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At a commencement speech this week, Walter Isaacson told his own three stories, much like Steve Jobs did in 2005 at a famous appearance in front of Stanford's grads.
Isaacson is the author of the only official Steve Jobs biography you can lay your hands on. His book is regarded as the most accurate story about ... |
21 May 2013
04:43 GMT |
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Steve Jobs sent an email to News Corp’s James Murdoch in 2010 proposing a pricing scheme to undermine Amazon’s authority in the e-book business, according to the Department of Justice, which is running an investigation on the iBookstore. “Throw in with Apple and see if we can all make a go of this ... |
16 May 2013
08:21 GMT |
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In this week’s 60 Minutes Overtime feature on CBS, Bill Gates is not shy to let his emotions out speaking about Steve Jobs, his longtime rival, partner, and friend.
During the interview, Gates recalled his last encounter with Jobs before his death in 2011.
Visibly close to crying, Gates said, “He showed... |
13 May 2013
09:50 GMT |
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Visionary genius Steve Jobs got a 2.65 GPA at Homestead High School from 1968 to 1972. That’s the big news making the rounds regarding the late Apple co-founder today. A recently-surfaced FBI file reveals that Steve Jobs, who proved on numerous occasions that he was quite simply brilliant, only scored a 2.65 G... |
13 May 2013
09:30 GMT |
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A worker at Apple’s flagship retail store on Fifth Avenue and 59th Street in Manhattan, NY, reveals to a local newspaper that the facelift commissioned by Steve Jobs two years ago translated into a sloppy renovation job. New York residents had to fight some heavy rain yesterday but, even so, there were as many... |
9 May 2013
03:40 GMT |
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A 21-year old developer who got nothing but straight As in his journey towards becoming a C++ guru tragically died before he could fulfill his dream of working at Apple in Cupertino, California.
Andrei was from Romania. He loved Apple’s culture and he had a deep admiration for the company’s late co-found... |
3 May 2013
08:49 GMT |
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The satirical Steve Jobs biopic “iSteve” is now available to stream for free at Funny or Die. The movie is almost 80 minutes long and it’s reportedly inspired mostly from Wikipedia.
Don’t get the wrong idea, while it’s labeled as a parody, iSteve hits all the right spots when it comes t... |
17 April 2013
04:32 GMT |
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Market research firm IHS iSuppli is predicting that the netbook segment will be dead and buried by 2015, something even non-analysts can assess by simply walking into a computer shop today.
But not everybody knows the reason why netbooks have failed.
By 2014, IHS predicts that only 264,000 netbooks will be sold in ... |
15 April 2013
06:31 GMT |
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Acclaimed animation film studio Pixar has planted a tree in front of its Steve Jobs Building, dedicating the branching plant to the late Apple CEO.
Following the death of visionary genius Steve Jobs, Pixar renamed one of its main facilities to “The Steve Jobs Building,” honoring the man who co-founded th... |
12 April 2013
04:58 GMT |
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Bloomberg is running a feature piece on what happens to executives after they leave Apple Inc. In the report, an analyst with Needham Research calls the late Steve Jobs a “dictator.”
It’s no secret that everyone at Apple was pulling all-day shifts during Steve Jobs’ tenure as CEO. But when th... |
11 April 2013
13:51 GMT |
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According to a recent study, 50% of our wireless traffic is entirely made of video streaming. In a discussion on this topic, Verizon Communications CEO Lowell McAdam recalled a meeting with Steve Jobs where he had tried to convince him to make a 4G iPhone. At NAB, McAdam said that Verizon’s investment in its L... |
11 April 2013
08:22 GMT |
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Yesterday we conveyed to you a feature piece from Bloomberg Businessweek which said that Apple was looking at $5 billion / €3.9 billion in expenses to erect its much-hyped spaceship Campus 2 in Cupertino.
In case you haven’t read through the whole story, today we’re going to tell you why “the ... |
5 April 2013
04:10 GMT |
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Apple has taken down its online store for maintenance, a move that used to signal new product refreshes (and sometimes even product launches). These days, it’s not as exciting. I wouldn’t wish to sound melodramatic but, back when Steve Jobs was running the show, there was a tremendous amount of hype arou... |
5 April 2013
03:52 GMT |
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Former Mac OS Evangelist Tim Holmes has published a set of photos on Flickr depicting Steve Jobs’ historic return to Apple Computer in 1996. The images were taken with an Apple QuickTake camera. Holmes recalls the night as if it were yesterday: “Working late on a Friday on December 20th at Apple Computer... |
28 March 2013
05:42 GMT |
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Comedy site Funny or Die has announced plans to release a biopic parody based on Steve Jobs’ life featuring Justin Long, the well-known character from Apple’s iconic Get a Mac ads.
“In true Internet fashion, it’s not based on very thorough research — essentially a cursory look at the St... |
19 March 2013
06:14 GMT |
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The release of Ashton Kutcher’s “JOBS” movie, which chronicles the early life of Apple’s iconic co-founders Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, has been delayed by Open Road Films.
The news comes via The Hollywood Reporter, which learned from “insiders” that “Open Road wanted more... |
16 March 2013
07:14 GMT |
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FastCompany has tracked down the barista who answered Steve Jobs’ famous prank call to Starbucks during the iPhone launch at Macworld 2007. When Steve Jobs unveiled the first iPhone to the world, he demonstrated the phone’s mapping abilities by pinpointing Starbucks locations on a map. The phone's s... |
5 March 2013
05:59 GMT |
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Distinguished Apple board member Art Levinson confessed to reporters that he misses Steve Jobs’ presence at meetings, 16 months after the CEO and co-founder passed away at the hand of pancreatic cancer. He said it feels “weird” without him.
“I'm still not to the point where I walk into that boardroo... |
21 February 2013
03:48 GMT |
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Turkey’s trademark office has granted a businessman by the name of Kamil Kürekçi the rights to the “Steve Jobs” name for commercial use.
Patently Apple has some doubts that this Turkish blogger got his facts right, but the report also comes with a rough translation of the owner’s ... |
4 February 2013
04:07 GMT |
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Stephen Colbert invited Microsoft founder Bill Gates on his set this week to talk about polio eradication, information technology, the decline in childhood deaths worldwide, and even his coolness level. Towards the end of the interview, Colbert tells Gates, “You’re out there saving the world, and yet, yo... |
1 February 2013
08:16 GMT |
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Although Apple is known to frown upon all things that use Steve Jobs’ likeness, one Japanese company is putting the Mac maker’s nerves to the test with the launch of a new action figure depicting the iconic tech genius.
The doll is pretty cool and indeed bears a striking resemblance to the late visionary... |
30 January 2013
05:33 GMT |
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Jamis MacNiven, a restaurant owner who knew Steve Jobs around the time the Apple co-founder was just 24, shares an interesting story about the iconic CEO.
In a telephone interview with Cultofmac, MacNiven says, “I knew Steve when he was 24. This is before he had polished his meanness into an ultra sharp, obsid... |
28 January 2013
07:21 GMT |
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The jOBS biopic starring Ashton Kutcher as Steve Jobs and Josh Gad as Steve Wozniak is not exactly making a splash in the film industry. Written by a first-timer and directed by a studio with a tight budget, the movie has garnered quite a few mixed reviews. And one such review comes from Steve Wozniak himself, the A... |
28 January 2013
05:08 GMT |
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Here’s one that’s bound to get some attention. Ashton Kutcher, the actor portraying Steve Jobs in an indie biopic that’s just made its Sundance debut, suggests Jobs’ pancreas problems may have been caused by his fruit-only diet.
The iconic Apple co-founder Steve Jobs was known to have refused... |
28 January 2013
04:11 GMT |
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The most qualified person in the world to rate the 1-minute "jOBS" clip released yesterday, Steve Wozniak says the whole thing is wrong – the personalities, the dialog, pretty much the whole story. In April 2011, the media caught wind of an indie Steve Jobs biopic starring Ashton Kutcher as the leading man. P... |
25 January 2013
04:32 GMT |
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For those of you waiting on the edge of your seats for the first footage of jOBS to come out, we have some great news! Five Star Institute has just rolled out a one-minute clip showing a scene from the movie. The footage (embedded below) shows Ashton Kutcher and Josh Gad in their roles as Steve Jobs and Steve Woznia... |
24 January 2013
10:25 GMT |
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Open Road Films and Mark Hulme's Five Star Feature Films have scheduled the jOBS biopic starring Ashton Kutcher to debut in theaters on April 19, the Hollywood Reporter confirms.
Starring Ashton Kutcher as Steve Jobs and Josh Gad as Steve Wozniak, jOBS will be featured as the Sundance Festival’s closing f... |
24 January 2013
07:14 GMT |
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Emerson Collective has partnered with Davis Guggenheim to raise awareness about the stories of numerous courageous young people looking to earn citizenship. Steve Jobs’ widow, Laurene Powell Jobs (chair of Emerson Collective), founded a national after-school program 15 years ago called College Track. The initi... |
23 January 2013
03:40 GMT |
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The organizers of Macworld/iWorld 2013 have confirmed that actors Ashton Kutcher and Josh Gad, who play Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak in the upcoming biopic jOBS, will appear at Macworld/iWorld on January 31. Kutcher and Gad will reportedly “take the Macworld/iWorld Main stage to share their experiences playing... |
22 January 2013
03:35 GMT |
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Kariem McFarlin, a 35-year-old former San Jose State University football player was given a seven-year sentence this week for burglarizing a number of Bay Area homes, including the one owned by the family of Steve Jobs last year.McFarlin was confirmed as the burglar of several Bay Area houses after raiding the ... |
19 January 2013
14:16 GMT |
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Apple’s acquisitions of Lala.com (a music streaming service) and Color (a video streaming service) never got much attention in the press, but now a former Color employee is sharing his experience at a dinner table in 2009 when Steve Jobs simply pulled out a piece of paper to seal the deal.Aubrey Johnson, a form... |
19 January 2013
11:32 GMT |
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As Director Joshua Michael Stern and Producer Mark Hulme are preparing the jOBS biopic for its January 26 debut at the Sundance Film Festival, actor Josh Gad – who stars in the movie as Steve Wozniak – says Kutcher is “the perfect fit” for the Jobs role. The indie biopic began shooting in ear... |
17 January 2013
08:01 GMT |
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Ever wonder how the first mice came to be? Well, as many Apple fans will tell you, Steve Jobs basically stole the idea from Xerox. But he improved it tenfold when he commissioned the first batch of point-and-click devices for the Macintosh. Sharing a similar philosophy, Steve Jobs and IDEO founder David Kelley worke... |
7 January 2013
07:16 GMT |
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Directed by Joshua Michael Stern, written by Matthew Whitely, shot by cinematographer Russell Carpenter and produced by Mark Hulme, the jOBS biopic starring Ashton Kutcher is set for release this April.
jOBS chronicles some of the key moments in the life of Apple’s late co-founder and CEO, Steven Jobs, through... |
4 January 2013
02:52 GMT |
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If you liked the Macintosh and the Apple II designs, be prepared to get blown away by these images from Hartmut Esslinger's new book "Design Forward."
As a designer personally hired by Steve Jobs to streamline the look and feel of Apple’s products back in the ‘80s, Esslinger made many prototypes. ... |
28 December 2012
04:59 GMT |
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Well this is sad. Steve Jobs’ superyacht has been impounded after French designer Philippe Starck failed to cash in on a multi-million Euro fee for his minimalistic work, according to his lawyer.
Commissioned by the late Steve Jobs himself, the vessel was baptized Venus and even reportedly launched from a port... |
21 December 2012
09:14 GMT |
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Marc Andreessen, a renowned venture capitalist and software engineer, spoke about Apple (among other things) at an event in New York City last week, dishing out a few thoughts on its former CEO, Steve Jobs, in a comparison with the current-acting boss, Tim Cook. Andreessen told the audience at the DealBook conferenc... |
17 December 2012
05:46 GMT |
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Upon reexamining an iPhone patent this week, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has issued a preliminary notice ruling that “the Steve Jobs patent,” as it is also referred to, is invalid in its entirety.
In what will undoubtedly affect Apple’s legal brawls with Samsung and perhaps other handset m... |
8 December 2012
05:27 GMT |
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When Steve Jobs told biographer Walter Isaacson “I finally cracked it,” referring to an integrated television solution, he didn’t say anything about Apple building a big screen.
Refusing to follow the Apple blogosphere in taking words out of context, Gordon Kelly believes the media got it all wrong... |
26 November 2012
03:31 GMT |
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Famous playwright Aaron Sorkin is still searching for an actor to portray Apple’s late visionary genius in an upcoming biopic backed by Sony. The script, however, is coming along, according to “The West Wing” writer. In fact, he may have said a little too much already. During an interview with The ... |
16 November 2012
03:43 GMT |
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Fastlane Apps LLC has released this nifty little app called “It's Genius! Inspirational Quotes Free” which churns up famous quotes from the likes of Ghandi, Edison, and even Steve Jobs, in a visually appealing manner, right on your iPhone.
Targeted at those who are lacking motivation or need to do s... |
12 November 2012
05:36 GMT |
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The Steve Jobs-commissioned yacht designed by Philippe Starck with the help of the Apple co-founder himself is now complete and has officially launched from the Netherlands, with widow Laurene Powell Jobs and her three children attending the ceremony. Crafted by Dutch shipbuilder Feadship, the 80-meter / 262-foot sh... |
29 October 2012
04:19 GMT |
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America’s presidential debate on Tuesday night touched on a few sensitive subjects, including the outsourcing of manufacturing jobs in the Far East, and how the next president can turn the situation around, bringing some of those jobs back to The States.
Moderator Candy Crowley started the fire, telling the tw... |
17 October 2012
07:31 GMT |
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In updating its Gmail application for iPhone and iPad on September 28, Google included screenshots that contain references to the late Apple co-founder, Steve Jobs. Three screenshots were submitted by Google on the iTunes App Store to showcase the app’s capabilities. The third picture shows an email titled &ld... |
11 October 2012
03:08 GMT |
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The Madame Tussauds wax museum in Hong Kong unveiled its wax rendition of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, this October 5.
The unveiling was meant as a tribute, taking place on the day that marks a year since Jobs' passing, in Palo Alto, California. A pioneer in the PC world, Jobs was chairman and chief executive ... |
9 October 2012
09:33 GMT |
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Friday marked one year since the passing of Apple’s iconic leader at the hand of a stubborn pancreatic cancer. For a decade, the disease seemed determined to claim the life of the brilliant mind that was Steve Jobs, as if the Universe had bigger plans for him. Steve wasn't as much a technology guru as he ... |
8 October 2012
07:25 GMT |
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Web design company Inventika Solutions has created a virtual iPod classic which you can fiddle with in your web browser. It’s got some preloaded songs, and comes accompanied by nice graphics. It was made in the memory of Steve Jobs.One year has passed since the death of Apple’s visionary in-chief, Steven ... |
6 October 2012
18:01 GMT |
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Apple has released a tribute video in Steve Jobs’ memory. Appropriately titled “Remembering Steve,” the one-minute clip greets visitors of Apple.com (using the appropriate web browser). As it ends, the video leaves viewers with a message from CEO Tim Cook. Taking viewers through the key moments of ... |
5 October 2012
08:21 GMT |
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One year ago today, Apple’s board of directors sent out a media advisory to inform the world that the company’s visionary in-chief had passed away at the age of 56. Tim Cook, the newly-instated CEO, followed suit with his own letter to employees announcing “a celebration of Steve’s extraordina... |
5 October 2012
03:55 GMT |
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In 1983, Steven Jobs gave a talk at the International Design Conference in Aspen (IDCA), where the soon-to-be iconic figure dished out his impressions about technology, personal computing, and where it was all headed.
LifeLiberyTech offers a comprehensive set of highlights from Jobs’ speech, such as the fact t... |
3 October 2012
05:05 GMT |
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