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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]