Steve Jobs autographed iPod nano fetching $9,995 at auction

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Via Scoop.it – internetbillboards We’re sure that there are some of you guys out there who are not only Apple fans, but fans of Steve Jobs too, who in a way could be considered a celebrity of the tech world. It seems that this current auction is actually an auction that was held awhile back. [...]

10 Lessons Learned From Steve Jobs

Via Scoop.it – internetbillboards 10 Lessons learned from Steve Jobs. 1- Don’t be afraid to fail. “I didn’t see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple (AAPL) was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a [...]

Steve Jobs Bio Delivered Early To Kindle Owners

Via Scoop.it – internetbillboards As if this whole “Steve Jobs” biography thing couldn’t get more drawn out and dramatic, users — including Jeff Jarvis and Jason Kottke – are reporting early deliveries of Walter Isaacson’s highly anticipated book, oddly enough through pre-orders on the Amazon Kindle. This leaves Apple fans with quite a conundrum; Watch [...]

Obama Invokes Memory Of Steve Jobs To Push Jobs Bill

Via Scoop.it – internetbillboards “We just lost one of our greatest entrepreneurs, and a friend, Steve Jobs, last week.”…   President Barack Obama invoked the public remembrances of Apple CEO Steve Jobs to help sell his stalled jobs package.Speaking in Pittsburgh, Obama said his jobs bill would enable more entrepreneurs to follow in Jobs’ steps, [...]

Computers In Class Another Legacy Of Steve Jobs

Via Scoop.it – The iPad Classroom When Apple co-founder Steve Jobs died this past week, some of the most heartfelt online tributes came from educators and students.   Apple helped pioneer the use of computers in schools back in the 1980s with the graphical interface of the Macintosh. These days, it’s the iPad that’s the [...]

Remembering Steve Jobs With Guy Kawasaki #fbss11 | Idea Girl Media

Via Scoop.it – internetbillboards Social media enthusiasts scattered across the globe sat ready to hop in to the always high-energy social media education sessions by Social Media Examiner. Guy Kawasaki, our Keynote presenter, to speak on, “How To Use Facebook [Pages] To Enchant Your Customers And Prospects.” As we shuffled into the online conference room, [...]

Steve Jobs and the rise of social media

Via Scoop.it – internetbillboards I remember my father bringing home computers in the 1970s and watching him having to spend hours poring over their seemingly incomprehensible technical manuals just to get the new devices up and running. All that changed in 1984, when he brought home a MacIntosh. Instead of complex circuit diagrams and dense [...]

Steve Jobs, Who Built Most Valuable Technology Company, Passes Away at 56

Via Scoop.it – internetbillboards Steve Jobs, who built the world’s most valuable technology company by creating devices that changed how people use electronics and revolutionized the computer, music and mobile-phone industries, died. He was 56. Jobs, who resigned as Apple Inc. (AAPL) chief executive officer on Aug. 24, 2011, passed away today, the Cupertino, California-based [...]

Steven Jobs Biography

Via Scoop.it – internetbillboards Entrepreneur. Born Steven Paul Jobs on February 24, 1955, to Joanne Simpson and Abdulfattah “John” Jandali, two University of Wisconsin graduate students who gave their unnamed son up for adoption. His father Abdulfattah Jandali was a Syrian political science professor and his mother Joanne Simpson worked as a speech therapist. Shortly [...]