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 Steve Jobs - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Steven Paul Jobs (born February 24, 1955) is the CEO of Apple Computer and a leading figure in the computer industry.
Today as the CEO of Apple, Steve Jobs is known to be the man behind the recovery of Apple Computer, especially through an idea he pushed for, iPod.
The NeXT Cube was Jobs' philosophical idea of an "interpersonal" computer, which he believed was the next monumental step after "personal" computing.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jobs   (2911 words)

  
 NPR : STEVEN JOBS is one of the founders of Apple Computers; and he led the development of the Macin...
STEVEN JOBS is one of the founders of Apple Computers; and he led the development of the Macin...
NPR : STEVEN JOBS is one of the founders of Apple Computers; and he led the development of the Macin...
Fresh Air from WHYY, February 22, 1996 · STEVEN JOBS is one of the founders of Apple Computers; and he led the development of the Macintosh computer.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1108863   (204 words)

  
 MSN Encarta - Related Items - Entrepreneur
Steven Jobs’s return to Apple Computer in the late 1990s helped turn the company around.
http://encarta.msn.com/related_761554541_3.8/Steven_Jobs.html   (23 words)

  
 jobs.html
Jobs is presently using his prestige and influence which he earned at Apple to further advance computer technology and provide an alternative to Microsoft.
Jobs "created the sleek design for the Apple II" with its plastic casing and featuring the Apple logo, "an apple with a missing bite, playing on the word 'byte,' one of the central units of information in computer languages" (Notable).
Jobs feels "Microsoft has not transformed itself into an agent for improving things or a company that will lead the next revolution in software development" (Angelelli).
http://www.landsnail.com/apple/local/woz_gig/jobs.html   (857 words)

  
 Steven Wozniak
Their company logo was an apple with a bite missing from it referencing the computer term "byte" which is a sequence of binary digits operated on as a unit by a computer.
Wozniak and Jobs introduced the Apple II which was one of the first personal computers originally aimed at medium to large size businesses.
After the "blue box" industry had run it's course Wozniak became associated with the Homebrew computing club and started work on the Apple I. Wozniak, while still at HP, became in his spare time the resident genius of a group of young computer zealots in Palo Alto California calling itself the Home-brew Computer Club.
http://ei.cs.vt.edu/~history/WOZNIAK.HTM   (2222 words)

  
 Style Sheet
Steven Paul Jobs, American computer executive who co-founded Apple Computer, one of the first manufacturers of personal computers.
Pixar became a leader in computer animation and in developing software for advanced computer graphics.
Throughout the early 1980s Jobs led the company as it developed and sold personal computers, software, and printers throughout the world.
http://www-atdp.berkeley.edu/9931/jgarcia/pracstyle.html   (578 words)

  
 CEO BIO: Steven P. Jobs
Jobs also Co-Founded NeXT Software Inc. ("NeXT"), which developed and marketed object-oriented software for client/server business applications and the Internet, and served as the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of NeXT from October 1985 until February 1997, when NeXT was acquired by Apple.
Jobs is currently member of the Board of Directors of Apple Computer Inc. Mr.
Steven P. Jobs serves as Chief Executive Officer of Apple Computer Inc., ("Apple").
http://www.businessweek.com/bw50/2005/executive/AAPL.htm   (143 words)

  
 Steven Jobs and Stephen Wozniak
Steven Jobs and Stephen Wozniak, founders of Apple Computer Company, designed a computer that was cheaper to make but more powerful than any other computers available at that time.
Their computer was also easy for people to use.
http://www.fivetowns.net/RES/RES/RESLib/Jobs%26Woz.html   (48 words)

  
 Jobs, Steven --  Britannica Student Encyclopedia
Jobs, Steven P. cofounder of Apple Computer, Inc., and a charismatic pioneer of the personal computer era.
Job listings for computer scientists, computer engineers, and computer researchers, for related positions at various universities and research centers in U.S. Job Listings
After their tinkering resulted in the Apple I desktop computer in 1976, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak found themselves at the forefront of an industry on the verge of an explosion.
http://www.britannica.com/ebi/article-9311881?&query=personal   (773 words)

  
 The History of Computers: Steven P. Jobs
Jobs convinced Wozniak to invent and to produce the first personal computer.
Wozniak was at that time working on a "blue box", which allowed the user to make free long-distance calls.
But the software saved the firm and NextStep, the operating system is still sold.
http://www2.fht-esslingen.de/studentisches/Computer_Geschichte/grp5/spjobs.html   (240 words)

  
 Article - Steve's Other Job
Meanwhile, Jobs split his time first between Pixar and Next Computer then eventually between Pixar and Apple Computer, where he is now 'interim' CEO and Chairman.
Somehow, though Jobs had seen the face of the future ‹ and it was rendered with 3-D computer software.
The 'company' was little more than an ambitious idea and two brilliant but unproven men, computer graphics expert Ed Catmull and animator John Lasseter.
http://www.dscohen.com/Articles/Jobs.html   (860 words)

  
 Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs, the mercurial co-founder of Apple Computer and chair and CEO of NeXT Computer, unveiled his company's new set of object-oriented software tools for the World Wide Web in August.
Silicon Graphics is the hottest computer company in Silicon Valley, but founder Jim Clark has a bigger vision:to make it a dominant player in consumer electronics.
With their new company, General Magic, the creators of the Macintosh aim to revolutionize computing - again.
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/people/steve_jobs   (1862 words)

  
 The History Behind Steven Jobs
It was here that Jobs and Wozniak began brainstorming on inventing a computer for personal use.
Working in Steve Jobs' garage, Wozniak and Jobs created the Apple I and thus started the true personal computer industry in 1977.
This first Apple home computer was a grey box with a green and black monitor.
http://www.wellesley.edu/CS/courses/CS110/History/StevenJobs.html   (294 words)

  
 Steven Jobs' Totalitarian Vision - How Apple marched in mindless lockstep to self-destruction. By James Surowiecki
Jobs was never interested in having everyone own personal computers.
He wanted to make the computers and the systems that ran them--and to be the only company that did so.
The remarkable fact is that, at this very moment, Apple Computer is a larger company than Microsoft.
http://www.slate.com/id/2616   (1338 words)

  
 Dictionary of Computers - Jobs, Steven Paul
Jobs has been involved with the creation of three different types of computer: the Apple II personal computer 1977, the Apple
Macintosh 1984 &; marketed as 'the computer for the rest of us' – and the NeXT workstation 1988.
Apple Computer bought NeXT at the end of 1996 to obtain NextStep, and Jobs returned to Apple in an advisory capacity.
http://www.tiscali.co.uk/reference/dictionaries/computers/data/m0045478.html   (181 words)

  
 IBM Explores Shift of White-Collar Jobs Overseas STEVEN GREENHOUSE / NY Times 22jul03
Forrester also estimated that 450,000 computer industry jobs could be transferred abroad in the next 12 years, representing 8 percent of the nation's computer jobs.
For example, Oracle, a big maker of specialized business software, plans to increase its jobs in India to 6,000 from 3,200, while Microsoft plans to double the size of its software development operation in India to 500 by late this year.
In decades past, millions of American manufacturing jobs moved overseas, but in recent years the movement has also shifted to the service sector, with everything from low-end call center jobs to high-paying computer chip design jobs migrating to China, India, the Philippines, Russia and other countries.
http://www.mindfully.org/Industry/2003/IBM-Shift-Overseas22jul03.htm   (1377 words)

  
 Computing Canada: Jobs firmly in driver's seat - Apple Computer's Steven Jobs - Company Operations
While Apple Computer Corp.'s board of directors has decided to let interim chief executive officer (CEO) Steven Jobs remain in his current executive position as long as possible, some analysts say the board doesn't have a choice in the matter.
In that fall, he sees the end of Apple as it currently stands (a proprietary software and hardware developer and manufacturer).
Michael Murphy, computer industry analyst and publisher of the California Technology Stock Letter, told Newsbytes, "They (the Apple board) have not been able to find anyone who will take the CEO position as long as Jobs is in control.
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0CGC/is_n14_v24/ai_20494688   (320 words)

  
 Steven Jobs, co-founder, Apple Computer February 24 in History
Steven Jobs, co-founder, Apple Computer February 24 in History
http://www.brainyhistory.com/events/1955/february_24_1955_116539.html   (42 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Insanely Great: The Life and Times of Macintosh, the Computer That Changed Everything: Books: Steven Levy
The author, Steven Levy, is perhaps best known in the field for his first book, Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution.
While there is of course a lot about Steve Jobs, equal attention is given to the various engineers who did nuts and bolts software and hardware development.
The initial Macintosh, that computer that I bought in 1984, was released underpowered (128k RAM), without enough storage space (it only had a single floppy drive capable of holding 400k), and crippled in expandability (it was a "closed" system without expansion slots).
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0140291776?v=glance   (2383 words)

  
 TIME Digital -- Cyber Elite - STEVE JOBS
Back in control, Jobs has introduced the PowerMac G3--Apple's fastest-selling computer ever--while the iMac has received rave reviews for its power and design.
He has come a long way from selling computers in his garage with Steve ("the Woz") Wozniak.
In 1985 he left Apple to develop NeXT Software before acquiring Pixar Animation Studios from George Lucas.
http://www.time.com/time/digital/cyberelite/07.html   (226 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Books: Steven Jobs & Stephen Wozniak: Creating the Apple Computer
Steven Jobs and Stephen Wozniak: Creating the Apple Computer
Amazon.ca: Books: Steven Jobs and Stephen Wozniak: Creating the Apple Computer
Top of Page : Steven Jobs and Stephen Wozniak: Creating the Apple Computer
http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/ASIN/156711086X   (273 words)

  
 Jobs' Apple Seen Changing To Intel Chips From IBM's - Forbes.com
There have long been whispers surrounding Apple's desire to shift its business to Intel, but a move to the x86 chips would still require a risky rewrite of Apple software.
One media report suggested Apple would start its move to Intel with lower-end computers in 2006, then higher-end models a year later.
Jobs' Apple Seen Changing To Intel Chips From IBM's - Forbes.com
http://www.forbes.com/2005/06/06/0606autofacescan01.html?partner=moreover   (538 words)

  
 Business Week Frontier
The story of Steve Jobs is the story of a young college dropout who sojourned to India in search of purity and enlightenment, returned to the U.S., and founded Apple Computer.
Eventually the projects became of value to others and Jobs persuaded Wozniak in 1976 to devote his energy to a partnership -- Apple Computer.
Steve Jobs: Hiring the Best Is Your Most Important Task
http://www.businessweek.com/smallbiz/news/coladvice/book/bk981106.htm   (788 words)

  
 BILL GATES & STEVE JOBS PHOTOS - Index
This relentless perfectionism typifies how Steve views everything he has created in 28 years at Apple Computer and nearly 20 at Pixar Animation Studio.
Bill Gates and Steven Jobs - Does DOS live in Windows XP index1
Reflecting that Microsoft has over 90% of the computer market vs less than 3% Apple share?
http://www.jmusheneaux.com/39ab.htm   (1227 words)

  
 Rozakis (1993) Steven Jobs: Computer genius
A biography of the inquisitive young computer genius who was one of the founders of Apple Computer company.
Apple Computer, Inc; History; Juvenile literature; Computer engineers; Biography; United States; Jobs, Steven
http://www.getcited.org/pub/103011462   (31 words)

  
 The Tech Visit The National Medal of Technology Laureate Profile for Steven P. Jobs and Stephen Wozniak
Wozniak designed the hardware, program languages, and software of the first Apple computer by himself.
But Wozniak had his own idea of what a personal computer should be.
The two Steves met when Jobs was in junior high and Wozniak was in high school in Cupertino, California.
http://www.thetech.org/nmot/detail.cfm?ID=17&STORY=4&   (212 words)

  
 Steven Jobs definition of Steven Jobs in computing dictionary - by the Free Online Dictionary, Thesaurus and ...
Steven Jobs definition of Steven Jobs in computing dictionary - by the Free Online Dictionary, Thesaurus and Encyclopedia.
This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional.
http://computing-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Steven+Jobs   (70 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Steven Jobs & Stephen Wozniak: Creating the Apple Computer (Partners): Books
Steven Jobs & Stephen Wozniak: Creating the Apple Computer (Partners) (School & Library Binding)
Amazon.com: Steven Jobs & Stephen Wozniak: Creating the Apple Computer (Partners): Books
Publisher: Learn how customers can search inside this book.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/156711086X/applecomputerrea   (501 words)

  
 Apple - Press Info - Bios - Steve Jobs
Apple ignited the personal computer revolution in the 1970s with the Apple II and reinvented the personal computer in the 1980s with the Macintosh.
Steve Jobs is the CEO of Apple, which he co-founded in 1976, and Pixar, the Academy-Award-winning animation studios which he co-founded in 1986.
Steve grew up in the apricot orchards which later became known as Silicon Valley, and still lives there with his wife and three children.
http://www.apple.com/pr/bios/jobs.html   (207 words)

  
 BILL GATES (MICROSOFT) & STEVE JOBS (APPLE) WEALTH
Gates is a business man who likes computers, Jobs is not up to par with Gates.
#67 Jobs, Steven Paul - 3,300 million Age 50 Palo Alto, CA - Apple Computer, Pixar
APPLE COMPARISON - Mac OS X Server has 2.5 million lines of code, while Windows 2000 Server more 30 million lines of code.
http://www.jmusheneaux.com/index11.htm   (2856 words)

  
 Jobs, Steven Paul
Steve Jobs - Steve Jobs computer industry pioneer Born: 1955 Birthplace: San Francisco, Calif. Businessman and...
Steven Paul Jobs - Jobs, Steven Paul, 1955–, American businessman, b.
http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0157272.html   (46 words)

  
 Jobs, Steven Paul -
Jobs, with Stephen Wozniac, co-founded Apple Computers, after developing their first machine in a garage.
Jobs' company was also the brains behind the first computer-animated film Toy Story.
He showed remarkable electronics aptitude early in life and attended lectures at Hewlett-Packard, where he also had a summer job and met Wozniac.
http://famous.adoption.com/famous/jobs-steven-paul.html   (196 words)

  
 Stephen Wozniak and Steven Jobs founded Apple Computer April 1 in History
Stephen Wozniak and Steven Jobs founded Apple Computer April 1 in History
Stephen Wozniak and Steven Jobs founded Apple Computer
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
http://www.brainyhistory.com/events/1976/april_1_1976_148424.html   (52 words)

  
 Apple, Digital Music's Angel, Earns Record Industry's Scorn - New York Times
Jobs to make Apple's software compatible with that of other companies.
Jobs has so far refused to make the iTunes software compatible with music players from other manufacturers, and he has prevented the iPod from accepting music sold from competing services that use a Microsoft-designed music format.
As a result, songs purchased from Napster, for example, will not play on an iPod.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/27/technology/27apple.html?ei=5090&en=01f491c5944a0133&ex=1282795200&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss&pagewanted=print   (1513 words)

  
 Steven Jobs
American computer designer and entrepreneur Steve Jobs founded Apple Computers with Steve Wozniak, setting up shop in his parents' garage.
One of the most successful college drop-outs ever, Jobs changed the world of technology forever.
Jobs' stock in Pixar, a maker of computer-generated full-length animated movies, has enabled him to join the Billionaire Club.
http://www.multied.com/Bio/people/Jobs.html   (115 words)

  
 Steven Jobs, Compare Book Prices & Find Cheap New, Used Books
Steven Jobs & Stephen Wozniak: Creating the Apple Computer (Partners)
Accidental Millionaire: The Rise and Fall of Steve Jobs at Apple Computer
Steven Jobs, Compare Book Prices & Find Cheap New, Used Books
http://www.bookfinder4u.co.uk/book_search/Steven_Jobs.html   (112 words)

  
 'You've got to find what you love,' Jobs says
This is the text of the Commencement address by Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, delivered on June 12, 2005.
I am honored to be with you today at your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world.
And now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you.
http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2005/june15/jobs-061505   (2001 words)

  
 Salon Brilliant Careers Machine dreams
For Jobs, the personal computer was "his tool for changing the world"
Difference -- incompatibility with existing systems in which people and companies had invested too much time, energy and resources to abandon -- also trapped Apple in a small niche even as the computer marketplace exploded around it.
It's no coincidence that the current slogan of that other company Jobs now runs, Apple Computer, should coil through "A Bug's Life" like a fiber of marketing-speak DNA.
http://www.salon.com/bc/1999/01/cov_05bc.html   (526 words)

  
 TIME Magazine: Coolest Inventions 2003, Apple Music Store
That may make iTunes the most benign-looking Trojan Horse in software history.
Jobs had proved the idea back in April when he launched the Music Store for Mac users, who represent only 3% of the computer world but promptly gobbled up a million tracks in the first week of business.
A software product that just might save their free-falling industry: the iTunes Music Store.
http://www.time.com/time/2003/inventions/invmusic.html   (989 words)

  
 The Tech Visit The National Medal of Technology Laureate Profile for Steven P. Jobs and Stephen Wozniak
Apple made about 50 millionaires, created thousands of jobs, and began a revolution that Wozniak called "computers for people."
By 1978, Apple II was the top-selling computer in the world and their company employed 1,000 people.
With Jobs’ urging, in 1976 the two college dropouts founded a company on April Fool’s Day and began to build Wozniak’s computer, a 62-chip printed circuit board.
http://www.thetech.org/nmot/detail.cfm?ID=17&STORY=5&&ST=key&QT=Packard&kiosk=Off   (259 words)

  
 Sample Contracts and Business Forms - Reimbursement Agreement - Apple Computer Inc. and Steven Jobs - Competitive ...
Sample Contracts and Business Forms - Reimbursement Agreement - Apple Computer Inc. and Steven Jobs - Competitive Intelligence for Investors
THIS REIMBURSEMENT AGREEMENT (the "Agreement") is made and entered into effective as of this 25th day of May 2001, by and between Steven Jobs ("Jobs"), and Apple Computer, Inc., a California corporation ("Apple").
The headings contained in this Agreement are for reference purposes only and shall not affect in any way the construction or interpretation of this Agreement.
http://contracts.onecle.com/apple/jobs.aircraft.2001.05.25.shtml   (1305 words)

  
 Steven's Printing: Jobs
Although we are not currently hiring, we will accept resumes and keep them on file for future reference.
Our team works together in an exciting and dynamic work environment that allows each member to gain expertise for future growth and continued fulfillment.
Thank you for your interest in Steven's Printing.
http://www.stevensprinting.com/jobs.html   (82 words)

  
 dmusic.com - RS INTERVIEW: Steven Jobs
In the past few months, Jobs' company has rolled out the PowerMac G5, arguably the fastest desktop computer on the planet;
Still, Jobs' bet on digital music is a hugely risky move in many ways, not only because powerhouses such as Dell and Wal-Mart are gunning for Apple (and Microsoft will be soon, as well), but because
It began two years ago, with the introduction of the iPod portable music player, which may be the only piece of Silicon Valley hardware that has ever
http://news.dmusic.com/article/9393   (2703 words)

  
 Democratic Underground Forums - Steven Jobs for President? Not This Time
And since he makes great computers, he probably would also formulate great public policy.
The idea for the campaign came to Foster, an information systems professor at Arizona State University, after watching President Bush's recent performance.
He said he met Jobs in the late 1980s and was impressed with his knowledge of Congress.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/duforum/DCForumID61/12677.html   (534 words)

  
 Steve Jobs
En 1974, de nuevo en California, pasó a formar parte del club de Wozniak Homebrew Computer Club.
Algo digno de tener en cuenta ya que Apple, aunque es muy conocida, no es una empresa especialmente importante y Jobs no es un personaje demasiado extravagante, siempre que no se le compare con Gates.
Wozniak se embarcó en CL9 (Cloud 9) y Jobs cedió su puesto, que tras varios cambios lo obtuvo Gil Amelio, y creó la firma de software NeXT Corporation.
http://www-etsi2.ugr.es/alumnos/mlii/Steve%20Jobs.htm   (690 words)

  
 Steven Jobs
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 Steven Jobs on Almondnet
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 STEVEN JOBS Magazine PHOTOS -APPLE
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Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain!
Apple's interim CEO may look different, sound different, but it's really the world that's changed.
http://www.jmusheneaux.com/03a.htm   (269 words)

  
 Letter to Steven Jobs by Steven Salemi The Computer Guru
Letter to Steven Jobs by Steven Salemi The Computer Guru
Please allow me to offer the following recommendations for perfecting Apple's fabulous family of iBook portable computers…I'm on my second one already!
http://www.computer-guru.com/jobs.html   (218 words)

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