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Bloomberg publishes Jobs obituary
An electronic gaffe at news outlet Bloomberg mistakenly sent an incomplete obituary for Apple CEO Steve Jobs over the wire on Wednesday afternoon in the US. Read more »
Steve Wozniak: $100 laptop deserves a Nobel Prize
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak has revealed he's a big fan of Nicholas Negroponte's One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project but confessed that his own plans to switch entirely to the device have gone awry. Read more »
Wozniak 'disappointed' by Apple iPhone
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak has today hit out at smartphones, accusing device manufacturers of putting technology before people -- and revealed that he's disappointed by Apple's decision to launch the iPhone without 3G. Read more »
Commodore 64 celebrates 25th birthday
The Commodore 64 turned 25 this year, and its legacy was celebrated on Monday with an anniversary presentation at the Computer History Museum in Silicon Valley. Read more »
Crowd gathers for Homebrew Computer Club's 30th
If you've never seen a couple hundred bona-fide geeks sitting on the edge of their seats with excitement, you should have been on hand Saturday for an appreciation of the 30th anniversary of the Homebrew Computer Club. Read more »
Jef Raskin, Mac interface expert, dies at 61
Jef Raskin, the human-computer interface expert largely credited with beginning the Macintosh project for Apple Computer, died Saturday at age 61. Read more »
Mitnick to tackle social engineering in Australia
World-renowned security consultant Kevin Mitnick is expected to visit Australia for the first time in April 2005 after immigration authorities approved a visa allowing him to enter the country. Read more »
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How the Mac was born, and other tales
Steve Jobs will be the star attraction when the Macworld Conference and Expo opens to the public Tuesday, but many Mac fans might be just as interested in hearing from one of the original Mac's creators. Read more »
Should you hire an ex-hacker?
Hiring a hacker as a chief security officer may sound crazy, but it has paid off for one company. See why an ex-hacker might be your smartest hire ever. Read more »
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Wozniak on Apple, Jobs, and the iPhone line
At the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco, NPR's Moira Gunn interviews Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak about a range of tech industry topics. He shares his views on the current state of Apple and Steve Jobs' role in the company's turnaround. And Wozniak also tells whether he really... Read more »
Commodore 64's silver anniversary
The Commodore 64 may be gone, but it's certainly not forgotten. Fans turned out in the hundreds Monday night for the PC's 25th anniversary party at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California. CNET News.com's Kara Tsuboi raised a glass and chatted with industry leaders, including Steve Wozniak, Apple's co-founder, and Jack Tramiel, the founder of Commodore International, about the Commodore's impact on the personal-computing market. Read more »
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Introducing IE8: The Ocho
-- Over in Las Vegas the MIX conference is underway and that means only one thing: Microsoft announcements and plenty of them. Read more »
Competition: Gates vs Woz Deathmatch
-- Tell us who you think would win in a deathmatch between Bill Gates and Steve Wozniak, and go in the running to pick up some free gear. Read more »
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Bridging the gap between programmers and the visionA successful project will have a hard time flying if you don't walk through the game plan before writing a line of code. Read more »
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Social news start-up Streem shuts downSydney social news start-up Streem will shut down this afternoon, according to a heartfelt notice posted on the site this morning by its founder Elgar Welch. Read more »
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What's the point in following Apple's rules on the iPhone SDK if other developers will just flaunt them? We check the answer out and cover the other issues from the week: OLPC, IE, Ballmer and the Internet in space. Read more »
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Five things to consider when choosing a Linux distribution
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Cyber-terrorism 'a big threat'
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Behind the Apple-Google API dustup
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Space pr0n, patent karma and Yang out -- Club Builder
On Club Builder this week: how NASA plans to get the Internet into space, Jerry Yang is out the door at Yahoo and Brendan Eich discusses javascript engine competition.