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Jony Ive's knighting ceremony

by Kelly Hodgkins (May 23rd, 2012)

Apple designer Jony Ive was knighted today in a ceremony held at Buckingham Palace, according to a BBC News UK report. It's an honor he said was "absolutely thrilling." Ive's knighthood was announced late last year and the ceremony took place on Wednesday. The famed Apple designer shared some ...

Jony Ive says Apple's current work is "most important"

by Kelly Hodgkins (May 23rd, 2012)

Earlier today, Jonathan Ive was officially knighted at Buckingham Palace. To mark this occasion, Shane Richmond of The Telegraph published an excellent interview with the Apple design chief. In the long and personal conversation, Ive talks about his early design influences, which are decidedly ...

Apple's "1944" filmmaker describes the production

by Kelly Hodgkins (May 8th, 2012)

Last week, footage of an internal Apple sales video, titled 1944, landed on YouTube. The most notable part of the production was a cameo by Steve Jobs, who was impersonating FDR in the mock war film. One of the creative talents behind the video, Michael Markman, tells the back story about how ...

Steve Jobs plays FDR in this old Mac sales video

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (May 3rd, 2012)

It's not often you see Steve Jobs impersonating a former president, but leave it to the creatives who made Apple sales videos to make it happen. Yes, in this never-before-seen footage (well, never seen outside the sales meetings at Apple back in the 1980s), Steve Jobs plays a certain ...

Traveling exhibit to display Steve Jobs patents

by Dave Caolo (May 3rd, 2012)

Steve Jobs fans in the Washington, DC area will want to check out an exhibit of his patents. Jobs had more than three hundred patents to his name, and 312 of them will be on display at the S. Dillon Ripley Center, which is part of the Smithsonian Institute. The exhibit contains physical examples ...

Jonathan Ive wins British Visionary Innovator award

by Kelly Hodgkins (Apr 26th, 2012)

Jony Ive can add British Visionary Innovator to his long list of design awards. The Apple design head was given the award by Britain's Intellectual Property Office as part of its World Intellectual Property Day celebration. As noted in a Macworld UK report, Ive won with 46.6 percent of the ...

Dear Aunt TUAW: What is this remote?

by Erica Sadun (Apr 18th, 2012)

Dear Aunt TUAW, I found a mysterious Apple-branded remote control at a friend's place (picture attached) and I was wondering what it's for? Can you identify it? Your loving nephew, Richard Dear Richard, Auntie believes this is a remote from one of the many early Apple Video/TV ...

CNN Money: New York Times gets Tim Cook's earnings wrong

by Kelly Hodgkins (Apr 9th, 2012)

The New York Times ran a report over the weekend that claimed Tim Cook was a million-dollar-a-day CEO. Acording to a follow-up report from CNN Money, that estimate is way off. The CNN report claims the NYT was correct with the CEO's yearly salary of US$900,000, but made a mistake when it ...

Should Apple build a museum on the new campus?

by Kelly Hodgkins (Apr 6th, 2012)

Computer historian David Greelish argues in a blog post that Apple should build a museum on the grounds of its new Cupertino campus. He points out that the flying ring-shaped office will attract everyone from architects to Apple fans who want to check out the unique building. Apple, Greelish ...

Walter Isaacson: "Apple will settle Google Android dispute"

by Steven Sande (Apr 5th, 2012)

Walter Isaacson, the author of the blockbuster bestselling biography of Steve Jobs, believes that the "less emotional" Apple CEO Tim Cook will settle the company's dispute with Google over the Android operating system for smartphones. In his book, Isaacson quoted Steve Jobs as telling Google ...

Ashton Kutcher prepares to play Steve Jobs

by Dave Caolo (Apr 4th, 2012)

Ashton Kutcher photo from Helga Esteb / Shutterstock.com iPad publication The Daily reports that Ashton Kutcher is whole-heartedly preparing to play former Apple CEO Steve Jobs. Producer Mark Hulme of Five Star Feature Films: "He is already meeting with folks that knew Steve Jobs. He's ...

Walter Isaacson on the leadership of Steve Jobs

by Kelly Hodgkins (Apr 4th, 2012)

Walter Isaacson, the author who wrote the Steve Jobs biography, penned a recent column for the Harvard Business Review focusing on the traits that made Jobs an excellent business leader. Isaacson spent many hours with the Apple CEO while writing this book and uses the insights he obtained to ...

Two years with the iPad

by Kelly Hodgkins (Apr 3rd, 2012)

Two years ago today, the original iPad went on sale. It was first unveiled by Steve Jobs on January 27, 2010 during an Apple press conference at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco. After a few months of snickering about its name, the world was ready to buy the tablet in ...

How America benefits from Apple

by Steven Sande (Apr 2nd, 2012)

Apple has gone from near death in the 1990s to the pinnacle of success two decades later. TIME tech journalist Ben Bajarin notes in a post today that the company is a highly important and necessary part of the American economy and says that "America needs Apple to keep doing what it's ...

Steve Jobs reportedly disliked "Siri" name

by Steven Sande (Mar 28th, 2012)

Network World's Yoni Heisler attended Technori Pitch in Chicago yesterday, and related a story about Siri that not only sheds new light on the name of Apple's intelligent assistant, but on Steve Jobs' low opinion of the name. Technori Pitch is a monthly meeting where Chicago-based startups can ...