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Live Coverage: Steve Jobs Keynote from Apple's WWDC10

[Click refresh for updates and log in for the fastest feed]News Update: Apple's iPhone 4 Screen is Better Than Your Retinas 2:55 ApplauseThat's the end. Jobs thanks the iPhone 4 team, and wraps it up.Thanks to everyone who tuned ...READ»

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A Big Surprise From Apple

Steve Jobs has decided to do an unusual strategic deal: Make a version of the iPod for Hewlett-Packard. Apple announced yesterday that starting in the spring an HP branded iPod, in that company's signature blue color, will be sold. ...READ»

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Show Me the Way

Where will it all lead? Will we see brands taking their cue from religion, or for that matter sports teams? I think so. In BRAND sense I conclude that consumers prefer brands with strong leaders (think Steve Jobs or Richard Branson). ...READ»

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Steve Jobs's Diabolical Plan for Global Domination

The whole iPhone (and iPod and iPad) thing is starting to sound like a 1950's science fiction movie. If you've ever watched one of these now-totally-camp movies, the story line goes like this: A mad scientist bent on world domination invents a fanciful machine that turns humans into unthinking zombies over whom he has complete control. Now let's update that storyline. A mad scientist by the name of Steve Jobs invents a fanciful machine called the iPhone that, according to a recent Stanford University survey, turns users into "junkies" allowing him and his evil empire to take over the world (at least the media world, so far). Now do you see it?READ»

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Steve Jobs at Macworld: Reality Distortion Field in Full Effect

Few things, in today’s business world, are as cult-like as a Steve Jobs keynote address at Macworld. (Warren Buffett’s annual shareholder gathering might come close.) So when Jobs came onstage, unannounced, this morning at the ...READ»

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Brave New MacWorld

As Scott Kirsner noted in his blog today, Steve Jobs' keynote at MacWorld focused almost exclusively on the Mac computer. Where was the iPod in the discussion? Before the expo began, many predicted a new version of the Shuffle. It ...READ»

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Coming Soon to a Theater Near You--We Wish!

Steve Jobs, the man who has sold some 18 million iPods and tripled his company's stock price, reached the height of overexposure last year. So I wouldn't be surprised if a biopic were in the works--perhaps produced by the big Apple ...READ»

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Learn Steve Jobs' Presentation Techniques From iPhone 4 Conference

At Apple's iPhone 4 presser Friday, the company finally responded to the near-universal criticism of its latest gadget's antenna problems. In his response, Steve Jobs didn't offer a solution to the iPhone's reception issues (outside ...READ»

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Manufacturing Demand?

(More heated discussion from the conference...) Does marketing capture the value of latent demand, or manufacture demand? Are we creating demand out of thin air? Or is the point of marketing just to "sell more sh*t, more often, to ...READ»

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Former Sun Microsystems CEO: HTC Isn't the First Company to Face Legal Threats From Steve Jobs

Jonathan Schwartz, former CEO of Sun Microsystems, has stepped up to defend Google (in a roundabout way, via HTC) from the patent attacks recently leveled by Apple. If you want to be truly disturbed at how virulent the patent ...READ»

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Steve Jobs on the iPod .Vs Zune

In celebration of the iPod's upcoming fifth birthday, Newsweek writer Steven Levy recently talked with Steve Jobs about the iPod's cultural impact, including its design, cool factor, and affect on how we listen to music. When asked ...READ»

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iPhony 4: Did Steve Jobs Mislead the Public About Delaying Korean Launch?

At Friday's iPhone 4 presser, aka Antennagate, Steve Jobs was tasked with bringing Apple's credibility back up to snuff after angering customers over the phone's nagging reception issues. And just as many cell phone companies such ...READ»

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The iPhone Means Witchcraft

Have you seen Mad TV cast member Michael McDonald's parody of Steve Jobs introduction of the iPhone? A friend just sent me the link, and it's kind of hilarious.READ»

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Steve Jobs -- "Let DRM Die"

If you have an iPod, you probably use iTunes and may even buy music from the iTunes store. Those songs can't be played (legally) on other players. It is a similar case with Microsoft's Zune. The software that keeps these song files ...READ»

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No iPad Tethering, but Games for Days: Steve Jobs

It's just 25 days 'til iPad arrives on sale in some global locations, and the fever's mounting. To spur it on, Apple pushed its first ad during the Oscars, which Steve Jobs was at. He's also been emailing fans to confirm some ...READ»

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If He's So Smart...Steve Jobs, Apple, and the Limits of Innovation

The battle over digital music is just another verse in Apple's sad song: This astonishingly imaginative company keeps getting muscled out of markets it creates. So what does Apple have to tell us about innovation?READ»

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Steve Jobs Keynote: Leopard and Safari Updates -- Few iPhone Details

Steve Jobs just finished his keynote at Apple's World Wide Developer's Conference. The big announcements? Mac's new OS Leopard will be $129 when it is released in October. Jobs discussed several features, including upgraded ...READ»

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"Feisty" Steve Jobs Ponders a $40B Shopping Spree at Apple Shareholder Meeting

Described as "feisty," Steve Jobs was on form yesterday at Apple's shareholder meeting--his first back since the recent health issues that forced him to step down temporarily as CEO. One, Infinite Loop, on the Apple Campus, was the ...READ»

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Here's How to Tether Your iPhone 3G S to Your iPad, Steve Jobs Be Damned

Cometh the iPhone tether, then, soon cometh the iPad tether. Anyone with a jailbroken iPhone 3GS and a Wi-Fi only iPad might like this little cheat from MyWi developers Intelliborn, which will give you 3G. Fuh free. Well, the MyWi app ...READ»

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Steve Jobs' Advice to Nike: Get Rid of the Crappy Stuff [Video]

Apple CEO Steve Jobs is among the greatest innovators of our time. And yet his genius for understanding business is rarely explained in any public way. Rarer still is to hear the advice he would give to the CEO of another hugely ...READ»

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Steve Jobs: Adobe's Flash Is Old PC History, Open Web Is the Future

In a rare response to the chatter about Apple's tech feud with Adobe, Apple's Steve Jobs has declared that that the Web should really embrace open standards, even while the iPhone remains closed.Jobs just had Apple publish his musings ...READ»

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Analyzing Steve Jobs' Language at D8: He's a "People" Person!

So Uncle Steve appeared at the D8 conference, and now we know things about Apple and Steve's sex life that maybe we didn't before. But did you look at the language he used? We did, and there are a few nice surprises in there.Steve ...READ»

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Forget iPhone 4, Here's What Steve Jobs Didn't Mention During His WWDC Speech

Today's WWDC speech by Steve Jobs was in some ways, surprising. Despite a veritable armful of rumors, Steve mainly talked about a handful of tech, with emphasis on the new iPhone 4. So what did he leave out, and when may it come true ...READ»

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iFive: Steve Jobs' Keynote, BP's Payment Plan, Austerity Measures Around the Globe, Facebook IPO, Microsoft's TechEd

Morning, campers. While you were sleeping innovation was stealing a march on you. Here's what's been going on:1. Catch Steve Jobs' WWDC10 keynote in its entirety here. Marvel at the picture quality of iPhone 4 and its "retina ...READ»

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Steve Jobs on Google TV, PC's Demise, Theft, Extortion, Sex, and More at D8

Steve Jobs gave an interview at this year's D8 conference, and spoke with trademark candor on his competition, what he sees in Apple's future, and why Google TV might be doomed.READ»