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Apple has confirmed a spectacular new foray into the telecoms industry with the impending release of the new iPhone device.

To be released in June in the US – and a few months later in Europe – the iPhone is likely to cost about £257 and has been touted by Apple chief Steve Jobs as a device which will revolutionise the industry.

The iPhone, coming in 4GB and 8GB versions, will see music and videos downloadable to what is essentially a mini touch-screen computer -11.6 millimetres thick and using Apple’s patented ‘multi-touch’ technology. …continue reading the story
called Apple iPhone – Apple’s Attempt to Conquer the Mobile Phone Industry

The 17^th century philosopher John Locke spoke of the “tabula rasa” - the blank slate onto which experiences are etched, subsequently affecting our ideas, sensations and characteristics. There were, he said, no innate ideas stamped upon the mind from birth. A budding entrepreneur might construe this as a sign that Locke was suggesting, by extension, that a man must become successful in business through training, application and experience rather than through an innate drive - but can we say that this is true?

A recent survey by the US’s Northeastern University, in Massachussetts, tends to fly in the face of this. Studying the responses of over 200 entrepreneurs from across the Atlantic, it gleaned that a majority (62 per cent) believed they were born with the desire and ambition to found their own businesses - suggesting that nature may be more valuable than nurture when it comes to realising one’s goals. …continue reading the story
called Entrepreneurism - Nature Or Nurture?

Names: Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak

Dates of birth: 24/2/1955 (Jobs), 11/8/1950 (Wozniak)

Mini-CV: Co-founded Apple (along with Ronald Wayne, who sold his share to them soon after), on April 1^st 1976. Prior to this, Jobs had been a technician at Atari and Wozniak worked for Hewlett Packard. Both were members of the pioneering Homebrew Computer Club. Met as summer employees at Hewlett Packard while they were students. …continue reading the story
called Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak (Founders of Apple) - Entrepreneur Profile