No, there was no Launchpad for your apps on the original Apple II, the legendary home computer developed by the late, great Steve Jobs and his partner, Apple co-founder and engineering whiz Steve Wozniak. Instead, you had to load your apps—er, your programs—from a...
More upheaval in the tech world this week as Steve Jobs steps down as Apple’s CEO. Also: Facebook revamps its privacy and sharing controls, rattled East Coasters turn to social media after a quake, and a guide for first-time HDTV shoppers. Steve Jobs resigns as...
The first time Steve Jobs amazed and delighted me was in 1979, when I was about 10 years old. My dad had just bought our very first computer—the Apple II, complete with a whopping 48 kilobytes of memory—and my parents and I sat and gawked at this beautiful beige...
Disheartening news for Apple fans. Steve Jobs, the tech visionary and master showman who co-founded Apple and oversaw the development of such legendary products as the Apple II, the Macintosh, the iPhone, and the iPad, is stepping down as CEO, the company announced...
Apple’s biggest competitor in the smartphone market is poised to buy Motorola, the legendary handset maker behind the Motorola Droid and—once upon a time, anyway—the stylish Razr and the old-school StarTac. It’s huge news in the business of tech, of...
It’s bad enough if your MacBook winds up lost or stolen. But if your precious laptop falls into the wrong hands, you could end up losing a lot more than your $1,000-plus investment. That’s because your MacBook’s hard drive is probably packed with...
Not all that long from now, Mac, iPhone, and iPad users will be able to store their contacts, calendars, photos, music, and more in the “cloud”—or rather, in Apple’s iCloud, to be precise. Slated to go live in the fall, Apple’s new service...
