Steven Sande

Features Editor

Steve was born two weeks before the start of the Space Age, and has been a fan of technology since birth. A lifelong resident of Colorado, Steve graduated from the University of Colorado with a Bachelor of Science degree in Civil Engineering (1978) and a Masters Degree in Business Administration (1983). He's worked in industry and for himself, and prefers the latter.

He began writing for TUAW in 2008, and is now the Features Editor for the blog. Steve hosts the weekly TUAW TV Live show, and is a frequent voice on the TUAW Talkcast as well.

When he's not blogging for TUAW, he's writing books for Apress and Take Control Books. A three-time NaNoWriMo winner, Steve is also involved in a new e-publishing startup.

Steven Sande's Latest Posts

Daily Update for February 6, 2012

by Steven Sande (Feb 6th 2012 2:15PM)

It's the TUAW Daily Update, your source for Apple news in a convenient audio format. You'll get all the top Apple stories of the day in three to five minutes for a quick review of what's happening in the Apple world. You can listen to today's Apple stories by clicking the inline player (requires ...

Samsung insults iPhone owners with Super Bowl ad touting oversized stylus phone

by Steven Sande (Feb 6th 2012 1:00PM)

Samsung USA has been on the warpath against Apple fans lately with a series of ads that show bored, desperate people standing in line for Apple's next product while happy hipsters show off their Android-powered Sammy devices. During yesterday's Super Bowl, the company took the gloves off with a ...

Apple HDTV in Best Buy survey is not news

by Steven Sande (Feb 6th 2012 12:30PM)

There's a lot of speculation going around about an Apple HDTV of some sort. The Walter Isaacson biography of Steve Jobs started a lot of the rumors when he quoted Jobs as saying that Apple had "finally cracked" the method of interacting with a television. Now the speculation is bordering on the ...

Former Apple employee recounts how Jobs motivated iPhone team

by Steven Sande (Feb 4th 2012 4:00PM)

Bob Borchers used to be an iPhone product marketing engineer for Apple. Part of the team that brought the first iPhone to market in 2007, he's now a venture capitalist with Opus Capital. Borchers recently gave a talk to students at a California school talking about the thought processes that were ...

Daily Update for February 3, 2012

by Steven Sande (Feb 3rd 2012 5:15PM)

Apple FileVault 2 encryption cracked, but don't panic

by Steven Sande (Feb 3rd 2012 3:30PM)

FileVault 2 is a feature of Mac OS X 10.7 Lion that provides a way to encrypt a full disk drive so that it can only be used by those who know a password ... until now, that is. Passware, a company that makes forensic software used to recover lost passwords or open encrypted files to police and ...

Apple rollin' in the dough: 75% of cell phone profits

by Steven Sande (Feb 3rd 2012 2:30PM)

The news just keeps getting better for Apple in the mobile phone business. Just yesterday, IDC reported that the company is in third place in terms of worldwide mobile phone sales. Today, Asymco analyst Horace Dediu announced that with a relatively small piece of the pie (IDC said 6 percent of ...

US government wants schools to embrace digital textbooks

by Steven Sande (Feb 2nd 2012 3:00PM)

Although they haven't exactly explained how school systems or parents are going to pay for iPads or other tablets for every student, the US government is pushing a new initiative to move from standard printed textbooks to digital textbooks within the next five years. While it's good to see that a ...

Daily Update for February 2, 2012

by Steven Sande (Feb 2nd 2012 2:15PM)

Apple becomes world's third largest mobile phone manufacturer

by Steven Sande (Feb 2nd 2012 12:00PM)

In just five short years, Apple has become the third largest mobile phone manufacturer in the world. International Data Corporation (IDC), as part of the continuing Worldwide Mobile Phone Tracker survey, noted that the overall mobile phone market is still growing despite a major decline in numbers ...