An email from late Apple cofounder Steve Jobs to then CEO of News Corp. James Murdoch suggests the Cupertino company was looking to set the price of e-books sold through the iBookstore at rates higher than market leader Amazon, says the U.S. Department of Justice. First mentioned by the Justice Department court filings for its [...]
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DOJ: Email from Steve Jobs implies Apple wanted to create falsely inflated e-book pricing
Posted by Gary on May 16, 2013
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Email reveals e-book talk between Steve Jobs, James Murdoch
Posted by Gary on May 16, 2013
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Indicates Apple was pushing for prices higher than Amazon US Department of Justice filings in the e-book price-fixing case against Apple reveal an exchange between former Apple CEO Steve Jobs and News Corporation/HarperCollins’ James Murdoch, notes AllThingsD. In the course of a Jobs-penned email, which dates back to January 2010, the CEO explains why Apple [...]
An Emotional Bill Gates Talks About Steve Jobs on ’60 Minutes’
Posted by Gary on May 13, 2013
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Microsoft founder Bill Gates was interviewed by Charlie Rose on this week’s edition of the long-running television news program 60 Minutes, and part of the interview focused on Gates’ relationship with Steve Jobs, including a few details of their final conversation before Jobs passed away in 2011. Gates grew emotional as he recalled visiting Jobs [...]
Funny or Die’s Steve Jobs Movie ‘iSteve’ Now Available Online
Posted by Gary on April 17, 2013
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After being delayed yesterday, Funny Or Die’s Steve Jobs movie “iSteve” has now been released online. The movie stars Justin Long as Steve Jobs and Lost‘s Jorge Garcia as Steve Wozniak. The film is the longest video produced by the humor site and runs nearly 80 minutes long. The script for the film was written [...]
Laurene Powell Jobs: Steve’s legacy is to ‘follow your own passion’
Posted by Gary on April 13, 2013
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Focused on Dream Act, but called Jobs’ contributions ‘pretty cool’ Laurene Powell Jobs, the widow of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, spoke briefly about her late husband at the beginning of an interview with NBC anchor Brian Williams which was primarily focused on her support of the Dream Act. She had mentioned prior to the interview, [...]
Trailer offers first glimpse at Steve Jobs biopic from ‘Funny or Die’
Posted by Gary on April 2, 2013
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The teaser trailer for the “Funny or Die”-produced parody Steve biopic, “iSteve,” has appeared online, offering a first look at Justin Long in the title role.Billing itself as “The first Steve Jobs movie,” “iSteve” is slated for an April 15 online release. The project, announced in March, will be Funny or Die’s longest project to [...]
Briefly: Steve Jobs’ 1996 return to Apple depicted in rare set of photos
Posted by Gary on March 28, 2013
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The photos were taken on Dec. 20, 1996, the night when late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs returned to the company he created after being forced out by the board eleven years earlier. Captured by Mac OS Evangelist Tim Holmes on an Apple QuickTake camera and posted to Flickr (via Daring Fireball), the photos show Jobs’ [...]
Apple hires for Maps ‘ground truth’ jobs outside Australia
Posted by Gary on March 28, 2013
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Looks to improve global accuracy of Maps Apple has begun hiring for Maps “ground truth” workers in several more regions around the globe, expanding beyond recent Australian recruiting. The new regions include the US, eastern and western Europe, Japan, Asia-Pacific, the Americas, and the Middle East and Africa. In each case Apple is searching for [...]