Nobody finds Funny or Die's very unfunny new feature length film less funny than all the Apple nerds who were very quick to point out all of the movie's techie inaccuracies within hours of its debut on the comedy site late Tuesday night.
Some $2 billion over budget and a year behind schedule, Steve Jobs's extravagant spaceship-shaped Apple headquarters dream, Campus 2, is turning into more of a nightmare than the office of the future — and investors don't like it.
With Tim Cook as an official guest, the President will be able to look up into the Capitol's VIP box at an Apple figurehead for his second straight State of the Union — except after the year Apple's had, maybe it won't be such an awkward thumbs-up to China this time.
In a Hollywood battle over real-life tech that may say as much about the state of the movies as how angry Steve Wozniak is right now, Steve Jobs's right-hand man is doing some posthumous fuming over the first of two biopics about the main Apple genius — and the Ashton Kutcher vehicle is biting back.
Well, it's only one first-look video clip from jOBS, but here's a taste of what Ashton Kutcher playing Steve Jobs is going to feel like.
When Hewlett Packard ousted CEO Mark Hurd in 2010, another once-ousted CEO named Steve Jobs tried to help him get his job back, new interviews reveal.
That the Apple CEO never got to enjoy his superyacht was disappointing enough, but now it doesn't look like anyone can.
A year after executives admitted in a closed door meeting that their management techniques were more comparable to the military than a corporation, Apple is starting soften up and offer employees better perks.
Just over a year after Steve Jobs's death, shipbuilders in Aalsmeer, Holland have finally finished the yacht that the Apple visionary spent years designing -- stealthily, of course.
It has been one year since the death of Apple founder Steve Jobs, and once again the Internet has taken time to remember its favorite tech icon.
Everybody knows that Steve Jobs was a hell of a visionary, but every once in a while, we're reminded that the Apple co-founder wasn't years ahead of his time. He was decades ahead.
In the year since Steve Jobs died has taken on a mythical role for people who write about Apple that's very similar to the way conservative pundits invoke the late President Ronald Reagan: a mythical do-no-wrong hero would would have kept us out of the latest myth.
Steve Jobs and Barack Obama had their differences, but the President still cited Jobs during his DNC speech. One commenter appreciated the mention.
During his speech last night President Obama made an unplanned reference to Steve Jobs, which is weird because the two didn't have the best relationship, nor was Jobs that categorically great for America.
Today's New York Times Thursday Styles section features a story by Laura M. Holson all about the busy philanthropic life of former Google CEO Eric Schmidt's wife, Wendy Schimdt, who spends a lot of her time (and money) making life better on the island of Nantucket.
One year ago today Steve Jobs stepped down as CEO of Apple anointing Tim Cook king of the iKingdom and by many metrics he has done a good job as leader of the gadgeteers.
The latest details of Apple's television whims give us a better idea of what the company hopes to create, which just happens to fit into the TV code Steve Jobs said he had "cracked" before his death.
Sometimes a story hands headline writers a gift they can't use, which is what happened with the news that a local clown wound up in possession of Steve Jobs's stolen iPad, and just used it to play music during his routine.
Cady Herron. Miranda Priestly. What's her name, that new British woman on The Office. As one linguist explained to Fast Company's Drake Baer, you can—and should—be comfortable calling women like them (fictional or not), a-holes.
A burglar who allegedly broke into the late Steve Jobs' Palo Alto home and stole $60,000 worth of computer equipment had no idea of its significance, said a prosecutor who called the burglary "totally random."
One reading of Walter Isaacson's Steve Jobs biography suggests the key to success is being a jerk, a piece of advice that some bosses have taken too literally. But science is on the side of nice bosses. It has found mean bosses lead to lower worker satisfaction, which in turn leads to worse financial performance.
Just as Google releases a 7-inch tablet that the techies actually like, the rumor mill has resurrected that old Apple seven inch tablet rumor, making Steve Jobs' nightmare of a smaller iPad seem more likely now than ever.
Politics is one of those industries, like writing and coaching professional sports teams, where everyone thinks they could do it better than the pros, without any practice, any training, or any real-world experience.
Following the FBI file that confirmed Steve Jobs was a jerk, drug user and poor student, Wired has gotten its hands on a Department of Defense file which shows Jobs doing a little explaining for his suspect behavior.
If you thought Tupac Shakur had the market cornered on posthumous public appearances, you're wrong: Steve Jobs now has a new body of public speeches that's just been made available on iTunes.
Unlike Steve Jobs who operated like a non-boss boss, running the company as the creative, yet kind of horrible figurehead, Tim Cook is more staid, responsible and reasonable. You know, like a normal boss.
Tim Cook made $378 million in 2011, more than any CEO in all of America and a little of it had anything to do with his performance.
Without Steve Jobs here to defend himself, we're seeing a lot of talk about the visionary's last wishes -- the final visions in that brain that the Apple founder never saw to completion.
Given Aaron Sorkin's biopic track record and Steve Jobs' personality type, it makes perfect sense that Sorkin would sign on with Sony to do an adaptation of Walter Isaacson's biography of the late Apple founder.
In a strongly worded opinion, US District Judge Denise Cote strongly rejected requests by Apple and book publishers to throw out a class action suit that accuses them of price-fixing.
With flub after flub, does Kutcher still deserve the "social media genius" label thrust upon him? We don't think so.
Since Steve Jobs' death, and even before, we thought we knew all about the icon's persona, but new, just released tapes from Fast Company's Brent Schlender reveal a more complex version of Jobs.
The idea that goofball Ashton Kutcher will play visionary Steve Jobs in an upcoming film sounded so ludicrous that when Variety made the announcement yesterday, the Internet cautioned that it could be an April Fools joke.
Apple TV got a makeover this week, too, but, unlike with the iPad, the revamped specs don't have reviewers delighted.
Fortune's new in-depth look at Facebook confirms that Mark Zuckerberg has created the type of intense cult it takes to build a successful tech company, but it's a very different from the one created by the tech industry's other mega-successful cultish leader, Apple's Steve Jobs.
After yesterday's talk at the Goldman Sachs investment conference, Tim Cook has proven himself a better PR representative for Apple than his predecessor at a time when the company really needs a likable CEO.
Apple can make this whole iPhone address book fiasco all better with a simple fix.
Cartoonist Nick Anderson considers what the FBI learned about Steve Jobs.
The FBI investigation of Steve Jobs affirms everything we already thought we knew about the tech visionary.
The FBI's 1991 191-page file on Steve Jobs (yes he had one) is now available for public consumption.
In his State of the Union address, President Obama talked a lot about bringing back American jobs as well as American ingenuity as represented by Steve Jobs. But talking about them together somehow seems oxymoronic.
As news emerged that the Obamas will honor Steve Jobs by inviting his wife Laurene Powell Jobs to sit with the First Lady during the State of the Union address, The Guardian's Charles Authur rolled out a simple timeline tracking the history of the smartphone.
Now that Virgin America has named one of its fleet after Steve Jobs, branding its Airbus A320 with one of his popular quotes, "Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish," we wonder what objects will be next to receive The Steve Jobs distinction.
Every day The Atlantic Wire highlights the video clips that truly earn your five minutes (or less) of attention. Today: a first look at Billy Crystal's return as Oscars host, a digital moment of silence for Steve Jobs, and a young Liam Neeson's experiences as a guest player on Miami Vice.
With Apple having forced In Icons to discontinue manufacturing its ultra-lifelike Steve Jobs, hungry Steve Jobs fanatics have taken to eBay, hoping to get their hands on the doll while they still can.
Not the first time the company has cracked down on a Steve Jobs action figure, Apple has taken legal action again the most recent eerily life-like collectible figurine of their late CEO.
Even Apple's historical archives are stashed away in a top secret location: a climate-controlled warehouse somewhere on the outskirts of San Francisco.
Of all the famous people who died this year -- a titan of the tech industry, a leader of a massive terrorist organization, a quixotic dictator, a troubled but talented young singer -- the person who sent the most people searching for information on Google was ... Jackass's Ryan Dunn.
Rob Siltanen, an ad executive who worked at TBWA/Chiat/Day, the agency that created Apple's "Think Different" campaign, has decided to set the creation story record straight for the famed ads, coming out with his full account in Forbes.
Today in books: The New York Daily News tips its toe into the world of blog blogging with a picture of a semi-nude Truman Capote, Walter Isaacson's Steve Jobs biography was Amazon's top-selling book of 2011, and "China's Amazon" is going to start selling e-books.
A '90s favorite lands a big new role, Caroline Rhea does too, and Aaron Sorkin mulls his next project.
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