A novella hősnője attól való félelmében, hogy többet esetleg nem találkozhatnak, távozásuk előtt a színházi lépcsőn, meghívja a férfit, hogy a következő napok valamelyikén jöjjön hozzá vacsorára, aki csak háromszori kitérő válasz után egyezik bele. Hazatérésekor a nő mélyen megalázva érzi magát emiatt, de bízva saját szépségében és társaságbeli tekintélyében, elhatározza, hogy ezért az elutasításért a férfit magába bolondítja.

... Hazatérve, [A hölgy], a lassú vetkőzése közben, felidézte az estély eseményeit. Ahhoz a pillanathoz érve, mikor [a férfi] elutasította, hogy az utolsó felvonás alatt vele maradjon, elvörösödött a megalázottságtól. A legelementárisabb kacérság és a legszigorúbb önérzet ezek után a tartózkodó hidegség megőrzését parancsolták volna. Ehelyett ez a háromszoros invitálás a lépcsőn! Méltatlankodva, büszkén emelte föl a fejét, s a tükör mélyén oly szépnek látta, hogy kétsége sem volt, [A férfi] belé fog szeretni. Már csak a közelgő elutazása miatt gondolt nyugtalanul és mély szomorúsággal a gyöngédségére, melyet, maga sem tudta miért, a férfi el akart előtte titkolni. Talán bevallja, esetleg egy levélben, most, mindjárt, és semmi kétség, elhalasztja útját, s ővele utazik el... Hogyan? …ilyesmire gondolnia sem szabad. De látta a férfi szép, szerelmes arcát, amint az övéhez közelíti és bocsánatot kér tőle. »Gonosz« - mondta [A hölgy]. - De talán még nem is szereti őt; talán elutazna, anélkül, hogy ideje lenne szerelembe esnie... Búsan horgasztotta le fejét és tekintete a ruháján még nála is erőtlenebbül hervadó virágokra esett, melyek bágyadt pillái alatt máris sírni látszottak. Az a gondolat, hogy mily rövid ideig tartott saját öntudatlan álma, s hogy mily rövid ideig tartana a boldogsága, ha egyáltalán megvalósulna, összetársult a virágok szomorúságával, melyek mielőtt meghaltak volna, ellankadtak a szívén, melyet épp első szerelmében, első megaláztatásában és első bánatában érezhettek dobogni...

Másnap, mikor leveleket hoztak a számára és mert a férfitól egyet sem talált köztük, csalódás támadt benne.

...Lemérve tehát a távolságot egy olyan csalódás értelmetlensége, mely a legcsekélyebb mértékben sem táplálja a reményt, és a csalódásnak nagyon valóságos, nagyon kegyetlen ereje között, felfogta, hogy immár felhagyott kizárólag az élet tényei és eseményei alapján élni. Az ámítás fátyla kezdett beláthatatlan időre szeme elé ereszkedni. Ezen keresztül már nem fog mást látni, csak olyan dolgokat, talán többet, mint mások, amiket megismerni és megélni szeretne, valóságosan és [a férfihoz] hasonulva, olyasmiket, amik vele [A férfival] kapcsolatosak...

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Proust-novella - fordítás 2.

A szünetben a barátok elmennek, de [A férfi] épp meglátogatja a társaság páholyát, s ez [A hölgy] számára alkalmat nyújt, hogy a férfit felkérje, maradjon ott a következő felvonás alatt, de mindezt mégis egykedvű szívélyességgel teszi:

...mintha öntudatlanul a kacérkodás szabályait alkalmazná, melyet a »ha nem szeretlek, majd belém szeretsz« közismert mondás foglal magába...

A meghívást azonban a férfi nem fogadja el, dolga van és már éppen távozni készül, miközben az is kiderül, hogy hamarosan távoli, hosszú utazásra indul, ami a hölgyben nem várt érzelmi fordulatot vált ki.

... Egy gyermek, aki születésétől fogva úgy lélegzik, anélkül, hogy valaha is figyelne rá, nem tudja, hogy a mellkasát lassan fújtató levegő, amit észre sem vesz, életének feltétele. Netán fuldoklik egy görcsös lázroham folyamán? A kétségbeesett erőfeszítésében szinte az életéért küzd, az elveszített nyugalmáért, amit csakis a levegővel találhat meg újra, nem tudván, hogy ez a kettő egymástól elválaszthatatlan.
Épp így, abban a pillanatban, mikor [A hölgy] értesült [A férfi] elutazásáról, melyről nem tudott, fogta csak fel, ráeszmélve, hogy mi az, ami elszakad tőle és mi az, ami majd annak helyére lép. S egy enyhe lesújtottsággal, szomorúan nézett [a barátnőjére,] haragvás nélkül, miként a szegény, szorongatott beteg sem haragszik az asztmára, mely fojtogatja, mikor könnyekkel teli szemmel mosolyog a körülötte levőkre, akik sajnálják, de nem segíthetnek rajta. Hirtelen felállt:
- Jöjjön, kedves barátnőm, nem akarom, hogy miattam elkéssen...

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Marcel Proust

A gazdag és szép arisztokrata hölgy, egy színházi est folyamán közelebbi ismeretségbe szeretne kerülni azzal a férfival, aki barátainak éppen beszédtémája, s akit ugyan mindnyájan barátságosnak, de nagyon jelentéktelennek tartanak.

... tehát nagyon kedves ember, de nagyon jelentéktelen, ez volt mindenki véleménye. [A hölgy] úgy érezte, ez nem egészen az ő nézete és ezen igen elcsodálkozott; de mivel a férfi távolléte nem okozott heves (csalódást - déception) hiányérzetet, a rokonszenve sem volt elegendő ahhoz, hogy ez nyugtalanítsa. A nézőtéren felé fordultak a fejek; már jöttek a barátok, hogy köszöntsék és bókokat mondjanak. Ebben nem volt számára semmi új, s mégis, mint egy jockey a futam alatt, vagy, mint egy színész az előadás közben, sötét előérzettel úgy sejtette, ezen az estén győzedelmeskedni fog, sokkal könnyebben és sokkal teljesebben, mint máskor. Az ékszer nélküli, sárga tüllből készült ruhaderék, amit viselt, orchidea-szirmokkal volt borítva, fekete hajába is néhány katléja-szálat tűzdelt, amik ezen az árnyas tornyon, mint sápadt fénygirlandok függeszkedtek. Frissen, miként a virágjai és eltűnődve, az elbűvölő polinéziai frizurájával, Pierre Loti és Reynaldo Hahn Mahenujára emlékeztetett. A boldog közönyébe, amellyel az elkápráztatott szemekben szemlélte saját bájának megbízható hűségű tükröződését, hamarosan az a sajnálkozás vegyült, hogy a férfi nem látja őt így.
- Mennyire szereti a virágokat! - kiáltott fel [a barátnője], szemügyre véve [A hölgy] ruháját.
Valóban szerette, abban az általános értelemben, hogy tudta, milyen mértékben szépek és milyen mértékben tesznek széppé. Szerette a szépségüket, a vidámságukat és a szomorúságukat is, de csak külsőleg, úgy, mint a szépségnek egyik kifejezésmódját. Ha már nem voltak frissek, kidobta, mint egy kifakult ruhát...

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Marcel Proust in O Prazer da Leitura

A regény első ciklusa – "Swann" – először 1913-ban került, a szerző pénzén, kiadásra, de az elkészült részletek a kéziratokban már 1908 körül felbukkannak és 1909 végén, az akkor 38 éves Proust, három gépelt füzetet szeretett volna a "Figaro" hasábjain publikálni, szerencsére sikertelenül(!), mert a kiadók minden egyes elutasítása a mű szélesedését és továbbfejlődését eredményezte.

Az itt következő novellát Proust 22 évesen írta, de senki nem tudhatja, vajon a novella elemeit mennyiben használta fel regénye számára 15 évvel később.

Eltekintve a novella gyengeségeitől, annyi bizonyos, hogy “Az eltűnt idő...” egyes irodalmi eszközei, ötletei, a szerelemről alkotott alapgondolata már itt, ebben az eltűnt, fiatalkori novellában föllelhetők.

Az eltűnt novella hiányosságai, a szereplők vázlatos ábrázolása, a cselekmény egyenetlensége, szaggatottsága, néhol túl sokáig elidőző, máskor meg türelmetlenül előre siető elbeszélői tempója ellenére a kis mű Proust egységes alkotásra törekvő zsenialitását bizonyítja.

Meglehet, hogy korunk megannyi brutalitása mellett, ez az ártalmatlan, XIX. századi novella csupán egy ifjú irodalmár gyönge elbeszélésének tűnik, azonban mégis fontos lehet mindazoknak, akik Marcel Proust életművében a művészi alkotást, mint az élet egyik nélkülözhetetlen forrását, és annak folyamatát, nyomon akarják követni.

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A könyv azokat az írásokat gyűjti egybe, melyeket a fiatal Proust 1892 és 1896 között publikált, főként a "Le Banquet" nevű új folyóiratba, amit baráti körével közösen ekkoriban (1892-ben) alapítottak, majd egy év múlva, annak megszűnése után, főként a "Le Revue blanche"-ba. De erre az időszakra esnek első ismeretségei a kor nagyvilági és félvilági művészköreivel is, ahol a későbbi nagy regényéhez színhelyeket, figurákat, helyzeteket ismert meg.

A könyv címe utalás Hésiodos "Munkák és napok" című eposzára, amire először Anatole France hívta fel a figyelmet, a könyvben megjelent előszavában. Ez a szójáték lényegében a Proustra oly jellemző finom, ironikus célzás a századvégi Párizs dekadens életfelfogására, amikor a napok, munka helyett, már csak örömszerzésből és élvezetekből állnak. Azonban mi sem állt Prousttól távolabb, mint hogy ezt hangosan elítélje. Ehelyett inkább novelláiban ábrázolta, s az élményeiről - nem minden sznobság nélkül - lelkesen beszámolt.

Az "Örömök és napok" kompozíciójáról egyesek egész teóriát építettek fel. Bárhogy is legyen, Proust cikkei, novellái, a festőkről és zeneszerzőkről könnyedén megrajzolt portré-sorozatai és próza-költeményei, ha netán esetlegesen jöttek is volna létre, mégis a kötetben egy vitathatatlanul egységes szerkezetet képeznek. De ami ennél szembeötlőbb és nagyobb érdeklődésre tarthat számot, hogy a könyv, mely a maga külsőségeivel valószínűleg megmaradna egy ifjú, dilettáns kiadásának, a szövegközi összefüggésekben, gyakran, s nem egy helyen, a későbbi nagy regény, "Az eltűnt idő..." motívumaival mutat párhuzamot.

Ebben az időszakban írta azt a novelláját is, amit a könyve szerkesztésekor, ahogy erről egyik barátjának beszámolt, kiemelt a készülő kötetből. Ezzel aztán a novella több, mint hetven évre eltűnt, s csak a leveleinek összegyűjtése közben került napvilágra.

Ennek a novellának fordításából fogok itt részleteket közölni.

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A kis mű létezéséről sokáig a Proust-kutatásnak sem volt tudomása. Úgy tartalmilag, mint a terjedelmét tekintve, nem túl nagy írás, de irodalomtörténeti értékét az határozza meg, hogy olyan motívumok találhatók meg benne, amelyek "Az eltűnt idő..."-ben szerepelnek. Ez azért meglepő, mert a novella írója annyira fiatal volt, hogy talán a regény gondolata még meg sem született képzeletében, s azok az élmények, melyek később a regénye témáját képezték, ekkor még csak részben történhettek meg.

Az itt közölt novella nyilvánvaló gyengeségeit kihagytam, s csak a jellemző részeket kiragadva foglaltam össze a lényeget.

Mivel az interneten sajnálatos módon elszaporodtak a szerzői jogokkal való visszaélések, jogaim védelméül, azokat a megnevezéseket, mely a novella föllelhetőségét elárulnák, kénytelen vagyok itt elhallgatni.

Akik ismerik Marcel Proust irodalomi jelentőségét, talán szívesen mélyednek el egy újabb részletbe. Ezért tehát közre adom a novella kapcsán létrejött jegyzeteimet és a fordítás érdekes részeit - kellemes olvasást kívánva mindazoknak, akik olvasni akarják.

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Marcel Proust, in A Prisioneira

Och jag talar om nedanstående videoklipp. Kanske är det fler som rycks upp ur stolen och hamnar i euforisk längtan till förfluten tid, den tid man satt ihopkrupen med polarna och spelade Super Mario Bros.

So I had been contemplating reading Swann's Way for a few years, and after finishing Moby-Dick I was naturally delighted when I found a used copy of Swann's Way at my local used bookstore. I have to say that from the first page I was in raptures. I consider myself a bit of a sentence connoisseur, and I love an author who can write an excellent long sentence, the kind of sentence you don't even notice is several lines long when you're reading it. Here is the sentence that struck that chord in me from the first page of the novel, translated by Lydia Davis (he is talking about waking from sleep, thinking about the book he was reading before he fell asleep):

"Then it began to grow unintelligible to me, as after metempsychosis do the thoughts of an earlier existence; the subject of the book detached itself from me, I was free to apply myself to it or not; immediately I recovered my sight and I was amazed to find a darkness around me soft and restful for my eyes, but perhaps even more so for my mind, to which it appeared a thing without cause, incomprehensible, a thing truly dark."

Now that, my friends, is a beautiful sentence.

10- Marie Corporeau, femme de ménage Vendredi 19 octobre 2007 à 20H10 A la bibliothèque du Rheu filmée dans le cadre du projet "Proust lu/Variations" dans la région de Rennes

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What do you think are the ten greatest books of all time?  What would the list look like if it was compiled from the top ten choices of over one hundred of the top authors in the world?

Lev Grossman, in Time (Jan. 15, 2007), states, "...literary lists are basically an obscenity... Take it from me, a critic who has committed this particular sin many times over."  It's a fun read: http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1578073,00.html

I say, let's see their top ten (compiled from their individual lists): 

1. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
2. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
3. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
4. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
5. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
6. Hamlet by William Shakespeare
7. The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald
8. In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust
9. The Stories of Anton Chekhov by Anton Chekhov
10. Middlemarch by George Eliot

So, there you go.  What's your top ten (or is it obscene to ask?)?

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I read a book about Rome once. I was a child of seven, and I was looking through my grandmother's bookcase. Well do I remember the smell of Grandmother's house: talcum powder and slightly moldering carpets. Grandmother had a vast collection of books about far-away and wonderful places. Rome attracted my attention because of its connotation in my mind with gladiators and emperors and columns, all strapping and assertive things. I remember the photos of the Trevi fountain, photos of busy sidewalk cafes, photos of ruins under a setting sun...

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On America

When I read Alexis de Tocqueville, I imagine the America that de Tocqueville experienced. Wide, wonderful, its woods and its peoples exactly as de Tocqueville describes them. Perhaps one day, I too will travel there. I hope not.

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On China

Ah, the Orient! There is a Chinaman lives down the street from me. Four years ago, I went for a walk around the block and caught a glimpse of him. I assume he lives there still. Paris is probably very different from China and indeed, everything that I have read on the subject confirms my opinions on the matter.

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On The Arctic Circle

In my younger days, I traveled freely. All around the neighborhood and even somewhat into France - Illiers, Orleans. ...I guess that's about it. At any rate, winter (as remembered from back in the years when I used to go out in it) approximates, it seems to me, the far, icy Northern regions of the Arctic. Undoubtedly, the Arctic is colder still, but I think France in February is sufficiently bitter for my purposes; I can surmise the rest.

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On Africa

Africa. The dark continent.  Drums beating in the bushes, women beating cassava into flat pancakes for their suppers, the cruel sun beating down over the desert. The Brits beating everyone in sight. Africa! The cradle of civilization! All men trace themselves back to you, motherland - your blood beats through all our veins! If I think back, back into my ancestry, can I perhaps remember your vast savannas, your jungles, your lions roaming across the plains?

...Certainly not.

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On A Cafe

In my younger, hedonistic days, there was a bar I went to twice. The barman was an older Parisian fellow, who served me well and with a certain degree of familiarity, despite the fact that he knew me not. Both times, I felt ill at ease, and did not finish my libation, but there was a sort of feeling I experienced immediately upon entering the bar of being somehow freed of all cares. This feeling dissipated as quickly as ever it had descended, and I returned to feeling generally ashamed, frightened and overwhelmed with my adventure. But if I meditate intensely on that first, fleeting sense of peace, I can rather imagine what it must be like to frequent taverns and restaurants and opera houses and other people's salons... Yes.

I imagine it feels similar to the comfort I experience here at home in my bed, knowing that I need never leave it, and that I will not leave it.

10- Marie Corporeau, femme de ménage Vendredi 19 octobre 2007 à 20H10 A la bibliothèque du Rheu filmée dans le cadre du projet "Proust lu/Variations" dans la région de Rennes

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The Pixar Touch: The Making of a CompanyBy David A. PriceKnopf,308
pp., illustrated, $27.95We'll set out the disclaimer straight away: In
the computer-animated Pixar film "Monsters, Inc.," the character of
James P. "Sulley" Sullivan is in no way based on this reviewer. My
middle initial is not P., I've never used an "e" in the nickname, and
I'm not 8 feet tall and covered in blue fur. But Sulley's sidekick, a
one-eyed, lime-green bowling ball with pipe-cleaner limbs named Mike
Wazowski, may well have taken some cues from a preexisting character.
In 2002 a San Francisco-area poster artist sued Pixar for copyright
infringement, claiming that the concept for Mike had been cribbed from
one of his stock characters.

Art, as journalist David A. Price points out in his well-crafted book
on Pixar, the brain trust that revolutionized animated film, is "never
created in a vacuum chamber." Pixar films have paid homage to "The
Magnificent Seven," Hitchcock's "Rear Window," Marcel Proust's famous
madeleine, and, in "WALL-E," a cultural heap that ranges from "2001: A
Space Odyssey" to "Hello, Dolly!"

But if the stubby eyeball voiced by Billy Crystal owed an unpaid debt
to a cartoon artist best known for his Grateful Dead album covers, the
company that launched the character was indisputably the first of its
kind. It may seem a bit premature to write a history of a business
barely more than 20 years old, until we consider that in the span of a
single decade Pixar has utterly overtaken the list of top-grossing
animated films. "Toy Story," "Finding Nemo," "The Incredibles,"
"Ratatouille": Anyone who has been around kids in the past decade is
well aware of the company's runaway, inimitable success.

By bringing animation into the 21st century with state-of-the-art
computer programming, Pixar effectively controls the cartoon colossus
of the last century, Disney, which absorbed the younger company in a
2006 megadeal. As part of the agreement, Pixar investor Steve Jobs is
now Disney's largest shareholder; director John Lasseter has taken
over as chief creative officer; and Pixar co-founder Ed Catmull is
president of the combined companies.

But the intrigue of the merger with Disney, featuring a blood feud
between Jobs and Disney chairman Michael Eisner, resolves that problem
handily. Upon finalization of the long-gestating agreement, Lasseter
addressed an audience of several thousand Disney shareholders. His
speech, reports the author, unfolded in much the same way as a classic
Pixar script: "stretches of adventure narrative and comedy punctuated
by moments of disarming earnestness - all capped by the inevitable
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I was in a bar in New York last weekend and the man next to me looked
vaguely familiar.

"Most journalists become famous by sucking up to people. You know,
that Bob Woodward, he even sucked up to Bush. But I became famous .
Pissing off one of the only people in the world even more powerful
than Bush."

"Because he's not funny, so someone had to be on his behalf," he said
with a large sip. Of scotch.

"Not at all," he insisted. "All good things come to an end. Then other
good things begin."

The real Dan Lyons would surely want to have kept going. Wouldn't he
have wanted to develop the Fake Steve Jobs character? Wouldn't he have
wanted to keep on loving his readers to the point of pant-wetness?

Which is why Fake Steve Jobs must continue. For Dan's sake as much as
the whole tech industry's.

And, from my one encounter with his depressing, narcissistic,
depressive, downtrodden being in that New York bar, this would not be
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This may not be a big deal, but I think we have to look at the big
picture. If this kind of leak can happen, then it's likely that Jobs'
information control problem will only get worse. Every subsequent
software update could be leaked if Apple and Jobs allow it to show up
early in, say, Norway or Japan.

I don't care what kind of rock-solid document Jobs has them sign. I
bet someone will talk.

What sort of stuff are we missing? Programs that shouldn't be that
difficult to build, but that Apple doesn't want on its machines --
unless it's the one controlling it. Some of these apps could include:

Amazon MP3 Store: One thing we don't think we'll ever see on the
iPhone: A music buying/downloading shop that competes with Apple's
iTunes store.

Skype: Or a similar Internet phone app that could be used over AT&T's
(T) 3G network. Apple wouldn't screw its partners that make money
selling airtime.

Unlocker: Which would allow you to unlock your phone from its official
carrier to use with a different GSM SIM card. Like T-Mobile in the
U.S., for example.

Nintendo emulator: Or anything that would let you play pirated games.
This is already available for hacked, or "jailbroken" iPhones. But
it's not in the app store, and probably won't be.

Wi-fi hotspot creator: An app that would hijack your 3G signal and
turn it into wi-fi for your MacBook, iPod touch, or other machine to
use. If "tethering," as this is called, is ever allowed, it'll
probably be an add-on service that AT&T charges $30-50 a month extra
for.

One iphone app you should check out - the new Bloomberg. Blows the
yahoo app out of the water...

Dan: I think your whole premise is silly. AAPL wants to make a profit
for AAPL and for the carriers. Why support AMZN or NBC, or anything
"illegal"? After all AAPL and the carriers are capitalists.
Capitalists want to optimize profits. If AAPL did any of the things
you suggest, they would not be optimizing profits. You got a problem
with that?

Peter: 1) "buy songs ota from its own store" Be patient. That may
come. So you have to buy songs when you are tethered to your computer.
Hooped-de-do. 2) "allow any third party to create apps" AAPL wants to
control the OS. Why let possible malicious software in. Wait for the
android Peter. That sounds like your cellphone. Lots of software, lots
of carriers, lots of manufacturers. Lots of cooks to spoil the broth.
The android is the disaster you have been waiting for.

I have to say, I hope the reason is not Steve Jobs possible illness.
yet, at the same time, I hope it's not legal pressure by Apple. Fake
Steve was hilarious. Honestly, it made me like Jobs and Apple even
more.

Considering FSJ jumped the shark a long time ago, and has a history of
"faking" Apple's "concerns" with his blog for publicity, you'd think
stories like this, would just be left to rot.

Don't worry if you aren't getting an O2 iPhone - nobody else is
either. Especially if they haven't sent their passport. (Updated;
again)

After a piece here in April suggesting advertising is waning, Thinkbox
is here to tell you it isn't. But do you agree?

As well as moving onto pastures new, the real Dan Lyons will get the
chance to shine through with a column under his own name. So it was
those developments on the horizon that prompted the affable Dan to let
the Fake Steve put down his weed and hippy mantras and call it a day.

But if you just can't face the future without the musings of the Fake
Steve, then you won't have too long to wait because a book of his bon
mots is out very soon and Dan is also working on a script to put his
creation on the silver screen.

It isn't always pretty. "Jobs is a control freak extraordinaire. He's
also a perfectionist, an elitist and a taskmaster to employees. By
most accounts, Jobs is a borderline loony," Mr. Kahney writes.

His concern extends even to shipping. When he sold the original Mac in
1984, it had the first computer mouse. It was packaged in its own
compartment so that the user would be forced to unpack the device and
plug it in, making the mouse a little less alien when it came time to
be used.

In Addition: In Tough Love at the Table (Sextant Publishing, 224
pages, $24.95), Toronto-based corporate counsellor Allan Bonner
gathers together war stories from his behind-the scenes work with
companies in crisis situations and critical negotiations; not to
mention his draft-dodging friend's experiences after moving to the
Maritimes from New York - those cultural clashes are unrelated but
fun, and that summarizes the book. Nothing really hangs together (the
opening is academic, the bulk of the book's anecdotes often without
lessons), but it's an enjoyable read, and you can learn something
about how to test yourself before a crisis hits and you need the likes
of Mr. Bonner to help you out.

The title Executive Stamina (John Wiley, 306 pages, $29.99) will call
out to those who are overwhelmed with their unrelenting burden.
Executive coach Marty Seldman - teaming for some chapters with his son
Joshua, a cycling and fitness coach - takes executives through
work/life alignment, building stamina, optimizing job performance,
career management, and personal relationships. You'll learn how to
enjoy surreptitious yoga in the office, develop a new fitness training
program, and avoid career-limiting moves. That's a broad vista, and
most readers will find they already know a lot in the book from
general reading. If your concern is stamina and energy, you would do
better with The Power of Full Engagement by Jim Loehr and Tony
Schwartz, which came out in 2003, but if you want a broader career
approach or can't get that book this will give good pointers,
particularly on exercise programs.

Just In: Tribal Business School (Jossey-Bass, 138 pages, $37.99) looks
like National Geographic rather than a leadership manual as social
entrepreneur Jo Owen goes on a series of journeys to tribes in Papua
New Guinea, Tuareg in the Sahara, Saami in the Arctic, and nomads in
Mongolia looking for the secrets to survival and success - and how
that translates to business.

Consultant Dan Kennedy shows how to get to the really rich in No B.S.
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I know you'll miss FSJ. So will I. But rest assured, Fake Steve is not
really going away. He's just taking on a new form. As Jimi Hendrix
once said, if I don't see you no more in this world, I'll meet you on
the next one, but don't be late.

Fans can pick up a bound collection of the best posts of FSJ, The
Secret Diary of Steve Jobs: THE SHORT VERSION,but it won't be the
same. Every Apple fan wants to know what Steve Jobs is thinking, and
if you can't have that, then at least you had Fake Steve, but no more.
Why, Fake Steve, why?

With the iPhone 2.0 software and the introduction of the iPhone 3G,
users can now geotag their photos. Unfortunately, Apple has apparently
made a little bit of a boo-boo and is sticking everyone on the
opposite side of the world. Hello from Asia, also known as Chicago!

After being known for close to two years as Fake Steve Jobs, Daniel
Lyons, a former Forbes magazine journalist, writing on a blog page
entitled The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs, decided on shutting down the
popular page, moving to Newsweek as a technology columnist and
starting a brand new blog Web page under his real name.

“I tried transitioning to other voices, like Jerry Yang’s,
but it just didn’t work,” Mr. Daniel Lyons said, referring
to Yahoo’s chief of operations. “It seems clear that
people reading the blog wanted to read Fake Steve or nothing.”
He explained that he grew a bit tired of the fictional creation and
also, more relevant, were his worries about cracking jokes at the
expense of a person with alleged heath issues. The speculations about
Mr. Steve Jobs’ health were started by a report in the New York
Times, covering one of last month’s conferences, where he
appeared changed.

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Despite sailing up the nasal passages of the Sultan of Smug, Steve
Jobs, Lyons decided to kill off his creation. He said he will not be
continuing the column, although he has flogged the movie rights to
Hollywood middlemen Media Rights Capital, and it's possible that the
character could show up in other formats. µ

Really need to acquire a sense of humour, set yourself up as a guru of
technology and you are going to get a few brick bats thrown at you, if
not the whole rotting vegetable stall, and deservedly so. Grow up and
deal with it.

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The secret diary of the Fake Steve Jobs has reached its final page.
Author Dan Lyons announced real plans to give up on the blog, as he
prepares to move away to a new job.
Lyons, currently working at Forbes, is getting ready to move on to
Newsweek starting this fall. He could've taken with him as well, but
it seems he prefers to elave the charatecter behind:

So long as Mr.Cox is the SEC man, there will be no pain for the BS
gang.....but I-Gwad will save us all. Free Apple Kool-Aid for
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Shoppers were lined up at Apple stores in KC and around the nation to
buy the latest version of Jobs' iphone. The cost: $199. But wait a
minute.

The first iphone sold last year was $499. That price was so outlandish
that Jobs a few months later felt obliged to offer what were
essentially rebate checks to the saps -- I mean "customers" -- who
bought the first version.

Now, a little more than a year later, a faster and better iphone is on
sale. Geeks who have to have the latest versions of everything were
rushing to buy it on Friday.

At this rate, though, the fourth or fifth iteration of the iphone will
be around $50. That will be just about the right price for buying
something I will use to make phone calls.

Fake ," Lyons didn't want to get stuck blogging during a possible
cancer relapse, or any other health issue, Lyons tells The Standard.
Jobs was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer several years ago, but was
given a clean bill of health after treatment.

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Valleywag seems about right. Dan said he'd be surprised if Jobs were
still running Apple in a year.

Ah me. Well, perhaps I'll tell you. But I'm not gonna type it all out
here! But mostly I love to listen and enjoy other's stories.
Surrounded by a family of over-achievers with their own best-selling
books and Forbes cover stories, perhaps it rubs off. But there is more
then that. Here on Giz you only see my silly outlandish side. And why
not? I'm pretty silly in real life, but I'm retardedly over-educated
and I love knowing what makes people tick and what drives them to
their greatness.

There was a chapter "Working Through Pain", where Bruce Wayne goes to
try to find a way to work through his pain. He finds an Indian woman
who tries to help him. She then concludes that he can not be helped
because his pain leads him to something he desires (implying his pain
drives him to fight crime to avenge the death of his parents). So this
of course was my favorite part, for it showed what drives Batman to
his "purpose". Two other people also watched this and did not get what
was implied and found that chapter "weird". I read books about Physics
for fun. But you'd never know how geeky I truly am by looking at me or
talking to me at first.

At any rate, nice to know that you loved and will miss FSJ. I want
Options V2!. But I agree with Dan that he would not want to parody
Steve if he is ill, because we all want real Steve to be healthy.
Anyways, keep up the amazing work Brian.

@LindsayJoy's MBP is into S+M: Ignore him -> bobdobbs "If it's okay
with you, I'm going to continue to worship you for your body": I may
have to appreciate that you have a mind -- No slight intended....

@LindsayJoy's MBP is into S+M: If that's his real job he should do a
Fake Dick Karlgaard Jr- I mean "Rich" Karlgaard blog. Unless... he
already does?? IT ALL MAKES SENSE!!!!!

updated . Attorneys involved in defending various participants said
the Justice Department concluded no charges should be brought against
Jobs or anyone else invovled in the backdating. The Securities and
Exchange Commission, however, is still pressing a civil complaint
against former Apple lawyer Nancy Heinen.

Citizen journalism 2.0: has officially launched a new citizen
journalism site that weaves together traditional media and new media,
creating a forum for sharing news, videos, images and blogs. It will
use 4,000 online news sources as well as its own citizen journalists.

After months of speculation and anticipation, the Apple iPhone 3G is
finally out. New Zealanders had reason to rejoice as a fellow citizen
became the first owner of the latest avatar of the iconic product,
well the first one from the stores, that is. One can be sure that
Apple CEO Steve Jobs already has one, since he unveiled it to an
adoring audience on 9 June. (See: )

There has been some grumbling about prices in New Zealand, where
Vodafone, the only mobile provider selling the iPhone there, is
charging between NZ$199 ($151) and NZ$549 ($416) for the new iPhone
unit and NZ$250 ($190) a month for a minimum two-year plan.

The company, based in Cupertino, California, says it has sold about 6
million iPhones since last year. It has said its goal is to sell 10
million by the end of 2008.

-In June, Rogers sets the iPhone's debut for July 11, and is quickly
met with criticism about the data pricing plan.

-Rogers representatives say they expect record first-day sales, but
decline to disclose how many phones were shipped to stores or how many
they had expected to sell.

When the iPhone App Store was mentioned in Steve Jobs' WWDC keynote,
one of the many applications announced was are coming forward with
their own iPhone app plans.

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People started yelling his name and, for a few moments, the AUT
physiotherapy student at the head of the 200-strong queue was a star.

The 24-year old from Auckland arrived there at 7:30pm on Tuesday to
make sure he would be "the first person in the world to give away an
iPhone".

The first person to enjoy Evert’s generosity was Harrison
Gulliver, a 15-year old boy that went to the Vodafone store on
Thursday with his pocket money determined to get the latest Apple
gadget. Thanks to Evert’s kindness, Harrison can keep his pocket
money and took home a free iPhone offered by someone he had never seen
before.

New Zealand was the first country to sell the 3G iPhone with three
Vodafone stores in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch opening at
one minute past midnight.

McCullough and the others in line braved the chill wind and the stares
of curious passers-by as they waited for its release at midnight.

After she had secured her phone, she said she was looking forward to
getting back to a warm bed.

The new iPhone was similar to the first-generation phone with its
famed touch-screen interface but it had a few improved features.

Stuff.co.nz technology editor Reuben Schwarz said the phone had the
same look as the first one but had a plastic back for better
reception.

The 3G mobile connection provided maximum download speeds of 3.6Mbps
(megabits per second) for internet and email.

There was still no zoom or video on the 2MP (megapixel) camera, and
the phone could not send pxts or video by SMS (short message service).

As official "proxy/supporter/fill-in for when Luci is getting
interviewed" on the night shift, it definitely was an entertaining way
to spend a Thursday night :) And an exciting ride home!

Honestly, why waste 16 hours of the day in the cold to buy a phone you
could've bought for cheaper on a cheaper "plan" on trademe or ebay!!??
(albeit an older generation phone) What dummies. Wow "fast" internet
on a small screen, just get a PC and broadband.

Sure Tim, a PC would be handy to make calls on and listen to music,
watch movies or surf the web, whilst being able to be carried
anywhere....

If you get a you choose plan with 120 Anytime minutes and 600 Txt, it
costs you $72.90 .. that doesn't include the $29.95 for 200MB of 3g
data a month .. a total of $102.85.

I can think of much better things to do with $250 pm (and locked in
for 2 years, lunacy!). Definitely would not waste it on flash harry
gadgets that will be obsolete before the fixed 2 year timeframe is
complete. Luckily for Apple not everybody thinks like this.

What people, waiting for a phone for 16 hours... spend that time in
work you get some money to pay for your bread and petrol....

I thought Apple wanted a large market share before Google Android is
released? Maybe someone forgot to tell Vodafone NZ.

Am totally bored of this topic already. Kiwis had a chance to protest
against corporate greed but these losers have flushed that down the
toilet along with mummy and daddy's money.

I'm going to guess that Tim has never used one. I have the ipod touch
with the same "small" screen and it's actually pretty good. The UI
makes it really easy to zoom in on sections of a web page and the
extra speed takes it from being painful to use (click, wait,
wait,wait) to practical.

the phone is worth it weight in gold but best on an open plan , all
the best to iphone buyers out there, you will love the phone

Words cannot express how excited I am that this "story" continues to
get so much media exposure.

This is silly, what a waste of money. In 6mths this thing will be
worth half the price and there will be so many better "I" like phones
available. I imagine a lot of people buying these can't actually
afford them (just want the latest gadget....), just adds to the huge
amount of NZ debt.

Think about it, you go out on the Ibooze and loose your
Iphone...you've just Ilost your Ipod too.

This is the second generation of the tech. It's got some vastly
improved features but it still can't send pxt or record movies.

Mobile internet devices such as Blackberrys and Iphones are damn handy
when your traveling. No need to wait around for the laptop to boot up
so you can check an address or read email.

The iphone has no zoom,no pxt,poor camera.I can stick a 16GB memory
card on my n82 or even a 32GB.

What a waste of time standing on queue. I brougth my iPhone 10month
ago from USA and unlocked it. so can be use with any prepay vodafone
card. Why you want 3g so expensive. Use cheaper iPhone and use public
wireless hotspot in town to access internet. You don't have to pay
$200.00 to browse internet. I am doing this last 10 months. Lots of
public wireless hotspots are available in Auckland,Chch and
Wellington.

I was considering buying an iPhone, but as I have an aversion to
having my eyeballs ripped from their sockets, I'm just going to wait
and see.

LoL i don't see what is so good about the iphone - Nokia make a better
phone that does more. I'm holding out for the iToaster!.

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Steve & Barry's LLC, the New York-based discount seller of clothing
lines by celebrities, listed debts and assets of $500 million to $1
billion in Chapter 11 documents filed yesterday in U.S. Bankruptcy
Court in Manhattan.

Steve & Barry's has opened 276 retail stores in 39 states. All are
still open and doing business as usual, according to a company
statement.

In particular, its exclusive branded lines of merchandise created with
high-profile entertainers and athletes have performed exceptionally
well.

Wendi Kopsick, spokesman for Steve & Barry's, said the company is
analyzing each store location, but that no decisions have been made.

"I'm also concerned that the timing of this fault seems to fall
consistently outside the standard 12-month warranty on Mac products.
When I voiced this concern to a 'concierge' at their new Apple Store I
was informed that that is why people pay $500 for the extended
warranty.

"Apart from the obvious reluctance of customers to pay an extra $500
on top of an already expensive piece of hardware, this kind of 'buyer-
beware' retail logic makes me wonder if built-in obsolescence rather
than hip, hollow aphorisms is actually the cornerstone of Apple's
marketing strategy."

"She examined the service history of the laptop and was 'shocked' that
the customer-service agent who took my original call back in January
didn't offer to repair the laptop immediately due to its less-than-
stellar service history. She asked me to take it to the Apple service
centre of my choice where Apple would arrange a complete repair at no
charge."

In watching a Webcast of the iPhone introduction I heard Steve Jobs
mention the "cloud" when talking about the new Mobile Me service Apple
is rolling out. When he says the data is pushed from the cloud what
exactly does that mean?

–S. K., Arlington The cloud is a fancy term for a computer or
server in a data center somewhere other than at your house.
Apple's new Mobile Me service lets users store files on a server owned
or leased by Apple. Those servers are accessed through any Internet
connected computer. That's like having a big thumb drive "in the
clouds."

It became common to talk of pushing data "into the cloud" to represent
using the internet to send files to and from servers and Web sites.

Published: 06:35 PM EST
Despite reports to the contrary, TomTom is still working on a GPS app
for the iPhone. Meanwhile, Steve Jobs' thin look may be permanent
evidence of his cancer cure, Greenpeace is concerned about a toxic
iPhone 3G. And a growing number of would-be iPhone programers are
attacking Apple's backlog in approving their full developer status.
TomTom iPhone still in the works Dutch GPS maker TomTom is still
very much involved in developing its own in an interview on Friday.
Contradicting unofficial reports that the company , Lafargue says that
TomTom has been developing a version of its Navigator software for the
iPhone ever since the release of the SDK and that the software works
"very well." Whether or not it will be releasable is still up in the
air, he warns. The company could find itself blocked from offering the
software through the App Store either as a potential competitor to
Apple's own software or else as a rival to a chosen partner of the
iPhone maker. TomTom doesn't foresee a clause in the SDK guidelines
against real-time tracking as affecting its development: Apple is
simply protecting itself against legal threats from users who land
themselves in trouble using navigation software, the representative
claims. Jobs' thin frame the result of treatment: report Apple co-
founder Steve Jobs' ". Jobs is believed to have received a special
treatment, known as a Whipple, that cuts off the tumorous part of the
pancreas and reattaches the rest to the small intestine while also
connecting the bile duct and stomach in a new manner. This allows
the remaining pancreas to perform normally but has a number of
potential side effects, according to doctors, including the tendency
to lose between five and 10 percent of body mass regardless of the
patient's diet. Crucially, however, the loss is not a sign of a
worsening condition. Proper exercise and diet can let these cancer
survivors "live a normal life," according to Dr. Dilip Parekh of the
University of Southern California. Apple has never publicly
described how Jobs' cancer was cured or whether it would produce
adverse reactions. Greenpeace raises concerns over iPhone 3G When
Apple pledged that it would illustrate its ZDNet France. The
activist group's toxics campaign head Zeina Al-Hajj notes that Apple
has been curiously silent on progress (if any) made in eliminating
harmful substances in the new iPhone. It suggests that Apple hasn't
evolved its design to be more eco-friendly, she says. A lack of
progress would be worrying to Greenpeace, as the organization found
late last year that cabling in the iPhone , albeit in small amounts.
Observers have noted that the iPhone 3G's plastic back is a step
backwards in recyclability for the Apple handset, whose shell was
originally made of the same aluminum that Apple has touted as being
desirable for recycling. Critics blast Apple's continued iPhone dev
program backlog Over the more than three months since Apple first
began accepting applications for its iPhone development program, the
company still hasn't shown signs of coping with the large number of
applicants., according to by Rogue Amoeba's Paul Kafasis. Although
his company has a longstanding history of developing for Macs, it and
"a number of other respected Mac software companies" still haven't
been accepted as official developers and received the signing
certificate needed to test code on an actual device and thus bring the
software closer to completion. The delay would be understandable
given unprecedented demand but is simply frustrating given the
inconsistency and lack of communication from Apple, Kafasis says. The
Cupertino-based electronics maker has so far fast-tracked individual
applications while leaving teams at larger companies without answers.
Little if any communication arrives from Apple regarding the status of
the projects, leaving prospective companies wondering whether they
should continue development or back out earlier. "We don't know if
we should invest our time in a platform for which we may not even be
allowed to release software," Kafasis says.

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For a period of nine months, between September 2007 and the end of May
2008, Steve Wilhite, the man who brought us the "Drivers Wanted"
campaign in 1995 at VW and the "Shift_" ad platform at Nissan, was
without a daily job. His name was part of the rumor mill, of course,
some having him packing up for Dearborn, Mich., to handle the Ford job
that Jim Farley eventually landed as head of marketing. Others had him
going to General Motors to shore up its marketing. Instead, Wilhite
confounded many in May by accepting the job as president of Jumpstart
Automotive Media, an automotive interactive agency that works with
automakers and third party auto Web sites with the goal of maximizing
their Web marketing. The 1998 Brandweek Marketer of the Year came to
the job at San Francisco-based Jumpstart still smarting from a rocky
13 months as COO of Hyundai, during which he failed to meet U.S. sales
goals that some experts regarded as improbable. After stepping down at
Hyundai, Wilhite spent some time at a home he owns in New Zealand,
"decompressing and relaxing," he said. He read books, hiked, swam and
lived a marketing-free life. Wilhite met withBrandweeksenior reporter
Steve Miller last week to talk about his gigs, old and new, as well as
the state of the auto industry as a whole. Brandweek: What made you
decide to go with Jumpstart? Steve Wilhite:I had been in touch with
Mitch [Lowe, CEO of Jumpstart] for some time. When I left Hyundai, the
second call I got was from Mitch to talk about a role for me at
Jumpstart. But I wasn't ready. He sent me e-mails every couple of
weeks and finally I just thought that this was a pretty interesting
opportunity. I've worked in some very big environments and I was not
sure I wanted to go back to that. The online place is where people are
headed and need to be. BW:An eMarketer study last month noted that the
automotive category has dropped to No. 2 in overall ad spend, behind
retail. Are some auto marketers still reluctant to plunge into
digital? SW: There are three dynamics at play in this drop. One, there
is this constant pressure at the auto companies to reduce spending and
to migrate from communication to incentives, like just advertising the
money off on the hood. Second, automakers and their agencies haven't
been as strategic as they could be in balancing their marketing
portfolios. That has to do with a number of things. There are prior
relationships in place for one thing, and there is a higher level of
comfort with traditional media that is hard to overcome. Finally, you
have to see that retail is a huge category and more people in retail
marketing are hip to interactive. BW:New auto sales this year are
headed for their lowest total in over a decade. Some of it is a
function of the economy, some is that vehicles are better built and
last longer. But some of it has to be the fault of marketing. What is
the biggest marketing mistake being made collectively by the auto
industry? SW:The auto industry used to be the most powerfully branded
category in the world. Each company had different characteristics and
communicated those at every opportunity. The tipping point came when
Lee Iacocca said, 'Buy a car and get a check,' [the rebate] promotion
in the early '80s. The whole focus of marketing resources changed. The
money went to deal-oriented advertising, and then we began to see the
erosion of brand loyalty and the commoditization of brands. I mean,
really, for God's sake, stop discounting products and extending these
low financing terms. BW:Who are some auto brands that are still
keeping their image upright today? SW:BMW, 'the ultimate driving
machine', still works. Mini still has a powerful position. They
changed agencies and still maintained incredible clarity. Porsche is
still a strong brand. Honda has managed to stay ahead with its brand.
When everyone was making SUVs and bigger engines, Honda was out with
4-cylinder engines, an environmentally friendly image and fuel
economy. That has always resonated, and now look at what it's doing.
It has a bigger buyer group than ever. Toyota has stood for quality,
durability and reliability for a long time. Then they bring out Prius
and, in addition to the brand's other attributes, it now has social
responsibility and engineering innovation. BW:So in building a brand,
what role does online play? And how do you envision the perfect way to
use online ads when someone is buying a car? SW: I'm not arguing the
effectiveness of TV and it is true that every marketer has a limited
budget. And we are fighting for our share of the portfolio. But online
has the most potential to reach the engaged buyer. I recently bought
an Audi A3. Now what should happen is that I go to Edmunds.com and
look at the car and get my information. But I got there and all I saw
were three ads that took me to Audi USA's Web site. But I'm already
deeper into the buying funnel than that, a consumer doesn't want to go
back to the home page of Audi. What can be done is an Audi factory ad
at the top of the page with maybe three cool factoids about the A3.
Then on one side a regional dealer association ad, maybe talking about
lease programs and a map showing some dealerships. Then one more ad
from a local dealer near me. That's how it should work. But it
doesn't, at least not right now. BW:You've had a number of high
profile jobs at some of the top companies in the U.S. and abroad. Any
of them you still think about? SW:Apple was the one I lingered over
leaving. But it was tough to be the marketing guy under Steve Jobs. He
would work on a particular curve to the iPod for three days straight,
no sleep. He was the smartest and most inspiring guy I ever worked
with.

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Happy news for Apple, CEO Steve Jobs (shown above in mid-victory
dance) and former Apple CFO Fred Anderson and former general counsel
Nancy Heinen, who’ve all managed to dodge quite a legal bullet.
Presumably it will be quite a bit more difficult for the civil suits
filed against them to succeed with no criminal charges being filed.

First-quarter reports released this week show that Allison’s
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This film is so bad that I feel compelled to make a spoiler-laden list
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In a letter to Yahoo shareholders, Icahn said: "Steve (Ballmer) made
it clear to me that if a new board were elected, he would be
interested in discussing a major transaction with Yahoo, such as
either a transaction to purchase the "search" function, with large
financial guarantees or, in the alternative, purchasing the whole
company."

confirming Icahn's remarks about Microsoft's renewed interest in a
transaction with Yahoo: "While, of course, there can be no assurance
of a future transaction, we will be prepared to enter into discussions
immediately after Yahoo's shareholder meeting, if a new board is
elected."

Microsoft could if it were to go directly to Yahoo's investors with a
tender offer and work in tandem with Icahn's proxy battle.

Although there could be a variety of reasons why Icahn has not yet
filed his definitive proxy, ranging from addressing any last-minute
changes requested by the Securities and Exchange Commission to
unexpected delays over Fourth of July weekend, it could provide the
investor activist with an additional bargaining chip in achieving a
friendly Yahoo-Microsoft deal before he finalizes his proxy plans.

There might be an apples-and-oranges vibe when it comes to comparing
social-platform developers with iPhone developers, but the money
factor could easily make some of them willing to bridge the gap. For
small-time developers, it's become increasingly tough to make a buck
or two from applications on Facebook's platform, where the easiest
route to cash is ad impressions.

One of the new features available at the iPhone App Store is the
ability for iPhone and iPod Touch owners to . With the free,
1-megabyte application installed, an iPod Touch or iPhone can use a
Wi-Fi connection to control and search through an iTunes library
remotely, flip around on an Apple TV, and control AirTunes speakers.

CNET News' Marguerite Reardon has that highlights key features and
points out short-comings of seven possible iPhone alternatives. She
also threw in pricing information, not only for the phone, but also
for the service plans that go with them.

Fixing a hole A major flaw in how the Internet works has by attackers.
A flaw in the domain name system (DNS), the database that matches a
host and domain name with the numerical address of a computer server,
could allow an attacker to replace the addresses of popular Web sites
with that of a malicious server, said Dan Kaminsky, director of
penetration testing for security firm IOActive.

Google is battling a similar specter by using an e-mail authentication
technology to in order to steal usernames and passwords. The
technology, DomainKeys, uses cryptography to verify the domain of the
sender of an e-mail. It allows e-mail providers to validate the domain
from which an e-mail originates, and it enables easier detection of
phishing attempts by helping identify abusive domains.

Meanwhile, Microsoft issued a security advisory warning about in the
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USA Today spoke with Steve Jobs about the impending App Store launch
that is rumored to launch at 9 am PT on Thursday, July 10th. Jobs
reveals that 500 applications will be launching on Thursday and that
it is "the biggest launch" of his career. Apps will be available from
MySpace, Facebook, AOL, eBay, SEGA and many more companies. One called
Pandora allows you to create custom internet radio stations:
Pandora is already available on other phones from AT&T; and Sprint,
for a monthly fee. On the iPhone, it is free. That makes it "a
credible alternative to broadcast (radio)," in part because iPhones
can be plugged into car stereos, founder Tim Westergren says.

It hasn’t even been a year since “Fake Steve” Jobs
was to the world, as Daniel Lyons, a senior editor at Forbes magazine.
The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs was a parody of the Apple CEO, which
became almost required reading in Silicon Valley, at least until Lyons
was outed.

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Looks like it's the same old stuff in new packaging. Apple has let us
down again by holding on to the toxic chemicals that we found lurking
in the original iPhone. Launch of the next generation iPhone would
have been the perfect time for Apple Chief Steve Jobs to show his
company's commitment to the environment. You won't find BFRs and PVC
in the Sony Ericsson in my pocket so there's no reason why Apple can't
follow suit.

But bloggers have been quick to point out that Mr. Jobs battled
something far more serious – pancreatic cancer – in 2003,
and did not disclose his condition until nine months after the
diagnosis. This has fed concerns that he is, once again, concealing
something once again, and these concerns appear to be affecting
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doors of an "App Store" brimming with independently created mini-
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The shop, accessible through Apple's online iTunes store, opened with
five times that many mini-programs. More than 125 of the applications
are free.

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Submitted by on Mon, 06/16/2008 - 2:10pm.
The pop culture site is a great way to kill an hour online. Among
features such as "Commies and Russkies and Arabs,Oh My! Tracking 'the
enemy' in Hollywood" and "The Daily Video: The Gratuitous Profanity
Song," you will find the oh-so-important Fame-o-Meter. The
Fame-o-Meter is Radar's "real-time buzz index." It determines a
person's fame by measuring how many times the person's name appears
online.

In the "i" world (where "i" stands for, take your pick: IT, Internet,
information technology, iPhone), rich boys Bill Gates and Steve Jobs
are battling it out for top honors. Jobs was beating at Gates at 3:42
p.m. ET on Monday but by 5:52, Gates had pulled out in front. As of
the time of this post, in the past 7 days, online references to Gates
have totaled 496 million and references to Jobs trail a little at 397
million. In the past 30 days, despite iPhone mania, Gates tallied 1.95
billion references online with Jobs coming in at 1.56 billion. But
Jobs popularity is surging and Radar seems to think that Jobs will
usurp the Gates for the No. 1 spot, and soon.

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BoomTown landed at New York’s JFK Airport this morning and, of
course, could not resist visiting the flagship Apple (AAPL) store on
Fifth Avenue in Manhattan on iPhone 3G Day.

In any case, I did a particularly jumpy video of the doings at one of
Apple’s most famous stores, as legions of New Yorkers waited in
line for their cheaper, faster, prettier iPhone.

Actually I like the “jumpiness” of the video footage. I
got a real sense of the activity and the length of the line.

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"Pity whoever has to follow Steve Jobs at Apple," Brian Caulfield
writes for Forbes. "Not every great company stumbles into oblivion
after the departure of a visionary founder. The problem: Jobs has left
once before, and until he came back, it looked like Apple would be one
of those companies." "Whether a leadership transition takes place 12
months from now or two decades from now, picking a Jobs successor is a
tricky task. 'When you're dealing with someone who really is a genius,
it's not like you can say, 'Let's go find ourselves another genius,''
says Patrick Sweeney, executive vice president at Caliber, an
organizational consulting firm," Caulfield writes. "The first time
that Jobs tried to share leadership of Apple was a disaster. Pepsi
President John Sculley, whom Jobs had picked as a mentor, ousted him
in 1985--and the company began to crumble. Only when Jobs returned,
about a decade later, was Apple able to surge from a computing also-
ran to an innovator able to crank out products that shattered the
status quo," Caulfield writes. "Books have been written about why that
happened. But here's one intriguing thread: Sweeney says Jobs is the
ultimate 'ideational' personality--someone able to find the links
between seemingly unrelated ideas fluidly. The result is a company
that has transitioned from strength to strength, moving from the Mac,
to the iPod, to the iPhone." Caulfield writes, "Sculley could not
create products that Apple customers didn't know they wanted. Nor did
Apple succeed under the sort of sharp-penciled manager able to turn a
troubled company into a booming business. Gil Amelio, who cut costs
and ground his way to profitability at National Semiconductor."
Caulfield writes, "Apple will need much more than a skilled manager."
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It may end up a team of people rather than just one. I think they've
learned from ealier and other examples that you need a visionary, not
a sales guy, in the top job. Ives has the vision, but dunno about his
business acumen. Either way I'm sure Jobs will pick and train someone
eventually.

Team? Team? Who's leading the team? No "team" ever succeeded without
leadership. Caulfield points out the obvious - there is no one able
and willing to assume the position of Great huckster and Tyrant (i.e
CEO Steve Jobs). I suppose Caufield believes that a CEO at Apple is as
obsolete as a PPC-based Sno' Leopard. Apple has nothing left when Jobs
dies but design by consensus and innovation by popular vote from the
Keystone cops of Cupertino. Talk about lack of direction, purpose, and
motivation. Since the link supplied by MDN does not work, I reckon the
one person Caufield did not interview was Jobs himself. Still, I doubt
that Jobs would reveal his choice for CEO, that would take all the
attention away from him an his ego could not stand for someone else
getting more press than himself. That would make Jobs as irrelevant as
System 9.

Love how they check out their facts "Apple Chief Operating Officer
Phil Schiller" isn't that Mr Cook?? Mr. Schiller is in charges of
sales and marketing "while Jobs was out in 1994 for cancer surgery. "
I thought he was out running Next in 94?

You got to remember, Ha, ha, ha (what a stupid name) gets really upset
when you remind him that his penis is orange from eating corn curls
while reading Hustler in his parents basement.

@ Denny The smell of troll fear was just too much for me to resist.
Poking them with sticks is awfully fun!

twodales, Ah, the consummate fanboi. "Please, please, MDN, only give
me tripe, only feed me the sweet syrup of irrationality, the gooey
goodness of wishful thinking, the succulent dessert of mindless
propaganda, the detectible edibleness of nonsense, the mind-numbing
flavor of foolishness." You really don't have to read my posts, but
you seem inexorably drawn to them. Why?

""I actually have a photographer's loupe that I use to make sure every
pixel is right. We will argue over literally a single pixel." - Scott
Forstall" He's going to be out of a job if resolution independence in
OS X ever becomes reality. Hey Loupe Boy, go get me some coffee and
donuts.

I think he's still on this side of the shark pit, but it was a mistake
covering the elections. That really brought out the worst in everyone,
as politics is wont to do. Hopefully he'll also have more time with
his new job so he doesn't have to croudsource the funny.

Most posting in the comment sections is clearly by Apple fans who
enjoy the joke, and it's difficult to get the humour of the blog
without at least pretending to be an Apple fan and sharing that point
of view for a moment.

Limited supply means that most stores will only have a few dozen
iPhones when the device goes on sale

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Click here for the first hands-on review of the 3G iPhoneIn pictures:
the new iPhone and its competitionWhat it costs: iPhone monthly
contract fees

O2 said today that initial supplies of the new iPhone would be limited
for several weeks, and that many customers hoping to get hold of one
by the weekend were likely to be disappointed.

Initially, the new iPhone will only be available to old iPhone
customers wanting to upgrade, or new customers signing up afresh. O2
customers on contracts with other devices are obliged to serve out
those contracts before upgrading.

The iPhone has always shined in the application development area and
this kind of expandability has meant many things to different users,
with the iPhone 2.0 Software update you will be able to do even more
with the iPhone thanks to the new App Store.

All these features and more will be free in the next iPhone software
update, so if your not getting the iPhone 3G just yet then check them
out today by getting the update via iTunes. It will be officially
available today.

I think it’s a disgrace Apple are charging iPod Touch users for
an update that essentially allows users to buy Apps from the iTunes
store.

Can I ask around what time will we see the update for the old iPhone
version 2.0(GMT), and where will this happen. iTunes or apple website.

All that was then, the iPhone is now old news. What is in the news
however is its rejuvenated version – the .

And if like me you too are thinking of purchasing this baby for a
lesser price via the ever-enterprising eBay or requesting your
chacha's wife's grandfather's cousin's grandson to send you US-made
maal – well then, my darling, you are in for a disappointment.

And for my buddies in US of A who are jumping with joy (and mocking us
poor souls back home) thinking about the dream figure; here's a news
flash for ya.

(Only) if you're "upgrade eligible" ( to see if you are), you'll be
able to buy the new iPhone for the discounted price of $199 for the
8GB version or $299 (INR 8,584.86) for the 16GB (INR 12,898.86) model.
(AT&T is somewhat vague about the eligibility criteria, although your
credit history and the time remaining on your contract are factors.)
You'll also have to pay an $18 "upgrade fee."

So it only seems wiser to buy an official piece, the only drawback
– can you wait for another 3 months?

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wow! as an old fart who has completely missed the cellphone revolution
(apart from that antique heavy as a brick device for emergencies such
as blizzards), I am amazed that anyone would pay this much, just for
its sex appeal and the pleasure of twiddling thumbs and pushing some
buttons. I have always wondered about all those folks yakking away on
the phone: How DO they find someone to talk to for THAT long? All very
mysterious forms of human behaviour. But then again, I love this quote
from ole man Marx: "nothing human is alien to me"

Now...again, How did "Steve Jobs" fool you? All the "fooled" issues
you mention are caused not by Apple or Steve Jobs...but by the
carrier. AT&T is handling their prices and policies for the iPhone
just like their policies for all their other 3G smartphones. And AT&T
policies are very similar to all the other carriers and their
prices/policies on smartphones. Steve Jobs negotiated the world's
lowest price from the carrier for unlimited use for the first
iPhone...and everyone complained and criticized it as too slow.
So...now Apple is just like all the other smartphones subsidized by
all the other carriers. Happy now? (But Jobs had nothing to do with
your issues), he's just providing smartphones just like Nokia,
Samsung, HTC, Motorola and Palm...only better and more usable.

Wow. Fantastic response I must say. And now getting to the point, this
is what I think : If the price of the 3G iPhone is around 20-22
grand minus any sort of yearly contract with Airtel or Vodafone, I
will go for it in a jiffy. But a contract is what I will be forced
into a contract(even if the iPhone price is lesser than predicted),
then the answer is a big NO. In that case I will go with HTC Touch
Diamond. A sexy piece I might add.

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I'm sure everyone breathed a big sigh of relief when Apple chief
executive Steve Jobs unveiled the new iPhone Monday. I was certainly
caught up in the iPhone rumor tornado, and I was really ready for it
to subside.

I was hopeful some of the other rumors would come true – namely
a forward-facing camera for live video chats. I wanted to be able to
have a face-to-face chat with my wife using my iPhone.

As I recall, when the original iPhone went on sale, after the campers
got their phones and the big rush subsided, the stores were pretty
quiet at the end of the day.

Roger Humber, strategic policy adviser to the House Builders
Association, said: "We have always said one house equals one job, in
that all the components - like the plumber doing half a day and the
electrician - add up to one person per house. This year we have about
80,000 homes coming in rather than 180,000 last year, so that is
100,000 jobs lost. It is the crudest rule of thumb we can apply."

However, Humber warned job losses would not stop at 100,000. "The
housebuilding industry has a huge multiplier effect on employment and
the wider economy," he said.

"Many more thousands of self-employed tradesmen and sub-contractors,
building materials producers, manufacturers of white goods, carpets,
curtains, DIY, estate agents and solicitors would be affected.

Joey Gardiner, housing and regeneration editor at trade publication
Building, said: "For the most part, the announced job losses don't
include the hit on temporary contractors, the brickies and roofers who
actually do the building.

Chief executive Steve Jobs has said he plans to offer the device in 70
countries in the coming months, bringing him closer to his goal of
selling 10 million iPhones this year.

Art, as journalist David A. Price points out in his well-crafted book
on Pixar, the brain trust that revolutionized animated film, is "never
created in a vacuum chamber." Pixar films have paid homage to "The
Magnificent Seven," Hitchcock's "Rear Window," Marcel Proust's famous
madeleine, and, in "WALL-E," a cultural heap that ranges from "2001: A
Space Odyssey" to "Hello, Dolly!"

For Pixar, it was a eureka moment. Perhaps for the first time in
computer animation, the company had succeeded in rendering characters
that made the audience forget they were watching technology in action.
It would take Pixar almost another decade to convert its graphics
expertise into the seamless creativity of its first feature film, "Toy
Story," one of only two animated movies on the American Film
Institute's recent list of the 100 greatest American films. (The other
is "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.") Since then, however, Pixar has
charged forward like Buzz Lightyear, releasing a rapid-fire succession
of blockbusters that have sparked a true renaissance in Hollywood
animation.

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In what is presumably his on Wednesday, Mr. Lyons, a Forbes writer,
said that he's launching a new site under his own name.

and only a year and a half too late. It was mildly amusing for the
first six months. After that it was just an ego trip. Best of luck but
you won't be getting any clicks from me.

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) 8 comments (Page 1 of 1) by July 9, 2008 2:50 PM PDT Ahh, let's take
the ***** outta Dan for this.*One of his favorite New Englandisms,
apparently. Reply to this comment by July 9, 2008 2:51 PM PDT I like
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insightful as well. Reply to this comment
by July 9, 2008 3:28 PM PDT Well, every meme must die, even the lame
ones. I'm guessing that with nobody even bothering to read him anymore
(seriously, the guy backed SCO in SCO v. IBM, even when the most basic
read on the situation said that SCO was committing suicide). Buh-Bye,
Dan - nice try, but you can join Rob Enderle and Laura Whats-her-name
in the dustbin of credibility now.
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I was in a bar in New York last weekend and the man next to me looked
vaguely familiar.

"Of course I'll miss it," said Fake Dan. "But I've got a more serious
job now. I'm going to Newsweek. Before I was merely a soldier of
fortune at Forbes."

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The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs has quite likely seen the last entry as
former Forbes Magazine journalist Daniel Lyons announces the death of
his cult online persona. But will a new blog under his own name have
the same impact as the satirical postings of the Fake Steve Jobs?
Running for two years, the blog has become that rare thing: a bona
fide Internet sensation. Written by Daniel Lyons, whose day job was as
a journalist at Forbes Magazine, the blog took the form of a diary
expressed through the voice of Steve Jobs. Not the real Steve Jobs, of
course, but this hugely funny fake one instead.

I wonder if as a truly global product, with availability in 22
countries (70 by year's end), the need to set release deadlines across
time zones, and the existence of thousands of unwashed developers all
mean that the Apple CEO's tight grip on information dissemination
could slip away. Take today, for example.

Of course, Jobs' is also a victim of his own secrecy. He offers so
little information (except to his hand-selected minions) that people
have found other, not-so-kosher ways of getting the info, products,
and updates they desire. One blogger reportedly works with service
reps to raid iPhone inventories early. But global distribution and
wily reporters may not be Jobs' biggest problem.

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The team insults some really bad products, celebrates great all-in-one
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Apple's (AAPL) -- has already been up for a day. And we've already
noticed that among the 500-some apps that Apple has made available,
there are some notable omissions.

What sort of stuff are we missing? Programs that shouldn't be that
difficult to build, but that Apple doesn't want on its machines --
unless it's the one controlling it. Some of these apps could include:

Skype: Or a similar Internet phone app that could be used over AT&T's
(T) 3G network. Apple wouldn't screw its partners that make money
selling airtime.

Wi-fi hotspot creator: An app that would hijack your 3G signal and
turn it into wi-fi for your MacBook, iPod touch, or other machine to
use. If "tethering," as this is called, is ever allowed, it'll
probably be an add-on service that AT&T charges $30-50 a month extra
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One iphone app you should check out - the new Bloomberg. Blows the
yahoo app out of the water...

Dan: I think your whole premise is silly. AAPL wants to make a profit
for AAPL and for the carriers. Why support AMZN or NBC, or anything
"illegal"? After all AAPL and the carriers are capitalists.
Capitalists want to optimize profits. If AAPL did any of the things
you suggest, they would not be optimizing profits. You got a problem
with that?

Well, I am not sure how others are faring. However, I have upgraded my
current Iphone software to 2.0 and it is taking forever in a year for
my phone to connect to the itunes store to finish the install and
reset the phone... been running for over 20 minutes, so demand must be
through the roof for either version 2.0 or the new 3G phone. Possibly,
both.... But, this is crazy waiting this long for a simple install,
verify, reboot process. Something has crashed....

The ePocrates Rx application for medicines is a Palm OS killer. The
fact that they've given it away for free will get thousands of doctors
and medical professionals to switch to OS X and pay for the ePocrates
Essentials application coming out later. Wow. Palm is really
screwed.

AT&T; just announced Kraft foods and oracle as 3g iphone customers.
Kraft foods has 103,000 employees. Oracle has 55,000 employees. Not
every cheese maker or code writer is going to get a 3g iphone. This
just in: Many AT&T; stores across the USA are selling out their
allotment in the first 15 minutes. They will be restocked tomorrow.

Apple deliberately limited the types of iPhone software in order to to
give the whiners and haterz something to bitch about.

comments: "Apparently Apple complained about their new signing. Dan
did reveal that he understood Mr Jobs was not best pleased with the
parody that portrayed him as egocentric and autocratic." has a direct
quote:
"I hear that I've been blacklisted, and that Apple reached out
directly to Newsweek to complain about my hiring" Dan tells us.
Seriously.

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I have to say, I hope the reason is not Steve Jobs possible illness.
yet, at the same time, I hope it's not legal pressure by Apple. Fake
Steve was hilarious. Honestly, it made me like Jobs and Apple even
more.

Considering FSJ jumped the shark a long time ago, and has a history of
"faking" Apple's "concerns" with his blog for publicity, you'd think
stories like this, would just be left to rot.

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Want to upgrade your iPhone? Only via O2's site, which is wavering in
and out of reality... (updated) (and now they're "gone"!)

The character, who allegedly had more than a passing resemblance to
the chief, was devised by Dan Lyons. Dan was the person who gave me
some very sage advice on starting my first blog, which was "Don't do
it, it's like a monkey on your back."

Well, it seems Dan is ditching the monkey that has been on his back
for the last couple of years, despite the fact it resulted in a
certain amount of notoriety, a modicum of fame and quite a bit of
success. Oh and let's not forget the mini witch-hunt that was carried
out to unmask the Fake Steve and find out who was behind the creation
that captivated the technology world.

In his final blog, the Fake Steve writes "I'm sorry that the blog is
fizzling out. I know you'll miss FSJ. So will I. But rest assured,
Fake Steve is not really going away. He's just taken on a new form. As
Jimi Hendrix once said, 'If I don't see you no more in this world,
I'll meet you on the next one, but don't be late'."

But if you just can't face the future without the musings of the Fake
Steve, then you won't have too long to wait because a book of his bon
mots is out very soon and Dan is also working on a script to put his
creation on the silver screen.

1.At wrote:
If only it really was Dan Lyons who was going. Lyons' meretricious and
ill-informed anti-Free Software screeds are well known to regular
readers of sites like Slashdot and Groklaw. The latter in particular,
as Lyons has said some particularly insulting things (
http://freerangelibrarian.com/2005/11/15/ipg-to-forbes-magazine-wake-
up-people ) about Pamela Jones, who runs Groklaw, in the past.

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He tweaks design after design, until he feels his team has got it
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) 2 comments (Page 1 of 1) by July 9, 2008 4:47 PM PDT On the AMD-
Intel issue, I think that Intel has the upper hand now in its line of
processors and is trying to secure this hold by expanding to the
mobile graphics market. I really think that solar cells need just a
bit more efficiency to get it over the edge where everyone will want
(virtually) free power. More than anything,we need better battery
technology. We need more power storage and preferably in a non-
exploding package (we all remember the Apple/Dells/Sony exploding
laptops.)P.S. I like how you refer to your XBox as "she" as in "she
died." Reply to this comment by July 11, 2008 2:02 PM PDT Further on
the MD-Intel issue. People have to agree that Intel currently has the
upper hand. But I can not agree that you definitevely say that the
game is over. AMD came from nothing to have the lead in for a time.
They have the opprotunity to do it again, BUT IO have to agree that
they need to get new management to do it. In order to keep Intel
honest and keep their prices down, and we all know Intel prices have
always been higher, you need someone like AMD there to keep the
pressure on. Reply to this comment

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San Francisco, CA (AHN) - The blog that caught the attention of
Silicon Valley CEOs is calling it quits. 'Fake Steve Jobs' is moving
onto a new job and Hollywood.

Lyons, who spun-off the blog into a book and now a Hollywood
screenplay, said he's pulling the plug after rumors circulated Jobs
was in ill-health. Jobs told The New York Times his health was fine.
After failed attempts at blogging as a fake Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang,
Lyons opted to write under his own name.

About a year ago, trying to learn the identity of the 'Fake Steve
Jobs' blogger became a sort of Silicon Alley parlor game. Eventually,
The New York Times