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Steve Jobs on why Apple is suing Meizu
Apple recently turned up the heat on Meizu, a Chinese based company whose products sometimes take on more than a passing resemblance to the iPhone. Electronista writes: The specific points that led China’s Intellectual Property Office to halt M8 production and marketing still aren’t clear, but the device was originally conceived as a direct response […]
Continue reading...Steve Jobs helps Arnold Schwarzenegger sign new organ transplant legislation into law
Wednesday, October 6, 2010
Imagine the year is 1996. You bet someone that in 14 years time, Steve Jobs will be the CEO of Apple and Arnold Schwarzenegger will be the Governor of California. Not only that, but you also predict that the two will join forces to help sign into legislation the United States’ first nationwide kidney donor […]
Continue reading...Adidas drops iAd initiative because Steve Jobs was too much of a control freak – Report
Monday, October 4, 2010
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Back in mid-August, reports circulated that Apple’s habit of maintaining complete control over projects was undermining their iAd efforts. Specifically, Apple’s insistence on being directly involved with the creative process of mobile ads reportedly hampered the rollout of ads from a number of companies such as Chanel SA. And now comes word that another blue chip […]
Continue reading...Steve Jobs check in as 42nd richest man in America
Thursday, September 23, 2010
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Forbes annual ranking of the richest folks in America is out, and sadly, yours truly didn’t make the cut yet again. Not surprisingly though, Apple CEO Steve Jobs was right up there, checking in at #42 with an estimated net worth of $6.1 billion. Last year, Jobs’ net worth was approximately $5.1 billion. A billion […]
Continue reading...Steve Jobs tells annoying college student, “Please leave us alone.”
Monday, September 20, 2010
Email exchanges with Steve Jobs have sort of taken on a life of their own. There are blogs whose sole purpose is to document every terse response from the Apple CEO, and you can bet that anytime Jobs takes the time to respond to an inquiring fan, the response will spread through the blogosphere at […]
Continue reading...Steve Jobs is a Ninja, and then he’s not
Sunday, September 19, 2010
A pretty wacky story emerged last week, and if it hadn’t been sourced from Bloomberg, no one might have believed it. Citing a Japanese magazine called SPA!, Bloomberg reported that Steve Jobs, while vacationing in Japan with his family, had attempted to board his private plane carrying Ninja Stars he purchased in the country. As […]
Continue reading...Kevin Rose snaps photo of Steve Jobs leaving Pizza place in San Francisco
Wednesday, August 4, 2010
iPhone coverage in San Francisco may suck, but there are some benefits to living in the land of Full House, such as seeing Steve Jobs leave a San Fran Pizza House called Flour and Water on Tuesday. And guess which lucky fanboy snapped the above photo? Why none other than Digg founder and Web 2.0 […]
Continue reading...An Apple fanboy goes off the deep end
Thursday, July 29, 2010
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Steve Jobs is cool and all, but seriously?! via Twitter
Continue reading...Steve Jobs thinks 34 years of history warrants Apple the benefit of the doubt
Sunday, July 18, 2010
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Throughout the iPhone 4 press conference and the subsequent Q&A session, Steve Jobs made it abundantly clear that, in his eyes, media reports of iPhone 4 reception issues were completely overblown. During one particular exchange, Jobs was clearly irritated at the way tech websites, in his opinion, make no bones about sensationalizing stories in order to […]
Continue reading...Fortune names Steve Jobs “Smartest CEO” in tech while Jonathan Ive snags “Smartest Designer”
Monday, July 12, 2010
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While hardly a scientific survey, Fortune this past week released the results from a recent survey it took to ascertain which 50 people are the smartest folks in tech today. In compiling the list, Fortune asked “nearly 100 trusted advisers and experts” to make nominations, and subsequently relied on feedback from analysts to help separate […]
Continue reading...Steve Jobs takes on The Flash
Sunday, July 11, 2010
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Nothin but some ole’ fashioned nerd humor as Steve Jobs and The Flash prepare to throw down. via Walyou
Continue reading...Google’s Larry Page accuses Steve Jobs of “rewriting history”
Friday, July 9, 2010
During a briefing at this weeks Allen & Co’s Sun Valley conference, Google co-founder Larry Page accused Apple CEO Steve Jobs of re-writing the history of Android to make it appear as if Google decided to go after the iPhone out of the blue and out of sheer malice. On the contrary, Page notes that […]
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Monday, October 11, 2010
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