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Woz hired as technical advisor on Jobs biopic

by Kelly Hodgkins (May 18th, 2012)

Aaron Sorkin, screenwriter for the Facebook-inspired The Social Network, is working on an adaptation of the Steve Jobs biography by Walter Isaacson. To help him in this quest, Sorkin has hired Steve Wozniak as a technical advisor, according to a report in the Chicago Tribune. Woz will help ...

Aaron Sorkin to pen Jobs' biopic, Variety reports

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (May 15th, 2012)

Aaron Sorkin, fresh from winning an Oscar for writing "The Social Network," will move from covering Facebook to Apple. Sony has hired Sorkin to turn Walter Isaacson's "Steve Jobs" biography into a feature film, Variety reports. Sony acquired the movie rights to Isaacson's biography a couple weeks ...

Broadway star Josh Gad to play Woz in Jobs biopic

by Michael Grothaus (Apr 28th, 2012)

The Hollywood Reporter is reporting that Josh Gad is in talks to play Steve Wozniak in Jobs, the independent film staring Ashton Kutcher as Steve Jobs. Gad is best known for his starring role in the South Park creators' musical "Book of Mormon." He is also a correspondent for The Daily Show and ...

Daily Update for April 5, 2012

by Steven Sande (Apr 5th, 2012)

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Walter Isaacson reportedly to expand Jobs biography

by Mike Schramm (Dec 16th, 2011)

Steve Jobs biographer Walter Isaacson spoke recently at a meeting hosted by the Commonwealth Club of California, and said that he very likely will add an addendum to the already 630-page biography of Apple's co-founder. "This is the first or second draft" of the book, he reportedly said. "It's ...

Daily Update for December 6, 2011

by Steven Sande (Dec 6th, 2011)

Steve Jobs bio Amazon's best selling hardback book of 2011

by Steven Sande (Dec 6th, 2011)

When Steve Jobs selected Walter Isaacson to write his biography, he probably knew that the book about his life would be a bestseller. Sure enough, the hardcover edition of "Steve Jobs" topped the bestseller list for 2011, edging out "Heaven is for Real," "Unbroken" and other titles. This is an ...

The New York Times goes one-on-one with Walter Isaacson

by Kelly Hodgkins (Nov 18th, 2011)

It's turn-the-table time, and the man who spent the last several years interviewing people for his Steve Jobs biography is now being interviewed by the New York Times. As expected, the interview focuses on Isaacson's book and the time he spent with Steve Jobs. In his conversation with New York ...

Walter Isaacson's Steve Jobs bio among Amazon's best books of 2011

by Kelly Hodgkins (Nov 8th, 2011)

It's only been out less than a month and Walter Isaacson's biography of Steve Jobs has already made its way onto Amazon's Best Books of 2011 list. The biography is number eight in the Top 10 Editor's picks for 2011 and is number one in the best Biographies & Memoirs of 2011 category, both for ...

Jobs biography draws huge crowds in China

by Steven Sande (Oct 27th, 2011)

China's fascination with all things Apple continues to grow, as evidenced by the recent release of the Steve Jobs biography in the country. According to an article by Chris Chang of M.I.C. Gadget, all 250,000 Chinese edition copies of the book were sold within a day of its release. Somewhere, ...

Jon Stewart interviews Jobs biographer Walter Isaacson

by Chris Rawson (Oct 26th, 2011)

Walter Isaacson recently appeared on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart to promote his biography of Steve Jobs. In the seven-minute interview (embedded below), Stewart and Isaacson discuss the the process of writing the biography while trying to stay objective about its subject -- a task Isaacson ...

Journalist Brent Schlender shares memories of Steve Jobs

by Kelly Hodgkins (Oct 26th, 2011)

Steve Jobs interacted with many people over the course of his career at Apple, NeXT and Pixar. Employees and journalists covering his companies became part of his inner circle and got a rare glimpse of the real man behind the public persona. One such journalist was famed Fortune writer Brent ...

Review: Walter Isaacson's 'Steve Jobs'

by Chris Rawson (Oct 25th, 2011)

I've just finished a marathon session of reading all the way through Steve Jobs on my iPad -- and I'm sure Jobs would have appreciated the odd harmony of people reading his life story on a device he helped create. After reading his biography, I'm no longer convinced that Steve Jobs would have ...