In January, the New York Times published a controversial and troubling report about working conditions in Chinese FoxConn factories where products are manufactured. Beneath the smooth exterior of the iPads and iPhones that have so captured the American imagination was a supply chain riddled with workers’ rights issues. CEO responded by saying that cares “about every […]
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is getting into the hardware business. Earlier reports that was testing out a new, secret device in peoples’ homes had people scratching their heads. What could this secret device be? It turns out that is developing a home entertainment device under its own brand. For the past few years, the Android team has been developing […]
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Imagine you had a time machine that could only take you back in time ten years. The two towers had already fallen ten years ago in the horrifying September 11th attacks. George W. Bush had only been president for about a year. Everyone had the internet already, though it was significantly slower than it is […]
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(AAPL) is reporting a record first quarter. As reports, this has propelled to new heights, with a market capitalization that tops Exxon by almost $5 billion. According to a press release from the Cupertino-based tech giant, the company posted record quarterly revenue of $46.33 billion and record quarterly net profit of $13.06 billion, or $13.87 […]
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The rave reviews for the latest iteration of ‘s Windows Phone aren’t the only reason will do better in the smart phone industry than it did in the MP3 player market. Whereas the Zune never really offered anything substantially different from the iPod and never pushed any real boundaries, ‘s latest push into the mobile […]
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Trevor Owens argues that founders of tech startups should emulate Steve Wozniak, the engineering brains behind Apple’s initial success, and Mike Markkula, the company’s early CEO, rather than the company’s long-time celebrity-CEO, Steve Jobs. He writes: The Apple I & II were built by Steve Wozniak. Wozniak was definitively one of the best computer engineers of […]
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In his too-brief life, Steve Jobs changed the American tech landscape forever. After a seven year battle with a rare form of pancreatic cancer, Steve Jobs passed away on Wednesday, October 5th 2011. From his early days at Apple when personal computers were essentially a thing of fiction, to his later years with the company […]
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I never paid any attention to Steve Jobs when his influence over my life mattered the most, when I was a kid hammering away on an old gray keyboard. In fact, I had no idea who he was. Growing up we had a Mac Classic in our home. I still remember the old black and […]
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Apple is reporting that co-founder and longtime CEO of the company, Steve Jobs, has died at the age of 56. Jobs was just 21 when he helped found the fledgling computer company. Apple is now one of the largest companies in the world. Its resurgent success was largely due to Jobs’s uncompromising vision as CEO, […]
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