According to a preliminary assessment from the Dusseldorf regional court in Germany on Thursday, Apple isn’t very likely to succeed in its attempts to get the redesigned Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1N tablet barred from sale in that country via injunction. Read more »
Apple’s television plans were outlined in somewhat greater detail in a report by the Wall Street Journal on Sunday. All those plans might be for naught, however thanks to lackluster demand for connected TVs. But there are a few good reasons Apple could beat the odds. Read more »
Apple-related things were on a lot of people’s minds in 2011, according to Google’s Zeitgeist 2011search term year-in-review. Three Apple-themed queries appear in the list of the top ten fastest-rising searches worldwide, including one shipping product, one phantom product, and the man who started it all. Read more »
A few pieces of paper signed by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne to incorporate Apple Computer in 1976 have been sold for a staggering $1.6 million. It’s not clear who bought them, but reports say they went for well over the initial asking price. Read more »
The Walter Isaacson biography of Apple co-founder and former CEO Steve Jobs has risen to the top of Amazon’s list of best-selling books for 2011, not even two months following its release in October. The Jobs biography had already reached the No. 2 spot in November. Read more »
Big-six publisher Hachette Book Group is partnering with Bloomberg Businessweek on e-singles that will “illuminate key moments in the world… Read more at paidContent »
A never-before-seen interview with Steve Jobs debuts Wednesday night in 17 theaters. Taped in 1995, before Apple bought NeXT and Jobs returned to the company he founded, this interview stands as a historical snapshot of Jobs between the two defining periods of his life at Apple. Read more »
Steve Jobs, wireless network operator? Apple’s co-founder talked to industry legend John Stanton from 2005 through 2007 about the possibilit… Read more at paidContent »
We may not ever get another Steve Jobs, but when it comes to tech visionaries with the potential to disrupt the way we look at the world in significant ways, Twitter and Square founder Jack Dorsey is as strong a contender for the mantle as any. Read more »
It appears that the debate over whether supporting the Adobe Flash plug-in on mobile devices is a feature or not is over. Last night ZDNet got ahold of an announcement Adobe is set to make soon: that it is abandoning its work on Flash for mobile. Read more »
Mark Zuckerberg saw Steve Jobs as a crucial advisor for building Facebook and its management team, according to an interview with Charlie Rose that will air later on Monday. Jobs is also quoted in his recent biography as saying that he “admire[d]” the Facebook founder. Read more »
There are a lot of advantages to keeping a hoard of $81 billion in cash on hand, as Apple does. One in particular allows Apple to set itself apart from its competitors in a very real and tangible way: by dominating the global electronics supply chain. Read more »
Walter Isaacson’s Steve Jobs biography has clearly been successful, topping best-seller lists ahead of its release, but new numbers reveal the extent of that success. The 656-page book has sold around 379,000 copies in the U.S. during its first week, according to a Nielsen report. Read more »
While some may have bristled at Steve Jobs calling Bill Gates an unimaginative copycat in the Jobs biography released last week, Gates says he was not one of those people. In fact, Gates says he gets why Jobs said disparaging things about him. Read more »
If you take the time to look beyond the select outrageous quotes that have appeared in headlines everywhere for the past two weeks, you find a balanced telling of the life of a man who was far from balanced himself in Walter Isaacson’s Steve Jobs. Read more »
PBS will air an hour-long documentary about Apple’s iconic co-founder called Steve Jobs — One Last Thing on Nov. 2. The documentary will feature interviews with colleagues, professional and personal associates, many of whom appear in the new Walter Isaacson biography of Jobs. Read more »
Can gorgeous design, learning algorithms and millions in venture capital funding make a simple home thermostat as coveted as the iPhone? If anyone can achieve such a lofty goal it’s Tony Fadell, the godfather of the iPod and iPhone, who has founded connected thermostat company Nest. Read more »
iOS apps have become a booming business for Apple–mainly for their status as a selling point for iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad devices rather… Read more at paidContent »
On the official morning of its release, Walter Isaacson’s Steve Jobs is #1 on the Kindle bestseller list, #1 in Apple’s iBookstore and #2 on… Read more at paidContent »
Last week, an advance quote from the Steve Jobs biography seemed to suggest that an Apple television set could be on the way, and a new investor note Monday from Piper Jaffray’s Gene Munster, citing supply chain sources, lends more credence to that possibility. Read more »
Biographer Walter Issacson and his subject Steve Jobs got the 60 Minutes treatment Sunday night on the eve of the authorized bio’s official… Read more at paidContent »
The past week was full of news, and I am pretty sure you are all caught up on it. However, it is time to sink your teeth into meatier writing, so here are a few stories you will enjoy. Read more »
Steve Jobs swore to “destroy Android” in his anger over what he saw as outright copying of Apple’s ideas in Android phones unveiled early in… Read more at paidContent »
A new biography of Steve Jobs quotes Bill Gates as saying that the Apple co-founder “never really understood much about technology.” While the Microsoft billionaire likely saw that as a put-down, technology is arguably the least important thing about Apple’s most successful products. Read more »
Apple has a lot of cash in the bank, and now we know that Steve Jobs had at least one grand plan for it: Destroy Android. Excerpts from his upcoming biography show Jobs was willing to go to great lengths to remedy the “grand theft.” Read more »
A newly revealed anecdote suggests just how dedicated Steve Jobs was to Apple. Softbank CEO Masayoshi Son attended the iPhone 4S announcement event, and learned from Tim Cook that Jobs wanted to talk to the new Apple CEO about the company’s “next product” that very day. Read more »
When Apple Co-Founder Steve Jobs passed away on Oct. 5, Apple established an email address where fans could send their thoughts and appreciation: remembersteve@apple.com. On Wednesday, Apple created a page on its website to put some of those sentiments on display. Read more »
Samsung’s legal setback in Australia — where the courts have now issued a formal, if temporary, injunction on its Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet af… Read more at paidContent »
Steve Jobs was an extremely private person for someone so renowned for stagecraft, and his family was perhaps the most private part of his l… Read more at paidContent »
How much wisdom can one glean from a 20-minute chat with Professor Clay Christensen? A lot. Here are notable highlights from the author of The Innovator’s Dilemma. We talk about Steve Jobs, innovation and the incorrect focus on short term thinking and trouble with IRR. Read more »
Steve Jobs was a visionary, instigator, leader, motivator, marketer, pitchman and showman. Gary Morgenthaler of Morgenthaler Ventures recalls Steve’s many contributions that have changed the world as we know it. Read more »
Steve Jobs was the man who halted one media sector’s slide in to oblivion. Bringing others to a 21st Century cast in his likeness is a proje… Read more at paidContent »
When Josh Quittner, now editorial director of Flipboard, wrote a story on the former Apple CEO for Time, the magazine inadvertently betrayed two of Jobs’s core values: his obsession with controlling every detail and his love of secrecy. Read more »
With his single-minded focus on creating great user experiences, Jobs redefined product design – and design in general – not just for Apple, but for designers like Typekit’s Jeffrey Veen, who found confidence and inspiration in Jobs’ work. Read more »
One of Steve Jobs’ gifts to consumers was creating sophisticated devices that hide incredibly complex technology. Some of the the most important technologies that we take for granted were vaulted into the mainstream thanks to Jobs and Apple, because they were implemented so elegantly. Read more »
Mobile experience designer Christian Lindholm believes that great products are born out of deep, relentless dissatisfaction with the present and the status quo. Inside Apple’s walls, Jobs almost seemed to carry the burden of all humanity’s frustration with bad products. Read more »
The products created by Apple and its founder Steve Jobs have revolutionized a host of different industries in the past couple of decades, from personal computing to mobile telephony. But they have also had a substantial impact on the way we consume media of all kinds. Read more »
In bringing the geekiest tech to mainstream consumers, Steve Jobs also helped bring it to Washington, D.C. With the launch of the iPhone, Apple forced Washington legislators to address issues such as spectrum policy and mobile privacy and even got regulators involved in app development. Read more »
The authorized biography of Steve Jobs, written by Walter Isaacson, will be released on Oct. 24, according to publisher Simon & Schuster on Thursday. That’s nearly a month earlier than its planned release date, and reportedly includes personal interviews with Jobs very near the end of life. Read more »
We’ve gathered together a selection of some of the stories and tributes been written for Steve Jobs in the last several weeks — with a part… Read more at paidContent »
