A week after Steve Jobs’ passing, we consider great un-aired “Think Different” ad narrated by Jobs, in which he celebrates rebels, square pegs in round holes, misfits and troublemakers who change the world through rulebreaking and disdain for the status quo.

As a tribute to the late Steve Jobs, we’re re-publishing this piece from last year in which we noticed a peek into Jobs’ favorite records as captured in the short-lived iTunes function Ping in a screen grab from his presentation. Jobs’ impact on the world was as much as an artist as an engineer—and he was pure rock and roll. We hope you’ll join us in paying tribute to one of America’s greatest innovators. He’ll be missed.

Wait, he’s not a soul-crushing monster dead-set on world dominance?

The most populous borough in New York City is having a difficult time getting an Apple Store.

HTC recently acquired 51 percent of the popular headphone maker in an effort to challenge Apple is the market of smartphone accessories.

That’s it, I’m getting a Droid.

No matter how hard we try to create technology equal to and exchangeable with human intelligence we will never be able to create synthetic human emotion and this above all of is what drives us, so why is it focused on the least?

The iPhone alarm won’t wake you up, but it will remind you to blame others for your mistakes.

Despite the confusion about exactly what we all need iPads for, the device has become the fastest-adopted piece of electronic gear in history. We may not know why we need it, but we need it. And Verizon is about to have it. “Can you ___ me now?”

When is the last time you heard someone say, “Hey man, I got to go grab something at Radioshack”? Possibly never?

When it was reported a few days ago that Disney has opened an English-language school in Shanghai, China, using Disney characters and songs as mnemonics, it got me thinking about the future of education, generally. With the news of the Disney school, it seems that civilization has taken the first step toward manifesting the world of Mike Judge’s film “Idiocracy.”

Everyone can stop hyperventilating now over their iPhone 4 problems. Apple says it has figured out a remedy for the loss in service, which doesn’t involve hardware. The problem: Apple was using the wrong software the entire time. Doh! The new software will be released in the coming weeks and should clear things up with [...]