Category Archives: Weekly Roundup

Week of 10/17/11 – Roundup

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.

The biography of Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson was released on October 24th.

Here’s the video of the celebration of Steve Jobs

Sixty Minutes devoted an entire show Sixty Minutes devotes an entire show to the Steve Jobs Biography

Reviews of the Steve Jobs biography by Walter Isaacson

An unabridged version of the biography is available on Audible

More from 60 Minutes videos: The Steve Jobs Family Photo Album

Lots of speculation out there about the final project(s) that Steve Jobs was working on.

Tech News

Other tech news this week:

Sergey Brin at Web 2.0 Summit

Apps

Music

Radical Face – Mountains (video by YouTube user celmannn)

Sports

Week of 10/10/11 – Roundup

Tech

The iPhone 4S went on sale on October 14th. Despite lukewarm reaction to the announcement of the 4S, initial sales number appear to be very healthy. As usual, people were lined up at Apple Stores. Pre-order sales were very strong – over one million pre-order units in the first 24 hours – and AT&T’s activation servers were overloaded when everyone tried to activate their phones at the same time. Some analysts predict that Apple will sell 4 million phones over the weekend and another analyst estimates that Apple will sell 24 million iPhones in Q4 2011. Apple stock closed at an all-time high ($422 a share) on Friday.

iPhone 4S launch at Apple’s 5th Avenue Store:

Reviews of the iPhone 4S were very positive, especially for the new Siri personal assistant.

Speech recognition. Crazy good, transformative, category-redefining speech recognition.

David Pogue, New York Times – New iPhone Conceals Pure Magic

Here’s a roundup of other iPhone 4S reviews:

People are having a lot of fun with Siri.

Siri Demo from SlashGear:

A few days before the iPhone 4S went on sale, iOS 5 was released.

Other tech news this week:

Apps

Music

Sports

Television

San Francisco Restaurants

The Week Ahead

Week of 10/3/11 Roundup

It’s almost pointless to do a roundup for this week because there really was just one story – the death of Steve Jobs. There have been hundreds of pieces written in the past few days reflecting on the life of Steve Jobs and the impact that he had on so many of us. Here’s a small fraction of the remembrances & reactions to the passing of a great man whose impact will be felt for many, many years.

Reactions to the death of Steve Jobs

Video

Other Tech News

It feels like a month ago, but it was just earlier this week that Apple announced the iPhone 4S earlier this week. I posted a roundup of links from that event. The 4S will be on sale in stores at 8 am on October 14th and you can pre-order it now.

Apps

Quoara mobile app – (review on MobileBeat)

Music

Television

Is Arrested Development coming back for another season and a movie? Salon.com says: Please don’t bring it back.

Sign of a bubble? Bravo has started casting for a reality show based in Silicon Valley.

San Francisco Restaurants

Umami Burger opens their new San Francisco location (Union Street) on Monday, October 10th

Sports

  • Raiders owner and NFL icon Al Davis passes away at age 82
  • The Yankees and Phillies are eliminated from the MLB playoffs. Remaining teams: Rangers, Tigers, Cardinals, Brewers. Incredibly, Phillies first baseman Ryan Howard tears his achilles tendon when he makes the last out of the game.
  • The Raiders get an emotional win over the Houston Texans.
  • The 49ers are for real. They destroy Tampa Bay 48-3. Three TD passes for Alex Smith. The Niners haven’t scored this many points in a game since December, 2003.

Week of 9/26/11 – Roundup

Apple announces iPhone 5 event, Amazon announces the Kindle Fire, everybody freaks out about Facebook “frictionless sharing”, Google releases shared circles, Disney Appmates turns the iPad into an interactive playmate, Health 2.0 conference, and an amazing end to the 2011 MLB regular season.

Hopefully I’ll make this weekly roundup a regular thing.

TECH

Watch Jeff Bezos introduce the Kindle Fire in New York City on Sep 28th.

APPS

HEALTHCARE

SPORTS