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What Would These 12 Business Leaders Do Today?

Want a little advice from Steve Jobs, Howard Schultz and David Ogilvy?READ»

If It's Not iPhones, What's Apple's Extra Air Freight For?

While reporting its most profitable quarter ever yesterday, Apple's execs let slip a few nuggets of information about past and future products. The most intriguing is related to upcoming extra freight flights...but for ... READ»

When Great Design Becomes Its Own Language

The brands that have been designed in the best possible ways have their own proprietary language that tells their story, sets them apart from all the brands they compete with, and connects them in a very meaningful way to their audience.READ»

• Joe Duffy's DPOV blog

Three Things We Don't Want to See in Apple's Disney Store Makeover

The upcoming makeover of Disney's high street Disney Stores at the hand of Steve Jobs has the news feeds buzzing. Disney's going high tech? Very 21st Century--but here are three things we'd rather not see in the Apple-fied stores.READ»

Apple Tablet Timeline

The excitement in the tech world about Apple's rumored iTablet (iPad?) is getting close to fever pitch, culminating with an article in the New York today. But all the evidence suggests that the seeds of the iTablet were planted decades ago--so we've made a timeline for you.READ»

Behind the Apple-Eminem Feud

We wrote about Eminem's dispute with Apple yesterday. Now we've learned that Eminem is seeking $16 million in damages from Apple for selling his tracks without proper authorization, according to court documents. But Eminem made money ...READ»

Apple Gives iPod Nano Video Eyes, iPod Touch Stays Blind

Apple just announced its refreshed iPod line-up, and among the products came the long-rumored news that the iPod Nano would be getting a built-in video cam...but not the iPod Touch. It's a tad surprising, but still a clever ...READ»

Is the Kindle Destined for SkyMall?

Five strategies to save Jeff Bezos' e-ink empire before it's too late.READ»

• Robert Fabricant's Design4Impact blog

My Life With a Hackintosh--and How the Movement Suggests a New Model for Innovation

Apple fanatics are converting cheap netbooks into Macs.READ»

• How to Hackintosh, or Not to Hackintosh

Eight Days to Go: Apple Event Rumor Round-Up

Next week Wednesday is when Apple will host its traditional iPod media event. At least, that's what everyone's assuming from the "It's Only Rock'N'Roll, But We Like It" tagline Apple chose. As usual there's a bunch of swirling rumors, ...READ»

Diagrammed: What Steve Jobs Is Missing

Hey Palm, let's agree, you don't take MY people.READ»

Apple Not Only Wanted "No Poaching" Deal With Google, It Wanted One With Palm Too

Now this is interesting: As well as an agreement with Google to avoid hiring staff from one another, Steve Jobs wanted the same from Palm. But Palm's CEO Ed Colligan turned him down flat . What's going on here? The news surfaced ...READ»

Is Apple Shooting for the Cloud?

More information is trickling out about Apple's new data center in North Carolina--it seems it's going to be big. Amongst the biggest in the World, in fact. Are the folks at Cupertino shooting Apple into the cloud computing ...READ»

Apple Keynote in Early September: What the Heck Is It For?

The Internets are a-swirling this morning with speculation and rumor, all thanks to news that Apple called a keynote presentation for the week of September 7. "What's it for?" everyone's wondering. Here's what we think. New iPods ...READ»

Hartmut Esslinger's Amazing Apple Mac Prototypes

Rare images of Apple Macintosh prototypes found in frog design founder Hartmut Esslinger's new book offer a glimpse of Apple's alternate history.READ»

Who Are the CEOs of Hogwarts?

Scrape away all the wizardry, and the Harry Potter films are about a company that unites behind a leader to defeat its foes. Which got us thinking about the real world wizards of finance and technology. In short, who in the business world is equivalent to our heroes and who deserves the title of He Who Must Not Be Named?READ»

The "Greatest Single Phone Call in the History" That We've Never Heard

Yesterday at the Worldwide Partners Conference, Microsoft COO Kevin Turner regaled attendees with a tale of the "greatest single phone call in the history that I've ever taken in business." Not to be tripped up by a grammatical ...READ»

Apple Could Overtake Nokia's Smartphone Share in Four Years

The popularity of the iPhone and the App store is driving Apple's growth so rapidly that it will overtake Nokia in smartphone market share in just four years. A report from Generator Research predicts Apple will sell 77 million ...READ»

Amazon Taps Its Inner Apple

By introducing the Kindle, Jeff Bezos is emulating Steve Jobs -- and taking him on.READ»

• Big Bangs

Steve Jobs Was "Sickest Patient" on Liver Donor List

On June 21, FastCompany.com reported on speculation that Apple's mercurial chief executive had undergone a liver transplant, as reported by the Wall Street Journal. Yesterday, the surgery was confirmed by the operating hospital, ...READ»

Did Steve Jobs Have A Liver Transplant?

According to MSNBC, Apple CEO Steve Jobs may have begun his current six-month hiatus from Apple in order to recover from a liver transplant he received in Tennessee. A survivor of pancreatic cancer, Jobs appeared increasingly thin ...READ»

Creating Cults and Cultures With Design

Building enthusiastic, obsessive love for your company's products begins with enthusiastic, obsessive love for design.READ»

• John Edson's Powers of Design blog

Now That He's in Control, Can Jon Rubenstein Turn Palm Around Too?

Jon Rubenstein just consolidated his management position at Palm--as of yesterday he's now the company's chairman and CEO. While this sounds like some dry business news, it may be revolutionary for Palm. Can Rubenstein turn Palm ...READ»

Key Not: Why the Jobs-less Apple WWDC Signals Trouble

Steve Jobs got the immediate gratification he so desperately desired during that decade-long run of adoring keynotes. We all hung on his every word, his every fillip of salesmanship of features that in lesser hands wouldn't have felt all that special. Well, now they're in lesser hands, and that's bad news.READ»

iPhone Rumor Round-up: Cheap iPhone, Shutter Button, the Return of Steve?

I wish it was Tuesday already. Because then the Apple WWDC Keynote would be over, and we'd know exactly how true the swirling iPhone rumors are. Today's crop consolidates what we've heard before, and adds a little sprinkling of ...READ»