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Jordan Golson / MacRumors:
The Full Walter Isaacson/Steve Jobs Interview From 60 Minutes — CBS has posted the full 60 Minutes interview with Steve Jobs biographer Walter Isaacson, including a number of extras that weren't included in the broadcast piece. The double-length interview promotes Jobs' authorized biography …
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Steve Jobs: Revelations from a tech giant — His products - the Mac, iPhone, iPad and others - forever changed the way we think about technology. But how should we think about the man behind them, Apple's hard-driving co-founder Steve Jobs? In the years before his death …
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What We Learned About Steve Jobs on ‘60 Minutes’ … Walter Isaacson, the author of the new authorized biography “Steve Jobs,” talked to Steve Kroft of “60 Minutes” about his book. — In the interview, Isaacson discussed how Jobs dealt with the pancreatic cancer that took his life …
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David Sarno / L.A. Times Tech Blog:
Steve Jobs: ‘Lightning bolts went off in my head’ about being adopted — “60 Minutes” has released the full transcript of its interview with Steve Jobs' biographer, Walter Isaacson, and the piece contains a number of largely unknown bits about Jobs' early life and adoptive parents …
Andy Ihnatko / @ihnatko:
A spiritual reason why Jobs hated power switches on Apple devices? From tonight's “60 Minutes” 2-parter: http://t.co/zaMgeRq1
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John Paczkowski / AllThingsD:
Apple Posts Steve Jobs Memorial Celebration Video — Last Wednesday Apple held a company-wide memorial for its late co-founder Steve Jobs at which CEO Tim Cook, former Vice President and Apple board member Al Gore, and Jonny Ive, Apple's head of design, all spoke.
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Janet I. Tu / Seattle Times:
Patents emerge as significant mobile strategy for Microsoft, other tech companies — (This story is running in the print edition of The Seattle Times Oct. 23, 2011. - Janet I. Tu) — It seems not a week goes by these days without news of another patent battle or announcement …
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Brad Sams / Neowin.net:
Half of all Android devices have entered into patent agreements with Microsoft
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Benj Edwards / Macworld:
The birth of the iPod — The events that led to Apple's great unveiling on October 23, 2001 — The destiny of Apple changed drastically 10 years ago with the release of a deceptively simple digital music player. — On October 23, 2001, Apple lifted the curtain on the very first iPod …
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Josh Lowensohn / CNET News:
iPod at 10: A game changer getting long in the tooth
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Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM:
Apple hires Yahoo's data center chief — Updated: Scott Noteboom, the man who led Yahoo's data center operations since 2005, has now joined Apple as the iconic consumer electronics maker expands into the cloud. According to LinkedIn, Noteboom is now a “distinguished gentleman” …
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Jon Russell / The Next Web:
Kindle users getting theirs hands on Steve Jobs biography NOW — Amazon has begun early delivery of Walter Isaacson's much anticipated Steve Job' biography to Kindle users. — As the screenshot below from @davidj, editor of Tmonews, shows, users of the Amazon reading device are getting …
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Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Super-Powered Launch App Quicksilver Adds Support For OS X Lion — If you're on a Mac and haven't expanded your horizons beyond Spotlight, you owe it to yourself to check out Quicksilver, a free, open sourced launchbar app that can prove very handy once you've gotten over the learning curve.
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Seth Weintraub / 9to5Mac:
Former Compaq Chairman, and current Mac user, reveals that Jobs asked Compaq to license the MacOS in 1999 — Among other interesting tidbits on Steve Jobs, technology investment pioneer Ben Rosen reveals that the new Apple CEO invited the then Compaq Chairman and CEO to Silicon Valley in 1999 to inquire about licensing MacOS X:
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Ben Rosen / THROUGH ROSEN-COLORED GLASSES:
MEMORIES OF STEVE — Steve: Always Value Conscious
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