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Other finalists for the magazine's annual honor include President Barack Obama (2008 winner), Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke and US General Stanley McChrystal TIME Magazine has announced their seven finalists for their annual "TIME Magazine Person of the Year."
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"Apple CEO Steve Jobs is one of the few remaining candidates for Time's Person of the Year 2009 award, the magazine has announced," MacNN reports. "First nominated earlier this month, Jobs is now one of just seven candidates remaining," MacNN reports.
I am stoked about Apple's acquisition of Lala. Why? First, iTunes users might actually get to listen to an entire song during a preview rather than just the old-school 30-second clip. That potential new option for iTunes is reason enough to be thrilled. But there's so much more to Lala.
The newest recipient of the coveted Gold Medal from the American Institute of Architects has strong Bay Area ties. That's Peter Bohlin, 72, whose firm Bohlin Cywinski Jackson has 50 employees in a loft-like space near Union Square. And while Bohlin's home is...
War has been declared against AT&T and all iPhone users are asked to voluntarily draft and gear up for the mother of all battles. Friday, December 18, 4am Zulu time (that’s noon Pacific time). All you iPhone users living in metropolitan markets like New York City and the Bay Area are painfully aware that dropping 30 [...]
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By Cecil Adams I'm fascinated with the age-old practice of bloodletting as a cure for various ailments. Thanks to the Straight Dope, I know bleeding (or giving blood) won't help me lose a significant amount of weight. But what about hypertension? Given the multitude of side effects for high blood pressure pills, there's a need for alternatives. It stands to reason that reducing the amount of ...
The grocery store's no Scrooge, for certain.
Apple CEO Steve Jobs is one of the few remaining candidates for Time's Person of the Year 2009 award, the magazine has announced. First nominated earlier this month, Jobs is now one of just seven candidates remaining. Notably absent is a cumulative entry representing Iranian protesters, formerly one of the top reader choices....
Last week, PopTech posted a few education-related videos from its conference held in October. In one, Steve Barr, founder of Green Dot Public Schools , laments the degradation of the Bay Area public school he attended—as did Apple founders Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak—from one of the best in the country to one of the worst. He says he's tired of building charter schools; he wants to change the ...
The sorry state of affairs in which a “Disneyfied” Times Square lacks an actual Disney Store will soon be remedied. Disney has a lease out for the retail space at 1540 Broadway , according to sources familiar with the transaction. (Translation into non–real-estatese: Disney is this close to signing a lease on Broadway, between 45th and 46th streets.) Presumably, Disney plans to fill the 25,000 ...
AdWeek, an advertising trade magazine, has named Apple's "Get a Mac" campaign the best of the decade. The Cupertino, Calif.-based company also was named the best brand of the decade, and its headpiece Steve Jobs was named "marketer of the decade."
Apparently, AT&T CEO Ralph de la Vega’s recent remarks concerning the carrier’s plans to “incentivize” mobile data hogs to cut back on their usage rates aren’t sitting well with AT&T customers. Shocker. Fake Steve Jobs, for one, has had enough of AT&T’s excuses. After penning a colorful post on why AT&T is taking the wrong stance, the Fake Steve Jobs, a.k.a. Dan Lyons, has taken to his widely ...
Bad news for the iPhone as the Droid beats it out for a coveted award it already won. (What?) But that’s OK, because AT&T is putting its foot down! No more...
This "Apple memo" that appeared mysteriously on Fake Steve Jobs' site plans an all-out iPhone attack on AT&T's network this Friday, December 18 at noon Pacific: Subject: Operation Chokehold On...
