inch ‘Steve Jobs’ commemorative Android tablet is being advertised and sold in China, land of the most gruesome knockoffs ever to see light of day.Not only has Apple vocally expressed discontent towards seven-inch tablets and the Android operating system, Shenzhen Lingyun is downright using Steve ... |
14 November 2011
03:23 GMT |
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As it turns out, Apple was planning to launch a radically redesigned iPhone this year, but Steve Jobs didn’t like the screen size so they cancelled it a few months before the iPhone 4S announcement, according to person with inside knowledge. The device, boasting a complete redesign and a 10 megapixel camera, sh... |
12 November 2011
13:31 GMT |
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Steve Jobs biography author Walter Isaacson remarked at a breakfast conversation hosted by Fortune that Steve Jobs lives and breaths through the experience of two key Apple executives, one of which is an operational wizard, the other a design guru.Walter Isaacson, author of the bestselling biography on Steve Jobs, sa... |
11 November 2011
09:44 GMT |
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An interview with Walter Isaacson has revealed that it took about three years to gather information for his biography on Steve Jobs, and that everyone agreed Jobs was a perfectionist - a trait that sometimes took its toll on the people close to him.Asked what his sources were and how he chose the people to speak abou... |
10 November 2011
14:41 GMT |
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As the story goes, in 1995 Bob Cringely interviewed Steve Jobs for his PBS series "Triumph of the Nerds." Although the interview was over an hour long, the network only used 10 minutes of it.“So what happened to the rest of the footage?”, you may ask. Well, it gathered dust in the director’s garage ... |
10 November 2011
08:45 GMT |
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A recent interview with Walter Isaacson, author of the first official Steve Jobs biography, reveals that Apple’s late co-founder and visionary saw himself as an artist.Jobs wasn’t as much of a technician as he was an inventor of beautiful things. Things that just worked. And he did it with style. So much ... |
10 November 2011
07:31 GMT |
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Asked what was the main secret of Steve Jobs’ popularity, Walter Isaacson explained to RIA Novosti interviewers why his death became such a tragedy for an entire planet.Having already revealed in his bio on Steve Jobs that the Apple co-founder was extremely sensible, Isaacson reiterates, “I think he was a... |
10 November 2011
07:20 GMT |
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In an interview with Walter Isaacson, author of the first official biography of Steve Jobs, Russian paper RIA Novosti asks “Why did he choose you as the author of his biography?”The biographer reveals that Jobs’ reasons weren’t as much tied to the fact that Isaacson had written about the most ... |
10 November 2011
06:03 GMT |
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Apple co-founder, Steve Jobs (1955-2011) has been nominated for Time Magazine’s “Person of the Year” by NBC’s Brian Williams, who justified his choice with a truly inspiring speech.Steve Jobs has been on the cover of Time Magazine many times, but he would be the first to receive the Person of ... |
10 November 2011
02:51 GMT |
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Coming to theaters in 19 US cities beginning November 16th, “Steve Jobs: The Lost Interview” will feature forgotten footage from an interview used for the 1995 PBS documentary “Triumph of the Nerds”.Landmark theaters across the US will be featuring a lost interview with Steve Jobs during a key... |
7 November 2011
05:30 GMT |
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Although there had already been smartphones around for a while, it wasn’t until 2007 that these devices could actually be deemed as smart, and it all started with the launch of the first iPhone. Steve Jobs said it on stage when he unveiled the thing, and now Research and Markets analysts tend to agree.Research ... |
4 November 2011
15:11 GMT |
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UK residents will be able to watch Channel 4′s documentary, “Steve Jobs: iChanged the World” tonight at 11:05 PM local time. The documentary aired yesterday in the US under the title “Steve Jobs – One Last Thing.”According to UK’s Channel 4, the documentary tells “The s... |
3 November 2011
06:49 GMT |
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A 60-minute documentary made by UK indie Pioneer Productions and funded by PBS, Channel 4 and Mentorn International titled “Steve Jobs – One Last Thing” is set to air tonight.PBS has released two short clips as previews of the documentary, one of which features author David Sheff, a friend of Jobs&r... |
2 November 2011
12:00 GMT |
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Timothy D. Cook, the man whom Apple’s leadership chose to put in the CEO seat after Steve Jobs’ resignation, is reportedly leaving a distinct mark on the company already, doing things that the late visionary never did.People familiar with Apple internally say Mr. Cook has attended to administrative affair... |
2 November 2011
03:56 GMT |
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The Internet is abuzz with speculation regarding Steve Jobs’ last words before passing away under the watchful eyes of his family. It appears that a syntagm as simple as “Oh Wow” can be interpreted in an infinite number of ways, but only one of them is what some may wish to hear.There is a lot of de... |
31 October 2011
15:01 GMT |
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One of Steve Jobs’ legacies, the redesigned glass cube sitting atop of the entrance of the flagship Apple Store on Fifth Avenue, NYC, is to be unveiled this Friday, according to reports.The November 4th unveiling reportedly matches the original permits that estimated an “early November” completion o... |
31 October 2011
10:54 GMT |
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A few paragraphs on Jony Ive in Walter Isaacson’s biography of Steve Jobs have been exceprted to highlight just how important the designer has become to Apple, post Jobs.There's a theory that I have embraced and strived to perpetuate in the hearts of Softpedia readers worldwide, and that is: Jonathan Ive i... |
31 October 2011
09:46 GMT |
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Bill Gates is not bothered by the harsh comments of Steve Jobs as he was interviewed by Walter Isaacson for his biography, according to an interview with the Microsoft founder."Steve Jobs did a fantastic job," Gates told "This Week" anchor Christiane Amanpour, when pressed to comment on Steve Jobs’ remarks that... |
31 October 2011
09:02 GMT |
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In a eulogy delivered to the New York Times, novelist and loving sister Mona Simpson reveals the last moments of Steve Jobs’ life, as he said goodbye to the family he loved so much.“Tuesday morning, he called me to ask me to hurry up to Palo Alto. His tone was affectionate, dear, loving, but like someone ... |
31 October 2011
04:59 GMT |
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