Chris Foresman / Ars Technica:
Steve Jobs intervenes, approves Knocking streaming video app — A persuasive e-mail from an iPhone developer to Steve Jobs helped Pointy Heads Software get its Knocking Live Video—the first official iPhone app capable of streaming live video over 3G and WiFi connections—approved for sale in the App Store.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
What If Steve Jobs Hadn’t Returned To Apple In 1997? — Today is Thanksgiving in the U.S. Traditionally we take stock of the things that we’re thankful for on this day each year. And I realized that one of those things is Steve Jobs. I’m thankful that he returned to Apple in 1997 and did the things he has done since.
Chris Matyszczyk / CNET News:
Gates: Apple is a ‘force in doing good things’ — I want to be a force for good. Doesn’t everyone? — Which is why I was delighted to be moved by the words of Microsoft’s Bill Gates during a CNBC TV special in which he and Warren Buffett discussed the meaning of life. Or something similar.
Chris Matyszczyk / CNET News:
Gates: Apple is ‘a force in doing good things’ — I want to be a force for good. Doesn’t everyone? — Which is why I was delighted to be moved by the words of Microsoft’s Bill Gates during a CNBC TV special in which he and Warren Buffett discussed the meaning of life. Or something similar.
Alex Crippen / CNBC.com:
Microsoft’s Bill Gates Praises Apple’s Steve Jobs For ‘Saving the Company’ — Microsoft’s Bill Gates had some words of praise today for Steve Jobs, the CEO of arch-rival Apple, despite the blistering “Mac and PC” television ads that sharply, and humorously, criticize the new Windows 7 operating system.
Bill Ray / The Register:
Apple IDs the next-generation iPhone — Cupertino wakes up to NFC? — Evidence is growing that Apple plans to embed NFC into the next iPhone, but can Steve Jobs sell the technology that no one else seems to want? — For the last few months there have been rumours that Cupertino …
John C Abell / Epicenter:
Essay: Steve Jobs’ Legacy Is Missing Clue to Apple Tablet — If you’ve only been half paying attention, you probably think that the Apple Tablet is a done deal. It isn’t. Outside the impervious hallways of One Infinite Loop, the tablet remains a technological unicorn …
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Brainstorm Tech:
Fortune magazine names Apple’s Steve Jobs CEO of the decade — Runners-up include Gates, Buffett, Page, Brin, Winfrey, Stewart and — wait for it – Madoff — Steve Jobs is the CEO of the decade, according to the new issue of Fortune magazine. … The piece includes the revelation …
Fortune:
Steve Jobs: CEO of the Decade — Why him? Steve Jobs revived Apple and remade entire industries, defying the worst economic conditions since the Great Depression — and his own serious health problems.
Leander Kahney / Cult of Mac:
Interview: The Man Who Named the iMac and Wrote Think Different — Meet Ken Segall — the man who dreamed up the name “iMac” and wrote the famous Think Different campaign. — Segall is a veteran creative director who worked at Apple’s agency, TBWA\Chiat\Day, back in the day.
