Remembering Steve Jobs

Will Your Children Remember?

Ann Blumenthal Jacobs | Posted 05.01.2012

Ann Blumenthal Jacobs

Here are 8 tips on keeping memories of grandparents alive for children who won't have the gift of years with them.

Twitter Celebrates Steve Jobs' Birthday

Posted 02.24.2012

Happy birthday, Steve Jobs. The co-founder and former CEO of Apple, who passed away on Oct. 5, 2011, would have turned 57 on Friday. Fans of the...

Follow Your Dreams

George Heymont | Posted 02.28.2012

George Heymont

The first time I saw one of Bill Plympton's animated shorts was at one of the Spike & Mike Festivals of Animation. It wasn't long before Plympton's hallucinogenic adventures in storytelling were delighting audiences at the Sick and Twisted Festivals of Animation.

Big 2011 Tech Stories About People, Not Products

Larry Magid | Posted 02.26.2012

Larry Magid

There were plenty of gadgets shipped in 2011, but the big stories of the year were about the people who made them and used them to change the world.

Lessons From the Brutal Truth of Steve Jobs

Rabbi Shmuley Boteach | Posted 01.14.2012

Rabbi Shmuley Boteach

If he thought you were a sub-par employee, he told you. If he thought you were a B-person, he said it to your face. If he thought you were a nudge who interrupted his meeting just to get him to lecture, he told you so in no uncertain terms.

What Higher Education Can Learn From Steve Jobs

Brian Rosenberg | Posted 01.09.2012

Brian Rosenberg

Steve Jobs, in one of his less profane moments, might have called an educational system devoid of the liberal arts, like a computer or a phone or a music player devoid of both beauty and functionality, "a piece of crap." I can't say that I disagree.

When Will We See Another Steve Jobs?

Dr. Khalid Alnowaiser | Posted 01.03.2012

Dr. Khalid Alnowaiser

With the recent passing of the most important visionary and technology innovator of our lifetime, Steve Jobs, I am left with this question: Why can't the Islamic world produce a person as brilliant and generous as Steve Jobs?

What Steve Jobs Teaches Us About Ourselves

Tom Silva | Posted 01.03.2012

Tom Silva

There is no question that Jobs moved people in a way that is rare. The question is the lessons we can draw from the grief over his death and what it teaches us about ourselves as Americans.

A Recollection Of Visionary Leader Steve Jobs

Mark C. Thompson | Posted 10.28.2011

Mark C. Thompson

Steve loved Richard Branson's signature phrase: "Screw it, just do it." Greatness, for him, was not just thinking different, but getting things done differently.

Memories of Steve

Ben Rosen | Posted 12.24.2011

Ben Rosen

One frigid winter day in the late 1970s, I ran into Steve at some meeting in midtown Manhattan, a time and event now long forgotten.

If We Don't Let Our Children Play, Who Will Be the Next Steve Jobs?

Darell Hammond | Posted 12.20.2011

Darell Hammond

We are raising today's children in sterile, risk-averse and highly structured environments. In so doing, we are failing to cultivate artists, pioneers and entrepreneurs.

Connecting the Dots

Brian Rosenberg | Posted 12.18.2011

Brian Rosenberg

If we do not support and preserve the segment of American higher education that provides instruction in the liberal arts we will be reducing the likelihood that we will continue to be global leaders in innovation.

Steve Jobs, the King Memorial and Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth

Clarence B. Jones | Posted 12.15.2011

Clarence B. Jones

As I began to reflect on the passing of Steve Jobs, Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth and the celebration of the opening of the King Memorial in Washington, it caused me to think back to January 1963 and the special role of Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth at that time.

A Lesson From Steve Jobs: Arts and Technology Education Are Related

Inderpal Grewal | Posted 12.12.2011

Inderpal Grewal

It is the humanities and arts education in US universities that provided technology with that innovation, leadership and critical thinking skills that became the distinctive hallmarks of the Mac.

Jobs Loved Computers, of Course... and Bach

Jan Herman | Posted 12.10.2011

Jan Herman

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Steve Jobs Made Sure Apple's Main Mission Was Satisfied Customers, not Profits

Judith Samuelson | Posted 12.11.2011

Judith Samuelson

Focus on quality and excellence in delivering goods and services -- and ultimately, you create value for everyone who touches the enterprise -- the customers, as well as investors. Indeed, like Apple, you might change the world.

More Jobs -- Steve and Small Business

Nelson Davis | Posted 12.11.2011

Nelson Davis

From the beginning, the creator and the creation were a single bonded brand. It is an exceptional business achievement if people think of you when they see the product and the product when they see you.

In Celebrating Steve Jobs' Life, iGrieve

Shelley Ross | Posted 12.10.2011

Shelley Ross

Someone magical has left the planet, no matter how we all will forever live in his iClouds. And I feel shameful for my greed in wishing we all had many more years of him.

iSad in Damascus: Syrians Reclaim Steve Jobs

Sami Moubayed | Posted 12.10.2011

Sami Moubayed

Few people know that Apple founder and icon Jobs originally came from Syria. As the news of Jobs' death vibrated throughout the globe, young technology-savvy Syrians mourned his death, laying claim to a computer genius who revolutionized the world.

Steve Jobs and the Power of Technology

Steven Cohen | Posted 12.10.2011

Steven Cohen

Jobs imagined technology as a force to make human lives better. He took technology invented by others and through his genius as a manager and designer, translated those technologies intro transformative commercial products.

No More Jobs

Ed Crego, George Muñoz and Frank Islam | Posted 12.09.2011

Ed Crego, George Muñoz and Frank Islam

America and the world need extraordinary Americans. Steve Jobs showed us that the future belongs to those who can envision and create it and not to those who are mired in the past and define themselves by limits rather than possibilities.

Steve Jobs, Apple and the Sea Turtles

Wallace J Nichols | Posted 12.09.2011

Wallace J Nichols

This will sound like a stretch, but sea turtles owe much to the genius of Steve Jobs.

Death, Steve Jobs and Social Media

Francine Hardaway | Posted 12.09.2011

Francine Hardaway

Declamatory media gives us the outline of the facts. Steve Jobs is dead. But then something has to invest those facts with meaning. And that's the job of participatory media.

Remembering the Greatest Innovator of the Past Fifty Years

Bill George | Posted 12.09.2011

Bill George

Let us hope that in celebrating his life many other young people will be inspired to go their own ways, trust their intuition, and pursue their dreams and their visions. That could be Steve Jobs' greatest legacy of all.

Steve Jobs and the Future of Journalism

Judy Lubin | Posted 12.07.2011

Judy Lubin

Steve Jobs dramatically changed the media landscape with pioneering products that will forever change the way news is consumed and distributed.