Steve Jobs announced today that he has been losing weight throughout the past year because of a hormone imbalance that has been robbing his body of proteins. He said sophisticated blood tests have confirmed this diagnosis and the remedy is a relatively simple treatment.
With Macworld San Francisco 2009 (MWSF) beginning next week, MacRumors provides this Rumor Roundup as a summary of major rumors circulating around the Mac Web before the event.The biggest news about Macworld came early when Apple announced that Steve Jobs would not be delivering the 2009 keynote address nor will Apple be participating in future Macworld events.
Is Steve Jobs dying? Larry Ellison thinks so — the prospect reportedly moved the Oracle CEO to tears. A Gizmodo source thinks his "health is rapidly declining." For Apple, it could be good news.Is the persistent speculation about the health of Jobs, a survivor of pancreatic cancer, offensive? Perhaps. But Apple shareholders are not observing such niceties.
Amid a flurry of (disputed) reports and rumors about Apple chief executive Steve Jobs’ “rapidly declining health,” blogger Robert Scoble did some field work to dig for the truth today.Well okay, he was in a yogurt shop with his friend, Socialtext cofounder Ross Mayfield, when Mayfield mentioned he had seen Jobs there in the past.
There are many words that characterize Apple under the second reign of Steve Jobs: resurgent, exciting, innovative, successful. I'd add one more to that list: fearless.Most large corporations are afraid of change. Successful product lines, business plans, and especially brands are milked for every penny.
Looking for improved business models for the personal computer business, Apple CEO Steve Jobs often used to cite automobile makers, though never American car companies. The examples were invariably German.
t's not every day that an Internet prank warrants an investigation from the SEC. But that's exactly what someone got when he posted a false rumor of Steve Jobs' heart attack to iReport, CNN's experiment in citizen journalism. While the investigation hasn't officially ended yet, leaked details confirm that there wasn't any real ill will involved in the falsified report.
wired.com — It has been seven years since Steve Jobs announced the first "perfect thing" in the fall of 2001. Since then, very few products have come to exact total domination in their respected fields like the iPod has. And really, no other gadget in recent memory (save for maybe the iPhone) has exploded onto the cultural cache with the same impact.
iPhone addicts love their iPhones, but nothing is perfect. Customer feedback for Apple just went public on Please Fix the iPhone. The site let’s iPhone owners, or anyone else, list and vote on the features that most need fixing on the iPhone. The features that get the most votes rise up the ranks.
Right now the top requests are:
1. Copy and paste.
2. Landscape view for emails.
3. Ability to hide unwanted icons.
4. Use the iPhone as a 3G modem for the MacBook
5. Make Flash work.
Looks like Steve Jobs has a new to-do list. What would you add? Don’t tell us, go vote on the site.
Steve Jobs calls for end to DRM - sort of
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