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Steve Jobs’s Unfinished Luxury Feadship Superyacht

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Steve Jobs’s Unfinished Luxury Feadship Superyacht


Posted by on Saturday, May 19th, 2012 at 12:25 pm.

Updated: What is French designer Philippe Starck working on for Apple? Prior to his death, Apple CEO Steve Jobs was working with Starck on a yacht. And this is very likely the “fairly, if not very, revolutionary” project he was talking about. To be built by luxury superyacht builder Feadship, the yacht is believed to [...]

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The Sketchbook of Susan Kare, Apple’s pioneering icon designer

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The Sketchbook of Susan Kare, Apple’s pioneering icon designer


Posted by on Saturday, May 12th, 2012 at 8:00 am.

Check out the amazing Sketchbook of Susan Kare over at PLoS BLOGS. See the early iconic designs from the pioneer at Apple who is largely responsible for the leap from command line to intuitive Graphical User Interfaces. Steve Silberman has written a terrific article on how Ms. Kare, a Ph.D. in Fine Arts, came to [...]

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Mark Zuckerberg: Steve Jobs, girlfriend inspired social organ donor tool

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Mark Zuckerberg: Steve Jobs, girlfriend inspired social organ donor tool


Posted by on Tuesday, May 1st, 2012 at 8:41 am.

Conversations over the dinner table with his med-student girlfriend helped Mark Zuckerberg formulate his latest big idea — harnessing the power of Facebook to help eliminate the critical shortage of organs for patients desperately in need of life-saving transplants. And it was his friendship with Apple founder Steve Jobs, whose life was extended by years [...]

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Mark Zuckerberg: You know what’s cool? A billion organ donors

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Mark Zuckerberg: You know what’s cool? A billion organ donors


Posted by on Tuesday, May 1st, 2012 at 1:55 am.

Facebook CEO announces his social network site will now encourage its users to register to donate – and tell a friend

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Insanely Simple: Decoding The Magic Of Steve Jobs And Apple

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Insanely Simple: Decoding The Magic Of Steve Jobs And Apple


Posted by on Tuesday, April 10th, 2012 at 8:01 am.

In the wake of Steve Jobs’ death and Apple’s surging marketshare, books about both Apple and the Steve Jobs legacy have flooded the market. Some like Walter Isaacson’s intimate look at the life of Steve Jobs offer a more personal take on Apple while others work from a product-centric point of view. Ken Segall’s book [...]

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Apple developing new high-quality audio format

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Apple developing new high-quality audio format


Posted by on Tuesday, February 28th, 2012 at 10:49 am.

Format will provide high- or low-quality files to iCloud users

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Steve Jobs’ iconic eyewear by Lunor

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Steve Jobs’ iconic eyewear by Lunor


Posted by on Monday, February 13th, 2012 at 6:43 am.

With Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson speeding toward the honor of the top selling book of 2011, it’s no surprise that anything related to late Apple exec is ‘hot’. That includes his eyewear. The glasses that Jobs is wearing on the cover of his biography are finding favor with fans. The minimalist, circular frames worn [...]

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Steve Jobs’ Home in Palo Alto

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Steve Jobs’ Home in Palo Alto


Posted by on Monday, January 30th, 2012 at 7:40 am.

Tucked away on a Palo Alto corner of Waverley Street, Steve Jobs enjoyed family life in his 1930s Tudor-style home. The late Apple CEO Steve Jobs bought the Palo Alto home in the mid-1990s, after his marriage with Laurene. The 5,768-sq ft modest house sits on over a half acre and includes 7 bedrooms and [...]

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Apple, the world’s first trillion-dollar company?

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Apple, the world’s first trillion-dollar company?


Posted by on Saturday, January 28th, 2012 at 7:28 am.

Apple's spectacular growth, fueled by demand for the iPhone, will soon see its market capitalisation reach $500bn and beyond

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Steve Jobs Doll Canceled

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Steve Jobs Doll Canceled


Posted by on Wednesday, January 18th, 2012 at 10:05 am.

Sorry, there will not be a Steve Jobs action figure. Following “immense pressure” from lawyers, the eerily lifelike doll that resembles the late Apple founder is no more. “Unfortunately, we have received immense pressure from the lawyers of Apple and Steve Jobs’ family,” the In Icons company said in an emailed statement. The 30.4-cm doll [...]

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Apple plans nearly transparent store in France

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Apple plans nearly transparent store in France


Posted by on Monday, January 16th, 2012 at 11:12 am.

After we reported previously in Steve Jobs’ “One Last Thing” – Apple Unveils New $6 Million Dollar Fifth Avenue Store Cube, “As a testament to being a perfectionist, Jobs tweaked their Apple flagship to be sleeker, simpler and less complicated. With the extra hardware on the glass removed, in addition to eliminating the small bollards [...]

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Rupert Murdoch joins Twitter

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Rupert Murdoch joins Twitter


Posted by on Sunday, January 1st, 2012 at 9:22 am.

Release the hounds — I mean, tweets… The 80-year-old CEO of News Corporation, Rupert Murdoch, has joined the microblogging platform Twitter. And it is the real deal — the Twitter handle @RupertMurdoch was verified as authentic by Twitter founder Jack Dorsey — who tweeted out “With his own voice, in his own way, @RupertMurdoch is [...]

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Steve Jobs Finally Cracked It – Apple Televisions Coming in 2012

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Steve Jobs Finally Cracked It – Apple Televisions Coming in 2012


Posted by on Saturday, December 31st, 2011 at 3:10 pm.

According to Digitimes, Apple is preparing the new Siri-powered Apple television sets — to be released in 2012. Apple is said to be initially working on 32-inch and 37-inch sizes. In Walter Isaacson’s biography of the late Apple co-founder, Steve Jobs stated: “‘I’d like to create an integrated television set that is completely easy to [...]

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Sean Parker on Steve Jobs

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Sean Parker on Steve Jobs


Posted by on Sunday, December 25th, 2011 at 6:37 am.

The dynamic and brilliant Sean Parker (Napster founder, founding Facebook President, and Director at Spotify), posted a compelling piece on his Facebook page on his hero Steve Jobs. It is a terrific read, pasted in full below: Steve Jobs: Innovator, Iconoclast, and American Hero by Sean Parker Today is an incredibly sad day for me, [...]

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iPad Mini To Debut in 2012, Against Steve Jobs’ Wishes

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iPad Mini To Debut in 2012, Against Steve Jobs’ Wishes


Posted by on Friday, December 23rd, 2011 at 3:23 pm.

Update: MacRumors has also confirmed our story, that “Apple pushing its manufacturing partners to meet deadlines that would allow the company to launch the iPad on Steve Jobs’ birthday, February 24th.” Before stepping down as Apple CEO, Steve Jobs and Jonathan Ive, Senior Vice President of Industrial Design at Apple, focused on the form and [...]

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Watch BBC’s ‘Steve Jobs: Billion Dollar Hippy’

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Watch BBC’s ‘Steve Jobs: Billion Dollar Hippy’


Posted by on Thursday, December 15th, 2011 at 11:36 am.

Here’s the hour-long BBC documentary “Steve Jobs: Billion Dollar Hippy,” which has been posted on YouTube. It’s a great doc on the late Apple founder, featuring interviews by Steve Wozniak, Stephen Fry, Tim Berners-Lee, John Sculley and more, talking about Steve Jobs’ influence on technology and culture. Previously: Iconic Images of Steve Jobs by Photographer [...]

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Apple founding contract goes for $1.5 million at auction

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Apple founding contract goes for $1.5 million at auction


Posted by on Wednesday, December 14th, 2011 at 12:11 am.

The contract that established Apple as a corporate entity in 1976 sold at auction on Tuesday for $1.59 million, 10 times its estimated price, two months after the death of high-profile co-founder Steve Jobs. The contract, sold with another document that removed one of the company’s initial three partners after just 11 days, was the [...]

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Apple founding papers with Steve Jobs’ Signature up for auction

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Apple founding papers with Steve Jobs’ Signature up for auction


Posted by on Friday, December 9th, 2011 at 10:07 am.

The legal papers that established Apple as a corporate entity in 1976, signed by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne, and another contract, signed 11 days later that removed Wayne, are expected to land up to $150,000 when they are auctioned next week by Sotheby’s. “Because of Jobs being so focused on in the [...]

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Steve Jobs Exhibit at U.S. Patent Office Museum

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Steve Jobs Exhibit at U.S. Patent Office Museum


Posted by on Wednesday, November 23rd, 2011 at 8:52 am.

The U.S. Patent Office Museum in Alexandria, Virginia, has unveiled a tribute to the work of Steve Jobs. The exhibit, located in the atrium of the organization’s headquarters, features a row of 30 giant iPhone display panels that showcase the 317 patents registered to Jobs. Press release: In tribute to the tremendous influence of Steve [...]

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Ron Johnson: “What I Learned Building the Apple Store”

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Ron Johnson: “What I Learned Building the Apple Store”


Posted by on Tuesday, November 22nd, 2011 at 8:59 am.

Ron Johnson, the former senior VP for retail at Apple, is the man responsible (with Steve Jobs’ vision, of course) for the amazing and successful Apple Stores. Before Apple, Johnson launched the iconic Target shopping experience. He departed Apple to become the CEO of J.C. Penney — however, Johnson is still reflective on his days [...]

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The Steve Jobs Bulgarian Technical School?

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The Steve Jobs Bulgarian Technical School?


Posted by on Sunday, November 20th, 2011 at 7:22 pm.

A technical school in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, may change their name to “Steve Jobs” in honor of the late Apple CEO. The school, located in Bulgaria’s second largest city, is currently named after Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin. Focused on electronics education, the school is now approaching its 50th anniversary and they want a new name to [...]

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Iconic Images of Steve Jobs by Photographer Norman Seeff

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Iconic Images of Steve Jobs by Photographer Norman Seeff


Posted by on Wednesday, November 16th, 2011 at 9:25 am.

Award-winning photographer Norman Seeff’s image of Apple founder and CEO Steve Jobs (above) was recently featured on the cover of Time and on the back cover of the Walter Isaacson-penned biography “Steve Jobs”. It was also selected by Apple for their October 19 Memorial Service commemorating Jobs’ life. The 1984 session took place at Jobs’ [...]

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Disney CEO Robert Iger Joins Apple Board

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Disney CEO Robert Iger Joins Apple Board


Posted by on Tuesday, November 15th, 2011 at 11:15 am.

The man responsible for Steve Jobs’ biggest payday is now joining the Apple board. Disney CEO Robert Iger, who acquired Pixar from Jobs, will play an ever bigger role at Apple. This is all good news, as this means more Disney, ESPN and ABC content on Apple devices, from the Apple TV, iPad and iPhone. [...]

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Mark Zuckerberg Talks Steve Jobs on Charlie Rose

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Mark Zuckerberg Talks Steve Jobs on Charlie Rose


Posted by on Monday, November 7th, 2011 at 8:05 pm.

Set to air tonight on PBS’s Charlie Rose, Facebook CEO discusses the influence of the late Apple CEO Steve Jobs. While is was reported that Apple and Facebook were battling, notoriously over Ping in the iTunes store, and deep Twitter integration with iOS5, the Zuck sets the record straight. There were no issues with Apple, [...]

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Google’s Eric Schmidt Should Be Nervous of Apple’s Thermonuclear Siri

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Google’s Eric Schmidt Should Be Nervous of Apple’s Thermonuclear Siri


Posted by on Sunday, November 6th, 2011 at 12:32 pm.

Eric Schmidt, chairman of Google, said in statement to the Senate antitrust subcommittee that Apple’s new Siri technology is a direct competitor and a threat to Google’s core search business. And Google should be nervous. Siri is going to change how we search for what’s nearby, from restaurants, movies, shops and more. After receiving the [...]

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Steve Jobs’ “One Last Thing” – Apple Unveils New $6 Million Dollar Fifth Avenue Store Cube

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Steve Jobs’ “One Last Thing” – Apple Unveils New $6 Million Dollar Fifth Avenue Store Cube


Posted by on Friday, November 4th, 2011 at 9:38 am.

As we reported previously, Apple’s Fifth Avenue Cube Redesign – Before and After: “At Apple’s NYC flagship store on Fifth Avenue, The glass cube entrance is currently being redesigned — to be more elegant and seamless. The number of glass panes will be reduced from 90 to 15. By using “larger, seamless pieces of glass” [...]

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John Lasseter Honors Steve Jobs at Hollywood Walk of Fame Star Ceremony

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John Lasseter Honors Steve Jobs at Hollywood Walk of Fame Star Ceremony


Posted by on Wednesday, November 2nd, 2011 at 12:18 pm.

In front of the El Capitan theater, Academy Award Winning Director John Lasseter received a star on Hollywood’s Walk of Fame on November 1, 2011 surrounded by Cars 2 and other Pixar voice talent including Bonnie Hunt, Owen Wilson, Brad Paisley, Emily Mortimer, John Ratzenberger, Patton Oswalt, Don Rickles, Randy Newman and Cheech Marin. However, [...]

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Apple CEO Tim Cook Makes Apple His Own

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Apple CEO Tim Cook Makes Apple His Own


Posted by on Tuesday, November 1st, 2011 at 5:24 pm.

From the Wall Street Journal, the new Apple CEO Tim Cook is starting to make his own mark on Apple, after the death of Steve Jobs: Tim Cook promised that Apple Inc. wouldn’t change when he took over the company’s helm from Steve Jobs in August. But the low-key Mr. Cook has already put his [...]

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Steve Jobs by Walter Issacson


Posted by on Tuesday, November 1st, 2011 at 7:26 am.

Let’s just start by saying that Steve Jobs by Walter Issacson is, quite simply, a great read. The biography of the late Jobs is insightful, fascinating, funny and, at times, cringe-worthy. It portrays a brilliant but intensely flawed human being – as well as the company, Apple, that would be a mirror of Jobs. For [...]

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Mona Simpson on Steve Jobs’s Last Words

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Mona Simpson on Steve Jobs’s Last Words


Posted by on Sunday, October 30th, 2011 at 4:24 pm.

Novelist Mona Simpson, the sister of the late Apple CEO Steve Jobs, shares her moving eulogy in the New York Times today. It’s a touching piece, including sharing the very Zen-like last words of Steve: “Before embarking, he’d looked at his sister Patty, then for a long time at his children, then at his life’s [...]

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‘Steve Jobs’ by Walter Isaacson Reviewed

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‘Steve Jobs’ by Walter Isaacson Reviewed


Posted by on Tuesday, October 25th, 2011 at 11:06 am.

The biography of the late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs hit bookstores Monday, painting a candid portrait of a technology visionary who could be as bruising as he was brilliant. The 630-page book, titled simply “Steve Jobs,” was written by Walter Isaacson, a former managing editor of Time magazine. The book is the result of 40 [...]

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