Steve Jobs
A couple of weeks after his death, Steve Jobs continues to be a huge topic. On Wednesday, Apple celebrated the life of Steve Jobs at the Apple campus in Cupertino. Apple has posted a video recording of the celebration on the Apple.com web site.
The biography of Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson was released on October 24th.
- Sixty Minutes devoted an entire show to the Steve Jobs Biography
- Reviews: New York Times, Washington Post, Huffington Post, The Telegraph, Associated Press, George Stephanopoulos / ABC News
- An unabridged version of the biography is available on Audible
More 60 Minutes videos: Part 2, The Steve Jobs Family Photo Album, What Did Steve Jobs Say About His Rivals?
Lots of speculation out there about the final project(s) that Steve Jobs was working on.
- Apple Television? (MG Siegler / TechCrunch)
- Text books? (NY Time Bits blog)
- iPhone 5? (CNET News)
- All of the above?
Tech News
Other tech news this week:
- Apple sold over 4 million phones last weekend
- Apple reported their 4th quarter earnings. For the first time in a long time, they fell short of analysts’ estimates because they didn’t release a new iPhone in June. But Apple predicts a blow-out 4th quarter and MG Siegler says you’re an idiot if you were one of the many people who sold Apple stock.
- Google announced Android 4.0 a.k.a. Ice Cream Sandwich
- Google announced that a Google Music Store is coming soon (All Things D)
- The AsiaD conference was held in Hong Kong. Videos: Jerry Yang talks about what’s next for Yahoo, Bradley Horowitz talks about Google+
- The Web 2.0 Summit was held in San Francisco. Videos: Sean Parker, Sergey Brin (Google), Marc Benioff (Salesforce), Kevin Rose (Milk), Dennis Crowley (FourSquare). More videos here.
- GroupOn sets Nov. 4th IPO Date (WSJ)
Sergey Brin at Web 2.0 Summit
Apps
- Instapaper 4.0 (iTunes)
- Hipster – send digital postcards from your phone (iTunes)
- 500 px for iPad – photo sharing (iTunes)
Music
- Peter Gabriel – New Blood
- M83 – Hurry Up We’re Dreaming (Spotify)
- Pallers – The Sea of Memories (Spotify)
- Radical Face – The Family Tree: The Roots (Spotify)
- Real Estate – Days (Spotify)
- Coldplay releases Mylo Xyloto on October 24th (Amazon)
Radical Face – Mountains (video by YouTube user celmannn)
Sports
- Albert Pujols hit 3 home runs in Game 3 of the World Series. Reggie Jackson and Babe Ruth (twice!) are the only other players to accomplish that.
- The Raiders trade for Carson Palmer to replace the injured Jason Campbell
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