Steve Jobs death has been greatly exaggerated
News outlet Bloomberg gave Apple fans and investors a huge scare late yesterday when it accidentally published an incomplete version of Steve Jobs obituary over its wire service.
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28.8.2008 The death of Wikipedia?
Wikipedia, the encyclopedia that "anyone can edit," was a nice experiment in the "democratization" of publishing, but it didn't quite work out. Wikipedia is dead. It died the way the pure products of idealism always do, slowly and quietly and largely in secret, through the corrosive process of compromise.
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25.5.2006 Death of the apps installer?
One of the great bugbears for developers is the issue of fitting their splendid new applications code to the requirements demanded by applications installers. But could this be about to disappear as a problem? According to David Greschler, co-founder and VP of corporate marketing with Softricity, the answer is a soundly political ?maybe?.
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24.4.2006 Jobs: Windows is hell
Apple Inc.'s CEO Steve Jobs compared Windows to hell in an on-stage conversation with the Wall Street Journal's personal technology columnist Walt Mossberg at the newspaper's D: All Things Digital conference yesterday.
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1.6.2007 Steve Jobs Goes to Microsoft
Steve Jobs, Apple’s Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, putting a single foot inside the Redmond campus, Microsoft’s fief, would be nothing short of a sacrilegious move.
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29.11.2007 Blue death on my hand :)
Jobs: iPhone is winning
Did you think Apple didn’t care that its former hardware guru Jon Rubinstein and a bunch of former Apple employees left the company to help Palm create an iPhone-competitor in the Palm Pre? Think again.
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22.6.2009 Open Letter from Steve Jobs
The August 2006 appearance, one of Jobs' 'weakest'
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In what is one of the most surprising moves from Apple's CEO this year, Steve Jobs has posted an open letter to the Apple Community, admitting health issues had to do with his not attending the Macworld Expo this year.
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6.1.2009 Steve Jobs nearly died and lied about it
I did not intend to offend anyone, and I admit to a bias in favor of Steve Jobs. I thought long and hard before posting. But what if this had happened to Warren Buffett 25 years ago?
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24.6.2009 Study: Vista to Create Jobs, Revenue
A Microsoft-sponsored study says that Windows Vista will generate some $70 billion in revenue and create up to 100,000 jobs in the first year of its release.
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12.12.2006 When Bill Gates met Steve Jobs
Here are some photos and cartoons of Bill Gates met Steve Jobs.
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29.5.2007 Jobs unveils new iMacs, iLife and iWork
Steve Jobs is on stage at Apple’s headquarters introducing the new iMacs. I am sitting in the second row and prohibited from taking photos unless I move to the back row with the professional photographers snapping away with motor drives.
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7.8.2007 At the Roots of Windows Blue Screen of Death
Unfortunately for Microsoft, one of the aspects of its proprietary operating system that has grown to become associated by default with the Windows brand is the Blue Screen of Death. BSOD, for short, is the result of a critical system error that will stop the operating system dead in its tracks and lead to a reboot.
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17.7.2008 The Death of the Windows Desktop Operating System
The death of the Windows desktop operating system is not necessarily related to the non-Windows platform Midori developed in Redmond, or with a Rich Internet Application platform hosted in the cloud. entrustIT, a Microsoft Gold partner in the UK offered a glimpse at where the evolution of IT will inherently take the Windows client.
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5.8.2008 Microsoft set to cut 5,000 jobs
Microsoft announced its second quarter results today and as many had predicted there are some job cuts involved.
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23.1.2009 Steve Jobs officially back at Apple
True to their word, Apple have had CEO Steve Jobs return back to work, at the end of June.
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29.6.2009 Microsoft: Vista's 'Black Screen of Death' Is a Hoax
Many other news sites have just picked up the original article believing that it's legit. We have already updated our original post from last night and are posting the following to correct any disinformation out there.
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12.9.2007 Gates and Jobs share stage, friendly banter at D5
Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates and Apple CEO Steve Jobs took the stage at the D5 conference Wednesday night for a rare joint appearance.
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31.5.2007 Michael Jacksons death themed malware campaigns spreading
The sudden death of Michael Jackson quickly opened a window of opportunity for cybercriminals to capitalize on.
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26.6.2009 Black Screen of Death for XP SP3 and Vista SP1 Upgrades
Microsoft has warned end users that performing Windows XP Service Pack 3 and Windows Vista Service Pack 1 upgrades from copies of XP SP2 and Vista RTM, respectively, that have Onekey Recovery 5.0 installed will cause the operating systems to display a black screen following reboot.
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9.8.2008 OneCare Death to Make Room for Free Morro Antivirus for Windows 7
A future core antimalware solution will replace Windows Live OneCare, which, considering the price of a one year subscription, has already qualified for an alternative to free security software, come mid-2009.
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25.11.2008 Windows 7 RTM Black Screen of Death after Forced Shutdown Actions
Microsoft has informed users of an issue that prevents Windows 7 from starting after the computer the OS is installed on has been forced shut down.
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7.10.2009 IDC: 50,000 New Jobs in 2007 in Europe Due to Windows Vista
At a briefing in Brussels, Belgium, Microsoft and International Data Corporation (IDC) announced details of a study into the expected economic impact of Microsoft Windows Vista in six key European markets- Denmark, France, Germany, Poland, Spain and the UK.
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18.9.2006 Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Michael Dell Top List of IT Influencers
Gates was named by 84% of the participants, Jobs by 73%, and Dell by 53% of CompTIA voters.
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7.11.2007 Windows XP SP3 Brings the Death of SP2 - July 13, 2010
The advent of Windows XP Service Pack 3 has brought with it the proverbial "beginning of the end" for its predecessor, Service Pack 2.
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19.5.2008 Vista SP1 Application Compatibility Update Fixes Black Screens of Death
With the release of the gold version of Service Pack 1, but also with the maturing of the software and hardware environment orbiting around the Windows client, Windows Vista's compatibility level has continually increased.
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14.8.2008 From XP SP3 and Vista SP1 to Windows 7 - the Slow Death of 32-bit Windows
Moving onward from Windows XP Service Pack 3 and Windows Vista Service Pack 1 to Windows 7, Microsoft is gearing up for the death of 32-bit versions of the Windows client. On the server-side, Window's transition to 64-bit only architectures is almost complete, with Windows Server 2008 being the last server operating system from Microsoft with support for 32-bit CPUs.
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31.7.2008Vonage: We Are Not Going Away
According to Vonage, rumors of
its demise due to its ongoing
patent litigation with Verizon
have been greatly exaggerated.
Vonage is accused by Verizon
of violating seven patents
covering telephone features
and the use of Wi-Fi to place
telephone calls...
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26.02.2007HD DVD: Format War Ain't Over 'Til It's Over
To paraphrase Mark Twain, HD
DVD's impending death has
been greatly exaggerated.
That's the word from the HD
DVD camp, given the press
pessimism about the format
following last week's news
that Target's only
stand-alone high-def DVD
player would be Blu-ray.
As another blow
to HD DVD, Video Business
reported late last week that
BJ's Wholesale club would
stock only Blu-ray discs. And
in June, Blockbuster announced
that it would offer only the
Blu-ray DVD format for rental
in 1,700 of its stores. The HD
DVD format is still being
offered through the company's
online channel,
blockbuster.com, as well as
through the 250 stores that
currently carry both
formats.
But
the HD DVD camp is saying, in
effect, that the battles are
swaying this way and that, and
that the war is still on. Each
side has competitive
advantages that it is
emphasizing, although most
observers agree that Blu-ray
has been doing better in
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31.07.2007Apple's Culture of Secrecy
"No one wants to die," said Apples chief executive, Steven P. Jobs. "And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped
it."
It was a little over three years ago that Mr. Jobs spoke those existential words, in a commencement address at Stanford.
His thoughts about death came during a portion of his speech in which he publicly discussed for the one and only time, so far as I can tell his
brush with pancreatic cancer.
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27.07.2008Fortune names Steve Jobs 'CEO of the decade'
Fortune magazine has named Apple CEO, Steve Jobs, as "CEO of the decade". In an article confirming the title, Fortune wrote: "How's this for
a gripping corporate story line: Youthful founder gets booted from his company in the 1980s, returns in the 1990s, and in the following decade
survives two brushes with death, one securities-law scandal, an also-ran product lineup, and his own often unpleasant demeanor to become the dominant
personality in four distinct industries, a billionaire many times over, and CEO of the most valuable company in Silicon Valley." Jobs has certainly
turned Apple around.
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06.11.2009iPhone and the Death of the Mobile Web
PERSPECTIVE Regardless
of whether or not you bought
into the flash and hype that
accompanied the iPhone's
launch, Apple's newest device
is important not for what
features it brings, but for
what it makes obsolete. The
death knell has been rung for
the mobile Web...
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07.07.2007Reports of Linksys' death exaggerated says Cisco
John Chambers' statement,
posted on YouTube , that the
Linksys brand would be phased
out seemed pretty unequivocal,
but the word from Cisco is
that the brand will be around
for a while yet.
In response to questions
at a media roundtable,
Chambers said: "
will come over time into a
Cisco brand. The reason we
kept Linksys' brand because
it was better known in the US
than even Cisco was for the
consumer. As you go globally
there's very little advantage
in that."
However a posting
on the official Cisco blog
site says otherwise: "There
have been some questions
lately about whether the
Linksys brand would be folded
into the Cisco brand. Here is
our response: 'Linksys
consumer and SMB products will
continue to be marketed under
the Linksys brand and co-exist
in the market with Cisco
branded connected home
products over the near term.
We will continue to examine
our branding strategy going
forward (as we have to date)
and make changes if and when
these changes add value to our
customers' decision making
processes and our channel
partners."..
winbeta.org - 01.08.2007
Creative settles over MP3 player capacities
Creative becomes the second company behind Seagate to settle with consumers over exaggerated drive capacity...
betanews.com - 02.05.2008
Vista's Purple Screen of Death
We've all heard of (and, quite unfortunately, experienced) the infamous Blue Screen of Death. Some of us who tested the earlier Windows Vista beta builds had the unique experience of trying out the Red of Screen Death, which occurred when the bootloader
experienced an un-handled exception (we experienced more than our fair share of these during the early days of EasyBCD development!). And then
there's Vista's Purple Screen of
Death, which few have seen.
winbeta.org - 04.12.2007
Steve Jobs attributes weight loss to hormone imbalance
Apple chief executive Steve Jobs has been suffering from a "hormone imbalance" throughout 2008 but plans to stay on as the company CEO. In a letter
posted by Jobs and addressed to the Apple Community, Jobs confirms he has been suffering from weight loss and ill health for a number of months. Apple
fans are desperately hoping Jobs will make a surprise appearance at this weeks MacWorld expo. Jobs was due to keynote at the expo but Apple announced
this year is their last MacWorld and no Steve Jobs this time around. Last week popular gadget blog Gizmodo, posted an article stating Steve Jobs'
health was declining rapidly.
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neowin.net - 05.01.2009
Jobs: iTunes Served 2 Billion Songs
Starting off his yearly
keynote at MacWorld 2007 in
San Francisco, Steve Jobs said
"we're going to make
history." Indeed the
company has -- with Jobs
noting nearly half of the new
Macs sold at retail have been
to new Macintosh customers...
betanews.com - 09.01.2007
Jobs to duck Macworld keynote, drawing concern
Apple CEO Steve Jobs won't be delivering the keynote at next month's Macworld, a revelation that's sounding off new alarm bells about Jobs' health
and Apple's succession plans...
betanews.com - 18.12.2008
Apple co-founder Steve Jobs named Fortune 'CEO of the Decade'
For his role in turning Apple into a groundbreaking technology leader and the most valuable company in Silicon Valley, Fortune Magazine has
named Steve Jobs its "CEO of the Decade."
The magazine's profile of Jobs noted that the
54-year-old overcame rejection from his own company in the 1980s, a Securities and Exchange Commission
investigation scandal, two brushes
with death and "his own often unpleasant demeanor" to earn the title. Given that Jobs has transformed American business, the publication has
heralded the 2000s as "the decade of Steve."
winbeta.org - 05.11.2009
How to prevent Windows Vista's green ribbon of death
David A. Karp: Don't you just love it when something is so notorious
for a particular shortcoming that a new term is invented to describe it? It happened with the Windows Blue Screen of Death. It happened with the
Spinning Beach Ball of Death in Mac OS X. And it happened with the odd-number curse, referring to every other Star Trek film.
Now
it has happened with Vista's own Green Ribbon of Death, shown below.
The green ribbon is basically a progress bar, a screen
element Microsoft has sadly gone to great pains to excise from Windows Vista. But this particular progress bar is the harbinger of death for the
active Windows Explorer window, which, unfortunately, is not uncommon in Vista.
winbeta.org - 18.02.2008
How to create a Blue Screen of Death
Feeling nostalgic about the Microsoft Blue Screen of Death, which used to plague desktops in the bad old days of Windows? No need to keep those
feelings locked away. This handy guide will show you how to force your PC to recreate the infamous error.
winbeta.org - 21.08.2008
Microsoft Blames Family for Xbox Fire, Infant Death
In a move that was largely
expected legally, but could
prove more difficult to
explain to the media and
consumers, Microsoft is asking
a court to dismiss a lawsuit
that claims an Xbox caught
fire and led to the death of
an infant. Microsoft says the
baby's parents are to blame
for abusing the Xbox...
betanews.com - 02.08.2007
Apple releases iTunes 8 update to fix Vista blue screen of death
UPDATED Apple has released an updated version of iTunes 8 to correct the blue screen of death problems some users have been experiencing after
installing the software. The issue relates to a driver that conflicts with Windows Vista...
betanews.com - 13.09.2008
Steve Jobs to make a surprise appearance at WWDC?
According to the Wall Street Journal Steve Jobs may be making a surprise appearance at this year's WWDC on June 8th. This, if you think about it,
makes perfect sense for Jobs to return and announce the new version of the iPhone. Stemming from reports that Jobs had been seen on Apple's
campus and the fact that Steve Wozniak has said himself that Jobs sounds fine all leads up to a triumphant return at the WWDC. The WSJ reiterates
this as well too by saying that "Two people who do business with Apple said senior Apple managers have told them the company is now trying to
coordinate Mr.
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neowin.net - 05.06.2009
Jobs: iTunes Songs to Stay at
99 Cents
Don't expect the price of
songs on iTunes to rise in the
near future, at least if Steve
Jobs has his way. Calling the
record labels
"greedy," Jobs said
Apple has no plans to up
prices. He mentioned that the
profit margins on digital
music are much higher than
conventional distribution...
betanews.com - 21.09.2005
Steve Wozniak: Steve Jobs sounds "healthy, energetic"
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak said Steve Jobs sounds "healthy, energetic" a month before he is expected to return to the company, reports The Wall
Street Journal. "Mr. Jobs doesn't sound like he's sick, nor did he seem to be in a health crisis.", he said. Back in January, Steve Jobs
admitted poor health. and took a medical leave of absence. He was also too weak to attend a city council meeting. Steve Jobs health has been the
subject of widespread speculation.
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neowin.net - 01.06.2009
The economy and technology
We are currently living during extraordinary times; a subprime mortgage mess that has effectively put the entire world economy on hold. Everything
from neighborhood grocery stores to the biggest software makers are feeling the pinch. Chipset makers to hardware provides are not immune either and
are laying off employees left and right to help remain profitable. The past few weeks have been brutal to tech industry employees. Microsoft made a
historic announcement and said that it will be cutting 5,000 jobs, Sony will cut 16,000 jobs, Seagate will axe 800 jobs, Google will remove 100 jobs,
Logitech cuts 500 jobs and the list, unfortunately goes on and on with companies slashing jobs.
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neowin.net - 25.01.2009
