Daily Archives: October 19, 2011

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Apple employees to celebrate Jobs, stores to close

Apple is holding a private memorial service for employees to celebrate the life of company co-founder and former chief executive Steve Jobs.

The service, announced to Apple employees in an email by CEO Tim Cook, is scheduled for 10 a.m. Wednesday at company headquarters in Cupertino.

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It will also be webcast to employees worldwide.Apple plans to close its retail stores for several hours so employees can watch the service online, according to a person familiar with the matter. The person was not authorized to speak publicly about the issue, and spoke on condition of anonymity.

The service will take place in the campus’ outdoor amphitheater, according to Cook’s email.

The celebration is for employees to “take time to remember the incredible things Steve achieved in his life and the many ways he made our world a better place,” Cook wrote.

The event follows a memorial at Stanford University last Sunday for friends and family. That service at Memorial Church reportedly brought out tech titans including Oracle chief Larry Ellison and Microsoft’s Bill Gates, as well as politicians including Bill Clinton. U2 frontman Bono and Joan Baez reportedly performed.

Jobs died on Oct. 5 at age 56 after a battle with pancreatic cancer.

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Microsoft prepares new ‘Next’ website

Microsoft appears to be preparing to launch a new website called “Next” where it will share information about new technologies it and others are developing.

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“It’s Microsoft’s home for stories and conversations about what’s new and on the horizon,” according to the “about” page.

For now, the main page says that the site is “coming soon.” The only blog post says: “Congrats if you found this site already…you weren’t supposed to! We’ll be back soon.”

It was written by Steve Clayton, who has worked at Microsoft for 13 years and, according to his profile, recently moved to the company’s Redmond, Washington, headquarters “to work on storytelling.”

The site will offer stories about people at Microsoft and the technologies they are developing, according to the “about” page. “It’s not all about Microsoft though — we’ll look at where technology is going, how it will impact our lives and what the important trends are. Innovations and innovators of all types are fair game here and we’ll shine a light on them as well as on Microsoft,” it says.

Microsoft will welcome feedback about the kinds of topics it should cover on the site, it said. “The site is ultimately for you, to show you who we are, what we’re about and where we’re headed,” it says.

The main page also includes a list of items posted on Twitter from Microsoft’s Twitter account. The URL links the site to Microsoft’s TechNet blogs, which often cover technical topics related to the company’s products.

Microsoft did not immediately respond to a request for comment about the site or when it will go live.