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- Help Steve Jobs (Or GM) Design The iCar
- The discussion of whether Steve Jobs could revitalize the auto industry by working with GM on an iCar (Steve Jobs For President. Of GM?) has been lively. But the bottom line question remains: What should that iCar be? Let's leave aside what the...
- Tags: Steve Jobs, General Motors Corp., iCar, RSS, Digital Music, Digital Media, Internet, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld
- Blog posts 2008-11-13
- Steve Jobs for President. Of GM?
- The old joke went something like this: If auto manufacturers improved their products as much and as fast as American designers and makers of microelectronics have theirs, a car today would be capable of speeds in excess of 1,000 miles an hour, go 650 miles on a gallon of gas,...
- Tags: Steve Jobs, Car, General Motors Corp., Tom Steinert-Threlkeld
- Blog posts 2008-11-12
- Will Tim Cook be the next Steve Jobs?
- Will Tim Cook be the next Steve Jobs?Nobody can fully replace another person.Apple will suffer, more or less. Nobody can fully replace another.If Jobs' gone Apple won't be today's Apple anymore. There's no point being conservative following Jobs way of doing thing while he is not there.The best thing they...
- Tags: Leadership, Steve Jobs, Apple Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-11-10
- Will Tim Cook be the next Steve Jobs?
- Last month, after a press event at Apple's Cupertino headquarters, I made an off-the-cuff observation about the future leadership of the company. In short, I commented on how Chief Operating Officer Tim Cook, who took a portion of stage time from Jobs to talk about new notebooks, was wearing blue...
- Tags: Steve Jobs, Apple Inc., CEO, Leadership, Outsourcing, Management, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-11-10
- Apple's top iPod gun to depart; Papermaster in; Jobs succession gets murkier
- Updated: Tony Fadell, the senior vice president in charge of Apple's iPod division, is leaving the company to be replaced by Mark Papermaster, a former Big Blue executive who is being sued by IBM over a non-compete clause. The move statement, first reported by the Wall Street...
- Tags: Job, Steve Jobs, Apple iPod, Apple Inc., IBM Corp., VentureBeat, Blade Servers, Digital Music, Digital Media, Utility Computing, Servers, Hardware, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-11-04
- Is Steve Jobs just being awkward?
- Is Steve Jobs just being awkward?Not sure...MMS on most Nokia's and WinMo's I've used is pretty straightforward - take picture, send message. This is usually from the camera menu so it's not particularly awkward.As for video recording, it depends on the phone - the better N Series phones have...
- Tags: Text messaging/SMS/MMS, Cellular phones, Steve Jobs, MMS, Apple Inc., phone
- Discussion threads 2008-11-03
- Is Steve Jobs just being awkward?
- Is Steve Jobs just being awkward when it comes to not adding features such as MMS and cut and paste to the iPhone? by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Tags: Steve Jobs, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, Apple iPhone, MMS, Smart Phone, Handset, Apple Inc., Smart Phones, 3G, Handhelds, Hardware
- Blog posts 2008-11-03
- Smartphone wars heating up
- Sure the iPhone is hot, but how hot is it and can it maintain the momentum? ZDNet correspondent Sumi Das talks to senior editor Sam Diaz about how big a boost the phone has given Apple. Diaz also discusses how Research In Motion and Google aren't letting Apple...
- Tags: Apple Inc., Smartphone, Smart Phones, Cellular Phones, Handhelds, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, smartphone, iPhone, Apple, Steve Jobs, Google, Android, T-mobile G1, Research in Motion, RIM, Blackberry, Curve, Bold, Storm, Sumi Das, Sam Diaz
- Videos 2008-10-28
- Fake Steve Jobs heart attack story posted by teenager
- The prankster who posted an amateur citizen's report that Apple CEO Steve Jobs had suffered a major heart attack earlier this month has been identified as a teenager who possibly did not post the report for financial gain. The identity of the 18-year-old prankster was not known, though a Bloomberg...
- Tags: Steve Jobs, Prankster, Health Care, Vertical Industries, Healthcare, Benefits, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-10-23
- You're the CEO: How would you spend Apple's $25 billion?
- Apple revealed in its Q4 2008 earnings conference call that the company currently has US$25 billion in cash and no debt. Steve Jobs mentioned that its cash supply allows it to invest in R&D during an economic downturn and that the company created the Apple retail store during the last...
- Tags: Steve Jobs, Apple Inc., DVR, Digital Video, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-10-23
- Steve Jobs to Wall Street: Apple is positioned to ride economic storm
- Steve Jobs to Wall Street: Apple is positioned to ride economic stormTru Dat!!!Pagan jimRE: Steve Jobs to Wall Street: Apple is positioned to ride economic stormAgree wholeheartedly. Fear stirred up by our lawmakers and treasury secretary is causing a recession. The recession will last until the fear goes away plus...
- Tags: Sales strategy, Sales force management, Financial accounting, Apple Inc., Steve Jobs
- Discussion threads 2008-10-22
- Steve Jobs to Wall Street: Apple is positioned to ride economic storm
- Apparently, Steve Jobs still has what it takes to sell Apple - even to battered-down Wall Street. For the past week or so, there's been a lot of chatter about the state of the economy and what sort of impact it might have on companies during the...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Steve Jobs, Apple iPod, Apple Inc., Digital Music, Digital Media, Sales Strategy, Desktops, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Sales, Hardware, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-10-22
- Apple: Mac sales still strong, some "interesting ideas" for netbooks
- Well, we now know why Apple dropped the word "computer" from its name and it doesn't have anything to do with HDTVs. In a conference call last night to discuss its quarterly results, Apple said it sold nearly 6.9 million iPhone 3Gs during the quarter. The company spreads that revenue...
- Tags: Steve Jobs, Apple Macintosh, Apple MacBook, Apple Inc., Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Desktops, Sales, Hardware, John Morris
- Blog posts 2008-10-22
- Apple beats estimates; credits iPhone sales
- updated: Apple reported fiscal fourth quarter earnings of $1.14 billion, or $1.26 per share, on revenue of $7.9 billion, beating Wall Street estimates of $1.11 per share on $8.05 billion in revenue. statement The company credited the strong quarter partly on iPhone sales - "We sold more phones than RIM,"...
- Tags: Revenue, Apple iPhone, Steve Jobs, Apple Inc., Operational Accounting, Sales Strategy, Financial Accounting, Digital Music, Digital Media, Finance, Sales, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-10-21
- VIDEO: Is Steve Jobs starting to pass the baton?
- VIDEO: Is Steve Jobs starting to pass the baton?Wow, you kicked Monk's ass with that one!It takes Monk at least 5 minutes to look around and figure out who did it.You figured it out using just one sweater!Who thinks this stuff up?
- Tags: Corporate communications, Monk, baton, Steve Jobs, video
- Discussion threads 2008-10-15
- VIDEO: Is Steve Jobs starting to pass the baton?
- Maybe you didn't notice it - or maybe I'm just reading into this a bit too deep. But there were a couple of hints at this week's Apple announcement that might cause some to believe that Steve Jobs is gearing up for an eventual passing of the reins at the...
- Tags: Steve Jobs, Video, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-10-15
- Is Steve Jobs slowly passing the baton?
- ZDNet's Sam Diaz offers his views on Steve Jobs' presentation at the Apple notebook event Tuesday. He says the Apple CEO could slowly be handing over the reins, given that he gave a lot of his time during the event to Apple executives Tim Cook and Phil Schiller.
- Tags: Steve Jobs, Apple Inc., Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Sam Diaz Memo, Apple
- Videos 2008-10-15
- Gallery: Apple notebook event
- Apple has proven time and time again that it is one company or government that can keep a secret. Today's event covers a notebook announcement by Andy Smith
- Tags: Apple Inc., Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Andy Smith, Apple MacBook, Apple, event, Steve Jobs
- Image galleries 2008-10-15
- Video: Apple unveils new multitouch trackpad
- At a press event in Cupertino, Calif., Apple CEO Steve Jobs demos new trackpad technologies for the company's MacBook line. The new trackpad is made entirely of glass and has a 39% larger tracking area than previous trackpads. More video from the event: Apple's latest MacBook...
- Tags: Steve Jobs, Apple MacBook, Apple Inc., Video, CEO, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-10-14
- Open source and Steve Jobs is fine
- So what happened? The same thing that happened to Usenet, and e-mail, and all those stock boards happened. An anonymous, credible medium is easy for spammers and scammers to wreck. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Steve Jobs, Open Source, Stock, Investment, Finance, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-10-07
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