Tag: Steve Jobs

Ashton Kutcher to play late Apple founder Steve Jobs in upcoming biopic

Ashton Kutcher to play late Apple founder Steve Jobs in upcoming biopic

Ashton Kutcher is playing Steve Jobs. According to the AP, Kutcher’s publicist has confirmed that the “Two and a Half Men” star will play the late Apple co-founder in the indie film “Jobs.” According to Variety, which first broke the news on Sunday, the movie will follow Jobs on the journey that took him from “wayward [...]

April 3, 2012 | 0 Comments More
Steve Jobs’s FBI file reveals tendency to ‘distort reality’ and drug use

Steve Jobs’s FBI file reveals tendency to ‘distort reality’ and drug use

Though sections have been redacted and more than two dozen interviews are narrated in dry officialese, the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s 191-page file on Steve Jobs, released Thursday, reveals numerous lively details about the Apple co-founder’s personal life and professional past, as recounted to FBI agents by his colleagues, neighbors and friends. The document confirms much [...]

February 10, 2012 | 0 Comments More
Steve Jobs Wins Grammy: Trustees Award Honor For Late Apple Founder

Steve Jobs Wins Grammy: Trustees Award Honor For Late Apple Founder

Steve Jobs will be honored with a posthumous Grammy Award, the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences announced on Wednesday. The late Apple founder and tech icon will receive the Trustees Award for having “helped create products and technology that transformed the way we consume music, TV, movies, and books,” the Academy said in a [...]

December 22, 2011 | 0 Comments More
Barbara Walters Names Steve Jobs Most Fascinating Person Of 2011

Barbara Walters Names Steve Jobs Most Fascinating Person Of 2011

Barbara Walters’ named Apple co-founder Steve Jobs as 2011′s “most fascinating person in the world” Wednesday night, on her annual special for ABC’s “20/20.” Walters’ announced her special in November, and received some push back from her “View” co-host Joy Behar when she unveiled that The Kardashians had made the list. As always, Walters’ kept her “most fascinating person” [...]

December 15, 2011 | 0 Comments More
9 Surprising Details About Jobs From Isaacson’s New Biography

9 Surprising Details About Jobs From Isaacson’s New Biography

How Apple got its name, why Steve Jobs wore black turtlenecks and the bizarre interview questions the Apple CEO would ask job candidates: these are just a few of the revelations presented in Walter Isaacson’s biography of Steve Jobs. The 571-page book, out October 24, is based on more than a hundred interviews, including over forty with [...]

October 25, 2011 | 0 Comments More
The Jobs Reading through List: The Books And Artists That Made The Guy

The Jobs Reading through List: The Books And Artists That Made The Guy

“I like living at the intersection of the humanities and technology,” Steve Jobs said once. LSD, Bauhaus and Zen Buddhism shaped Apple’s pioneering products as much as anything that took place on the assembly lines. They were among Jobs’ greatest influences and they shaped his attitudes toward design, business and innovation. The books Jobs read, [...]

October 24, 2011 | 0 Comments More
Moscow Apple Museum Planned As Steve Jobs Tribute

Moscow Apple Museum Planned As Steve Jobs Tribute

Andrei Antonov, who has been collecting rare Apple memorabilia for the last three decades, is now publicly floating the idea of creating an Apple Museum in Moscow. The Moscow printer’s collection of rare Apple computer products may become a public tribute to Steve Jobs’ life work and the inventiveness of the corporation he founded with [...]

October 9, 2011 | 0 Comments More
Steve jobs: student, teacher and leader in revolutionizing education and technology

Steve jobs: student, teacher and leader in revolutionizing education and technology

In a time of educational debate and shuffling nationwide, a college dropout, businessman and paragon of technological innovation emerged as an inadvertent, but forceful, momentum for an educational revolution around the world. Steve Jobs wasn’t the best student in the traditional sense, as he dropped out of college within six months of enrolling. But in [...]

October 9, 2011 | 0 Comments More
Steve jobs: an educator and his education

Steve jobs: an educator and his education

After Steve Jobs stepped down from his post as Apple’s CEO, his innovative career was enthusiastically celebrated by the media and public alike. Starting with his founding of Apple Computer when he was in his early twenties, Jobs has left his mark on the personal computer, the laptop, the mobile phone, the tablet computer, recorded [...]

October 9, 2011 | 0 Comments More
Steve jobs: what students can learn from him

Steve jobs: what students can learn from him

Today, Steve Jobs died. A month ago, when I wrote the note that follows, he had just resigned as President of Apple Inc., the company he founded to become its Chairman. The note was not intended as an elegy, but rather, as a paean to Jobs’ leadership and vision. Over the past thirty years, I [...]

October 9, 2011 | 0 Comments More
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