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Steve Jobs one of Time's 20 'most influential Americans'

Steve Jobs has been named as one of the 20 most influential Americans of all time by Time magazine, placing his name with iconic historical greats such as George Washington, Alexander Graham Bell, and Albert Einstein.

The list, a chronological listing of "the trailblazers, visionaries and cultural ambassadors who defined a nation," refers to Jobs as the "high priest of the digital age." In a brief summary, Time recounts some of the career highs and lows of the late Apple co-founder.

Jobs was a visionary whose great genius was for design: he pushed and pushed to … Read more

Gore hearts Cook in writeup for Time's '100 Most Influential'

Former United States Vice President -- and Apple board member -- Al Gore gushed about the job Tim Cook is doing as CEO since succeeding Steve Jobs in a brief essay he wrote for Time's "100 Most Influential People in the World" list.

"It is difficult to imagine a harder challenge than following the legendary Steve Jobs as CEO of Apple. Yet Tim Cook, a soft-spoken, genuinely humble and quietly intense son of an Alabama shipyard worker and a homemaker, hasn't missed a single beat." Gore, who is referred to in the article's … Read more

Steve Jobs' most revolutionary Apple products

Guided by the steady hand of co-founder and CEO Steve Jobs, Apple has created some of the most influential and boldly designed consumer technology products of the modern era--everything from computer hardware and software to category-defining music players, tablets, and smartphones.

No, the company's run hasn't been perfect: Apple's striking but overpriced G4 cube Power Mac comes to mind, as does the toylike clamshell iBook and the buttonless Shuffle. … Read more

The 20 most innovative consumer electronics products of the decade

Recently, with the help of some of the editors here at CNET, I put together list of the biggest tech flops of the decade. Since I'm not a negative guy at heart, it was only a matter of time before I came up with a more positive spin on the whole tech-products-of-the-decade concept that's all the rage as we approach the end of '09.

Once again, I've enlisted the help of my fellow editors, so while my name may appear at the top of this list, it's really a collective effort. That said, you can blame … Read more