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This is interesting. Tucked away in Nick Bilton's New York Times article about Apple potentially building an iWatch is a revelation that Steve Jobs actually wanted to build an Apple car.According to Bilton:In a meeting in his office before he died, Steven P. Jobs, Apple’s co-founder and former chief ...

Beats Audio CEO Jimmy Iovine apparently tried for years to entice Steve Jobs into the concept of music subscription and music streaming. Jobs on the other hand never seemed very interested, according to an All Things D report.In an interview yesterday with All Things D, Iovine said: "I was ...

Apple's plans for its new 260 000 square metre campus in Cupertino have hit some snags courtesy of an environmental impact report, according to AppleInsider. Initial plans to start construction in 2012, look more than likely to change to 2014, meaning that the project will likely only be completed in ...

Olivia Fox Cabane makes her living by teaching people the skills needed to be charismatic, influential and persuasive. During her career, she’s been invited to speak at Harvard, MIT, Google and the United Nations. And through her new book, The Charisma Myth: How Anyone Can Master the Art and Science ...

Sony Pictures has signed off on a big screen adaptation of Apple co-founder and visionary Steve Job's authorised biography.Aaron Sorkin, the man tasked with with translating Walter Isaacson's best-selling book into celluloid is no stranger to tech stories either. He wrote the screenplay for The Social Network, for which ...

Ghostbusters has always been awesome but back in 1984 it was even cooler than Apple.That’s why the Cupertino-based tech giant parodied the movie’s theme song in a video for it's international sales conference that year.The concept for the video is pretty simple: Apple employees rid store shelves of IBM ...

Apple’s '1984' campaign is one of the most iconic in advertising history. It launched the perception that Apple computers were for rebels. It was always assumed that it was a one-off, until now...It turns out the campaign had a sequel. Rather than freeing the slavish drones of an Orwellian style ...

I've been listening to Charles Arthur every Tuesday on the Guardian pod-cast, Tech weekly, for the past year. Arthur would mention his upcoming book whenever the tech giants of Apple, Google or Microsoft were pitched against each other in the news. Hearing Arthur in my car once a week makes ...

Hey, remember that kid who designed the iconic Apple logo incorporating Steve Jobs' silhouette after the tech icon’s death? He’s back. Hong Kong-based design student Jonathan Mak Long has designed a new logo for Coca Cola, after being approached by Ogilvy China.As Mak explains on his Tumblr account:If you ...

Is Ashton Kutcher set to star in a biopic of Steve Jobs? If an article from Variety magazine is to be believed, then the answer is yes.There was some doubt as to the story’s authenticity given that it first emerged on April Fools’ Day. Variety reporter Jeff Snider, however, ...