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Steve Jobs' 1991 FBI file has been released

by Steven Sande (Feb 9th, 2012)

Have a bit of time? Want to learn more about Steve Jobs' life than you were able to dredge up reading the Walter Isaacson biography? All you have to do is read the 191-page 1991 FBI background investigation of Jobs that was done when he was being considered for an appointment to the President's ...

Mike Daisey's "The Agony and The Ecstasy of Steve Jobs" is funny, forceful agitprop

by Michael Rose (Feb 6th, 2012)

If you're looking for coverage of working conditions at Foxconn and other Apple manufacturing partners, there's plenty to go around. The drumbeat of sharply critical stories continued today with CNN's interview of a Foxconn worker; this follows a scathing New York Times story from late January ...

Former Apple employee recounts how Jobs motivated iPhone team

by Steven Sande (Feb 4th, 2012)

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 ...

Steve Jobs inspires Best Buy's Super Bowl ad

by Kelly Hodgkins (Feb 1st, 2012)

Last year when Best Buy was planning its Super Bowl ad, the retailer's US marketing chief, Drew Panayiotou had a revelation. Instead of getting a music or movie star for the commercial, Panayiotou suggested the company focus on Silicon Valley innovators. According to Bloomberg, he was inspired by ...

Daily Update for January 30, 2012

by Steven Sande (Jan 30th, 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 (requires ...

Steve Jobs kept letter from Bill Gates on his nightstand

by Mel Martin (Jan 29th, 2012)

Bill Gates's Microsoft was a long time Apple rival, as well as a respected competitor; the two companies also collaborated many times, including Microsoft's role as one of the original Macintosh third-party developers. The Telegraph reports that a letter to Steve Jobs from Gates was kept on Jobs's ...

Daily Update for January 25, 2012

by Steven Sande (Jan 25th, 2012)

Bill Gates discusses Steve Jobs, iBooks and education in new interview

by Kelly Hodgkins (Jan 25th, 2012)

When you think of Apple, you may think of their longtime rival in the OS space, Microsoft. When you think of Mac OS, you may think of Windows (drawing comparisons between the two since Windows debuted), and when you think of Steve Jobs, you often think of Bill Gates. The two founders of two giant ...

Adam Lashinsky's Inside Apple now available

by Kelly Hodgkins (Jan 25th, 2012)

I'm sure by now most of you have read Walter Isaacson's biography of Steve Jobs. If you're still hungry for more information on Apple, then you should pick up a copy of Adam Lashinsky's Inside Apple book. The book takes a corporate look at the inner workings of Apple. It introduces more of the ...

Happy 28th Birthday, Macintosh!

by Kelly Hodgkins (Jan 24th, 2012)

It's hard to believe that 28 years have passed since the Macintosh was introduced by a young, bowtie-clad Steve Jobs, on January 24, 1984. It was Apple's annual stockholder meeting and Jobs (and his Macintosh crew) were going to unveil the Macintosh to the public. It was a magic moment aptly ...

Steve Jobs awarded patent for episodic TV on the Apple TV

by Chris Rawson (Jan 18th, 2012)

According to Patently Apple, Apple has been awarded a patent that it filed over five years ago related to sorting episodic TV content on the Apple TV. Steve Jobs himself is among the people credited with the patent, which on the surface merely appears to describe the sorting features already ...

Realistic Steve Jobs action figure now out of production

by Mel Martin (Jan 16th, 2012)

Don't get your hopes up about having that controversial Steve Jobs action figure adorning your desk or bookshelf. The Hong Kong businessman behind the product has decided to halt all production of the realistic Jobs doll. Tandy Cheung of In Icons Productions has announced that the product is no ...

"Moment of silence" track to benefit pancreatic cancer organizations

by Kelly Hodgkins (Jan 16th, 2012)

The Steve Jobs Moment of Silence audio track lets you remember Steve Jobs's legacy and make a donation to pancreatic cancer research. The audio file is a silent recording that's eight seconds long. Each second is a reminder of the eight years that Jobs spent battling the cancer that eventually ...

In which Steve once again predicts the future: the Newton and the iPhone

by Kelly Guimont (Jan 16th, 2012)

AllThingsD has an interesting story on their site about the Newton and a few specifics on the end of its short life. At the 1997 Worldwide Developer Conference (held the year Steve returned to Apple), Steve was asked about the Newton, and he said, "...if somebody would just make a little thing ...

January 9, 2007: iPhone introduced at Macworld Expo, five years ago

by Mike Schramm (Jan 9th, 2012)

As we bid goodbye to this January 9, amidst the CES chaos, we pause to remember. It was five years ago today that Steve Jobs announced the very first iPhone, at the annual Macworld keynote, and very much changed the world. It might seem like a long time ago, but before the (long rumored) ...