Steve Jobs’ father regrets giving him up for adoption; hopes to one day meet...
Those familiar with Steve Jobs’ life story know that Jobs was adopted as a child and has never met his birth parents. It’s also well known that Jobs’ biological father is of Syrian descent. In the wake...
View ArticleApple accuses Samsung of violating RAND obligations; Samsung doesn’t quite...
Samsung last Tuesday filed a motion seeking to dismiss Apple’s counterclaims. Since this case involves so many different motions, here’s a super quick recap to get you up to speed. Apple first sued...
View ArticleSprint holding “special presentation” on October 7, coincidence?
Sprint employees may not be allowed to talk about it, but it’s largely believed that the nation’s third largest carrier will be getting both the iPhone 4 and the iPhone 5 in early October. Over the...
View ArticleNFL’s Tampa Bay Buccaneers replace playbooks with iPad 2s
As competitors still struggle to sell tablets that aren’t iPads (ridiculous firesales aside), Apple’s iPad continues to make inroads into all sorts of interesting places. Over the past few weeks, we’ve...
View ArticleUS seeks to block AT&T’s T-Mobile acquisition; claims it will stifle...
AT&T this past May decided to use some of their iPhone profits and acquire T-Mobile from Deutsche Telekom for $39 billion. Should the deal approve regulative scrutiny, AT&T would leapfrog...
View ArticleiPhone 5 rumored to launch in New Zealand on October 9
A recent report allegedly sourced from someone within Apple claims that the iPhone 5 will launch in New Zealand on October 9th. Admittedly, I’m not terribly interested in the iPhone launch date in New...
View ArticleCeramic iPhone horn provides volume boost sans wires and batteries
What you’re looking at here isn’t a modern day incarnation of the conch from Lord of the Flies, but rather a thoughtfully designed and clever iPhone speaker that doesn’t require cords, batteries, or...
View ArticleApple employee misplaces/loses another iPhone prototype at San Francisco bar...
You know, I figured I stood a better chance of getting hit by lightning twice than an Apple employee losing yet another iPhone prototype at a bar. Yet, the unthinkable has happened according to an...
View ArticleDoes icon in Photo Stream beta give away iPhone 5 form factor?
Did Apple just tip its hand regarding the form factor of the upcoming iPhone 5? Amid swirling rumors of an iPhone with a larger screen comes this screenshot taken from the latest Photo Stream beta...
View ArticleSteve Jobs the neighbor
Lisen Stromberg, a Palo Alto neighbor of Steve Jobs, writes about the former Apple CEO from a different perspective, describing him in a role markedly different from the one he occupied as the head of...
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