Tagged: Steve Jobs & News
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The wizardry of Steve Wozniak - interview News
11.06.2013 While the public face of Apple for so many years had been represented by the charismatic Steve Jobs, for industry insiders the man who co-founded Apple in Jobs’ garage with... -
LinkedIn buys news reader platform Pulse for US$90m News
12.04.2013 LinkedIn has confirmed its acquisition of Alphonso Labs, the company behind the mobile news reader app Pulse, for US$90m. The Pulse app, which now boasts more than 30m users... -
Funny or Die releases trailer for iSteve, Steve Jobs biopic parody News
03.04.2013 What started as an idea for a fake movie trailer has transformed into a feature-length Steve Jobs biopic scheduled for release on the Funny or Die website on 15 April.Categories: Digital Media, MediaTags: Movies, Steve Jobs, -
Preview of manga biography of Steve Jobs appears online News
25.03.2013 Award-winning manga artist Mari Yamazaki has created a biography of the late Steve Jobs in her chosen medium, and images from the graphic story have emerged online today.Categories: Media, Digital MediaTags: Steve Jobs, Media, -
LinkedIn buys Pulse news reader maker Alphonso Labs for over US$50m News
12.03.2013 Alphonso Labs, the maker of the popular RSS news reader app Pulse, is to be acquired by social network LinkedIn for in excess of US$50m. It is understood that LinkedIn beat off... -
Darrell Mann: 98pc of innovation projects fail, how to be the 2pc that don’t News
23.02.2013 Former Rolls-Royce chief engineer Darrell Mann has spent much of his working life trying to understand why 98pc of R&D projects end in failure and has come up with an approach... -
Viral videos of the week – 03/02/2013 News
03.02.2013 We take a look at some of the most-viewed and most-shared videos on the web. This week features a can of mixed nuts in space, Ashton Kutcher as Steve Jobs, a very determined... -
The Apple TV set is coming, Cook hints in US TV interview News
06.12.2012 Apple is still focused on doing something about reinventing the TV, CEO Tim Cook indicated in an interview with a US TV network. He also revealed Apple is planning to invest...Categories: Digital Media, Consumer Tech, Computers, Economy, Games/Entertainment, Hardware, Investments, Multimedia, Training, Upskilling -
Murdoch shutters iPad news app ‘The Daily’ in major News Corp restructure News
04.12.2012 The Daily, an iPad-based newspaper that was the brainchild of both Rupert Murdoch and the late Steve Jobs to exemplify the virtues of the iPad as a revolutionary force defining...Categories: Wireless Communications, Social Media, Phones, Mobility, Mobile, Media, Games/Entertainment, Digital Media, Consumer Tech, Computers, Communications -
Pong, the world’s first successful video game, turns 40 today News
29.11.2012 One of the world’s first successful video game titles – Pong – was released by Atari this day 40 years ago (on 29 November 1972), kickstarting a major multi-billion video games... -
Apple vs Android: History and user info (infographic) News
11.11.2012 A brief history of iPhone, with its iOS operating system, and Android, and the differences between users of both are the subjects of a new infographic. -
Apple management reorganisation is an attempt to stave off threat of an innovation vacuum News
30.10.2012 Changes at the top at Apple ostensibly to increase collaboration across the technology giant’s hardware, software and services divisions are really the answer to an awkward... -
Apple remembers Steve Jobs one year after his death News
05.10.2012 On 5 October 2011, 56-year-old Steve Jobs died at his home in California from complications due to pancreatic cancer. Today, Apple pays tribute to its co-founder and late CEO to... -
Will Apple go after Google following court win over Samsung? News
27.08.2012 After winning US$1.05bn in damages in its court battle against Samsung, Apple still believes Google’s Android smartphone OS infringes on iOS patents and Google may be next.Categories: R&D, Phones, Operating Systems, Multimedia, Mobility, Mobile, Legal, Intellectual Property, Hardware, Digital Media -
Weekend news roundup: Ulster Bank IT crisis heading into its second week News
02.07.2012 In our trawl through some of the weekend newspapers' tech coverage, the technology woes at Ulster Bank and its parent Royal Bank of Scotland continue to filter down to...Categories: Software, Social Media, Servers, Multimedia, Mobility, Internet, Hardware, Digital Media, Digital Business, Consumer Tech, Computers, Communications, CIOTags: Intel, Cloud, iPad, Apple, Ulster Bank, Google, Broadband, Internet, Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook, Steve Ballmer, Microsoft, Steve Jobs, Larry Ellison, Oracle -
Microsoft’s Surface vs the iPad (video) News
21.06.2012 Watching Microsoft’s CEO Steve Ballmer and president Steven Sinofsky presenting the new Surface tablet to the world may invoke memories of a similar presentation that happened... -
Weekend news roundup: cyber-trolls to get flamed, celebs flame each other News
11.06.2012 In a trawl through the weekend newspapers' tech coverage, we learn how a landmark legal case by a British woman could reveal her tormentors on Facebook, how actor Brian Presley...Categories: Social Media, Security, Phones, Legal, Internet, Games/Entertainment, Digital Media, Digital Marketing, Digital Business, Computers, Apps -
Apple CEO Tim Cook: patent wars are 'a pain in the ass' News
30.05.2012 During an in-depth interview, Apple’s CEO kept new developments under wraps, instead sharing his thoughts on transparency, manufacturing in the US and ongoing patent wars.Categories: Social Media, Phones, Operating Systems, Mobile, Media, Hardware, Digital Media, Digital Business, Development, Design, Consumer Tech, Computers -
Facebook's new smartphone? Just never say never News
28.05.2012 Claims that social networking giant Facebook is working on its own smartphone refuse to die. And with US$16bn of a war chest following its lukewarm IPO, rumours have once again...Categories: Wireless Communications, Social Media, Phones, Multimedia, Mobility, Mobile, Hardware, Games/Entertainment, Consumer Tech, Communications -
Apple design guru receives knighthood News
23.05.2012 Apple’s chief designer shall now be referred to as Sir Jonathan Ive following his commendation at Buckingham Palace in London today.Tags: Products, Design, Tim Cook, Steve Jobs, iPod Touch, iPod, iPad, iPhone, MacBook Air, iMac, Apple