By Todd Haselton |
Bill Gates recently sat down for an interview with 60 Minutes in which he discussed his final conversations with the late Steve Jobs. Gates said he was able to spend time with Jobs while the then Apple CEO was sick and that they discussed what the…
By Ron Duwell |
Funny or Die’s iSteve is now available on the comedy website after a delay pushed back its release date. You can watch the movie for free here. The film stars Justin Long, the Mac guy, and Lost‘s Jorge Garcia in a very satirical interpretation of…
By Ron Duwell |
Verizon Communications CEO Lowell McAdam might have played a huge part in Steve Jobs’ decision to include LTE in the iPhone 5. Speaking at the National Association of Broadcasters, McAdam recalled a meeting he had with the late Apple CEO and said in part he…
By Adriana Lee |
When Funny or Die announced it was making a Steve Jobs biopic spoof and casting Justin Long, the “I’m a Mac” hipster from the old Apple commercials, we were bracing ourselves. Would it be smart? Silly? A little uncomfortable? Totally hilarious? Hard to tell from…
By Todd Haselton |
Steve Jobs’ first boss was Nolan Bushnell, the founder of Atari. In Steve Jobs the book about the late Apple CEO’s life, Walter Isaacson discusses Jobs’ time working for Bushnell and how, after arguments and general dislike for Steve Jobs among other employees, Bushnell asked Jobs…
By Adriana Lee |
Move over, Ashton Kutcher and Aaron Sorkin. There’s a new Steve Jobs biopic coming to town. (Well, sorta.) And there’s no fiddling with facts this time around. In fact, aside from there being an actual man named Steve Jobs who ran Apple, there are few…
By Sean P. Aune |
Folks who expected to see the biographical film of Steve Jobs starring Ashton Kutcher in their local cineplexes next month are going to have to wait a little longer as the release has been delayed. Although Steve Wozniak has said what he has seen of…
By Ron Duwell |
Before he eventually co-founded Apple in his parent’s garage in 1976, Steve Jobs first entered the tech world working for Atari founder Nolan Bushnell who was riding sky high after the success of the video game Pong. Jobs was put to work creating the follow…
By Adriana Lee |
Actors sometimes do some crazy things to prepare for their roles on the big screen. Some so thoroughly inhabit their characters, they can’t (or won’t) shut them off even off-camera, like Daniel Day-Lewis. Others pork up or whittle way, way down, like Bridget Jones’s Diary’s…
By Adriana Lee |
Since the first glimpse of the upcoming movie, JOBS, has gone into the wild, reactions have been mixed. Some people can’t get over Ashton Kutcher playing the lead role of Steve Jobs, while others seem to enjoy the dramatization of the late tech legend’s life.…
By Sean P. Aune |
You’ll be able to see Ashton Kutcher playing Apple co-founder Steve Jobs at your local theater beginning April 19. We already had heard that JOBS: Get Inspired would open in April, but now we have an official date for the wide release of the film:…
By Todd Haselton |
Last year several engineers brought a lawsuit against Apple, Google, Intel, Pixar and other firms over an alleged secret “no poaching” policy. Basically, the firms were accused of entering an agreement not to poach one another’s employees. That sounds good on paper, but it’s not…
By Todd Haselton |
The local residents of St. Petersburg, Russia have erected a large six foot tall iPhone statue to commemorate the late Steve Jobs. The device was placed in the the courtyard of St. Petersburg National Research University of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics, Daily Mail said. The monument also…
By Adriana Lee |
“jOBS,” the much-anticipated film starring Ashton Kutcher as Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, finally got a release period: Open Road Films and Five Star Feature films has announced that the biopic will be hitting screens this April, after it closes out the Sundance Film Festival this month. Chronicling…
By Sean P. Aune |
Steve Jobs’ yacht, Venus, has been freed from its Amsterdam dock after his estate paid off the last of its bills. Last week there was a report that the Venus had been impounded due to an unpaid bill of €3 million (approx. $3.95 million USD) to…
By Todd Haselton |
The late Steve Jobs’ yacht was recently impounded in Amsterdam following a dispute over an unpaid bill to the vessel’s designer. The boat was architected by Philippe Starck, a French designer, and cost more than $100 million Euros to build. Jobs ultimately owed 9 million euro…
By Sean P. Aune |
jOBS: Get Inspired. was originally going to be a television movie, but it appears that things may be changing ever so slightly. It was announced last April that Ashton Kutcher would be playing Steve Jobs in a biographical picture of the Apple co-founder’s life. The story will…
By Brandon Russell |
Tim Cook, Apple CEO and replacement to Steve Jobs, is perceived as an affable and passionate diplomat whose temperament, while not quite as enthralling as Jobs, is calm and enthusiastic. His presence hasn’t quite achieved rock star status, but that in no way means he…
By Brandon Russell |
The upcoming Steve Jobs biopic that’s being penned by Oscar-winning screenwriter Aaron Sorkin will only be three scenes long. It’s not what you think. Each scene, according to Sorkin, will be roughly thirty minutes in length, and consist of backstage moments leading up to some…
By Todd Haselton |
Michael Lopp, a former senior engineer at Apple, recently took to his blog to discuss the departure of several of Apple’s senior executives, including the company’s former head of iOS, Scott Forstall. Lopp starts off his post with one sentence that digs deep: “Apple is…
By Adriana Lee |
Okay, so maybe Steve Jobs was wrong about the iPad’s size — apparently the Mini is becoming quite the go-to device for Apple fans — but that doesn’t mean he isn’t missed. That other Jobs operation, the little animation studio known as Pixar, has quite…
By Killian Bell |
Apple issued a press release on Monday that announced a major executive shakeup within the Cupertino company, which will see its senior vice president of iOS software, Scott Forstall, and the recently appointed senior vice president of retail, John Browett, ousted from their positions.…
By Sean P. Aune |
Steve Jobs’ yacht, Venus, has officially launched in the Dutch city of Aalsmeer with his widow and three children in attendance for the event. It was revealed in Walter Isaacson’s biography of Jobs that the former Apple CEO was spending some of his final days…
By Killian Bell |
Apple has begun its preparations at San Jose’s California Theater ahead of Tuesday’s iPad mini announcement. The Cupertino company has erected a number of eye-catching posters, which match the brightly colored event invitations it sent out to the press last Tuesday. As opposed to big banners sprawled…
