Showing posts with label News. Show all posts
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Sunday, July 3, 2011

Top 5 - Biographical Books About Steve Jobs

Apple CEO Steve Jobs is the idol of many young enthusiasts and entrepreneurs. Steve Jobs is a very creative person and intends to change the world with Apple’s technological products. If you’re a Steve Jobs fan and want to know more about him, you can read any or all of the following five books which are related to Steve Jobs’ biography.

1. iSteve

iSteveWalter Isaacson, the author of  “iSteve: The Book of Jobs” , has been working on Steve’s biography since 2009 and has interviewed Jobs, members of his family, colleagues at Apple and competitors. This is the first book which has been authorized by Steve Jobs himself. This book will be available on March 6, 2012. But it’s available for pre-order on Amazon for $16.50. The original price for the paperback version is $30.00. So, if you pre-order the book now, you’ll be saving quite a few bucks.

2. Inside Steve’s Brain

Inside Steve's BrainThis book has got a lot of interesting stories that give you background into some of the most important innovations and inventions of the last 20 years. You learn about the creative, business, product development, and marketing side of Apple. You also learn about why and how they keep things so secret and you learn about why their team is so good at creating world-changing products.
This book not only describes Steve as a perfectionist, charming, charismatic executive but also a man who’s known as an elitist, manipulator, and sociopath, all in search of a dream: providing easy-to-use technology for individuals. The author, Leander Kahney, starts by telling how Steve joined Apple again and saved it from bankruptcy. “Inside Steve’s Brain” is available for a discountedprice of $9.27 on Amazon. This is a short time offer, with the original price tag of $23.95.

3. iCon Steve Jobs: The Greatest Second Act in the History of Business

iCon Steve JobsJeffrey Young & William Simons are the authors of “iCon Steve Jobs”. This book tells how Jobs took over a project to develop Macintosh and was facing clashes from board members which led his departure from the company. Later, he founded NeXT. This company was a near-disaster. Steve Jobs then bought Pixar, an animation company which tied up with Disney and was a creative powerhouse which gave smashing films like Toy Story & Finding Nemo. At this time, Apple was having a rough time and so NeXT was the ticket that led Steve back to Apple.

4. The Second Coming of Steve Jobs

The Second Coming of Steve Jobs“The Second Coming of Steve Jobs” is an unauthorized biography chronicling the life of Steve Jobs by Vanity Fair magazine writer Alan Deutschman. The book covers his period at NeXT, an unexpected success at Pixar and his comeback to Apple followed by the introduction of iMac. Alan tells how Steve discovered the deep sources of his character and motivation; what makes him exceptional as well as what makes him real; where he got his unusual ideas about leadership, management and the creative process; how he had been changed by his years of wealth and celebrity and by his years of struggle and failure.
The new Hardcover edition of “The Second Coming of Steve Jobs” starts from $6.99 on Amazon. The Kindle edition of The Second Coming of Steve Jobs is available to buy from $11.99.

5. The Little Kingdom: The Private Story of Apple Computer

The Little KingdomThis book was written in 1984 by Michael Moritz. Moritz has covered theearly history of Apple in interesting and entertaining fashion. “The Little Kingdom” explains the origins and quirks of Apple’s first decade, giving some clue as to how the company turned out the way it did. If you read any of the later books, they all cite Moritz heavily to get the history of Apple clear.
You can buy “The Little Kingdom” starting at $12.99 on Amazon.
Happy Reading! - I pick iCon Steve as one the my favorite book about Steve. How about you.....




Friday, July 1, 2011

iPhone 5 Design - Mockups

Many rumors started to spreading about  iphone 5 and some of the design analyst take this momentum to come up with futuristic  iphone 5 design . The concept comes from  heavily inspired by, surprisingly, the 6th-gen iPod nano and look good enough to believe.
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The concept iPhone 5’s body consists of a single Magnesium-alloy based casing which holds the electronics that is itself sandwiched between two pieces of glass. The glass on the front packs a 4” 1100-by-730 pixel display which is of the same pixel density as the current Retina Displays on iPhone 4/iPod touch 4G.








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 Wow, Eye catching color combination

Steve Jobs only knows what design will customers love , lets wait and see this September will be a major design change or not.


Monday, June 27, 2011

Rumors : iPhone 4S and iPhone 5 Coming Out In September

Every year Apple launches new iphone hardware with top notch industry design and upgrade the hardware specs to stay in the race with Android Powered devices. This year apple also updating  the hardware specs from single core (A4)  to dual core processor (A5).But many analysts  predicts that apple may unveil two iPhone models, an iPhone 4S and an iPhone 5.

This may be the speculation spreading around from many sources that we can expecttwo iPhones, both an iPhone 5 and a lower cost iPhone 4S, are now expected to be launched this fall, presumably alongside iOS 5.

Here are the rumors about the two new iPhone models

iPhone 4S :
  • Lower end model aimed at prepaid and emerging markets
  • Priced around $349 or lower (past reports suggest as low as $200)
  • Unlocked
  • No-contract required
  • Pre-paid voice and data plans
  • Hardware based on existing iPhone 4
iPhone 5: 
  • Upper end model with contract subsidy, powerful CPU, and the latest features
  • Dual-core A5 CPU borrowed from iPad 2
  • Potentially larger 4″ screen
  • 8MP camera
If this comes true, then Apple will Outplays the Smartphone war against Android Domination.
Where there’s smoke there’s fire, a new iPhone (or two) is definitely coming.

Monday, January 3, 2011

Intel's 2nd Generation Core processor family announced - Intel Core i7-2600K, i5-2500K and Core i3-2100

Intel  finally unleashing the details of its new Core i3, i5, and i7 processors, and considering there are 29 new CPUs in total as well as new integrated graphics options 




  •  Core i7-2600K will power gate three of its four cores and turbo the fourth core as high as 3.8GHz.
  • quad-core desktop Sandy Bridge die clocks in at 995 million transistors.
  • DX10 graphics core
 Here is the CPU performance sheet , Sandy Bridges win over AMD's Thuban & Deneb , due to its quad core processor design.


CPU Specification Comparison
CPUManufacturing ProcessCoresTransistor CountDie Size
AMD Thuban 6C45nm6904M346mm2
AMD Deneb 4C45nm4758M258mm2
Intel Gulftown 6C32nm61.17B240mm2
Intel Nehalem/Bloomfield 4C45nm4731M263mm2
Intel Sandy Bridge 4C32nm4995M216mm2
Intel Lynnfield 4C45nm4774M296mm2
Intel Clarkdale 2C32nm2384M81mm2
Intel Sandy Bridge 2C (GT1)32nm2504M131mm2
Intel Sandy Bridge 2C (GT2)32nm2624M149mm2
Final Words:
In terms of absolute CPU performance, Sandy Bridge doesn't actually move things forward and  HD Graphics 2000 is not as impressive.Sandy Bridge is easily a no brainer. Unless you already have a high-end Core i7, this is what you'll want to upgrade to.

Thanks,
Ram