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Steve Jobs said to be “extremely happy” with upcoming tablet
We go months with nary a drop of news about Apple’s rumored tablet, and in the course of a day we’re now struggling to keep up! In the last 24 hours, we’ve seen reports stating that Apple will announce a tablet device in January, that the tablet will be 7-inches, and that Apple is still […]
Continue reading...Photos of a young Steve Jobs
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
Pictured below is a young Steve Jobs at age 14, standing front row and center. The photo was taken in 1969 and is of the Electronics Club at Homestead High School in Cupertino, California. And as luck would have it, it’s the same high school fellow Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak graduated from one year earlier. […]
Continue reading...Steve Jobs’ obsession with secrecy and the “big-bang”
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
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One of the hallmarks of Apple since Steve Jobs returned in 1997 has been the company’s almost laser like focus on product secrecy. Whereas most companies routinely hold press conferences as a means to hype up a new product that won’t hit stores for another 6 months, Apple not only keeps its product details under […]
Continue reading...Steve Jobs helped consult Nicholas Negroponte on the “One Laptop Per Child” initiative
Monday, December 7, 2009
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Apple’s business model of selling expensive and premium priced computers is an accepted par of the tech discourse, which makes it all the more surprising that Steve Jobs informally advised and provided feedback to Nicholas Negroponte, the founder of the OLPC initiative. OLPC, in case you’re unaware, stands for “One Laptop Per Child”, and is […]
Continue reading...Steve Ballmer legally changes his name to “Steve Jobs”
Friday, December 4, 2009
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Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer shocked employees earlier this week when he officially changed his name from Steve Ballmer to Steve Jobs in the hopes that such a move would boost company morale, and subsequently help Microsoft reclaim much of the luster its lost to Apple ever since it first introduced the iPod. But the decision […]
Continue reading...Steve Jobs steps in and reverses app rejection for live streaming iPhone app
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
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After having their app rejected from the iTunes App Store for employing private API calls, an iPhone developer from Pointy Heads Software penned a letter to Steve Jobs imploring him to re-consider the decision. The app in question is called Knocking Live Video and enables iPhone 3G and 3GS owners to stream live video streams to […]
Continue reading...Photo Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak circa 1979
Friday, November 27, 2009
A throwback photo from 1979 featuring a mustachioed Steve Jobs with a clean-cut and beardless Steve Wozniak on an Apple II. If there were ever a photo that highlighted the difference in personality, at least bac then, between Jobs and Woz, then this is it. Jobs is casually hovering around with shaggy hair, a mustache, […]
Continue reading...Original Apple I is up for sale on eBay for $50,000!
Friday, November 20, 2009
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Apple fans tend to get nostalgic at the sight of any old Mac from the mid-80’s and early 90’s. But if you really want to go back in time, take a look at this eBay auction for an original motherboard from the Apple I – which was released all the way back in 1976 for […]
Continue reading...Video of Bill Gates praising Steve Jobs
Friday, November 13, 2009
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Here’s the video clip we mentioned earlier of Bill Gates praising Steve Jobs for his work in turning around Apple from the brink of irrelevancy and extinction.
Continue reading...How Steve Jobs is different from most other CEO’s
Friday, November 13, 2009
Last night, CNBC aired a program called “Warren Buffett and Bill Gates: Keeping America Great”. Buffett and Gates are two of the wealthiest men in the world, and part of the program featured direct questions from the audience. At one point during the show, an audience member asked Gates for his thoughts on Steve Jobs and […]
Continue reading...Rare photo of Steve Jobs and Bill Gates
Friday, November 6, 2009
Check out this rare photo of Steve Jobs and Bill Gates discussing god knows what at Jobs’ Palo Alto home in 1991. Both Jobs and Gates were 36 at the time the photo was taken. Jobs, at the time, had already been forced out of Apple years earlier and was currently working at NeXT, which […]
Continue reading...Former Intel CEO Andy Grove on a young Steve Jobs
Friday, November 6, 2009
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Fortune recently declared Steve Jobs to be the “CEO of the decade” and as part of the ‘celebration’, they reached out to 8 people “who rarely speak publicly about Jobs.” Former Intel CEO Andy Grove had this interesting tidbit to share. “When you talk about Steve, you need to distinguish between Jobs 1, the young […]
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Wednesday, December 23, 2009
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