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Apple. Apple’s War on Android. In her black robe and strand of white pearls, Lucy Koh projects the serious, deliberate demeanor befitting a U.S. District Court judge. The Harvard-educated former federal prosecutor has served on the California state bench and as a partner in a Silicon Valley law firm, where she litigated technology patent lawsuits. For all her earnestness, Koh, 43, could not resist needling the lawyers skirmishing before her at a hearing last June in San Jose. “Last time you were here,” the judge noted, “you said that you had a business relationship—I forget what the number was—$8 million, $8 billion?” “I think it was in excess of $7 billion,” said attorney Harold McElhinny. Judge Lucy Koh “Seven billion,” Judge Koh mused. Nine months later, the case of Apple v. The clash reflects life in the tech big leagues: Apple sharply reminding a formidable rival who’s boss.

In the last 18 months of his life, Jobs, who died on Oct. 5 at age 56, was obsessed with crushing Android. Steve Jobs did serve in the first Bush Administration. We brought you yesterday the FBI’s file on Steve Jobs, which revealed Jobs was a candidate for a “sensitive position” in the Bush I White House in 1991.

Steve Jobs did serve in the first Bush Administration

However, many seem to have missed the fact that Jobs actually did take a position. A recent report from Associated Press claimed that not only was Jobs considered for a gig, but The Commerce Department confirmed yesterday that Jobs actually held a position as an export council member in the George H.W. Bush administration to advise on international trade: What The FBI Had On Steve Jobs. You've heard about things going on your permanent record?

What The FBI Had On Steve Jobs

Virgin America Named An Airplane After Steve Jobs. The Most Blatant Examples Of Companies Stealing Apple's Design. Here's the World's First Steve Jobs Statue - Peter Kafka - Media. Here is a tutorial for public relations professionals: Some of you think that sending pitches with the subject line IN ALL CAPS is a good idea.

Here's the World's First Steve Jobs Statue - Peter Kafka - Media

Others send out mass emails that begin “Item?” Most of you send pitches about things I will never, ever care about. All terrible ideas. This is how you do it: You commission a statue of the late Steve Jobs, and you dedicate it during the oh-so-slow week before Christmas. Boom. But you did supply me with a picture of the statue in front of your Budapest headquarters, and I’m happy to republish it here. Jobs Was Right: Adobe Abandons Mobile Flash Development, Report Says. Steve Jobs movie could be written by the Social Network's Aaron Sorkin. 25 October '11, 04:38pm Follow Having secured the rights to Walter Isaacson’s biography of the late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, Sony is reportedly working to secure Aaron Sorkin – screenwriter of Sony’s hit Facebook movie ‘Social Network’ – to pen the biopic of the former Apple CEO and Pixar executive, Slashfilm reports.

Steve Jobs movie could be written by the Social Network's Aaron Sorkin

Apple Events - Celebrating Steve. Apple holding private event on October 19 celebrating the life of Steve Jobs. Screenshot of Steve Jobs’s Calendar - Nitrozac and Snaggy - Voices. Steve Jobs On The Apple Campus Is Like A Double Rainbow. 1993 interview re: Paul Rand and Steve Jobs. Steve Jobs Was Working On The Next Apple Product The Day Before He Died. Remembering Steve Jobs. Steve Jobs's Law: Why Founders Make the Best Leaders - James Kwak - Business. Apple's CEO is unique, but one lesson we can take from his story is more universal.

Steve Jobs's Law: Why Founders Make the Best Leaders - James Kwak - Business

Corporate boards worship "superstar CEOs". But more often, the first executive makes for the best executive. This year, dozens of startup company founders will be forced out and replaced by experienced outsider CEOs, often from public companies, brought in by venture capital investors to provide "adult supervision. " Thank You, Steve - Eddie Yoon. Steve Jobs's Other Amazing Companies: NeXT and Pixar. Most people know Steve Jobs by his connection with Apple, and indeed, that was the company that Jobs loved the most, and that was the company he poured his life into.

Steve Jobs's Other Amazing Companies: NeXT and Pixar

However, it's easy to forget that Jobs, who died Wednesday at 56, invested an important part of his life into two other companies: NeXT and Pixar. After Jobs resigned from Apple in 1985, he founded NeXT, a company focused on creating powerful computers for business and educational purposes. The company wasn't as successful as Jobs would have wanted — it ultimately sold about 50,000 computers — but it was very influential. Tim Berners-Lee famously used a NeXTcube workstation to lay down the foundation of the first web server and web browser software.

John Carmack wrote Wolfenstein 3D and Doom — which rank highly on the "most influential games of all time" list — on that same computer. Back then, Apple shares were hovering around $6. The numbers tell half of the story. Behind the Cover: Steve Jobs. I was commissioned to do a story about the young Apple team, and at the same time, a visual session with Steve Jobs.

Behind the Cover: Steve Jobs

What was really remarkable was getting into the corporate offices. It was completely what I would call anti-corporate. The creative team was this large extended family—incredibly energized and enthusiastic. People seemed to relate to each other with a level of informality that was sort of extraordinary. Wozniak Tearfully Remembers His Friend Steve.

Steve Jobs Book Excerpt: Why he wore the Black Mock Turtleneck uniform. In case you wondered why the very consistant style emerged (which frankly was a welcome reprieve from the bow tie days).

Steve Jobs Book Excerpt: Why he wore the Black Mock Turtleneck uniform

Excerpt from Steve Jobs, by Walter Isaacson. (via Gawker) On a trip to Japan in the early 1980s, Jobs asked Sony’s chairman Akio Morita why everyone in the company’s factories wore uniforms. He told Jobs that after the war, no one had any clothes, and companies like Sony had to give their workers something to wear each day. Over the years, the uniforms developed their own signatures styles, especially at companies such as Sony, and it became a way of bonding workers to the company.

Yeah, that didn’t fly. Sony, with its appreciation for style, had gotten the famous designer Issey Miyake to create its uniform. So Jobs got himself a uniform. In the process, however, he became friends with Miyake and would visit him regularly.