Much has been written about Steve Jobs’ co-dependent relationship with the news media…
Month: October 2011
Apple’s iPhone 4S launch propels BlackBerry trade-ins to all-time high; Android trade-ins up 72%
An 80 percent increase in BlackBerry trades since last week, up from record highs earlier this month…
Sprint reveals flurry of iPhone details
Sprint Nextel Corp. was punished by investors two weeks ago for revealing too little…
Hackers port Linux trojan to Mac OS X
OSX/Tsunami-A, a new backdoor Trojan horse for Mac OS X, has been discovered…
Italian Judge denies Samsung request to ban Apple’s iPhone 4S
An Italian judge has reportedly denied Samsung’s request for a ban on the Apple iPhone 4S…
PBS to premiere ‘Steve Jobs – One Last Thing’ on Wednesday, November 2nd
PBS announced today that ‘Steve Jobs – One Last Thing’ has been added to the primetime lineup…
Sneak Peek: Pixelmator 2.0 to hit Mac App Store tomorrow with tons of new features (with screenshots)
We are currently test-driving Pixelmator 2.0 and we can tell you that it is a major release…
The dinner with a Microsoft employee that irritated Steve Jobs so much he created the iPad
Apple co-founder Steve Jobs and Microsoft’s Bill Gates locked horns on countless occasions…
Beleaguered RIM: We have ‘an unprecedented track record of reliability’
Beleaguered RIM’s extensive and extended BlackBerry services outage earlier this month was undoubtedly a black eye for the company…
The truth about Steve Jobs’ Mercedes’ missing license plate
How did Steve Jobs get away with not having a license plate on his Mercedes SL55 AMG?
Siri: Apple’s secret weapon in war with Google
Apple’s legendary co-founder Steve Jobs has a posthumous hit on his hands…
‘Steve Jobs’ biographer Isaacson on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart (with video)
Walter Isaacson discusses his Steve Jobs biography with The Daily Show’s Jon Stewart…
Amazon’s Apple war costs investors $20 billion
Amazon.com Inc.’s escalating pursuit of Apple Inc. squeezed its profit forecast for this quarter…
The secret payload of the iPhone 4S: Bluetooth 4.0
iPhone 4S,the new Mac mini, and MacBook Air, each house a ticking time bomb of potential goodness: Bluetooth 4.0…
Beleaguered Nokia’s Lumia means ‘prostitute’ in Spanish
How on earth did smartphone maker Nokia not realize that the name ‘Lumia’ means…
Jonathan Ive’s excellent 8-minute tribute to Steve Jobs (with video)
Watch Apple’s design genius, Jony Ive, deliver his emotive address…
Steve Jobs: Intel’s inflexibility led to creation of A4, A5 processors
Steve Jobs explains why Apple didn’t select Intel chips for the iPhone, iPod touch, Apple TV or iPad…
Isaacson’s ‘Steve Jobs’ rages, weeps, adds sex to tech at Apple: Interview
Steve Jobs was very sentimental, romantic, emotional, and that’s a key to who he was…
Steve Jobs to Rupert Murdoch: Fox News ‘an incredibly destructive force in our society’
Behind-the-scenes dealings between the Apple CEO and publishers…
Like Google’s Android, Microsoft’s Windows 8 looks like it violates Apple’s new ‘Slide to unlock’ patent
Apple’s been granted a patent on the ‘Slide to unlock’ feature…
Apple building huge solar farm around its billion-dollar North Carolina data center
Apple has quietly begun work on a solar farm…
With new smartphones, high hopes for Nokia and Microsoft
Nokia on Wednesday unveiled two new smartphones…
Apple iPads and red Angry Bird toy bound for International Space Station
Two Apple iPads are packed on board the next unmanned resupply vehicle…
John McCarthy, father of artificial intelligence, dead at 84
John McCarthy, a pioneer in artificial intelligence technology and creator…
Amazon results tank as it ships ‘millions more’ Kindle Fire units
Amazon on Tuesday revealed that it had very strong demand for its Kindle Fire…
Beleaguered RIM: BlackBerry PlayBook OS 2.0 with BBM delayed until February 2012
We’ve made the difficult decision to wait to launch BlackBerry PlayBook OS 2.0 until…
Analyst: Gates and Ballmer should seek more artistic thinking to compete with Apple
Microsoft has been shaped in the image of Gates and Ballmer…
How Steve Jobs could haunt Android: Apple unlikely to bend in growing war with Google
In March 2010, Apple Inc. co-founder Steve Jobs and Google Inc.’s Eric Schmidt…
Apple grew its computer shipments at a rate of 99% last quarter
Last quarter the iPad had unit growth of 166% with revenue growth of 146%…
Biographer Isaacson describes what Steve Jobs didn’t like about Bill Gates and Microsoft (with video)
Isaacson the development of the Macintosh computer and why Jobs became so upset with Microsoft’s Bill Gates…
Steve Jobs and me: Fortune journalist reminisces
Most of us who wrote in depth about the brilliant career of Steve Jobs…
SingTel to offer Apple’s iPhone 4S in Singapore on October 28th
SingTel) today announced it will offer iPhone 4S to customers in Singapore on October 28…
Industry body rebuts Google’s and HTC’s public interest arguments against potential Android import ban
Yesterday I reported on the ITC staff’s modification of its position on a potential ban…
Harris: Apple dominates youth market with top computer, top tablet and top mobile phone
With young Americans expected to spend $211 billion in 2012…
Apple’s massive flagship Grand Central Terminal Store will be ready by Black Friday, if not sooner
One of the biggest, if not the biggest, Flagship Apple Stores in the world…
Only non-shareholders are complaining about Apple
Apple has been an institutional stock favorite and has rewarded growth investors handsomely…
Steve Jobs’ quest for perfection could make even buying a sofa into decade-long ordeal
Steve Jobs’s quest for perfection was pursued down to the smallest details…
10 apps that take advantage of iPhone 4S’ new features, including Siri
A new iPhone gets you a faster processor, a better camera, enhanced GPS, and Siri…
iOS 5 Mobile browsing significantly faster than iOS 4
Is Safari performance under iOS 5 better than iOS 4? Yes…
Apple’s iOS app downloads per user outpace Android’s 2-to-1
Android’s app downloads per user lag behind Apple’s by 2-to-1…
Apple’s Siri makes Google and Microsoft look foolish; begins to cast shadow over the industry
Apple has just introduced voice as a major user interface and that its use of voice coupled…
Apple television? Think Bose VideoWave, only better
What might an Apple HDTV look like? Akin to the Bose VideoWave…
