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March 2012
Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple, was once again first in line for an Apple release. Except this time, instead of spending the night outside an Apple store on his home turf of Los Gatos in Northern California, tech's most lovable mascot found himself queuing up for the new iPad at the Westfield Century City mall in Los Angeles. Welcome to L.A., Woz! Wozniak has a history of spending the night outside an Apple store, just to be the first.
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March 2012
Mega Partnering today announced the co-founder of Apple, Steve Wozniak, Rock Star Bret Michaels, Eric Trump, Stedman Graham, Todd Davis (Life-Lock), Nido Qubein (High Point University), Olympic Gold Medalist Steven Bradbury, JT Foxx (Serial Entrepreneur) will be joining a group of 800 A-Players, small business entrepreneurs, internet marketers, and real estate investors representing diverse regions and industries on May 3-6, 2012 in Dallas, Texas.
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February 2012
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak is visiting Auckland on May 21 to present a seminar called "The Apple Story: Disruptive Innovation, Inspiration and Entrepreneurial Wizardry." While the late Steve Jobs was regarded as Apple's creative force, the more reclusive Mr Wozniak was regarded as the engineering brains behind the company's early products. The pair had a tortured relationship, Walter Isaacson related in his official biography of Steve Jobs. Mr Jobs passionately believed that good design and user-friendliness could only be achieved if a company controlled hardware, software (and, later, online services).
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February 2012
ANKENY, Iowa -- It took just 10 minutes for tickets to disappear to a DMACC event featuring the co-founder of Apple. The speech by Steve Wozniak is part of the school's iWeek events at DMACC's West Des Moines Campus set for March 5 to 8. Wozniak tickets were free to those who were first in an electronic line. "We could have given out three times as many tickets, but are restricted by space limitations," said Dr. Tony Paustian, Provost of the DMACC West Campus. "The interest in our speakers this year is a good indication how popular and well attended iWeek will be."
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February 2012
The man who handled the technical design of Apple's early computers is making a return trip for a series of events organised by the American Chamber of Commerce in Australia. He will speak on 'The Apple Story: disruptive innovation, inspiration and entrepreneurial wizardry' at the Perth Convention and Exhibition Centre on May 11, the Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre on May 14, and the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre on May 16.
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February 2012
In April, 1976 Apple was founded by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne. Shortly thereafter they began selling the Apple I. In the thirty-six years since, Apple has released hundreds of products. Some have been flops. Others have revolutionized – or even created – entire markets. Now one YouTube user has created a video showing (almost) every product from Apple’s three and a half decades in thirty seconds. There are no words and no labels on the products, so you’ll have to see which ones you can recognize on your own.
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February 2012
San Francisco got a taste of Lana Del Rey madness Thursday night as the bewitching singer celebrated the release of her debut album, Born to Die, at Amoeba Music. Fresh from her successful performance at Amoeba Hollywood Tuesday night, Lana Del Rey arrived to the San Francisco store at 2:30pm and took the time to greet deliriously happy fans out on Haight Street (even greeting a friend of a fan's through his cell phone) before heading up to the Amoeba green room to get ready for her 6:00pm show. To say the show was well attended would be an understatement as the store's capacity was reached sometime around 5:30pm. With the store packed full of admirers and a line of hopefuls down Haight Street (and around the block), it would be safe to say that over 1,500 fans turned out to see the new voice of their generation.
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January 2012
Back in the mid-1970‘s a young engineer named Steve Wozniak pitched his boss at Hewlett-Packard on his idea for building a personal computer. Back then, computers were offered as kits designed for techies to build, not the finished, consumer products they are today. HP told Wozniak it wasn’t interested so he went on and joined his pal Steve Jobs to start a company called Apple Computer. Fast forward about 35 years and Apple is looking in the rear view mirror at HP as it just passed the computer giant as the leading volume producer of PCs in the world, according to the latest research by Canalys covering the fourth quarter of 2011.
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January 2012
Name: Norah Carroll Bio: Lava Row strategist, Drake University j-school graduate, Minnesota native. Proud mother of a hedgehog named Woz (after Steve Wozniak, of course).
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January 2012
Steve Wozniak, co-founder with Steve Jobs of nothing less than Apple and the computer revolution, proffered this advice to those who would emulate him: "Work alone....Not on a committee. Not on a team." According to the article, one study of 600 computer specialists at 92 companies found the secret to more output was not experience or pay. Instead, it was how much privacy and freedom from interruption they enjoyed. The ability to fold back into private, quiet space and close the door was crucial to producing results. Conversely, open format work spaces, with no walls and constant background noise, was detrimental to achieving goals. Work groups, furthermore, tended to stifle creativity. Employees or students in such settings can slack off and not produce ideas, follow other participants' leads too easily, and give in to peer pressure.
