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The Omni Group's Ken Case talks with TUAW at Macworld iWorld 2012

by Steven Sande (Jan 26th, 2012)

One of the most innovative and longstanding software development firms in the Apple ecosystem is The Omni Group. The company originally developed software for Steve Jobs's NeXT in the 1990's, created some of the first OS X software in the 2000s, and has gracefully made the transition to iOS with ...

How Line2 accidentally disrupted the phone industry

by Mike Schramm (Jan 17th, 2012)

Last week at CES 2012, I met up with Line2 CEO Peter Sisson; he is a man who's done a lot of butting heads with big companies over what started off as a pretty simple proposition. Line2's basic concept was to create a second line (for business or personal calls) on your iPhone. Sisson's ...

OnLive goes from gaming to Desktop and TV

by Mike Schramm (Jan 16th, 2012)

The folks from OnLive, who we met up with last week at CES, are understandably apologetic about the fact that the iOS app for gaming hasn't yet shown up in the App Store. But though they may be sorry it hasn't appeared, OnLive's Bruce Grove is still mum on what the holdup is all about, only ...

Algoriddim's Mac App of the Year djay 4 trades iOS and Mac features

by Mike Schramm (Jan 11th, 2012)

Algoriddim is back in a booth at CES 2012 this week in Las Vegas, and TUAW stopped by to chat with the company as well as congratulate them on winning Mac App of the Year for its turntable music app, djay 4. We got to see the app early before it was released, and since then, Algoriddim's CTO ...

Selena Gomez talks tech with TUAW

by Michael Grothaus (Dec 23rd, 2011)

Before 2011, you probably only knew who Selena Gomez was if you had teenagers or younger children. But this year the young woman who plays Alex on Disney's Emmy Award-winning Wizards of Waverly Place has made her way into the mainstream spotlight. In the last twelve months she's starred in ...

Interview: Olivia Broadfield on Macs, apps and DIY music making

by Matt Tinsley (Dec 14th, 2011)

You've probably not heard of UK based singer songwriter Olivia Broadfield before, but chances are you've heard her music at some point, especially if you watch a lot of TV. Songs from her debut album, Eyes Wide Open (released in 2009), reached over 50 TV placements on shows like The Hills, ...

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 ...

First reviews of Steve Jobs: The Lost Interview appear

by Kelly Hodgkins (Nov 14th, 2011)

Steve Jobs: The Lost Interview is a TV interview turned feature film that will be shown this week in Landmark Theatres across the US. The interview was originally recorded in 1995 when Jobs had left Apple and contains a lively conversation between Robert Cringely and Jobs. Ten minutes of the ...

Steve Jobs's story of the stones

by Steven Sande (Nov 11th, 2011)

Next week, Landmark Theaters in 19 US cities will screen a 70-minute "lost interview" featuring Steve Jobs. The interview was done in 1996 by Robert X. Cringely for his PBS series "Triumph of the Nerds" and is being released in unedited form as Steve Jobs: The Lost Interview. Philip ...

An interview with Dag Kittlaus, the man who sold Siri to Apple

by Kelly Hodgkins (Nov 11th, 2011)

It only took one phone call to turn Siri's Dag Kittlaus's life around. Before the call, he was the head of a Silicon Valley startup and afterwards, he was a multimillionaire working with Apple. In an interview with Norwegian publication E24, Dag Kittlaus talks about his time working at Siri, the ...

Steve Jobs: The Lost Interview coming to theaters in November

by Kelly Hodgkins (Nov 5th, 2011)

Steve Jobs: The Lost Interview will arrive in Landmark Theatres nationwide on November 16 and 17. As the title suggests, the movie is an interview, specifically a 70-minute conversation between Steve Jobs and Robert Cringely that was held in 1995. A small 10-minute segment of the original ...

Computerworld releases long version of 1995 Steve Jobs interview

by Kelly Hodgkins (Nov 2nd, 2011)

Computerworld has a piece of Apple history that Apple fans should watch. In 1995, a then 40-year-old Steve Jobs sat down with Computerworld's Daniel Morrow for a 75-minute interview. The one-on-one talk was recorded as part of an oral history project organized by the Computerworld Information ...

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 ...

Steve Jobs in 1995: "I've got a plan that could rescue Apple"

by Michael Grothaus (Sep 28th, 2011)

Yesterday we told you that Fortune was publishing a Kindle ebook called "All About Steve." The ebook is a collection of 17 stories and interviews with Steve Jobs drawn from Fortune's articles. Now, while it's nice that Fortune is collecting all their interviews in one place, its no shock they ...

Sparrow co-founder tells why the Mac App Store is crucial to his success

by Michael Grothaus (Aug 31st, 2011)

Sparrow co-founder Dominique Leca gave an interesting interview to Business Insider (BI) in which he reveals his thoughts about the Mac App Store from a developer's perspective. We've covered Sparrow, the popular third-party OS X email client, many times before. It launched on the Mac App Store ...