Steve Jobs

Drugs and Technology: There's A Link, Go Learn About It

Steve Jobs loved money. And drugs. And for the Apple co-founder, it was the latter that led to the former. In addition to being one of the most successful capitalists since Carnegie -- and a freakishly obsessive megalomaniac who debated the "purpose of a couch" with his wife -- the late billion ... More >>

Sans Steve Jobs, Apple Is Becoming Just Another Company

After Steve Jobs died, there was a lot of talk about whether the company could ever really be the same. Some said Jobs' DNA would stay in the company. Others said his absence meant that the company couldn't possibly be the same. Both things can be true at once. Recent events reveal that his absence ... More >>

Steve Jobs: Remembering an Insanely Great Capitalist

It was one year ago today that Steve Jobs died, which means everyone needs to put down their iPad for just one minute and remember the man who made your life cooler and more convenient with his genius inventions. For those of you who are glued to your gadgets, Apple was kind enough to make it a litt ... More >>

Creepy Steve Jobs Sculpture Is Partly Made of Apple Guru's Trash

Steve Jobs has apparently inspired art just as much as he's inspired tech. Look no further than this newly created, freakish sculpture of the Apple CEO himself which, believe it or not, was made of trash collected from Jobs' residential garbage bins.According to Cory Allen Contemporary Art, artist X ... More >>

Kariem McFarlin: Alleged Burglar Also Took Off With Steve Jobs' Wallet, License, and Car Key

Kariem McFarlin, the man accused of breaking into Steve Jobs' home last month, reportedly confessed to investigators, saying he was "desperate for cash" and saw the late Apple CEO's home vacant and under construction. According to press reports, McFarlin told police he had no clue the Palo Alto fort ... More >>

Steve Jobs' House Burglarized, Kariem McFarlin Arrested

Santa Clara authorities arrested a 35-year-old man who allegedly broke into Steve Jobs' Palo Alto home last month and stole more than $60,000 worth of computers and personal items from the late Apple CEO. Press reports say that Kariem McFarlin of Alameda was arrested on suspicion of residential burg ... More >>

Steve Jobs Documentary Brings Gays and Nerds Together

For those of you not yet satiated by the post-mortem insights reported on Steve Jobs, here's something else you can chew on. Steve Jobs: The Lost Interview, a documentary containing lost footage from a 1995 interview with the tech demigod, will be playing at the Castro Theatre on Tuesday night. The ... More >>

Virgin Airlines Emblazons Jet with Popular Steve Jobs Quote

​It's not quite on par with Hungary's idea to erect a statue of the late Apple CEO Steve Jobs, but Virgin America Airlines -- based in Silicon Valley -- came up with its own creative way of honoring Jobs' memory. According to MacRumors.com, Virgin Airlines -- perhaps best known for flying homeless ... More >>

The Steve Jobs Action Figure Is a Creepy, Plasticky Abomination

He made your computer, your phone, your TV entertainment system, your music player, and he created the store where you buy most of your music. But just in case you think your screen-circumscribed life isn't already a total shrine to Steve Jobs, the most arrogant technologist of our age, now there's ... More >>

At the Core of Jobs

Steve Jobs: Inside the Inbox of Apple's CEO

​Mark Milian, a tech writer for CNN.com, released his e-book yesterday titled Letters to Steve: Inside the E-mail Inbox of Apple's Steve Jobs, which chronicles -- among many things -- the prickly side of Jobs that we all found so endearing. In an interview with SF Weekly, Milian tells us how he re ... More >>

Steve Jobs' Biographer to Speak in S.F.

A mystery wrapped in an enigma ​Ever since Steve Jobs died a little more than a month ago, it seems all we want is to know more about the tech guru who revolutionized our lives. As SF Weekly's Taylor Friedman pointed out today, Jobs' cryptic final words left us all that much more intrigued by the ... More >>

Steve Jobs' Last Words: "Oh wow. Oh Wow. Oh Wow."

He certainly had the wow factor ​Steve Jobs' sister released some intimate details of the final moments of the high tech guru's life. In his eulogy, which was printed in the New York Times over the weekend, his biological sister explains how Jobs spent his last days and how he left us with some ra ... More >>

Steve Jobs Thought Google Was Evil

​Walter Isaacson's much-discussed biography of Steve Jobs hits bookstores today. Some tidbits from the book -- for which Isaacson obtained unprecedented access to Jobs, soliciting his views on everything from rival Silicon Valley CEOs to Obama's presidency -- have already leaked. But a new bombshe ... More >>

Steve Jobs Explains Why He Always Wore a Black Turtleneck

A trendsetter in so many ways ​In the week since Steve Jobs' died, he's been remembered as many things -- an insanely great capitalist, a total prick, and the man who reinvented the world. But among the many things that made Jobs remarkable, was his ability to wear the same outfit every single day ... More >>

Steve Jobs: Was He the Fifth Beatle?

​When such Earth-shattering stories as the death of Steve Jobs break, media outlets compete for readers amid a flurry of news reports on the same topic. Perhaps that's one reason you start to see hyperbolic headlines deeming him Jesus-like.In the case of Jobs' death, we're not saying Jobs, the hig ... More >>

R.I.P. Steve Jobs, an Insanely Great Capitalist

​As I write this, many of my Facebook friends are expressing their profound sadness, and actually issuing "thanks" to Steve Jobs, who died on Wednesday. I'm feeling the same way. It is astonishing that such sentiments can be felt, at this moment in history, about the CEO of any American corporat ... More >>

Steve Jobs Has Died

​Former Apple CEO Steve Jobs has died. Media outlets are reporting that Apple announced the 56-year-old tech guru died peacefully today surrounded by his family. Jobs died a day after Apple released  the iPhone 4s and nearly two months after he resigned as CEO of the company.Apple's Board of ... More >>

We Will Miss You Dearly, Steve Jobs

Steve Jobs, Apple founder, computer visionary, and music technology innovator, died today at age 56. His impact on many field of music technology is incalculable. Among many innovations, Jobs gave music fans the iPod, the iTunes store, the iPad, and the dedicated attention of one of the world's mos ... More >>

Sizzle & Fizzle: Highs and Lows from the Last Week in S.F. Music

Did Google Delete Steve Jobs?

faker!​Google has taken a hard line against "fake accounts," meaning unless you are a real person with a real name, you can't have a real account. And to show how serious the company is about booting fakers, Google seems to be keen on deleting Apple CEO Steve Jobs' account based on the fact that ... More >>

iSpaceship: Steve Jobs Crashes Curpertino City Council Meeting to Announce New Apple Campus

The iSpaceship has landed.​For a guy on medical leave since January, Steve Jobs is busier than ever. Just one day after announcing a raft of new software products at Apple's WWDC in San Francisco, Jobs appeared in front of a starstruck Cupertino City Council meeting, announcing plans to build a 12 ... More >>

Apple Stonewalls Efforts to Prepare Steve Jobs Obituary

Steve Jobs​Apple is trying to hinder reporters' efforts to keep a stored obituary of CEO Steve Jobs up to date, according to the New York Post.In advance of the 2011 Worldwide Developers Conference, which starts today in San Francisco, Associated Press reporters called around to refresh quotes on ... More >>

Apple Introduces iCloud at WWDC

What do you see in the iCloud?​As expected, Steve Jobs took the stage at Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco today, announcing the company's new iCloud product, which will allow users to upload and sync data across nearly every Apple device, for free. Jobs, who has been on me ... More >>

Steve Jobs Mocked on South Park, Introduces "HumancentiPad" (Video)

The humancentipad still feels something out of a horror movie​If there is anyone who can make Steve Jobs obscene, it's Trey Parker and Matt Stone -- the creators South Park. Staying true to their art, they have created an offensive version of the Apple CEO who introduces the revolutionary "Humance ... More >>

Applemania Strikes: Tickets to Apple Conference Going for $3,000

Is there room for one more at the WWDC?​How much would you pay to hang out with Apple nerds for a week?Okay, now take that number and add $3,000 -- that's what sold-out tickets are now going for on auction sites. Tickets to the Worldwide Developer's Conference in San Francisco this summer sold out ... More >>

Former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown Refused to 'Knight' Steve Jobs

That's not Steve Jobs behind the armor, it's Bill Gates​Steve Jobs might be considered a worthy pioneer in America, but in the United Kingdom, the high-tech guru still holds the title of a common man.Back in 2009, Former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown reportedly refused to grant the Apple CEO ... More >>

Apple Board Pressured to Say Who Will Replace Steve Jobs

Who could replace him?​Last week, photos of a pale and gaunt-looking Steve Jobs circulated the Internet; Apple stocks dropped and investors panicked about the state Jobs' health. With that in play, investor groups are pressuring the Apple board to tell us who will replace him. The Apple CEO has be ... More >>

Photos of Steve Jobs Looking 'Gaunt'; Apple Stocks Drop

How sick is he?​Apple's Steve Jobs reportedly left the Stanford Cancer Center in Palo Alto yesterday, which has reporters asking how sick is he?Photos that the National Enquirer published took of the frail and gaunt looking Jobs as he left the medical center are spreading across the web. All of th ... More >>

Is There Room Online For Apple's Ping Social Network to Succeed?

Christopher VictorioPing will let Lady Gaga reach out to her fans in new ways.​Apple CEO Steve Jobs announced today that his company is hopping on the social network bandwagon with a service, called Ping, that will connect music fans, musicians, and their friends and followers. Jobs describes Ping ... More >>

TMZ Sniffs Around Steve Jobs Flour Water Story; Arinell Myth Smells Fishy

TMZ to Flour Water: Permanent table for Jobs?.​You know things are getting classy when TMZ starts calling. Following reports of last Saturday's Steve Jobs Flour Water fail, the site that has LiLo and Oksana on permanent watch suddenly wants to know just how F W owners David White and David ... More >>

Even Steve Jobs Can't Get a Table at Flour Water

​We all know how hard it can be to land a table at Flour Water if you don't have a rezzie, especially on a Saturday night. Now even Steve Jobs knows it. Having more money than God didn't help Jobs last Saturday night, when he and a companion tried to get a table. Flour Water publicist Lia ... More >>

Spotted: Steve Jobs at Flour Water

​ Wait, who's that unassuming man in the background? Steve Jobs -- he's just like us! He loves his artisan pizza.via @lexylady

'There Is No Antennagate': Steve Jobs Wants You to Buy iPhone 4, Stop Bothering Him

Bread, circuses, and free crap for all you whiners...​No longer able to ignore the mounting flack from the press for ignoring the cries of enraged geeks -- and the empowered geeks at Consumer Reports --  Apple CEO Steve Jobs today addressed the sea of complaints about the iPhone 4's spotty an ... More >>

Apple: Steve Jobs 'It's Just a Phone' E-Mail a Hoax

​Perturbed owners of the class action lawsuit-inducing iPhone 4 were probably none too pleased to see a purported interchange between Apple's Steve Jobs and an irate iPhone owner in which the CEO concluded by telling the man "Retire, relax, enjoy your family. It is just a phone. Not worth it."Hey, ... More >>

You've Got Fail: iPhone OS 4 Slow to Load During Jobs' Keynote (PIC)

We're sitting on the floor of Moscone West watching the multiple live blogs of the Steve Jobs' keynote on our iPad, iPhone, and MacBook simultaneously. Apparently we're not the only ones who have failed this morning at the WWDC launch of the iPhone 4, among other things. According to TechCrunch's ... More >>

Does Jobs' No Mean Yes In The Case of Apple TV?

Apple TV, the final frontier.​ At AllThingsDigital conference in Los Angeles today, Apple CEO Steve Jobs seemingly put the kibosh on Apple's foray into the television market, stating, "The problem with innovation in the TV industry is the go-to-market strategy ... Ask TiVo, ask Roku, ask us... ask ... More >>

iCat: Best Cat With iPad Video Ever

While you've probably all seen "Cat Meet iPad" in all its iterations, the overwhelming appeal of cats and iPads is not a new phenomenon. Here's the original "When Cats and iPads Collide" video above, with a gratuitous link to "World's Fattest Cat" thrown in for good measure. Note to Steve Jobs: If ... More >>

iPad Has Risen: Steve Jobs Makes Easter Eve Appearance

Photo from KTVU/ via Gabe Rivera​ With around 700,000 units of what was presciently called the Jesus Tablet sold yesterday, it's worth noting that Steve Jobs, wearing a black hoodie and ripped jeans, revealed himself to his flock on Easter Eve at the Palo Alto Apple store a.k.a The Mothership.Thus ... More >>

A Tablet By Any Other Name: Anything is Better than iPad

Like many other people who failed junior high gym but got straight As in everything else, we were lucky enough to touch the future of the Internet earlier today at the Apple Event at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. And much like junior high, we too heard the snickers when it turned out that the cov ... More >>

All Tomorrow's Tablets: Will Steve Jobs Bring Back Reading?

On Wednesday, Apple's secrecy-clad chief Steve Jobs will unveil a new gadget, a tablet computer that he's been said to have called "the most important thing I've ever done." Depending on who you ask, the magic tablet will either deliver a new way to read the written word, or it'll be a way to watch ... More >>

5 Products Probably Not Launching at the Apple Keynote Event

New iTablet?​Oh my goodness, oh my goodness! Less than a month until the (possible) Apple Keynote! What will we wear? Who will be speaking? Again, WHAT WILL WE WEAR?Engadget and Mashable reported rumors yesterday of an early September Apple keynote event, causing mass hysteria (sort of) in the tec ... More >>

Is Steve Jobs Mortal? In 2007, SF Weekly Was the First to Ask

Now that Apple CEO Steve Jobs has announced he'll take an illness-related leave of absence, the global faithful are asking themselves: Wait a minute; which is it? Is he the all-knowing, all-being master of lightness and dark, as we've been led to believe? Or is he a mere flesh-and-blood mortal? As i ... More >>

Apple's Jobs Suffering From "Hormone Imbalance"

Rumors that Apple CEO Steven P. Jobs is in deteriorating health have been abroad at least since last summer, when journalists and tech-market analysts began fretting aloud over his gaunt appearance. For the many investors who care about Apple's stock, this is no idle worry. The mystique-laden Jobs, ... More >>

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