Monthly Archives for October 2011
Internal Affairs: Steve Jobs’ menu choices vetoed by White House
Steve Jobs, known as the brilliant dictator of Apple, was overruled by the White House when he tried to pick the menu for the dinner Silicon Valley venture capitalist John Doerr hosted for President Barack Obama in February. As detailed … Continue reading
iPad 3′s High-Res Display a Technical Challenge
LG Display and Samsung are facing a tough challenge, sources in the manufacturing industry have reported — making a high-resolution display for the iPad 3. Cnet reports that Apple is aiming for a much higher resolution of 2048-by-1536 pixels on … Continue reading
iPhone battery drain–’Setting Time Zone’ may be culprit
The iPhone’s low-battery indicator. (Credit: Screenshot by Rick Broida) Having initially pointed out customer complaints about subpar battery life in the iPhone 4S, the U.K.’s Guardian newspaper has followed up with a report about a possible culprit and a possible … Continue reading
What made Steve Jobs?
It was not in Steve Jobs’s nature to nurture. But it is impossible to read the operatic story of Jobs’s life without pondering the relative roles of nature and nurture. Would this mesmerizing, infuriating man have gone on to found … Continue reading
iPad 3 Postponed Due to Retina Display Troubles?
Apple is planning to increase display resolution on the next generation iPad, however reports indicate that manufacturers Samsung and LG Display might not be ready to produce the parts in the quantities needed. Rumors of a fall 2011 iPad 3 … Continue reading
Sprint says iPhone most network-efficient smartphone and "worth every penny"
By Mikey Campbell Published: 06:00 PM EST (03:00 PM PST) Sprint’s top executive said this week that Apple’s new iPhone is its most network-efficient smartphone, using some 50% less data than comparable Android handsets. Speaking during the carrier’s third-quarter conference … Continue reading
Walter Isaacson’s Media Blitz Has Me Hooked on Jobs
By Sharon Waxman at TheWrap Tue Oct 25, 2011 7:47pm EDT Ok, that’s it. Walter Isaacson wins. I already wanted to read his book on Steve Jobs (called ‘Steve Jobs,’ it’s out tomorrow) before I read the story in The … Continue reading
Six Reasons the iPad Is Still the Tablet To Beat for Business
Tablets rocking Android increased shipment volume by 27 percent in the third quarter over the same period last year, according to a report last week by Strategy Analytics. However, while Android’s market share jumped considerably, Apple smoked Android on sheer … Continue reading
Sprint refutes reports of slow service on its iPhone 4S
Careful when you wish for an iPhone. First came news that Sprint Nextel was getting the wildly popular Apple-made gadget. Yet that seemingly good news for the Overland Park-based carrier rattled investors who fretted it might cost too much to … Continue reading
Steve Jobs: Revelations from a tech giant
(CBS News) His products – the Mac, iPhone, iPad and others – forever changed the way we think about technology. But how should we think about the man behind them, Apple’s hard-driving co-founder Steve Jobs? In the years before his … Continue reading
