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Foxconn: An Exclusive Inside Look

Foxconn: An Exclusive Inside Look

| February 22, 2012 | 0 Comments

What is it like inside a factory that makes Apple iPads? Tonight, an ABC Nightline special called “iFactory” gave us the first peak at actual factory working conditions and the people living on the assembly line. Bill Weir, a reporter for ABC, traveled to Foxconn, a Chinese manufacturing company, soon after the media began taking [...]

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First screenshots from new OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion

First screenshots from new OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion

| February 16, 2012 | 1 Comment

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The First Apple Macintosh

The First Apple Macintosh

| February 11, 2012 | 0 Comments

A documentary of the first Apple Macintosh and the Mac team at Apple. Includes quotes from Steve Jobs.

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FBI releases Steve Jobs’ file

FBI releases Steve Jobs’ file

| February 10, 2012 | 0 Comments

The FBI has released, and posted on its web site, Steve Jobs’ 191-page FBI file. The file consists of a 1991 background investigation conducted when Jobs was being considered for an appointment to the President’s Export Council in the Bush I White House, and records of a 1985 bomb threat against him. The file includes [...]

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How Jef Raskin started the Macintosh project

How Jef Raskin started the Macintosh project

| February 1, 2012 | 0 Comments

It All Began with “Annie” – The Vision of a Computer for the Masses (Updated: January 2012) It had been a long way until the day of the official introduction of the Macintosh on January 24th, 1984. Five years earlier, in spring 1979, Apple chairman Mike Markkula wondered whether his company should bring a 500 [...]

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