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Final Cut dominant among Oscar documentary nominees

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Steve Jobs and the iPad both appeared on TV during last night's Academy Awards, but they weren't the extent of Apple's presence.

Cnet reports this morning that the majority...

Steve Jobs' big night at the Oscars

He showed up to watch Pixar's "Up" win best-animated — and to air the first iPad ad Kathryn Bigelow's Oscar triumph for the "Hurt Locker" may be the headline in Monday's papers, but for Apple (AAPL) fans the big news Sunday evening was Steve Jobs' appearance on the red carpet in a tuxedo. "OMG, it's Steve Jobs!...

Apple’s video advertising options detailed in patent application

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In the battle of the network superstars between free-to-stream, ad-supported video (the Hulu model) and pay-per-show, ad-free TV (the iTunes model), there's been a...

Apple sets iPad ship date; shares hit record high

"Magical" and "revolutionary" and only few days late Apple (AAPL) shares soared to record levels Friday as the company announced that its iPad tablet computer will go on sale Saturday, April 3, within a few days of its original ship date. Reports that the device had run into a production problem don't seem to have greatly affected...

Steve Jobs' misunderstood monologuist

The agony and the ecstasy of a storyteller who bleeds in six colors "If you are a tech journalist writing about 'The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs,' " begins Thursday's entry in Mike Daisey's long-running blog (first entry: August, 2001): My last name is spelled Daisey. I will not be playing the "role" of Steve Jobs....

Life of Steve Jobs to be a play

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The Berkeley Repertory Theater is producing a play titled The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs.

The play will be a monologue monologuist piece that "dives into the epic story of a real-life Willy Wonka whose personal obsessions...

The Agony and Ecstasy of Steve Jobs: a one-man play at the Berkeley Repertory Theatre

To Be Or Not To Be… Steve Jobs. That is the question. Well, actually, that’s not the question at all: the real question is whether you will pay good money to see “one of the elite performers in American theater,” Mike Daisey, be or not be...

Steve Jobs: A man aggrieved

A new theory about why Apple decided to take HTC — and indirectly, Google — to court Two thirds of the way through a 3,000-word essay on This Apple-HTC Patent Thing, Daring Fireball's John Gruber quotes a tweet by John Siracusa that gets to the heart of the matter: "To me, the Apple patent suit smells like...

Some things we may not see again from Apple

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Conan O'Brien once had a recurring segment on Late Night called "Guests We Won't Have Back," during which he would look back at guests (who were fake) that he regretted having on the show. There was bug expert Sara Wiggins,...

Found Footage: SNL parodies Steve Jobs again

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Saturday Night Live (SNL) has done a great job of satirizing Steve Jobs and Apple over the years, and the tradition continued last week. "Undercover Boss" is a TV show in the states that has...

Video of the Day: Even Undercover, Steve Jobs is Great Boss

Saturday Night Live spoofed cubicle-based reality show Undercover Boss — where the corner office guy or gal climbs back down the career ladder to go incognito as a menial employee — with Undercover Celebrity Boss. Steve Jobs sticks a “mainentance” badge on his signature black turtleneck and...

Al Gore gets 10,387 more Apple options

Serving as a lightning rod for activist shareholders has its rewards Al Gore took his lumps at Apple's (AAPL) shareholders meeting Thursday. Sitting in the front row with the other outside directors, he had to bite his tongue as two pro-environment proposals were voted down and a gadfly named Shelton Ehrlich took the mic to call him...