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February 1, 2012 That's not a slam at digital music, the rock 'n' roll legend says. It's a recognition that current formats don't match vinyl's sound. He and Jobs were talking about a new player to give music lovers back the sound they used to get.

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December 6, 2011 That's a surprising achievement considering the authorized biography was released 45 days ago.

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November 16, 2011 When he died on Oct. 5, Steve Jobs was eulogized as the tech visionary who put elegantly designed gadgets into the lives of people who often hadn't realized the devices were essential — until Jobs, and Apple, created them. A recently recovered 1995 interview offers another chance to hear from the late CEO.

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October 31, 2011 Jobs's sister, the novelist Mona Simpson, reveals the late tech giant's final words "were monosyllables, repeated three times."

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October 21, 2011 With a book about Steve Jobs' life set to hit real and virtual shelves soon, his official biographer, Walter Isaacson, is appearing on 60 Minutes. The book reveals that Jobs waited months before having surgery on a tumor — and unknowingly met his biological father.

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October 14, 2011 Some folks have declared this to be "Steve Jobs Day," and are encouraging others to "Sport your black turtleneck, jeans, tennis shoes, and glasses and snap a pic!"

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October 6, 2011 In the first hour of Talk of the Nation, finding a better way to manage America's rivers, and remembering Steve Jobs, through his own words. In the second hour, Wall Street protests, and the new chief of police in Cincinnati, Ohio.

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October 6, 2011 Commentator Dave Pell looks back on his long, devoted relationship with the Apple Mac. It's the device that got him to do away with pen and paper. It's the device that allows him to create new things, the most significant tribute he can make to Steve Jobs.

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October 6, 2011 Jobs was an iconic American figure, an authentic innovator and visionary who earned celebrity through the power of ideas transmuted into technology that changed society. He was the man who gave consumers products they didn't know they wanted then couldn't live without. Palin gave many Americans exactly what they wanted, a vigorous populist voice expressing their grievances.

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October 6, 2011 Wozniak, Apple's other co-founder, was "the key technologist, the scientist, the engineer." Jobs, says Wozniak, was "seeing ways to sell" the computers and "always trying to move to the next level."

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October 6, 2011 Look at front pages, listen to news broadcasts or search the Web today and it's the one word that comes up over and over again in reports about the death of Apple's co-founder.

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October 5, 2011 Tributes are pouring forth in honor of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, who died Wednesday at age 56. He is being remembered as a visionary who co-founded Apple, left the company, and then returned to build it into a global powerhouse.

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