Gawker:

According to Isaacson’s book Steve Jobs, due out in two weeks, Apple employees jeered their boss’s scheme for a corporate outfit. So he had to settle for a personal uniform, modeled on shirts he saw noted designer Issey Miyake wearing.

CNN:

A computer virus has infected the cockpits of America’s Predator and Reaper drones, logging pilots’ every keystroke as they remotely fly missions over Afghanistan and other warzones.

Military security specialists are unsure if the virus was introduced intentionally or by accident, don’t know how far the virus has spread, and haven’t been able to keep the virus off of drones even though they’ve been trying. Too bad the drones don’t run OS X.

ZDNet:

• The iPad accounts for a whopping 97.2% of tablet traffic in the US and 46.8% of all mobile web traffic.
• iPhone accounts for 42.6% of mobile web traffic.

Overall, though, mobile devices still account for less than 7 percent of US Web traffic. So don’t act too surprised when your favorite restaurant deploys a new site chock full of Flash. Mobile browsers, whatever the stripe, are still a minority.

BBC:

A few hours after Blackberry maker RIM said all services were “operating normally” users have complained of a new crash.Twitter is full of angry users reporting renewed issues with their handsets and an inability to send messages and email.

Almost time to pack it in guys.

EW.com:

Discovery has ordered a documentary on the life of the late Steve Jobs, with the Mythbusters duo on board to host. The network is teaming with NBC’s Peacock Productions for iGenius: How Steve Jobs Changed the World, a one-hour special. Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman, who celebrate the spirit of innovation on Discovery’s hit Mythbusters, will host the show.

Interviews for the special include a founding member of the Homebrew Computer Club, one of Jobs’ fellow India travelers, Stevie Wonder and more. It airs this coming Sunday, October 16, 2011, at 8 P.M. International viewers can look for it in their local markets as well.

TechCrunch:

Square’s Keith Rabois also revealed a number of growth statistics for the company, including that the payments service is now processing $2 billion in payments volume per year. To date, Square has been activated by 800,000 merchants which is up from 500,000 card readers shipped in May. Rabois says that Square’s merchants are now 10% of the reach of the Visa/MasterCard world.

Square is the credit card processing service that works using a tiny card reader which plugs into your iPhone or iPad’s headphone jack. It’s a remarkable success story for the scrappy young company.

What’s unclear from Rabois’ comments is how much of that 10 percent of the reach is additive – in other words, vendors who wouldn’t otherwise process credit card payments because of the expense and hassle of “traditional” processing services. Square is quite popular with non-traditional merchants who, prior to Square, had cash-only businesses.

CNN:

Apple co-founder Steve Jobs died of respiratory arrest brought on by a pancreatic tumor, a public health official said Monday.

Not that it should be any great surprise to people who tracked Jobs’ health, but understanding how he passed may give some folks a sense of closure.

MacGeneration reporting a memo from Apple CEO Tim Cook to employees:

Although many of our hearts are still heavy, we are planning a celebration of his life for Apple 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.

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Harry McCracken, for Technologizer:

If you think people who use Apple products are prisoners, you’re essentially accusing them of being too stupid to make their own decisions. At least Stallman explicitly calls them fools! [Eric S.] Raymond, with his pretty-window-treatment metaphor, apparently thinks Apple users are style-obsessed fetishists, too dim to make the right purchasing decisions. Which, oddly enough, is the same stance that Microsoft has been known to take.

Richard M. Stallman’s comments on Steve Jobs this past week infuriated me, and I’m grateful that the always-cogent Harry McCracken had the clarity of thought to articulate a very well-formed argument explaining why Stallman and another free software advocate, Eric Raymond, are so wrong in how they think about how people should interact with computers.

Adam Schreck for the Associated Press:

Patrick Spence, RIM’s managing director for global sales and regional marketing, told The Associated Press in Dubai that the Waterloo, Ontario-based company was not as clear as it could have been in defining the target audience for the devices.

Gee, you think? Another thing you didn’t tell your target audience is that it’s a piece of shit.

Shawn King:

It must be said, the record of the rumor sites has been disappointing at best and horrendously embarrassing at worse. When the “most accurate” site can only get 17% of their own sourced rumors accurate, it speaks volumes to the nature of Apple rumors. That is, the “Get it first, not right” school of internet journalism. It can be argued that the vast majority of sites “reporting” Apple rumors are doing no such thing. They are simply parroting the work of others and wrapping their own advertisements around it. Those sites can be safely ignored because they bring nothing to the table.

I’ll let Shawn tell you which site posts the most Apple rumors and how accurate they are.

Shawn King for Stupid Apple Rumors:

9to5Mac says, “we knew going into the event today that it would only be the iPhone 4S.” That may be true. Going into the event, many of us had found out that there would be no iPhone 5 announced on Tuesday. But 9to5Mac is being a bit disingenuous.

Ouch.

Reuters:

AT&T sold more than 200,000 of Apple Inc’s latest iPhone in the first 12 hours and said it had seen “extraordinary demand.”

Consumers have spoken.

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Los Angeles Times:

“…The idea was to take what is unique about Apple and create a forum that can impart that DNA to future generations of Apple employees,” said a former Apple executive who spoke on the condition of anonymity to preserve his relationship with the company. “No other company has a university charged with probing so deeply into the roots of what makes the company so successful.”

Corporate universities aren’t a new idea by any stretch of the imagination. Jobs allegedly tapped Joel Polodny, dean of Yale’s business school, to run the program. Apple had no comment, of course.

Computerworld:

Sprint officials today announced an accelerated rollout of LTE wireless technology on Friday — and said that it will continue to support its millions of Wimax smartphone and device customers beyond 2012.Sprint officials told analysts that the company’s LTE network will begin rolling out in some markets in mid-2012, and that it would reach some 275 million potential U.S. customers by early 2014.

Once Sprint and Verizon have a wide deployment of LTE, Apple will have to begin offering an LTE-capable iPhone. The company’s president of network operations told those gathered at today’s announcement that Sprint expects its first LTE phones to be offered in mid 2012.

Reuters:

Microsoft secured EU approval on Friday to purchase internet voice and video service Skype for $8.5 billion, its biggest ever acquisition.

The commission noted that Microsoft and Skype overlap, but doesn’t think there are concerns about monopoly since other companies including Google compete in the video space.

Gamasutra:

As PlayStation maker Sony moves further into the world of connected devices, it may be finding its longstanding joint venture with mobile device maker Ericsson prohibitive to its operations.That is why, according to the Wall Street Journal, sources say that that the company may soon wrest full control over the 50-50 joint venture created over a decade ago.

A buyout wouldn’t be cheap for Sony, but it might help the company as it seeks to further bolster its Android-based offerings going forward.

SlashGear:

Samsung and Google have yanked their CTIA Fall product launch, the event expected to debut the Samsung Galaxy Prime aka Nexus Prime. “Samsung and Google decide to postpone the new product announcement at CTIA Fall” the two companies said in a terse statement. “We agree that it is just not the right time to announce a new product. New date and venue will be shortly announced.”

The Galaxy Prime/Nexus Prime phone reportedly features a 4.65-inch display and runs Android 4.0, code-named “Ice Cream Sandwich.” Neither Google nor Samsung specify what caused the delay. SlashGear speculates it may have something to do with Steve Jobs’ funeral.