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Steve Jobs has been granted medical leave of absence from Apple, it isreported. Jobs will reportedly stay on as CEO, with COO Tim Cook taking over day-to-day responsibility for running of the company. While exact details are unclear at present, the news comes almost exactly two years to the day since Jobslast had medical leavefor what turned out to be aliver transplant. The Wall Street Journalreportsthat the following note was sent today to Apple staff:...

Update:Celebrating the life of Steve Jobs Steve Jobs has passed away at 56. Apple’s board of directors have issued thebelow statementandApple’s homepageholds the picture above.. “We are deeply saddened to announce that Steve Jobs passed away today. Steve’s brilliance, passion and energy were the source of countless innovations that enrich and improve all of our lives. The world is immeasurably better because of Steve. His greatest love was for his wife, Laurene, and his family....

Apple’s iPhone-centric event has the technology world on edge and consumers eager to find out what the Cupertino-based company has been working on over the past 15 months, especially as it will be new Apple CEO Tim Cook’s first event sinceSteve Jobs stepped downfrom the position in late August. A Reuters report, published Monday morning, suggests that although Jobs is no longer Apple chief, the Apple founder is likely to appear at Apple’s iPhone event:...

China Mobile Chairman Wang Jianzhou says that he has met with Apple CEO Steve Jobs several times already, but has yet to come to an agreement to carry the iPhone, reportsAll Things D. The chairman’s statements came during anearnings callon Thursday. China Mobile’s network has 7.44 million iPhones running on it already, thanks to unlocked models running on pre-paid SIMs. Those users do not have access to 3G speeds because the iPhone is not fully compatible with the TD-SCDMA network, and are relegated to 2G EDGE speeds only....

Just after Apple CEO Steve Jobs presented the latest software advances in iOS and OS X software at the WWDC 2011 conference he made another presentation. This one was to pitch the Cupertino City Council with the construction of a new Apple campus that Steve says looks ‘a little like a spaceship’. Jobs explained to the City Council that the land Apple has purchased has a special place in his heart by relating an anecdote in which a 13-year-old Jobs called up Bill Hewlett to ask him for some spare parts for a frequency counter and got a free job....