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Tim Cook makes shortlist for Time's Person of the Year

by Mike Schramm (Dec 18th, 2012)

Time Magazine has posted its shortlist for the annual Person of the Year awards, and there's at least one familiar face on there for Apple fans: Apple CEO Tim Cook has made the cut. Along with Barack Obama, Bill and Hilary Clinton and Yahoo CEO (and former Google exec) Marissa Mayer, Cook is ...

Entire Apple design team receives award in London

by Kelly Hodgkins (Sep 19th, 2012)

Apple's design team was named the best design studio of the last 50 years by D&D, and, according to the London Evening Standard, the whole design team was on hand to accept the prestigious Design and Art Direction (D&D) award. In honor of the award, Apple flew the entire 16-member team ...

Apple is Fortune's Most Admired Company for fifth year in a row

by Steven Sande (Mar 1st, 2012)

For the fifth year in a row, Apple has taken the honors as Fortune's Most Admired Company. Apple aced out Google, Amazon.com, Coca-Cola, and IBM. Those companies that took second through fifth places respectively. Fortune cited Apple's stellar financial performance during the last year as the main ...

Fortune says Apple tops them all!

by Mel Martin (Mar 4th, 2011)

This tidbit of news is not a surprise, but it's sure nice to see. For the 4th straight year Fortune says that Apple is the world's most admired company, as it "continues to set the bar high for high tech companies across the board." Citing nearly doubled profits from a year ago, ...

Apple skips Mobile World Congress, wins Mobile Device of the Year anyway

by Chris Rawson (Feb 17th, 2011)

Apple doesn't do trade shows anymore, even popular ones that contain names of its products, so it's not surprising that the company skipped out on the 2011 Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. But here's the funny part: even though the company itself didn't show up, one of its products won a major ...

Steve Jobs is a recipient of the Jim Henson Celebration Honor Award

by Michael Grothaus (Feb 20th, 2010)

Macworld is reporting that Steve Jobs is one of the recipients of the Jim Henson Celebration Honor – one of four Jim Henson Honors. Established in 2005, the awards program acknowledges organizations, individuals, or products that reflect the core values and philosophy of Jim Henson and the ...

iPhone making a splash in the arts

by Mel Martin (Jun 29th, 2009)

Not too long ago we told you about an artist creating a cover for the New Yorker magazine using a paint program on the iPhone. Now an Australian photographer has won an award for a photo he took on his iPhone. Steve Turner created a rather striking collection of images he put together, and ...

Starmap up for Arthur Clarke award

by Mike Schramm (Apr 1st, 2009)

We've posted about Starmap before -- it's a full-featured map of the sky on your iPhone that will let you find stars, constellations, and "deep sky" objects in the blanket overhead. Despite a few glitches and slowdowns, the app is pretty popular, and now it could be the only iPhone app nominated for ...

Mac AND PC Win

by Mat Lu (Dec 20th, 2006)

That is to say, John Hodgman as PC and Justin Long as Mac in Apple's Get a Mac campaign have brought home the bacon. The bacon being the Garfield "Bobby" Award for best male performance in a commercial. As always, Apple's main campaign from TBWA/Chiat/Day is generating lots of buzz, both good and ...

2006 Apple Design Awards entry deadline approaching

by David Chartier (Jun 1st, 2006)

I just received another email from ADC reminding developers that the submission deadline for Apple's 2006 Design Awards is coming up - June 16th to be exact. While I'm willing to bet that most of you TUAWers aren't developers, I thought I would pass on the reminder to you just in case your favorite ...

Jonathan Ive Awarded CBE Award

by Damien Barrett (Dec 31st, 2005)

Every year, Britain awards influential Britons Orders of the British Empire, such as Knight, Commander, and Officer. The highest order is Knight, but also well-known and prestigious is the Commander of the Order of the British Empire, or CBE. Jonathan Ive, Apple's creative designer behind many of ...