Berlin: An auctioneer says one of Apple's first computers - a functioning 1976 model - has been sold for a record 516,000 euros ($668,000).
German auction house Breker said Saturday an Asian client, who asked not to be named, bought the so-called Apple 1, which the tech company's founders Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak built in a family garage.
Breker claims it is one of only six known remaining functioning models in the world. Breker already sold one last year for 492,000 euros.
It says the computer bears Wozniak's signature. An old business transaction letter from the late Jobs also was included....
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10:28 AM, May 26, 2013
New Delhi: While Ashton Kutcher's jOBS has not got any release date yet, another Steve Jobs movie - iSteve - has been released online. iSteve, an 80-minute spoof stars Justin Long, who once portrayed the Mac in Apple's famous Mac vs PC commercials. Jorge Garcia (Lost, Once Upon A Time) plays his partner Steve Wozniak. The movie has been created by the humorous website Funny or Die. You can watch...
12:02 PM, Apr 17, 2013
New Delhi: Mahatma Gandhi figures among the top three most admired leaders of the world, said a global survey of CEOs conducted by accountancy firm PwC. While Winston Churchill tops the list of 10 most admired leaders, Gandhi figures in the third position after Steve Jobs (co-founder of Apple), said the 16th Annual Global CEO Survey. As part of its annual survey, PwC said it recently asked 1,400 CEOs from...
07:57 PM, Apr 15, 2013
San Francisco: When Steve Jobs adopted "think different" as Apple's mantra in the late 1990s, the company's ads featured Albert Einstein, Bob Dylan, Amelia Earhart and a constellation of other starry-eyed oddballs who reshaped society. Nolan Bushnell never appeared in those tributes, even though Apple was riffing on an iconoclastic philosophy he embraced while running video game pioneer Atari in the early 1970s. Atari's refusal to be corralled by the...
01:05 PM, Mar 28, 2013
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01:49 PM, Feb 24, 2013
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak says a new movie about late chairman Steve Jobs appears to misrepresent aspects of their personalities and their early vision for the company. ...
11:33 AM, Jan 27, 2013
Apple co-founder Steve Jobs threatened to file a patent lawsuit against Palm if that company's chief executive didn't agree to refrain from poaching Apple employees, according to a court filing made public on Tuesday. ...
10:41 AM, Jan 23, 2013
A memorial to renowned tech innovator and Apple co-founder Steve Jobs was unveiled in Russian city of St. Petersburg. ...
04:54 PM, Jan 10, 2013
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06:51 PM, Jan 04, 2013
New York: "Those jobs aren't coming back." That's what Steve Jobs reportedly told President Obama when asked at a dinner in early 2011 whether Apple would consider moving some of its manufacturing from China to the United States. Jobs' successor, CEO Tim Cook, might have another response for Obama: Yes, we can. Though the metal edges of its PCs and mobile devices are as sharp and severe as ever, Apple...
06:19 PM, Dec 07, 2012
New Delhi: Exactly 40 years ago on November 29, 1972, Atari - the company in which a scruffy, young Steve Jobs worked before he founded Apple - announced the release of what is the first successful video game. It was the success of Pong that triggered the start of the video game industry, which is now bigger than Hollywood.Although it wasn't the first company to make video games, Atari was...
06:04 AM, Nov 29, 2012
Los Angeles: Actor Josh Gad, who plays Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak in the upcoming biopic about Steve Jobs, is all praise for his co-star Ashton Kutcher, calling his act as 'uncanny' in the film. Kutcher will be seen playing Jobs in the movie, reported Us magazine. "Ashton is going to blow a lot of people away. His performance was absolutely transformational. If he looked any more like Steve Jobs, I...
06:27 PM, Nov 12, 2012
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08:10 PM, Oct 11, 2012
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01:26 PM, Oct 06, 2012
New Delhi: Apple paid tribute to its co-founder Steve Jobs with a montage video on its home page and a message from Apple CEO Tim Cook. Steve Jobs died on October 5, 2011. The man who shaped contemporary consumer technology, battled cancer and other health issues for several years. Jobs had a rare form of pancreatic cancer. The video features a montage of images and quotes from landmark product launches...
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06:29 AM, Oct 05, 2012
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