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How Steve Jobs became a movie mogul

News In a career filled with a string of increasingly improbable sequels, Steve Jobs may have always been fated to play the role of movie mogul. Balancing Apple and PixarStill, Jobs' heart remained with the company he and Steve Wozniak originally...

25 January 2006, 10:05

News.blog: Fake Steve Jobs says goodbye

News Fake Steve Jobs is no more. Dan Lyons, the former Forbes writer and soon-to-be Newsweek writer, announced on Wednesday in a rambling post that he's shutting down the tech industry phenomenon known as The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs.

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10 July 2008, 9:55

News.blog: A raise for Steve Jobs?

News After years of drawing just a dollar in salary, Apple CEO Steve Jobs could be in store for a raise. Apple filed its annual report for its 2007 fiscal year on Thursday afternoon, and hinted in a section about executive compensation that Jobs could...

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16 November 2007, 9:11

Music moguls trumped by Steve Jobs?

News When Apple Computer CEO Steve Jobs walked into the suites of top record label executives in 2002, iTunes software in hand, he was welcomed as a trailblazer to a digital music future. No record company by itself can basically tell Steve Jobs, 'You...

21 April 2005, 20:17

'Fake Steve Jobs' found out

News A blogger calling himself 'Fake Steve Jobs', whose parody of the Apple chief executive amused and enthralled Silicon Valley, revealed himself on Sunday as an editor of Forbes magazine. Dan Lyons, a senior editor at Forbes, admitted to writing as...

6 August 2007, 10:37

News.blog: Microsoft must make MP3 players, Jobs says

News That approach has certainly paid off with Windows, but hasn't yet produced a winner in the portable music player business, and Apple CEO Steve Jobs suggests that it's not likely to do so. We do need a more consistent experience," CEO Steve Ballmer...

18 January 2006, 10:31

Celebrating 30 years of Apple

News In the 1970s, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak were going door-to-door at the University of California, Berkeley dorms selling 'blue boxes' -- electronic devices that tricked the telephone network into allowing free long-distance phone calls.

30 March 2006, 11:49

Facebook ban makes UK MP doubt he exists

News Steve Webb, of the Liberal Democrats, tried to log on on Monday but received a message saying his account had been disabled following complaints he didn't exist. I sent them an email asking what the problem was and got a response a day later saying...

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20 December 2007, 9:43

Apple throws the switch, aligns with Intel

News CEO Steve Jobs announced on Monday that Apple will gradually shift its Mac line to Intel-based chips over the next two years. The only question I have, Steve, is: what took you so long? The move confirms a timetable first reported by CNET.co.uk's...

7 June 2005, 11:29

Macworld begins amid anticipation

News The usual rousing Steve Jobs keynote and announcements around virtualisation and -- surprisingly -- Microsoft applications look like being the highlights of next week's Apple fest, the annual Steve Jobs is to launch anything major in his keynote it...

14 January 2008, 9:34

Apple music videos hint at film ambitions

News Apple CEO Steve Jobs is famously secretive when it comes to sharing plans for his company's future. The business is going to go down, down, down before they finally realise what Steve Jobs and a few others have already realised -- that there is a...

19 July 2005, 11:24

Mozilla exec slams Jobs over Safari plans

News Mozilla's chief operating officer, John Lilly, has hit out at Apple's Steve Jobs, calling his plans for building Safari's market share "out of date" and "duopolistic". This worldview that Steve gave a glimpse into betrays [Apple's] thinking: it's...

19 June 2007, 10:33

Real boss flames Apple

News There's no reason we should penalise Apple customers for Steve's pigheadedness. Now, the RealNetworks chief executive is ramping up the rhetoric against another technology icon: Apple CEO Steve Jobs. We think Apple, and Steve personally, are making...

7 December 2005, 9:24

Gates retains 'wealthiest' crown

News Co-founder Paul Allen, worth $22.5 billion, again placed third, while CEO Steve Ballmer, valued at $14 billion, nabbed the No.spot. Apple's Steve Jobs, as well as Yahoo's David Filo and Jerry Yang, also made it into the top 100.

26 September 2005, 9:57

Photos: Computers of yesteryear

News An Altair 8800, signed by several members of the Homebrew Computer Club, including Steve Wozniak, Captain Crunch and Lee Felsenstein. An Apple II computer signed by Steve Wozniak. A giant disk used for storage on the Xerox Alto computer, as seen at...

20 August 2007, 10:45