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Wall Street Journal:
Laurene Powell Jobs Goes Public to Promote Dream Act   —  Steve Jobs's widow has taken on a public role, backing one of the most controversial causes in the U.S. today: immigration reform.  And she is doing it using some of the tactics that her late husband, the Apple Inc. co-founder, employed to great effect at the technology giant.
May 17, 2013, 1:55 AMIn context
John Paczkowski / AllThingsD:
Here's That Steve Jobs E-Book Email to James Murdoch   —  “Throw in with Apple and see if we can all make a go of this to create a real mainstream e-books market at $12.99 and $14.99.”  —  That's an excerpt from an email sent by Apple co-founder Steve Jobs to James Murdoch of News Corporation …
May 15, 2013, 9:35 PMIn context
New York Times:
U.S. Now Paints Apple as ‘Ringmaster’ in Its Lawsuit on E-Book Price-Fixing   —  WASHINGTON — The e-mail, from Steve Jobs of Apple to James Murdoch of News Corporation, reads as if one old sport were trying to cajole another into joining a caper: “Throw in with Apple and see if we can all …
May 14, 2013, 10:55 PMIn context
CBS News:
Bill Gates on Steve Jobs: We grew up together   —  We've seen plenty of Bill Gates on television, but we'd never seen him get emotional before.  It was a striking, yet subtle moment in Gates' 60 Minutes interview this week when Charlie Rose asked him about his longtime business rival, the late Steve Jobs.
May 13, 2013, 1:05 AMIn context
Husain Sumra / MacRumors:
Funny or Die's Steve Jobs Movie ‘iSteve’ Now Available Online   —  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 …
Apr 16, 2013, 11:40 PMIn context
Derrick Harris / GigaOM:
Gracenote co-founder on ‘iPod day’ and better music through data   —  It was April 2000 when the team at Gracenote got a call from Apple that would change its business forever.  Apple wouldn't give Gracenote any specifics, but it did offer up some prescient advice: “You need to buy more servers.”
Apr 16, 2013, 1:55 AMIn context
Rima Abdelkader / Rock Center with Brian Williams:
Laurene Powell Jobs on immigration reform & Steve Jobs' ‘private legacy’   —  Laurene Powell Jobs is speaking publicly for the first time since her husband Steve Jobs' death to advocate for immigration reform.  —  “I started getting more and more active around immigration reform …
Apr 14, 2013, 2:00 AMIn context
Husain Sumra / MacRumors:
Verizon CEO Claims He Convinced Steve Jobs to Add LTE to iPhone [iOS Blog]   —  Fierce Wireless reports that while discussing Verizon's LTE investment at the National Association of Broadcasters conference yesterday, Verizon CEO Lowell McAdam claimed that he convinced Steve Jobs to add LTE to the iPhone.
Apr 11, 2013, 12:10 AMIn context
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
How a banner ad for H&R Block appeared on apple.com—without Apple's OK   —  The ghost of Steve Jobs will not be pleased to see this.  —  Zack Henkel  —  Robert Silvie returned to his parents' home for a Mardi Gras visit this year and immediately noticed something strange …
Apr 7, 2013, 11:35 PMIn context
Peter Burrows / Businessweek:
Apple's Campus 2 Shapes Up as an Investor Relations Nightmare   —  At what turned out to be his last public appearance, Steve Jobs stood before the Cupertino City Council on June 7, 2011, to present plans for a new corporate campus for Apple (AAPL).  Scarecrow thin but forceful as ever …
Apr 4, 2013, 7:00 AMIn context

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Channel 9:
Defrag Tools: WPT - Command Line  —  Andrew Richards, Chad Beeder, and Larry Larsen continue walking you through the Windows Performance Toolkit (WPT).
Cloud Foundry:
Static.com Adds Hadoop Support for Cloud Foundry  —  In this guest post, Jake Farrell, CTO for Static.com, explains how the major shift in the hosting industry towards platforms for high developer productivity …
Rackspace Blog:
An Army Is Forming To Battle Patent Trolls  —  For the past several months, we've exposed the flaws in the patent system and how they're being exploited by opportunistic patent trolls looking to extort a quick buck …
Hortonworks » Blog:
Hadoop, Hadoop, Hurrah!  HDP for Windows is Now GA!  —  Today we are very excited to announce that Hortonworks Data Platform for Windows (HDP for Windows) is now generally available and ready to support the most demanding production workloads.
Unison's blog:
“Yammer sucks”  —  Not to be mean to Yammer, or anything — it's a very good tool for some use cases — but that's what a customer told me recently (and others feel the same way).