Larry Brilliant recalls the personal side of Steve Jobs (Jessica Guynn/L.A. Times Tech Blog)
Jessica Guynn / L.A. Times Tech Blog:Larry Brilliant recalls the personal side of Steve Jobs — Over the course of 35 years of friendship, Larry Brilliant never gave an interview about Steve Jobs. — Jobs shielded himself and his family from the media, and his friends respected his privacy.
Steve Jobs Through the Years: Highlights From the D Conference (AllThingsD)
AllThingsD:Steve Jobs Through the Years: Highlights From the D Conference — Since the inception of the D: All Things Digital conference in 2003, Steve Jobs has been a frequent guest onstage, and his appearances make for some of our most popular videos. Here are a few standouts: — D1: Steve Jobs Onstage in 2003, on [...]
Salesforce CEO: Why I gave Apple the ‘App Store’ trademark in exchange for great advice from Steve Jobs (Christian Zibreg/9to5Mac)
Christian Zibreg / 9to5Mac:Salesforce CEO: Why I gave Apple the ‘App Store’ trademark in exchange for great advice from Steve Jobs — Bloomberg television has an interesting video up of Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff who shares an anecdote on how Apple chairman Steve Jobs helped him out with his unique insights on Enterprise Software (!!):
Steve Jobs gone, phishing? – CRN Australia
Criminals might capitalise on the resignation of Apple’s CEO. Administrators should be on alert for phishing scams in the wake of the resignation of Apple chief executive Steve Jobs. News of the Apple chief’s resignation made headlines around the world and …
Apple’s COO Tim Cook Replaces Steve Jobs As CEO (Leena Rao/TechCrunch)
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:Apple’s COO Tim Cook Replaces Steve Jobs As CEO — Apple’s Steve Jobs has resigned from his position as CEO and Apple has just announced that COO Tim Cook has taken over as CEO. — As COO, Cook was responsible for all of the company’s worldwide sales and operations, including end …
A peek at Steve Jobs’ book jacket – front, back and spine (Philip Elmer-DeWitt/Fortune)
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:A peek at Steve Jobs’ book jacket – front, back and spine — The look of Walter Isaacson’s bio will be as spare and restrained as any Apple product — Click to enlarge. Copyright Simon & Schuster … He’s talking, of course, about Steve Jobs, by Walter Isaacson, the first book …
With the Bing Search Engine, Microsoft Plays the Underdog (Steve Lohr/New York Times)
Steve Lohr / New York Times:With the Bing Search Engine, Microsoft Plays the Underdog — MIKE NICHOLS has a poster on his office wall. It shows the young Muhammad Ali glaring down at a fallen Sonny Liston, the bruising heavyweight who had seemed invincible — until Ali beat him, in 1964, in one of the [...]
DROPBOX: We’ll Turn Your Files Over To The Government If They Ask Us To (Steve Kovach/SAI: Silicon Alley Insider)
Steve Kovach / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:DROPBOX: We’ll Turn Your Files Over To The Government If They Ask Us To — This is nothing groundbreaking, but Dropbox has updated its security Terms of Service to say that if the government asks, they will have to decrpyt user’s files and turn them over. — That’s standard [...]
Steve Jobs was Google’s first choice for CEO (John Brownlee/Geek.com)
John Brownlee / Geek.com:Steve Jobs was Google’s first choice for CEO — Here’s an interesting fact: if Google had launched just a couple of years earlier, Apple’s Steve Jobs might have been its CEO. — Way back in 2000, Google was just getting rolling, but its backers in the venture capital world decided …
Steve Jobs: Tablets Are Not PCs And Our Competitors Don’t Get It (Matt Rosoff/SAI: Silicon Alley Insider)
Matt Rosoff / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:Steve Jobs: Tablets Are Not PCs And Our Competitors Don’t Get It — The iPad is not a computer, and competitors who approach it like the PC market will fail, says Apple’s Steve Jobs. — Like he did at last year’s iPad introduction, Jobs closed today’s iPad 2 event [...]
