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Steve Jobs is being memorialized in an accurately detailed action figure as fascination with Apple’s co-founder continues months after his death in October. The In Icons company is taking pre-orders for the action figure, priced at $100, with shipment set for the end of February. The 12-inch, one-sixth scale doll could become a collectible figure [...]
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Steve Jobs Wins Special Grammy
January 2nd, 2012 
admin Apple co-founder Steve Jobs will be awarded a special Grammy in 2012, as the man behind iTunes and the iPod is honored by an industry once skeptical of his intentions. The Recording Academy will announce the awards for Jobs at the Special Merit Awards the night before the television ceremony next February. The former CEO [...]
Steve Jobs Wins Special Grammy
December 22nd, 2011 admin Apple co-founder Steve Jobs will be awarded a special Grammy in 2012, as the man behind iTunes and the iPod is honored by an industry once skeptical of his intentions. The Recording Academy will announce the awards for Jobs at the Special Merit Awards the night before the television ceremony next February. The former CEO [...]
Steve Jobs Bio May Get Expanded Material
December 17th, 2011 admin Walter Isaacson, author of the best-selling book “Steve Jobs,” is mulling over adding an extension to the bestseller, as Jobs continues to capture the public imagination. The author may add more content, in the form of an addendum, to focus on the period of time surrounding Jobs’ final weeks in October, when he succumbed to [...]
Steve Jobs to Be Immortalized in Bronze
December 9th, 2011 admin A Hungarian technology entrepreneur is paying for creation of a bronze statue of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, just one of several efforts to lionize the giant only two months after his death. Gabor Bojar, head of the software company Graphisoft, commissioned sculptor Erno Toth to create a seven-foot statue, depicting Jobs as he appeared when [...]
"Steve Jobs" Is Amazon’s Top-Selling Book for 2011
December 8th, 2011 admin Amazon announced Walter Isaacson’s biography on Steve Jobs is the website’s best-selling book of 2011, as the legacy of Apple’s co-founder continues to grow after this death. The biography, simply titled “Steve Jobs,” was released on October 24, less than three weeks after the icon’s passing. Isaacson’s book sold 379,000 copies in its first week [...]
"Social Network" Screenwriter Mulls Steve Jobs Biopic
November 23rd, 2011 admin Aaron Sorkin, the Oscar-winning screenwriter of “The Social Network,” may bring another tech titan to life for the big screen, as interest in Steve Jobs continues to heat up even after his death. Sony Pictures, which owns the film rights to the best-selling Walter Isaacson biography of Apple founder Steve Jobs, extended an offer to [...]
Steve Wozniak Nabs Galaxy Nexus
November 22nd, 2011 admin Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak became one of the first people in the U.S. to take home a Samsung Galaxy Nexus, as consumers continue to wait eagerly for the device. Google offered Wozniak the smartphone after he posted on his Twitter account that he was looking into the device, but knew it was probably wasn’t available [...]
Steve Jobs Nominated for Time’s "Person of the Year"
November 11th, 2011 admin Steve Jobs is a nominee for Time Magazine’s prestigious “Person of the Year” award, as the world continues to mourn the innovative genius behind Apple. NBC Nightly News anchor and panel member Brian Williams nominated the founder and former CEO of Apple, saying Jobs not only changed the world, but “gave us that spirit again [...]
Bulgarian School to Name Itself After Steve Jobs
November 10th, 2011 admin Students in Bulgaria want to rename their school after Steve Jobs, a lasting if quirky testament to the late Apple founder. The technical school in Plovdiv, Bulgaria’s second-largest city, is celebrating its 50th anniversary, and to mark the occasion, students are voting to take down the name of Russian Marxist leader Vladimir Ilyich Lenin in [...]
