In case you hadn’t heard, Walter Isaacson’s new book, Steve Jobs, is available today. Isaacson is the former managing editor of TIME Magazine, and the much-anticipated biography is based on more than 40 exclusive interviews conducted with Jobs over two years.
In a segment on 60 Minutes last night, Isaacson recalled numerous interviews …
Though the Apple Store memorials have since given way to long lines for the iPhone 4S, it’s still difficult to imagine the technology company without Steve Jobs at its helm. And while much has been written about the gadgets that defined perhaps Jobs’ most productive decade, it’s tough to isolate one device for its impact above the …
The Steve Jobs tributes keep coming, from temporary Apple Store closings to Jobs’ official biography, due out next Monday. Add Apple’s new, presumably long-term and maybe even permanent Steve Jobs tribute page to the list.
No, I don’t mean the main page, with its black and white picture depicting a healthier Jobs in the thinker’s …
Apple Stores will reportedly close for an hour on October 19th, according to 9to5Mac, to allow employees to watch the company’s on-site memorial to former CEO and co-founder Steve Jobs.
The closure will apparently happen between 1pm and 2pm Eastern this Wednesday, at which point employees will be able to watch a webcast of the event …
He was famous for it, and sales soared in the days following his death. Jobs’ signature look was unmistakable: a black mock turtleneck, paired with some Levi 501 jeans.
Though St. Croix, who makes the famous turtlenecks, is reaping the profits, Jobs’ rationale behind his simple and effortless attire can be attributed to a …
The Smithsonian National Museum of American History doesn’t have a sample of every product Steve Jobs ever touched. Their concern is with the larger picture of how technology develops and what part that subplot plays in American history. Items in the science collection span from the 11th century to the 21st, and about 130 Apple-related …
The sad news of Steve Jobs’ death quickly passed around the internet after it broke on Wednesday, with millions taking to social media to share the story as well as their memories of the man and his legacy. Perhaps unsurprisingly, what resulted was the largest online reaction to any event in recent history, according to new figures just …
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Twenty-seven years ago, I foolishly passed up the opportunity to go to a Steve Jobs keynote. I haven’t been kicking myself ever since, but I do feel bad every time I stop to think about it—such as right this moment.
I was a member of the Boston Computer Society, an amazing institution which Jonathan Rotenberg had founded in 1977, …
In what sounds like a painfully frank admission, Steve Jobs told his official biographer, Walter Isaacson, that he “wasn’t always there for [his kids]” and that he “wanted [them] to know [him].” That’s from Isaacson’s final interview with Jobs at his home in Palo Alto, California, when Jobs was reportedly too weak to go up or down …
TIME’s health blog, Healthland, has a very interesting piece on the pancreatic cancer Steve Jobs had been battling before he passed away.
According to the post:
“Pancreatic cancer is one of the faster spreading cancers; only about 4% of patients can expect to survive five years after their diagnosis. Each year, about 44,000 new cases
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It’s been almost 24 hours since the first news of Steve Jobs’ death first rocked the Internet, and still Twitter users are pouring out lamentations 140 characters at a time.
By 12 a.m. ET Thursday morning, there had been 1.4 million tweets mentioning Jobs and 11,000 news articles written, according to All Things D.
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It’s sad but probably inevitable: When someone as recognizable and popular as Apple’s Steve Jobs passes away, cyber crooks and spam moguls turn up in droves.
So watch out, because the scams are already circulating, like one noticed by Kapersky Lab’s Dmitri Bestuzhev, who snapped pictures of a Jobs’-death-related shakedown.
“The …
