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February 2012
In April, 1976 Apple was founded by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne. Shortly thereafter they began selling the Apple I. In the thirty-six years since, Apple has released hundreds of products. Some have been flops. Others have revolutionized – or even created – entire markets. Now one YouTube user has created a video showing (almost) every product from Apple’s three and a half decades in thirty seconds. There are no words and no labels on the products, so you’ll have to see which ones you can recognize on your own.
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February 2012
San Francisco got a taste of Lana Del Rey madness Thursday night as the bewitching singer celebrated the release of her debut album, Born to Die, at Amoeba Music. Fresh from her successful performance at Amoeba Hollywood Tuesday night, Lana Del Rey arrived to the San Francisco store at 2:30pm and took the time to greet deliriously happy fans out on Haight Street (even greeting a friend of a fan's through his cell phone) before heading up to the Amoeba green room to get ready for her 6:00pm show. To say the show was well attended would be an understatement as the store's capacity was reached sometime around 5:30pm. With the store packed full of admirers and a line of hopefuls down Haight Street (and around the block), it would be safe to say that over 1,500 fans turned out to see the new voice of their generation.
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January 2012
Back in the mid-1970‘s a young engineer named Steve Wozniak pitched his boss at Hewlett-Packard on his idea for building a personal computer. Back then, computers were offered as kits designed for techies to build, not the finished, consumer products they are today. HP told Wozniak it wasn’t interested so he went on and joined his pal Steve Jobs to start a company called Apple Computer. Fast forward about 35 years and Apple is looking in the rear view mirror at HP as it just passed the computer giant as the leading volume producer of PCs in the world, according to the latest research by Canalys covering the fourth quarter of 2011.
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January 2012
Name: Norah Carroll Bio: Lava Row strategist, Drake University j-school graduate, Minnesota native. Proud mother of a hedgehog named Woz (after Steve Wozniak, of course).
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January 2012
Steve Wozniak, co-founder with Steve Jobs of nothing less than Apple and the computer revolution, proffered this advice to those who would emulate him: "Work alone....Not on a committee. Not on a team." According to the article, one study of 600 computer specialists at 92 companies found the secret to more output was not experience or pay. Instead, it was how much privacy and freedom from interruption they enjoyed. The ability to fold back into private, quiet space and close the door was crucial to producing results. Conversely, open format work spaces, with no walls and constant background noise, was detrimental to achieving goals. Work groups, furthermore, tended to stifle creativity. Employees or students in such settings can slack off and not produce ideas, follow other participants' leads too easily, and give in to peer pressure.
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January 2012
For instance, while Apple's Steve Jobs has received much of the glory for his company’s success, Cain reminds us that Steve Wozniak, who built the home PC that would eventually help start Apple, did all his hard work alone. Research, too, supports the theory that working alone leads to better ideas.
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January 2012
Hmmm, everybody is watching.
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January 2012
Let's get a little perspective, shall we? Corsair's Force Series 3 SSD -- a wholly awesome product in its own right -- is capable of hitting around 85,000 IOPS. On a good day. Fusion-io has been pushing the NAND storage envelope for years now, but even its recently-unveiled ioDrives deliver between 700,000 and 900,000 IOPS. Today, however, the company's pausing to pat itself squarely on the back -- and rightfully so. It managed to achieve one billion input and output operations per second in a technology demonstration conducted at DEMO Enterprise: An Evening of Innovation.
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January 2012
The VentureBeat team, being the huge geeks that we are, are delighted to be co-hosting Enterprise Disruption: An Evening of Change and Innovation tonight in San Francisco. The event, produced by our partners at DEMO and underwritten by Fusion-io, will showcase some truly bright student-led startups. While the event is at capacity, you can still register to get on the waitlist — or follow along with our live video stream, which will start tonight at 6:15pm Pacific, right here in this post.
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January 2012
Apple Internal "Ad" - Blue Busters 1984. Woz is in there.
