Will include new cover, afterword A paperback version of Walter Isaacson’s Steve Jobs is going on sale September 10th, according to publisher Simon & Schuster. The new edition will differ little from previous digital and hardcover releases, mainly gaining a new afterword and a new cover. The latter is a photo by Norman Seeff shot [...]
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Isaacson’s Steve Jobs biography to reach paperback on September 10th
Posted by Gary on June 18, 2013
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DOJ e-books trial: Steve Jobs didn’t initally want iBooks, Eddy Cue ‘didn’t care’ about publishers’ pricing
Posted by Gary on June 14, 2013
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Proceedings continued in the U.S. Department of Justice e-book antitrust suit against Apple on Thursday, with the company’s SVP of Internet Software and Service Eddy Cue testifying that he “didn’t care” what prices publishers set for content sold through the iBookstore. According to in-court reports from Reuters, Cue said it wasn’t surprising to see book [...]
Ad guru Lee Clow talks Steve Jobs and Apple at PTTOW media summit
Posted by Gary on June 9, 2013
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Lee Clow, Chairman and Global Director of Apple’s go-to ad agency TBWA/Media Arts, recently discussed the 30 years he spent working with Steve Jobs, as well as the history behind now iconic commercials like those from the “Think Different” campaign. The ten-minute clip, spotted by Business Insider, comes from the PTTOW conference held recently in [...]
TBWA chairman Lee Clow remembers Steve Jobs at conference
Posted by Gary on June 8, 2013
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Talk includes insight on naming Apple, ‘Think Different,’ more At a recent entrepreneurial summit known as the PTTOW! conference, TBWA Global Director and Chairman Lee Clow — an advertising legend in part due to his long history behind many of the iconic ads for Apple — gave a short talk on his memories of Steve [...]
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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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 [...]
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 [...]