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Steve Jobs Called Fox News a 'Destructive Force'

Jobs complained to Murdoch about channel, supported New York Times

(Newser) - Steve Jobs told Rupert Murdoch to his face last year that Fox News is "destructive" and that he was "blowing it" with the conservative news channel, reports Gawker , in the latest round of excerpts from Walter Isaacson's biography of the Apple founder . Jobs was invited to speak... More »

iTunes Creator Working on TV for Apple

Top engineer working on Jobs' last ambition

(Newser) - Apple seems to be pulling out the stops when it comes to making Steve Jobs’ vision of an Apple-worthy iTV a reality. Top software engineer Jeff Robbin—the guy who built iTunes and helped create the iPod—has been tapped to lead development on the TV, which could be available... More »

Sorkin Writing Steve Jobs Movie?

'Social Network' writer said to be considering the offer

(Newser) - Sony is making a Steve Jobs movie based on the biography by Walter Isaacson, and none other than Social Network scribe Aaron Sorkin is being courted to write it, the Los Angeles Times reports. A source says Sorkin is considering the idea, but neither Sorkin nor Sony gave an official... More »

Jobs Could Be 'Petulant, Brittle, Mean': Biographer

Walter Isaacson talks about his book on '60 Minutes'

(Newser) - Walter Isaacson’s highly anticipated biography of Steve Jobs is out today, and the author was on 60 Minutes last night for a lengthy interview about the book and its subject. Highlights, via Mashable and BusinessWeek :
  • Jobs admired Facebook: “We talk about social networks in the plural, but I
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Jobs: I'll Spend Every Cent Apple Has to Kill Google

Called Android 'stolen product'

(Newser) - Steve Jobs was furious over what he called Google’s “grand theft” of Apple ideas, and he didn’t mince words about it, the Huffington Post reports. “I'm willing to go thermonuclear war on this,” he says in Walter Isaacson’s biography , discussing Apple’s patent... More »

Biographer: Steve Jobs Regretted Delaying Surgery

He also unknowingly met his biological dad

(Newser) - Steve Jobs biographer Walter Isaacson offers a peek at his subject this week on 60 Minutes. Two nuggets from CBS:
  • Health regrets: Jobs put off cancer surgery—he explained to Isaacson that he didn't want his body "violated in that way"—to try alternative routes. His wife
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Apple Closing Stores During Jobs Tribute Tomorrow

Don't count on getting in around 1pm ET

(Newser) - Apple is closing some retail stores for at least an hour tomorrow as the company pauses to celebrate the life of Steve Jobs, insiders tell the Wall Street Journal . Another source tells Reuters that Apple workers around the country will be invited to watch a video feed of the celebration... More »

Steve Jobs Designed the iPhone 5

Apple CEO involved 'from concept to final design': analyst

(Newser) - While pancreatic cancer was slowly killing him , Steve Jobs dedicated his final months to a new project: the iPhone 5. The next-generation phone "was the last project that Steve Jobs was intimately involved with from concept to final design," a financial analyst wrote in a report acquired by... More »

Steve Jobs Memorial Tomorrow

Service is invitation-only for bigwigs of Silicon Valley

(Newser) - Apple is holding an invitation-only memorial service for Steve Jobs tomorrow night at Stanford, featuring some of the biggest names in Silicon Valley, reports the Wall Street Journal . Invitations ask that people RSVP through the Emerson Collective, a charity founded by Jobs' wife. Apple will have another event "to... More »

First in Line for iPhone 4S: Steve Wozniak

Crowds line up in cities across the world, pay tribute to Steve Jobs

(Newser) - Some say 4S means "for Steve." True or not, the new iPhone 4S' first day on sale is, for many, a moment to reflect on the former Apple CEO. Lines wrapped around blocks in Sydney and Tokyo as Apple fans rushed to buy the last device unveiled during... More »

Alternative Treatments May Have Doomed Steve Jobs

Delaying surgery was a deadly mistake, expert says

(Newser) - Steve Jobs would probably be alive today if he had been less of a skeptic about conventional medicine, according to a Harvard expert who has researched the kind of cancer that killed the Apple CEO. Jobs' preference for alternative medicine—outlined in a 2008 CNN article —caused him to... More »

Break Out the Turtleneck: Tomorrow Is Steve Jobs Day

Yes, really

(Newser) - Well, this should do nothing to quiet those who already think the world is making too big a deal about Steve Jobs’ death: Tomorrow has been declared “ Steve Jobs Day ” by organizers of an online movement, who are encouraging participants to dress like the Apple founder and/or post... More »

How Steve Jobs' Turtleneck Uniform Was Born

It began when employees rejected his idea for a company vest: Biography

(Newser) - Steve Jobs considered his signature style of black turtleneck and blue jeans to be a sort of personal uniform—which came to be because Apple employees rejected his idea for a company-wide uniform. Gawker has excerpts from the upcoming Steve Jobs biography by Walter Isaacson that explains the back story.... More »

Steve Jobs Died of Respiratory Arrest at Home

Pancreatic cancer had spread to other organs

(AP) - A copy of Steve Jobs' death certificate indicates the Apple co-founder died of respiratory arrest that resulted from pancreatic cancer that had spread to other organs. Jobs died last Wednesday at age 56. Apple didn't disclose the cause of death, but Jobs had battled pancreatic cancer and had a... More »

7 Obscure Facts About Steve Jobs

He has a novelist sister, for one

(Newser) - The Week culls Steve Jobs coverage to present seven little-known facts about him, including:
  • Famous sister: His biological sister is novelist Mona Simpson, who once "painted a not-altogether-flattering picture of Jobs in her Silicon Valley novel, A Regular Guy." Still, Jobs called her one of his "
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How Edison Differed From Steve Jobs

He was a larger-than-life 'wizard,' while Jobs was more human: Randall Stross

(Newser) - The death of Steve Jobs brought no end of Thomas Edison comparisons, but given that Randall Stross has written books on both men, he's probably in a better position than most to weigh in. The two inventors had much in common—less formal schooling than their peers, incredible vision,... More »

Sony Pictures Plans Steve Jobs Movie

Studio is acquiring the rights to the upcoming book: Deadline

(Newser) - Steve Jobs the icon will soon be Steve Jobs the movie. Sony Pictures is acquiring the rights to the soon-to-be-released authorized biography of Jobs, reports Deadline . The book by Walter Isaacson of Time—one of the few people Jobs spoke to in his final days, notes the New York Times... More »

How Apple Will Go On Post-Jobs

What's next for America's top tech company

(Newser) - The death of Steve Jobs has everyone wondering: What’s next for Apple? Can it maintain its killer momentum without its visionary? Here’s what people are saying:
  • Don’t panic too much: Before dying, Jobs helped shape a product roadmap that covers at least the next three years, sources
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Steve Jobs OKed Bio So His Kids Could 'Know Him'

'I wasn't always there for them,' he told biographer

(Newser) - Steve Jobs authorized a biography of himself so his four kids could "know him," author Walter Isaacson reveals in Time . "I wasn't always there for them, and I wanted them to know why, and to understand what I did," Jobs told Isaacson in their final... More »

Jobs' Death Boosts Mock Turtleneck Sales

St. Croix rep says sales nearly doubled

(Newser) - In an odd, somewhat bittersweet tribute to Steve Jobs' influence, sales of mock turtlenecks surged yesterday. No, this isn't an Onion headline , although it is a TMZ headline. A rep for clothing line St. Croix, which apparently makes the black mock turtlenecks Jobs was famous for wearing, tells the... More »

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