Apple & Mac Daily News Digest

Writer and satirical “Fake Steve Jobs” blogger Dan Lyons will team with Emmy Award-winning writer and producer Larry Charles to develop a new half-hour sitcom set in Silicon Valley with an Apple-inspired name: “iCon.”

Steve Jobs’ decade-long efforts to tear down an aging 17,250-square-foot mansion in Woodside, California, may be nearing an end, with a judge granting the Apple co-founder approval to demolish the home.

Apple co-founder Steve Jobs feels that Google “violated the alliance” it had with Apple when the search giant began producing cellphones that resemble the iPhone, according to a The New York Times piece that details the bitter rivalry between the two technology giants.

Apple said Friday that Chief Operating Office Tim Cook was awarded nearly 22 million in stock- and cash-based compensation for his performance running the company during Steve Jobs’ absence last year.

In its annual list of the world’s billionaires, Forbes this year ranked Apple CEO Steve Jobs in a tie with six others for 136th place with a net worth of $5.5 billion. Jobs’ net worth is up from $5.1 billion in an October 2009 Forbes ranking…

Former chief executive of Sun Jonathan Schwartz has accused Steve Jobs of threatening patent action against his company in 2003, related to desktop OS technologies, in a long blog post that highlights a series of tech patent squabbles.

Apple co-founder Steve Jobs was in attendance at the Oscars Sunday night, and during the telecast the first iPad ad revealed, upon closer look, prices for some titles in the new iBookstore.

As we approach the iPad’s launch, people seem to be getting Swedish site Slashat.se reportedly emailed Steve Jobs asking the simple question “Will the wifi-only version somehow support tethering thru my iPhone?” Steve Jobs’ reply was a simple “no” …

Steve Jobs appears to have fired off a tersely worded email reply to a user in Sweden who asked whether the WiFi-only iPad could be tethered to the iPhone: “No.”

We now know when the first iPads will be available for sale in U.S. Apple Stores: April 3rd. We now know what kinds of iPads you’ll be able to buy at that time: the WiFi models only. And we now know when you’ll be able to pre-order your iPad via online delivery or Apple Store [...]

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