The long hair. The mustache. The lack of a turtle neck. 32 years ago, Steve Jobs gave a presentation that wasn’t like the ones he has been famous for the last decade and a half but there are definitely flashes of the bravado and intellect that made him an icon. The video, gifted to the Computer History Museum by Regis McKenna, helps to bring humanity to a man that many view as super-human. The 23-minute clip is grainy and raw, nothing like the amazing videos that he has helped to create in recent years. It’s a metaphor of the man as he was then compared to what he eventually became. …

It has been just over 4 months since Steve Jobs died. Since then, Apple continues to head in the right direction financially and has seen very little in the way of slowing down its development of products. Tim Cook, the CEO, has not had many public appearances since then and the ones he has had have been short, but that changed yesterday during an engagement at a Goldman Sachs conference. Cook, who has been handling investor-relations for a long time due to Steve Jobs’ desire to not engage with (or talk to, or be associated with, or be in the same room with) the people with money who relied on Apple to make…

Steve Jobs has touched the lives of people everywhere in the world. His influence is unquestionable worldwide and we can expect to see many tributes created for the many since his death earlier this year. The first known statue was unveiled in Budapest, Hungary, where a life-size bronze rendition of the Apple Inc co-founder shows him in traditional jeans and a turtleneck addressing an invisible crowd. The statue, commissioned by GRAPHISOFT founder and chairman Gabor Bojar. Hungarian artist Ermo Toth sculpted the piece and was present as it was unveiled in front of the GRAPHISOFT headquarters….

Even months after his death, Apple co-founder Steve Jobs is still inspiring people. These words spoken in the video below can be applies to just about anyone and in 46 seconds have the ability to change lives. That’s not a “fanboy” overstatement. Jobs is revered by some and disliked by others, and after his death there has been much published that points to certain character flaws, but it doesn’t take away from this clip: “When you grow up you tend to get told the world is the way it is and you’re life is just to live your life inside the world. Try not to bash into the walls too much. Try to have a nice family,…

Apple Inc co-founder and former CEO Steve Jobs has passed away. He was 56. The statement was made by Apple. He spent the last several years leading the company to be one of the world’s largest while fighting a rare form of pancreatic cancer. He resigned in late August. Apple has lost a visionary and creative genius, and the world has lost an amazing human being. Those of us who have been fortunate enough to know and work with Steve have lost a dear friend and an inspiring mentor. Steve leaves behind a company that only he could have built, and his spirit will forever be the foundation of Apple….

Never has a single man had a greater impact on a tech company than Steve Jobs. Many would say that his influence stretches well beyond Apple, Disney, and his other contributions, that his style and leadership abilities have impacted hundreds, even thousands of successful companies and millions of individuals. His resignation as CEO of Apple was felt around the world, yet nobody felt it more than his successor, Tim Cook. It’s the big chair. There are few tech firms whose CEO has as much power. Beyond the power, there is an expectation to be met. The bar is as high as it can possibly be. The world will…

Artist. Rebel. Taste maker. Trend setter. The outspoken leader of the largest technology firm in the world stepped down this week and the masses are memorializing him as if he had died. It’s a testament to the effect that a visionary has on the world, one who has transcended the concept of great leadership in ways that will mark him in the history books forever. Here, our friends at Column Five have put together an amazing timeline of the man’s professional life, visualizing what it is to have led the technology world to where it is today. Click to enlarge …

As the man most responsible for the success of the largest tech company in the world steps down for medical reason, people will speculate about the future of his company and the things that he has done to make it great. Steve Jobs was a micro-manager. He had his hands in products from design to coding and was the ultimate tester prior to alpha launch. His creativity and guidance in marketing was a skill that he honed over the decades, bringing it to a case-study level by the late 90s. Today, Apple marketing is viewed as the benchmark by which other tech companies are judged. He changed the industry to make…

This is huge news. It has been huge news for a while ever since we found out that the co-founder and CEO of Apple was ill. Still, to cover every “tastemaker’s” tweet, every angle, every speculated twist and turn – it’s overkill. Steve Jobs resigned. We knew it was coming. He has pancreatic cancer. The prognosis for this disease is not good. It’s amazing that he has been able to operate at the level he has for so long. But, we knew this was coming. Now that it has, it’s sad, but does it really deserve this much space? /rant…

There may never be a better time for Steve Jobs to step away from Apple. Then again, there may never be a good time for him to step away. Rarely is one individually so acutely connected to the success or failure of an organization as much as Jobs has been over the decades. How will they fair when he finally does leave for good? This infographic by our friends at Online College Resource takes a look at the long and storied history of the man and his company and focuses on the rise of Apple University. The symbiotic relationship is striking. Whether the company will continue its extremely successful ways…