Steve Jobs
IT graduates failing to make the business grade, say UK tech chiefs
News Steve Gediking, head of IT and facilities, Independent Police Complaints Commission The majority of the jury said they believe universities are not producing IT graduates with the right skills for their businesses - bad... [02 Sep 2009]
Oracle's Ellison to take $1 salary this year
News Still, Ellison's new $1 base pay puts him on the salary pedestal with the likes of Apple CEO Steve Jobs and Google co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page. Oracle CEO Larry Ellison will receive a base... [24 Aug 2009]
Minority Report: Mac tablet? I remain unconvinced
Comment It's evident from the core Apple product line-up, which since the early days of the return of Steve Jobs has a simple symmetry: pro desktop, pro notebook, consumer desktop, consumer notebook. Seb Janacek... [18 Aug 2009]
Apple hunts for replacement for Google CEO Schmidt
News The board could bring in a new director from the outside, but there has been talk that COO Tim Cook, who assumed the helm for CEO Steve Jobs while he was on a six-month medical leave of absence earlier... [14 Aug 2009]
Apple breaks app-approval silence with rude dictionary 'no' explanation
News Apple's Phil Schiller, senior vice president of worldwide marketing and last seen playing the role of Steve Jobs at Apple events this year, emailed John Gruber of Daring Fireball to comment on the... [07 Aug 2009]
Apple loses Google boss as Schmidt steps down from board
News Apple chief executive Steve Jobs said in the release: "Eric has been an excellent board member for Apple, investing his valuable time, talent, passion and wisdom to help make Apple successful. Apple on... [04 Aug 2009]
Offshoring: Is resistance weakening at Whitehall?
News Bangalore, the city that plays home to some of India's biggest outsourcers (Photo credit: Steve Ranger, silicon.com) Steve Palmer, president of public sector IT association Socitm, said public bodies... [03 Aug 2009]
Windows to open up to gesture recognition, says Gates
News Gates actually dropped the first hint of Natal during his joint appearance with Steve Jobs at the D: All Things Digital conference in 2007. Microsoft doesn't just want to bring gesture recognition to the... [15 Jul 2009]
Minority Report: iPhone App Store takes my breath away
Comment Apple CEO Steve Jobs said in a press release this week: "The App Store is like nothing the industry has ever seen before in both scale and quality," adding "it is going to be very hard for others to... [15 Jul 2009]
Is Apple's iPhone App Store too far ahead for others to catch up?
News With statistics like this, it's easy to see why Steve Jobs, chairman and CEO of Apple, is not worried about competition from others developing their own application stores. With 1.5 billion apps... [15 Jul 2009]
Minority Report: Can Palm Pre beat the iPhone?
Comment Rubinstein and Apple chief Steve Jobs go way back - Rubinstein worked at former Jobs venture NeXT, then followed Jobs to join the Apple hardware team in 1997. Palm is... [08 Jul 2009]
Photos: Top 10 smartphones you could take a shine to
Photo Mobile maker Palm has been around for years and was making touchscreen phones before the iPhone was a twinkle in Steve Jobs' eye but the Pre is Palm's most eagerly anticipated phone for years. While... [30 Jun 2009]
Minority Report: What's up with Apple's laptops?
Comment Back in the late 1990s, one of the first things Steve Jobs addressed on his return to the company was Apple's confused and disjointed product portfolio. Jobs soon rationalised the... [09 Jun 2009]
A new media world: Napster's 10-year anniversary
Comment To Apple and Steve Jobs: You know you owe a nod of the hat to Napster and Fanning, right? Ten years after the launch of digital music upstart Napster, Gartner analyst Mike McGuire ponders the... [03 Jun 2009]
Minority Report: My predictions for the Mac developer event
Comment Firstly, Steve Jobs won't take the stage: hopes that the CEO might make a big return were dashed when the name of Apple marketing chief Phil Schiller was allocated to the keynote slot. Statements coming... [03 Jun 2009]