Filed under: Steve Jobs , Apple History Jesus Diaz over at Gizmodo had a fascinating exposé in a post late last week that provided a look into some of the thinking of Steve Jobs back in 1997. As Diaz relates, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison and his friend Steve Jobs were on a beach in Hawaii in '97 when Ellison, under the influence of a few margaritas, floated the idea of buying Apple to bring Jobs...
Filed under: Steve Jobs , Apple History As Dave Caolo told TUAW readers a few days ago , Fortune named Apple CEO Steve Jobs " CEO of the Decade " for his phenomenal leadership at Apple and how he has remade four industries (music, movies, mobile telephones, and computing) in the past ten years. Part of the Fortune article was a collection of rarely seen photographs of Steve Jobs . From the...
Apple CEO Steve Jobs is no stranger to accolades. At the ripe old age of 30, he—along with Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak—won the first National Medal of Technology. Most recently, he was named the most admired entrepreneur among teenagers . He is admired by geeks and businessmen alike, and his successes (and failures) with Apple, NeXT, Pixar, and Apple again fill the pages of numerous...
[Steve Wozniak], Last of the freelance hackers and Greatest swordfighter in the world, lives a hacker life you couldn’t even dream about. The folks over at medGadget ran into him and learned about his watch. In their interview (embedded after the break) [Steve] shows off the Nixie tube wristwatch that we can only assume he [...]
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak shows us that a nixie tube watch is probably a better idea in theory than it is in practice. It's so bulky. Sure looks like a lot of trouble he has to go through just to...
If you think that Apple was founded by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, think again: there was a "third founder" of Apple. In 1976, Ronald Wayne gave up his 10% stake of the [...]
Samsung has invested in Fusion-io, deepening the relationship between two significant players in the fast-growing flash-storage business. The South Korean company, a major supplier of NAND flash silicon, invested "millions" in Fusion-io, said Fusion-io President and Chief Technology Officer David Flynn, though he declined to give a more specific figure. Also as part of the announced deal,...
ComputerWorld had an interview with Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak about solid state disks, a product he's helping to develop in his position as chief scientist at SSD start-up Fusion-io. One of the things he says is that he doesn't believe solid state disks will completely replace hard drives, due to the many tiers of storage for cost efficiency: Do you see a day when solid state storage will kick...
Earlier this year, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak accepted the position of chief scientist at start-up solid state drive company Fusion-io. It's the first time since 1972, when he worked in Hewlett-Packard Co's calculator division, that he's held a technologist's position for a company that wasn't his own. Unlike many other solid state vendors, Fusion-io doesn't manufacture a NAND flash drive product...
Fusion-io is announcing today that MySpace is adopting its power-saving flash memory cards across its huge data center operations. The deal is a significant customer win for Fusion-io and an endorsement for its new way of storing data. It should garner more attention for the Salt Lake City-based company, which got a lot of notice earlier this year when Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak became its chief...
What do you do when you've got a valuable item and want as much publicity as possible? Someone with a 32 year old Apple 1, hand built by Steve Wozniak on of the founders of Apple, posed the question to the San Francisco journal. The answer he... Read more
Today, Aneesh Chopra, US Chief Technology Officer and Associate Director for Technology for the White House, spoke at a forum held by TiE, an entrepreneurship organization based in Silicon Valley. Chopra was joined by panel of Silicon Valley execs and VCs, including Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak. Chopra made his debut to Silicon Valley a few weeks ago at the Churchill Club, addressing the future...
By Tim Conneally , Betanews The One Laptop Per Child project is certainly divisive. The press has largely presented the project as one of big promises and few results. But the project's signature laptop -- the sturdily built, low-cost, resource-constrained XO-1 -- has never failed to capture the imagination of techies. Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, for example, said last year that he is a huge fan...
This video where Mac evangelist Guy Kawasaki talks about Steve Jobs working style is pretty interesting. I like that way Guy Kawasaki interprets the working style of Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak. Check it out if you love following Steve Jobs. Tags: Guy Kawasaki, Wozniak, Jobs Related posts Steve Jobs Photographed – Dated 30th July 2009 (0)
Theoretically, Apple's Mac OS X can be installed on nearly any machine running an Intel processor, and even AMD-based machines -- including netbooks, laptops and desktops. But the process of installing OS X on these devices gets complicated quickly, with the least difficult involving detailed changes to relatively obscure system settings. But it can be a rewarding project for more advanced users....
At Macworld 2009 the documentary Welcome to Macintosh was screened to an audience of notable Apple personalities that included Andy Hertzfeld, Guy Kawasaki, Leander Kahney, Jim Reekes, Ron Wayne and a surprise guest: Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple Computer. All had good things to say! Also, In celebration of 25 years of the Mac, the makers of Welcome to Macintosh introduce an international User...
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