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Wall Street Journal yentas kibbitz over Apple CEO Steve Jobs’ health (with video)
MacDailyNews — Wall Street Journal yentas kibbitz over Apple CEO Steve Jobs’ health (with video) Monday, January 05, 2009 - 01:45 PM EST Like two yentas whispering over the backyard fence, Kelsey Hubbard and Julia Angwin kibbitz over Steve Jobs' health in a video entitled, "Jobs' Health Disclosure Short on Details." The text intro reads: Apple may have announced that Steve Jobs is treating an hormone imbalance, but as Senior Technology Editor Julia Angwin explains the lack of details in the diagnosis leaves room for a lot of questions. Direct link to video here ...

Walt Mossberg on Steve Jobs’s health, Apple (with video)
MacDailyNews — Walt Mossberg on Steve Jobs’s health, Apple (with video) Thursday, January 15, 2009 - 04:09 PM EST Walt Mossberg discusses how Apple CEO Steve Jobs's current health situation will affect the company on Fox Business News: Direct link to video here ...

Walt on Steve
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Apple is gonna be just fine
Insanely Great Mac — Yes, Steve is away, but the 30,000 or so people left behind are hardly slouches...

Apple iPhone ‘crap apps’ prove to be quite popular (with video)
MacDailyNews — Apple iPhone ‘crap apps’ prove to be quite popular (with video) Friday, May 08, 2009 - 12:05 PM EDT "A classical piano player in Christchurch, New Zealand decided to see how quickly he could make an app for Apple’s iPhone. Reuben Bijl, 22 years old, took 30 minutes and came up with a pointless one called 'Sound Grenade,'" Andy Jordan blogs for The Wall Street Journal. "It then made him more than $100,000 in a few months, he says, through advertising on the free version and a $1.99 pro version. It emits a harsh squeal that irritates anyone within earshot, even in a crowded restaurant (I tried this — evil looks abounded)," ...

D7: Nokia CEO says Apple iPhone a ‘wakeup call’
MacDailyNews — D7: Nokia CEO says Apple iPhone a ‘wakeup call’ Thursday, May 28, 2009 - 09:56 AM EDT Nokia CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo talks to The Wall Street Journal's Almar Latour about the iPhone's impact on the cellphone market and his efforts to remake the handset company into a service company with its own app store. Direct link to video here ...

Meet AriX, the 15-year old iPhone hacker
iPhonefreak — Meet AriX, the 15-year old iPhone hacker Recently, the subject of jailbreaking and unlocking the iPhone has been getting a little more attention, which is most likely due to the recent iPhone 3GS jailbreak being released. As we saw, that jailbreak came first in the form of purplera1n and then was followed up by the Dev Team’s redsn0w. That said, we often find ourselves with little knowledge, in some cases due to paranoia, about the team members behind the software. In this case , the Wall Street Journal ran a pretty nice piece on Ari Weinstein, who is a little better known online as AriX. It is ...

How I Hacked My Summer Vacation
iSmashPhone — ... Blessed are the children -- for they shall unlock our iPhone 3GS's... At the tender age of seven, Ari Weinstein (the kid in the above video) figured out how to do an end run around AOL's Parental Controls.  Eight years later -- after hacking his way through iPod Mini's, iPod Touches, and the 3GS (with a little help from the Dev-Team) -- he claims to have "gone legit" and will spend the summer working on a new iPhone app. As for the video itself (courtesy of ...

TomTom Launches $100 iPhone App
iPhone News Updated — ... writes. On Silicon Alley Insider, Dan Frommer calls it “the $100 iPhone app you might actually buy,” adding, “Assuming you use it for more than 10 months, the one-time fee will end up being a better purchase than other similar apps, which run as $10 per month subscriptions.” As several bloggers noted, the app’s price doesn’t include the adapter kit, which allows the iPhone to be mounted and charged while driving. In May, the Journal’s Lauren Goode reviewed ...

Thin, scratchy-voiced Steve Jobs takes stage at Apple event (with video)
MacDailyNews — Thin, scratchy-voiced Steve Jobs takes stage at Apple event (with video) Wednesday, September 09, 2009 - 03:15 PM EDT "Steve Jobs took center stage at an Apple Inc. product event on Wednesday, marking the first public appearance by the chief executive since returning from medical leave after receiving a liver transplant earlier this year," Jessica Hodgson reports for The Wall Street Journal. "Mr. Jobs, who appeared thin and spoke with a scratchy voice, was greeted with loud applause by the crowd," Hodgson reports. "He told the audience he had received the liver of a young victim of a car accident, and urged the crowd to become ...

Watch Steve Jobs' Semi-Triumphant Return to The Apple Stage [Apple]
Gizmodo — The event itself may have been underwhelming, but Steve Jobs' return to the stage amid thunderous applause was definitely a bright spot. See for yourself. [WSJ via Engadget] ...

Steve Jobs' back on stage
9 to 5 Mac - Apple Intelligence — We know the official video will be up shortly but here is Steve Jobs' return to the stage and the warm welcome he got from the crowd.  Another angle from Marketwatch below. ...

'It's Only Rock and Roll' Event Video Now Available, Steve Jobs' Return
MacRumors : Mac News and Rumors — 'It's Only Rock and Roll' Event Video Now Available, Steve Jobs' Return Wednesday September 09, 2009 10:30 PM EST Written by Arnold Kim Rating (37 Positives; 4 Negatives) [ 18 comments ...

Turning Your iPhone into a Film Projector
iPhone News Updated — I enjoy downloading videos onto my iPhone, but sometimes I don’t want to watch a movie in the palm of my hand. It turns out that I need a “pico projector”—a tiny projector that converts the small-screen viewing experience into a large-screen luxury. So I tested the Cinemin Swivel, which goes on sale this month for $349 from a company called WowWee Group Ltd. The name sounds more like a pastry than a projector, but the Cinemin Swivel ...

HD Radio Now Available for iPhone
iPhoneHeat — ... that plugs directly into the bottom of the devices around the holidays. Features: Amazing interface Tune manually using the wheel or using auto-seek Song and station information Tell you friends what your listening to through email, Twitter and Facebook Store your favorite stations See what’s playing on a station’s HD Radio channels via [iClarified][WSJ] ...