With the sudden rush of 5-inch (and larger) smartphones hitting the market — to varying degrees of success — one may wonder if Apple plans to introduce one of its own. In response to a question on today’s Q2 earnings call, CEO Tim Cook maintaine…
Bloomberg Businessweek is reporting that the budget for Apple’s new “spaceship” campus has risen from $3 billion to “nearly $5 billion.” Citing five anonymous sources, the publication notes that the stretched budget would make Apple C…
In 1996, film obsessive Harry Knowles launched Ain’t It Cool News, a site that helped define internet culture while Knowles himself was partially paralyzed and largely unable to leave the house. Years later, the site has gone from bei…
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Back in December 1996, Apple was not in a good place. The company had weathered over a decade of declining sales and sub-par leadership, and was on the brink of financial collapse. But that abruptly changed when the company’s board de…
It doesn’t star Ashton Kutcher, and it isn’t written by Aaron Sorkin, but it might be more interesting than both: it’s the Japanese manga adaptation of Steve Jobs’ life. You could be forgiven for thinking that the juice has been squee…
Ashton Kutcher’s Jobs has been delayed, Aaron Sorkin’s Steve Jobs biopic is years away, so the comedy video site Funny or Die is stepping in to fill the void. As reported by The New York Times, the 60- to 75-minute mini-movie iSteve w…
Apple’s late co-founder and tech luminary Steve Jobs will be the subject of a forthcoming manga comic book illustrated by Japanese artist Mari Yamazaki. The multi-part comic arc is set to run in Kiss magazine, published by Kodansha &m…
The folks from Frog Design have been throwing the official SXSW Interactive kickoff party for ten years. First it was just a chance for a few nerds to get drunk. Then it got so big, the fire department came and shut it down. Now it’s …
“I’d like to order 4,000 lattes to go, please.” Those were the words of Steve Jobs in 2007: the late Apple co-founder was making the first public phone call with a just-unveiled product called “iPhone.” The unsuspecting Starbu…
