25Mar2012
Dutch Committee Proposes to Build Steve Jobs’ iPad-Equipped Classroom
In his biography of Steve Jobs, Walter Isaacson shared a story of Jobs' meeting with U.S. President Barack Obama. Along with sharing his displeasure at the difficulty in building a factory in the United States, he also disassembled America's education system. It was absurd, he added that American classrooms were still based on teachers standing at a board and using textbooks. All books, learning materials, and assessments should be digital and interactive, tailored to each student and
Read MoreLeave a Comment02Feb2012
Tim Cook exposes the lie that Steve Jobs ignored philanthropy
Speaking to employees, Apple's chief executive outlined how the company has participated in corporate philanthropy for years, a subject the company didn't aggressively boast about in public under Steve Jobs. A report by The Verge stated that after discussing Apple's new program for giving workers $500 credit on new Macs, Cook outlined how the company has participated in a variety of charitable programs. Cook noted a $50 million donation to Stanford hospitals, half paying for a new main
Read MoreLeave a Comment02Feb2012
Tim Cook exposes the lie that Steve Jobs ignored philanthropy
Speaking to employees, Apple's chief executive outlined how the company has participated in corporate philanthropy for years, a subject the company didn't aggressively boast about in public under Steve Jobs. A report by The Verge stated that after discussing Apple's new program for giving workers $500 credit on new Macs, Cook outlined how the company has participated in a variety of charitable programs. Cook noted a $50 million donation to Stanford hospitals, half paying for a new main
Read MoreLeave a Comment28Jan2012
Before he died, Steve Jobs kept a letter from Bill Gates by his bed
In a new interview, Microsoft founder Bill Gates reveals he wrote a letter to Steve Jobs before he passed away, and the letter apparently meant so much to Jobs that he kept it at his bedside. Gates spoke this week with students at a school in South London, where he acknowledged that Jobs had said critical things about him in the past. But according to The Telegraph, Gates said the two were comfortable with one another by the time Jobs became gravely ill late last year. "There was no peace to
Read MoreLeave a Comment15Nov2011
Steve Jobs wanted Apple to build own cell network for first iPhone
Before launching the first iPhone, late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs wanted to replace established mobile carriers by creating a proprietary network specifically for the handset by leveraging an unused license-free spectrum band. In a speech on Monday at the Law Seminars Inrernational event in Seattle, wireless industry pioneer John Stanton said Jobs looked to create a proprietary wireless network for Apple’s upcoming iPhone rather than work with existing carriers, reports
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‘Lost’ 70-minute interview with Steve Jobs coming to select theaters in November
A 70-minute interview from 1995 featuring the late Steve Jobs and the journalist Robert Cringely was presumed lost, but has since reappeared, and will be shown as a limited theatrical release in November. The interview will screen at select Landmark Theatres locations at 19 U.S. cities on Nov. 16 and 17 as “Steve Jobs: The Lost Interview.” The Palo Alto Aquarius theater will feature an extended 7-day engagement from Nov. 16 to 22, Movie city News reports. Originally filmed for the
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Steve Jobs biography sells 380K US copies in first week
The newly released authorized biography of Steve Jobs moved nearly 380,000 copies in its first week in the U.S. alone, already making it one of the best selling titles of 2011. Data from BookScan US revealed that Walter Isaacson’s book, entitled “Steve Jobs,” sold a total of 379,000 copies in its first week in America, according to TheBookseller.com. It outsold the next-best selling title, “The Litigators” by John Grisham, by more than three to one. The next
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Steve Jobs had his DNA sequenced for $100K to fight cancer
Desperate to win his battle against cancer, Steve Jobs paid $ 100,000 to have all of the genes of his cancer tumor and his normal DNA sequenced. The detail comes from Walter Isaacson’s forthcoming biography of Jobs, set to hit bookshelves and digital devices next week. According to The New York Times, Isaacson said that Jobs was one of just 20 people in the world to have his DNA sequenced. The sequencing was done by teams from Stanford, Johns Hopkins, Harvard, and the Broad Institute of
Read MoreLeave a Comment23Oct2011
Steve Jobs left designer Jony Ive more power than anyone at Apple
Apple’s widely praised design chief Jonathan Ive has no true boss who can tell him what to do at the company, a distinction put in place by Steve Jobs himself. Information from the new biography of Jobs, set to arrive next week, continues to arrive, offering a glimpse into the highly private life of the Apple co-founder. The Associated Press obtained an early copy of the book, and shared some details on the relationship between Jobs and Ive, Apple’s senior vice president of
Read MoreLeave a Comment21Oct2011
Biographer tells how Steve Jobs regretted delaying cancer treatment
Walter Isaacson, the author of the forthcoming biography of Steve Jobs, will appear in an interview with 60 Minutes on Sunday, and in a brief preview he discusses how Jobs regretted his decision to delay cancer treatment in 2004. Isaacson reveals in his interview with CBS that Jobs refused to allow surgeons to perform surgery that could have saved his life from pancreatic cancer. Instead, Jobs decided to try alternative therapies and put off the operation because he felt it was too invasive
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