Well isn’t that nice! Silicon Alley Insider has it on good authority that Gizmodo is one of the tech sites Steve Jobs has bookmarked in Safari on his iPad. Hi, Steve! We knew he was a fan , but I’m glad to see he’s keeping up with us tablet-style, even after letting Bill Gates’ byline run here sometime last year . How do we look on that 1024×768 screen? My email’s below.

Fake Steve Jobs (Newsweek’s Dan Lyons) is teaming up with director Larry Charles ( Seinfeld, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Borat ) to produce a “TV” show on streaming service EPIX . More

First Apple COO Tim Cook received $12.3 million in stock for watching the company while Steve Jobs was on sick leave and now he’s receiving an additional cash-and-stock bonus worth $22 million. More

First Apple COO Tim Cook received $12.3 million in stock for watching the company while Steve Jobs was on sick leave and now he’s receiving an additional cash-and-stock bonus worth $22 million. More

I’ve got to hand it to Mosspuppet: he’s always on top of the latest trends. This time out: Chatroulette! And while it ends with Mosspuppet’s most cherished dream fulfilled, it’s also. Totally. Gross. NSFW. [ Mosspuppet ] More

According to Jonathan Schwartz —then Sun’s CEO—that’s what Steve Jobs told him over the phone after Sun presented Looking Glass , a desktop concept similar to Mac OS X’s. After that, Schwartz verbally cockpunched His Steveness and shut him up: “Steve, I was just watching your last presentation, and Keynote looks identical to Concurrence – do you own that IP?” Concurrence was a presentation product built by Lighthouse Design, a company I’d help to found and which Sun acquired in 1996. Lighthouse built applications for NeXTSTEP, the Unix based operating system whose core would become the foundation for all Mac products after Apple acquired NeXT in 1996. Steve had used Concurrence for years, and as Apple built their own presentation tool, it was obvious where they’d found inspiration. “And last I checked, MacOS is now built on Unix.

According to Jonathan Schwartz —then Sun’s CEO—that’s what Steve Jobs told him over the phone after Sun presented Looking Glass , a desktop concept similar to Mac OS X’s. After that, Schwartz put Steve in his place: “Steve, I was just watching your last presentation, and Keynote looks identical to Concurrence – do you own that IP?” Concurrence was a presentation product built by Lighthouse Design, a company I’d help to found and which Sun acquired in 1996. Lighthouse built applications for NeXTSTEP, the Unix based operating system whose core would become the foundation for all Mac products after Apple acquired NeXT in 1996. Steve had used Concurrence for years, and as Apple built their own presentation tool, it was obvious where they’d found inspiration. “And last I checked, MacOS is now built on Unix. I think Sun has a few OS patents, too.” Steve was silent.

CNET thinks they’ve snagged a photo of Apple CEO Steve Jobs schmoozing at the Academy Awards . Does this mean the iPad’s going to make a last-minute appearance in those outlandish $85,000 gift bags? Updated: It’s him. Is it him? Supposedly he’s next to the woman in the white dress.

Oh, hello! A trip to the YouTube wayback machine shows that 1996’s Steve “Great Artists Steal” Jobs might have taken issue with Steve Jobs 2010, and his patent lawsuit firebombing of HTC. Irony! The comment was made during a 1996 PBS documentary called ” Triumph of the Nerds ,” and looks a smidge hypocritical in light of today’s events. As does this one: “We have always been shameless about stealing great ideas.” Goodness. If that’s true, then lawyering up against innovative competitors must be the one of the best ideas you ever heard. In fact, compare the above to what Jobs said just today in the press release about the HTC lawsuit: “We can sit by and watch competitors steal our patented inventions, or we can do something about it

“Why the hell is Steve staring at the beach ball ?” That was the question of the afternoon at NeXT’s 1987 company retreat. “It’s always about beach balls with him,” they muttered derisively, “what’s so interesting about beach balls ?” These, of course, were but the first of millions of much more profane Apple/beach ball related mutterings to come. And that last question, made up as it may be, is a good one: There is nothing interesting about beach balls, rainbow colored, spinning or otherwise. Nothing at all. Join me in cursing that day. [ AllAboutSteveJobs ]