It was supposed to be about Apple Inc.’s dazzling new products. Instead, the company’s press conference on Wednesday was about the man. Grinning like a kid in a toy store, Chief Executive Steve Jobs stole the spotlight with his first official public appearance in nearly a year. He received a liver transplant about five months […]
Month: September 2009
Apple’s Big Event (live blog): Los Angeles Times, September 2009
Updated at 11:15: It’s over. The updated iPod Nano will be $149 for the 8GB model, and $179 for the 16GB. Not the big hardware announcement folks were hoping for. And no sign of the Beatles, whose songs are still not in the iTunes catalog. Updated at 11:12: More on the new Nano: It will […]
Apple: Only Rock And Roll — Not a New Computer: Los Angeles Times, September 2009
“It’s only rock and roll, but we like it,” Apple says in its invitation to the media for its announcement tomorrow of something new and unspecified. So we probably shouldn’t expect something other than rock and roll, like the tablet computer Apple is said to be working on. And considering that “It’s Only Rock ‘n’ […]
Big Problem With Nanotechnology?: Marin-Sonoma Here, September 2009
Chances are nanomaterials are starting to show up in many of the objects of your daily life, without you even knowing it. The products of the tiniest technology can be found in power tools and paint, bath towels and batteries, sunscreen and suitcases, beer bottles, refrigerators, plastic wrap and more than 1,000 other items. Yet […]