Monthly Archives for July 2011
Why Steve Jobs Would Be a Better President Than Obama
Tweet Share Email Just as congress and the president are bickering over raising the federal debt ceiling, news comes from the BBC that Apple has a larger cash reserve than the United States of America (Apple has $76.4 billion, the … Continue reading
Two men and an iPad app
Straits Times mobile editor Zuraimie Ismail, seen here showing the app, sold the idea of putting the entire newspaper on the iPad even before the device was released here last year. — ST PHOTO: KEVIN LIM View more photos STRAITS … Continue reading
Emergent: five iPhone 5 motivations for leaving Android to Star Trek
July 30, 2011 by Johnny Major The iPhone 5 is the emergent product of 2011 despite still lacking an official launch date or even so much as a glimpse of the product from Apple. But with a third … Continue reading
Leadership Lessons from Apple CEO Steve Jobs
Great leaders like Apple CEO Steve Jobs are supreme visionaries and marketing geniuses, says executive leadership expert Paul David Walker, author of Unleashing Genius (Morgan James Publishing, 2008). In order to be better leaders, CIOs need to become more like … Continue reading
Apple iPad, Day 26: Adding It All Up
30 Days With the iPad: Day 26 Throughout the course of the 30 Days With the iPad project, I have purchased or recommended a variety of peripherals and apps to help the Apple tablet fulfill its duties as a PC … Continue reading
iPhone 5 to launch in early September, report says
Apple’s iPhone 4. (Credit: Apple) Hang on to your hats, because there’s another rumored release date for Apple’s next-generation iPhone. The latest comes from the China Times (translation), which says that Apple plans to produce 4 million units of the … Continue reading
Will Google+ get rid of (this) Steve Jobs?
Today, we must help Google be judgmental. It doesn’t come easily to the company that fosters a “do no evil” policy. However, as Google executives have admitted, the naming policy on Google+ is creating confusions greater than those in addled … Continue reading
Why Amazon’s tablet will threaten the iPad
Amazon has become an electronics and digital services giant, with enough product savvy, customer leverage and brand power to do battle with Apple itself. The tablet war begins in earnest when Amazon introduces an Android-powered Kindle — hopefully this fall. Yesterday, … Continue reading
Blind Faith: 35 Percent of Consumers Want iPhone 5, Sight Unseen
Consumers were willing to wait hours to be among the first to grab an iPad 2 the day of its release. Photo: Jim Merithew/Wired.com It’s a testament to your brand name and image when a plurality of consumers are willing … Continue reading
5. Steve Jobs
Job: co-founder, chairman, chief executive, Apple; board member, DisneyIndustry: digital mediaAge: 56Turnover: $65.2bnStaff: 46,6000 (September 2010)2010 ranking: 1 Absent most of the year from his official post as chief executive of Apple – he took open-ended medical leave in January … Continue reading
