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Apple’s Silence and ‘The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs’

When Mike Daisey’s off-broadway monologue “The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs” aired on NPR’s This American Life, it sparked a controversy around one of the world’s most valuable companies, Apple, and its suppliers in China, particularly Foxconn. The monologue, derived from a collection of first-hand accounts Daisey had during a Foxconn factory visit […]

iPhone Outsells All Android Competitors.

According to CNET, the top selling phones in the US for the third quarter of 2011 are: 1. Apple iPhone 4 2. Apple iPhone 3GS 3. HTC EVO 4G 4. Motorola Droid 3 5. Samsung Intensity II The iPhones by Apple run the iOS operating system while the rest of the field operates under […]

Steve Jobs and Atari.

One of many the many jobs listed on Steve Jobs‘ resume is that of his stint at Atari beginning in May 1974. In a Gamasutra article by Frank Cifaldi, Pong engineer Allan Alcorn first met Steve Jobs when he was nothing more than another unkempt engineer coming in off of the street looking for a job. Jobs was apparently so […]

Visionary and Entrepreneur Steve Jobs has died at the age of 56 according to Apple and NPR.

Steve Jobs, Apple’s cofounder and visionary leader, has died at the age of 56 after a long bout with pancreatic cancer that has afflicted him for years. Founding his computer company at the age of 21 in Cupertino California, 1976, along with Steve Wozniak, Steve Jobs really had little idea of what Apple would eventually […]

L’affaire iPhone.

Apple will be pursuing charges against the two young men who found the left-behind iPhone 4 in a California bar before it was officially released to the public. The pair sold the iPhone 4 to Gizmodo, a tech blog, for $5000 and now Apple is going to pursue action against the blog as well claiming […]

A fond farewell to Steve Jobs.

It is June 1997. I am at the beach enjoying myself. The world is proclaiming the imminent death of Apple Computer which recently brought co-founder and visionary Steve Jobs back on board. I disagreed that this was the end of the company. Bill Gates’ top rival could not be so easily felled and I was […]