Steve Jobs

It may be true that no cell phone is perfect, but the handset world isn't taking too kindly to Apple CEO Steve Jobs' public assertion that other smartphones suffer from the same antenna and signal problems that have been widely reported regarding the iPhone 4. And, in what's turned into an ugly back-and-forth PR mud fight, Apple is firing back by making its internal signal test results public to insist that it's not just pulling rivals' flaws out of thin air.

Hui-Meng Cheng, chief financial officer at HTC, told The Wall Street Journal on Monday that "… Read more

Apple CEO Steve Jobs likely quieted the outrage over the antenna issues surrounding the iPhone 4, but he sure didn't have fun doing it.

A clearly annoyed Jobs took the stage at Apple's headquarters in Cupertino Friday to announce that all iPhone 4 users would be receiving a free case to solve reception issues caused by the phone's exterior-antenna design. Apple's first response to the outcry was to change the way it displayed signal strength on the iPhone to give users more confidence in the accuracy of the signal, but Jobs acknowledged Friday that AT&… Read more

Updated at 12:08 p.m. with additional information.

Apple plans to give iPhone 4 users a free case in hopes of satisfying concerns about the design of its antenna and signal problems.

CEO Steve Jobs made the announcement (click here for the live blog) during a press conference at Apple's headquarters in Cupertino, Calif., Friday morning in response to a public-relations crisis over signal issues reported with the iPhone 4, which was unveiled in June. iPhone 4 owners will apply for the free bumper (a case that protects just the outer rim of the phone) online at Apple'… Read more

Knowledge of problems with the iPhone 4 antenna went to the highest level at Apple: Chief Executive Steve Jobs, according to a Bloomberg report Thursday.

An Apple senior antenna engineer, Ruben Caballero, raised concerns in planning meetings that the iPhone 4's external antenna could cause reception problems, according to the report, and told Jobs his concern in 2009.

In addition, a phone carrier provider revealed the antenna problem, according to another person in the report.

Apple has grappled with the antenna issue almost since the day iPhone 4 was in customers' hands in June. Some iPhone 4 owners reported … Read more

Fortune on Friday released its list of the 50 smartest people in tech. Topping the list of CEOs is Apple's Steve Jobs, while the company's lead designer, Jony Ive, took the top spot in the designer category.

Jobs is credited with bringing Apple back from the brink of disaster in the late 1990s, introducing products like the iMac and iPod. Jobs later lead the charge to change the mobile industry with the iPhone and mostly recent, the iPad.

"He is a visionary, a micromanager, and a showman who creates such anticipation around new products that their releases … Read more

For some reason, a 7-second YouTube clip of Apple CEO Steve Jobs walking through the company's new Paris Opera store has some online questioning its authenticity.

The clip, embedded below, shows Jobs quietly shuffling past shoppers in the multi-storied retail outlet at 12 rue Halevy, which opened this past weekend. The clip may be brief, but Jobs is clearly videotaped walking through the store behind Steve Cano, Apple's senior director of international retail.

Not much to see here other than Jobs checking out what certainly has to be one of the grandest interiors for any Apple store. Very … Read more

I need to share a secret with you.

Many of the baseball bats autographed by famous sluggers weren't. Many of the footballs autographed by famous quarterbacks with a gunner's arm were autographed by the arm of a hired gun. And as for Brad Pitt drawing a self-portrait on that napkin? That might have been Brad the bulbous busboy.

So for all the understandable teeth-chattering and keyboard-clicking about whether Steve Jobs really wrote a couple of e-mails about the iPhone 4 to some clearly delightful chap in Richmond, Va., how much does it matter?

In one sense, of course … Read more

Steve Jobs has become a prolific correspondent with customers via e-mail, but at least one of the e-mail chains recently published is now being called a fake.

This week alone, customers who wrote to Apple's CEO at his corporate e-mail address say they received replies from Jobs on topics on everything from the escalating concern over the iPhone 4's antenna design, to the ability to transfer high-definition video from the iPhone to the Web, to the possibility of including Blu-ray Disc players in Macs.

On Thursday, Boy Genius Report published a series of e-mails between one of its … Read more

SAN FRANCISCO--Facing growing competition from Google Android and an amassing army of appealing smartphones, Steve Jobs played defense Monday.

At Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference where Jobs introduced the iPhone 4, he also spent a good amount of time selling his already popular platform to his audience of developers. More so than at past iPhone developer events, Jobs was careful to spend time talking about how the App Store approval process works, how much money there is to be made from iAds, his device's market share and reach, and the potential for growth that they have by placing their … Read more