Rating: Former CEO Michael Kowalzik steps down for new challengesIt seems that Germany-based mobile interaction specialist tyntec, has acquired a new captain to steer its ship in the shape of Steve Liddell. He will replace Michael Kowalzik as CEO. The company claims Steve's unique background - combining telco infrastructure, 4G, wireless and internet software, makes him an ideal fit for the company. tyntec also says that the move will herald the next phase of the company's growth. Continue reading →

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Rating: Microsoft did help to bail Jobs out back in 1997GoMobile News normally steers well clear of Showbiz gossip but couldn't help but notice a stry on BBC News entitled 'Aaron Sorkin reveals Steve Jobs film plot'. Apple fanboys will be overjoyed to hear that according to the Beeb, there could be at least two films made about Steve Job's life with Apple. Naturally, the Beeb is tipping the Sorkin version as the top runner given that as a script writer Sorkin has done so well with The Social Network which was all about Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg. What fascinates us here at GoMobile Towers is that fact that Microsoft's Bill Gates could easily be included in a film about Jobs. Continue reading →

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LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - When it comes to the iPhone, Steve Jobs created it, but Steve Wozniak got game. The Apple co-founder will appear as a playable character in an upcoming iOS video game "Danny Trejo's Vengeance: Woz with a Coz." The game, slated to be released around November 22, puts Wozniak alongside "Machete" star Trejo in an 8-bit mobile game, fighting a city full of enemies with an assortment of weapons. The plot is simple: "Woz" is forced to save his wife, J-Woz, after she is kidnapped by street thugs. Teaming up with Vengence, Woz tears up Fusion City in his quest to rescue ...

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There’s a classic joke about an the actress who was so dumb she tried to sleep with the writer in order to get ahead in Hollywood. The writer is not the star. And yet when Aaron Sorkin stepped on stage at the D10 conference Wednesday, all tanned skin and tousled hair, the audience of grizzled tech execs got all starry-eyed.

Sorkin’s not just any writer, of course. His track record—The West Wing, Sports Night, A Few Good Men, and many more—has made him a superstar screenwriter. He touched on the tech industry with The Social Network and will do so again as he writes the screenplay adaptation of Walter Isaacson’s biography of Steve Jobs. And he’s got a show to plug—The Newsroom, premiering on HBO later in June.

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Bloomberg reports that Steve Jobs was intimately involved in the design work for the next-generation iPhone scheduled for release later this year, reiterating claims that the device will be a substantial change from previous designs in part because of a larger display.

Apple, based in Cupertino, California, has placed orders from suppliers in Asia for screens that are bigger than the 3.5- inch size now on the smartphone, said one of the people, who asked not to be identified because the plans aren’t public. Apple co-founder Steve Jobs had worked closely on the redesigned phone before his death in October, one person said. [...]

Apple has been working on the new device since before the current iPhone 4S model was introduced last October, said one person with knowledge of the project. Jobs, who had gone on medical leave from Apple starting last January, played a key role in developing the phone, this person said.

Bloomberg becomes the third major publication to offer an independent report this week regarding a larger display for the next iPhone, following The Wall Street Journal and Reuters yesterday.

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Aaron Sorkin, the creative genius behind The Social Network, The West Wing, and upcoming HBO show The Newsroom was recently confirmed as the screenwriter for Sony's upcoming movie based on Walter Isaacson's biography of Steve Jobs -- though, Sorkin himself says he has a lot of work to do.

Reuters reports that Sorkin held an interview with reporters and said he was still looking for something in Jobs' life to hang the movie on.

Sorkin noted that "The Social Network" saw the Facebook story through the lens of an acrimonious lawsuit that pitted CEO Mark Zuckerberg against his Harvard friends over the creation of the social media network.

"Drama is tension versus obstacle. Someone wants something, something is standing in their way of getting it. They want the money, they want the girl, they want to get to Philadelphia - doesn't matter ... And I need to find that event and I will. I just don't know what it is," Sorkin said.

He noted that it won't be a "straight ahead biography" because a biography has a natural "cradle-to-grave structure" that is very hard to overcome.

Sorkin also disclosed that Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak has been hired as a consultant by Sony Pictures to advise the filmmakers on the technical aspects of computers and about Jobs himself.

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Speaking at Fast Company's Innovation Uncensored conference earlier this week, J. Crew CEO and Apple board member Mickey Drexler shared his thoughts (via Business Insider) on several topics related to Apple, including Steve Jobs' dream to build an "iCar" that would have revolutionized the automobile industry. While the idea obviously never developed very far, it is an intriguing glimpse into Jobs' interests and ambitions.

Drexler also mentioned in passing that Apple will be making a push into the living room "in the near future", fueling further interest in and speculation on an Apple television set and perhaps ultimately content deals that could remake how television content is consumed.

Look at the car business – it's a tragedy in America. Who's designing the cars? They talk about expense, they talk about this, and then you say 'Who's designing the cars?'

Steve's dream before he died was to design an iCar. It would have been probably 50% of the market. He never did design it. In the fashion business, you know, Apple has ten products and then they leave alone...the living room they're dealing with at some point in the near future.

Drexler closed with a quip about how difficult it is to take over a company that is doing well, comparing his move to take over struggling J. Crew nearly a decade ago with Tim Cook's move to the CEO position at Apple.

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