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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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” [...]
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 [...]
“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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]