Business and Marketing

Jobs stole idea from Apple's chief designer?

23.02.12

Isascson quoted Ive saying that Jobs would go through a process of looking at his ideas and the one he liked, he would talk about it to an audience as if it was his idea. The authorised biography of the technology icon reveals that Jobs considered Apple's chief designer Jonathan Ive as his spiritual partner but the latter thought his boss took his ideas and stole the limelight from him. Was Steve Jobs actually a technical genius who revolutionised the digital world, or did he steal the ideas. Ive told Isascson that it hurt when Jobs took credit for one of his designs. But while Jobs was effusive in his praise of Ive, the British-born senior vice-president of industrial design at Apple did not reciprocate those feelings. Jobs told biographer Walter Isaacson that Ive was "wickedly intelligent".

Source: India Today

UK immigration: Hard working Polish plumbers and countless criminals

23.02.12

Sub-stations have huge voltages running through them and anyone tampering with them or trying to steal metal is putting their life on the line. Scotch Harry was, of course, ‘a person known to the police’. Scotch Harry was smuggled out of hospital in an oversized pinstripe whistle before Chisholm could put a name to those horrible eyes. When the mastermind behind the Great Electricity Sub-Station Job eventually sheds his bandages, however, it is unlikely that Det Sgt Russell will be able to recognise him. He is almost certainly not ‘known to the police’. Step forward Detective Sergeant Carl Russell, who said: ‘The man has suffered extensive burns from his ankles up to his scalp.

Source: Daily Mail