Sony's biopic of late Apple CEO and co-founder Steve Jobs is shaping up to be quite a film — much better than the indie flick that Ashton Kutcher is starring in.
Not only does the studio own the rights to Jobs' widely-popular biography, but Variety is reporting that it has just tapped Aaron Sorkin to write the script for the movie...
Such is the confidence Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak has in the leadership abilities of Facebook’s boss Mark Zuckerberg that he would buy shares of the social networking giant when it goes public on May 17 no matter the opening price.
The famous engineer who created the Apple I computer and co-created the Apple II system in the mid-1970s also sees the 28-year-old Facebook CEO closer to the combination of himself and Steve Jobs.
Specifically, Wozniak called Zuck a "real acute" businessman who mixes technical ability with the vision and corporate acumen of Steve Jobs...
TMZ, a celebrity news site, just posted a set of nice photos depicting actor Ashton Kutcher dressed in Apple's late co-founder Steve Jobs' classic attire.
The image was allegedly taken as Kutcher was making his way to the set of an upcoming independently produced biopic aptly named Jobs: Get Inspired.
The flick is not to be confused with Sony's biopic entitled Steve Jobs: The Movie, based on Walter Isaacson's authorized bio book.
Here, have a look at Kutcher channeling Jobs and tell us what you think...
Remember Apple's '1994' corporate video with Jobs impersonating Franklin Delano Roosevelt we told you about last week? Apparently, not everyone liked it so here's a different one from the depths of the web archives, also sporting brief Jobs cameo appearance.
Just like the '1994' clip, it's aimed squarely at Apple's arch-enemy in the early days, the almighty IBM. Dubbed 'Blue Busters' and dating back to 1984, this four-minute footage was shown at the same worldwide sales staff meeting in Hawaii in October 1984 like the '1994' clip...
Disney CEO Bob Iger, who got named to Apple's board last year, shares some interesting tidbits with Fortune concerning life at Disney and his management style.
He apparently runs the Mickey Mouse house a lot like late Apple CEO Steve Jobs had used to lead the consumer electronics powerhouse he co-founded.
Iger also let us in on how he'd persuaded Disney's board of directors to greenlight a risky acquisition of Jobs-owned animation studio Pixar, even though the board was unsure whether Pixar was for sale at the time...
As we previously reported, Steve Jobs: The Lost Interview hit nineteen Landmark Theaters last November. For those who missed this intriguing documentary, Magnolia Pictures will do another limited run in nineteen cities beginning May 11.
This documentary is based on the recently retrieved 70-minute interview between Steve Jobs and Robert Cringely for a 1996 PBS documentary entitled Triumph of the Nerds: The Rise of Accidental Empires...
From the depths of the Interwebs comes this little gem with young Steve Jobs playing Franklin Delano Roosevelt. The amusing and charming scene is actually part of a never-before-seen morale-boosting internal film entitled '1994', in a nod at the iconic television commercial that launched the Macintosh craze 28 years ago.
It depicts a World War II tale of good (Apple) vs. evil (IBM) and cost about $50,000 to make which, back in 1994, was a lot of money for a company video. Apple produced this footage to rally up troops at their international sales force meet up in Hawaii...
The internet went abuzz yesterday as Facebook's Zuckerberg dropped hints of a new feature said to "save lives".
Turns out the Facebook co-founder and CEO was speaking literally: today, the social network unveiled a new tool aptly named Organ Donor.
It's basically a way of letting anyone identify their organ donor status on their Facebook Timeline. The move should help over 114,000 people waiting for transplants in the United States alone.
Zuck also said it was inspired by late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, who underwent a liver transplant in 2009 and later that year publicly urged WWDC attendees to become organ donors...
If neither Walter Isaacson's authorized bio book on Steve Jobs nor Fortune Editor-at-large Adam Lashinsky's Inside Apple didn't satisfy your hunger for Apple's dirty little secrets and the inner workings of the world's most powerful corporation, it'll be a case of third time lucky with this one.
Enter Insanely Simple: The Obsession That Drives Apple's Success by Ken Segall, another not-to-be-missed download for your collection of e-books on Apple. It just debuted on the iBookstore, offering a fascinating inside look at Apple's secret weapon and also their corporate religion: simplicity...
Thanks to his biography, Steve Jobs' feelings on Android are fairly well known. The late-CEO famously said, "I'm going to destroy Android, because it's a stolen product. I'm willing to go thermonuclear war on this."
Considering that Apple is involved in a number of lawsuits around the globe with Android manufacturers, it's easy to see that Jobs' remarks weren't totally unfounded. But did Google actually steal anything?
The name Jonathan Mak Long may not mean much to you, but you've probably familiar with the above image he put together shortly after Steve Jobs passed on October 5 of last year.
The unique tribute to Apple's late CEO cleverly combines the Apple logo with Jobs’ familiar silhouette. The image went viral, earning the young Hong Kong student of design Internet fame and recognition.
Matter of fact, his recognition was so global that he surfaced on the radar of advertising agency Ogilvy China, which contracted him to design Coca Cola's new social campaign...
Technology journalist Brent Schlender has “found” hours worth of audio interviews with Steve Jobs spanning 25 years that offer a couple interesting previously unknown tidbits about Apple’s late co-founder.
The treasure trove of Schlender's talks with Jobs cover different milestones in Jobs' career and expand on the previously published quotes.
For example, Jobs explains more than two decades ago how exactly he missed the importance of the network even though it was another important innovation that had been presented to him at Xerox's Parc technology laboratory.