Steve Jobs

ust a decade ago, sequencing a human genome was a monumental international effort costing more than $2 billion. Just after a decade the cost of sequencing a human genome is about to drop to just $1000. Thanks to one man’s personal motivation has made that sci-fi fantasy to reality. Jonathan Rothesberg’s Life Technologies launched his [...]

Wondering what is the connection between Steve Jobs, Stanford, SAP and WSJ? There is an interesting connection among the four, other than the simply visible connection of technology and publishing. Do you know where was Steve Jobs’ company Next Inc. located? It was at 3475 Deer Creek Road, Palo Alto, CA. The address was from [...]

Apple’s dislike for Google is very well known and is even now very well documented in the recent biography of Steve Jobs. The biography by Isaacson reveals that Steve Jobs went on to attack Google (not for the first time) by saying “I’m going to destroy Android because it’s a stolen product. I’m willing to [...]

In a moving eulogy titled “A Sister’s Eulogy for Steve Jobs” by Mona Simpson, Steve Jobs’s biological sister revealed how special their relationship was. Mona Simpson, a writer and a professor of English at the UCLA, delivered this eulogy on Steve Jobs, at his memorial service held on Oct 16 at a church in Stanford [...]

You can possibly tell a lot about a person from his music preference. At the peak of iPod, most of us loved to check what’s on your friend’s iPod? How about the guy who made the iPod nation? What was on Steve Jobs iPod? Steve Jobs biographer Walter Isaacson got a unique opportunity to look [...]

Steve Jobs biography by Walter Isaacson is ready now for those who pre-ordered the book on Amazon. Walter Isaacson wrote the biography at the insistence of Steve Jobs himself and based on over 40 interviews with Steve Jobs. The book contains 42 chapters covering all aspects of Steve Jobs life. The book is officially to [...]

Apple celebrated the life of Steve Jobs on October 19 at a memorial on its Cupertino campus.  Apple co-founder and CEO Steve Jobs died on October 5 after his long battle with cancer. Apple organized the memorial to Apple family in memory of Steve Jobs. Later, Apple also released the following  picture from Apple’s celebration [...]

The demise of the legendary innovator Steve Jobs has shook the tech industry and the media. Tech industry leader and the media are pouring tributes on Steve jobs by remembering him fondly. Here is a list of media articles that are a must read to remember Steve Jobs and how he shaped the tech industry. [...]

The legend and Apple Co-founder passed away earlier today. Announcing the news Apple CEO Tim Cook sent the following email to Apple employees and published the following message Team, I have some very sad news to share with all of you. Steve passed away earlier today. Apple has lost a visionary and creative genius, and [...]

Two top Googlers, Vic Gundotra and Matt Cutts reacted to Steve Jobs resignation from Apple CEO post. Reacting to the news on their Google+ account, both wished Steve Jobs good luck. In a long Google+ post, Vic Gundotra said expressed his admiration for Steve Jobs and reminisced his interaction with Steve Jobs on Sunday morning [...]

Legendary and visionary Steve Jobs called it a day as CEO of Apple, the company he had to build from scratch twice. Steve Jobs, the passionate tech leader, listened to his instincts and went ahead against naysayers to work/design and launch new products, like Mac OS X, iPod, Mac, iPhone, and iPad. Steve Jobs is [...]

Steve Jobs, Apple CEO announced that he is stepping down from Apple CEO post effective immediately.  Tim Cook, previously Apple’s Chief Operating Officer, is Apple’s new CEO.  While resigning, Steve Jobs strongly suggested  Tim Cook to be the next CEO and Apple Board duly elected him as the new Apple CEO. Announcing the stunning news [...]

The much anticipated Apple event began today and Steve Jobs began the keynote address that unveiled Apple’s three next generation softwares Mac OS X Lion, iOS 5, and iCloud for Mac, Mobile, and cloud. Here are the interesting and impressive stats revealed at the WWDC keynote address. 5200: No of developers attending WWDC 2011. 2 [...]

According to the report by abcnews, the first authorized biography of Apple Co-Founder and Chief Steve Jobs will be published in 2012 by the publisher Simon & Schuster. The biography is interestingly titled as “iSteve: The Book of Jobs” and will be written by the writer Walter Isaacson. For Walter Isaacson, this will be the third biography. [...]

Apple unveiled the much anticipated iPad 2 at the special Apple meet today. Another bigger and pleasant surprise today at the iPad 2 event was the presence of Apple CEO Steve Jobs while being on medical leave from Apple. Launching iPad 2 Steve Jobs said he did not want to miss the event after putting [...]

Apple announced that Apple CEO Steve Jobs will be taking a medical leave to take care of his health. This is the second time Apple CEO Steve Jobs is on medical leave of absence. Earlier in January 2009, Steve Jobs took six month leave of absence to focus on his health. Steve Jobs did not [...]

Apple announced that it had record Mac, iPhone and iPad Sales during the 2010 fourth quarter and had the highest revenue and earnings ever. Apple reported record revenue of $20.34 billion and net quarterly profit of $4.31 billion compared to revenue of $12.21 billion and net quarterly profit of $2.53 billion in the year-ago quarter. [...]

Intel announced today that it will be acquiring Infineon’s Wireless devision for $1.4 billion. Infineon makes one of the chips necessary for smartphones like Apple iPhone. If you are wondering, what does Apple Chief Steve Jobs thinks of Intel’s acquisition, here is the answer from Intel CEO Paul Otellini. In an interview to Fox news, [...]

Apple’s CEO Steve Jobs gave out impressive stats on the success of iPad and Apps during his inaugural keynote address at WWDC 2010. Here are they. iPad’s Success in Numbers 1: The number of iPads sold by Apple in every 3 seconds 2 million: The total number iPads sold by Apple with 2 months of [...]

Steve Jobs offered a funny proof on “Why iPad is a Magical Device?”, while inaugurating Apple’s World Wide Developers Conference (WWDC 2010) with his keynote address. Steve Jobs started his keynote address by saying little bit about iPad. He said, It’s changing the way we experience the web, email, photos, maps, video, you name it. [...]

At Stanford 2005 commencement, Steve Jobs urged the students to follow their dreams and highlighted three important things he learned in his life; his struggle at Reed college, how he was ousted from his own company, and his close to death experience just few years before 2005. Here is the video and full text of [...]

Steve Jobs attended the opening session of  the Wall Street Journal’s D: All Things Digital conference. All things Digital’s Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher  asked probing questions to Steve Jobs on a variety of topics ranging from Apple to Google.  Steve Jobs had something interesting to say about iPad. Steve Jobs: Apple Started Building iPad Before [...]