blog.wired.com - 1/23/2009
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A widely circulated URL that points to a image purporting to be a wired.com story about Steve Jobs' health is a hack job.
bloomberg.com - 1/16/2009
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Jan. 16 (Bloomberg) -- Apple Inc. Chief Executive
Officer Steve Jobs is considering a liver transplant as...
a result of complications after treatment for pancreatic cancer in 2004, according to people who are monitoring his illness. Patients with ...
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Apple’s Jobs Said to Be Considering Liver Transplant ...
bloomberg.com - 1/21/2009
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Jan. 21 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. regulators are examining
Apple Inc. ’s disclosures about Chief Executive Officer Steve...
Jobs ’s health problems to ensure investors weren’t misled, a person familiar with the matter said. The Securities and Exchange ...
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Apple’s Disclosures About Jobs’s Health Said to Face SEC ...
valleywag.gawker.com - 1/26/2009
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Ailing Apple CEO Steve Jobs checked into Stanford
Hospital over the weekend and was scheduled for surgery...
this morning, we hear. At a party in Silicon Valley last night, a Stanford staffer who had just come from the hospital told friends, including ...
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Steve Jobs Reportedly Under the Knife at Stanford ...
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Bogus Steve Jobs Heart Attack News Resurfaces
iPhone Savior —
... quickly surmised that the item was not correct. " Source: Wired.com ...
Vandalized Wired.com Falsely Reports Steve Jobs Has Cardiac Arrest (AAPL)
Silicon Alley Insider —
... a false report on the Wired.com domain saying that Apple (AAPL) CEO Steve Jobs had a cardiac arrest in his Palo Alto home. The prank is remincisnt of a false report on CNN's citizen journalism site, iReport, that last fall said the CEO was rushed to the hospital after a heart attack. The fake looks good, but the story's grammar is not. "Steve Jobs in has had a Cardiac Arrest," reads the headline. Wired.com John C. Abell, who's name appears as the fake story's byline, today responded: The pride I feel about my byline having sufficient gravitas to ...
News Bits: More Layoffs at Google?
Contentinople: —
... ... Yet another crazy jokester has pulled a "Steve Jobs had a heart attack prank," this time on Wired.com . A vandal posted a story headlined "Steve Jobs in [sic] has had a cardiac," using Wired.com's public image viewer yesterday afternoon. Sigh. We don't know what's more pathetic, the deception or the typos.
Wired reports of Steve Jobs’ death false
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... “The hoaxer was able to create a cursorily valid-looking page using our public upload image viewer, whose URL was not a secret and which generates a page containing an image under a genuine Wired logo banner,” says Wired’s John C Abell under whose by-line the story appeared. ...
Why we love/hate Steve Jobs so much, that we can’t leave him alone
PalmAddicts —
... For an instance; there’s a hoax news at Wired tech blog that reported Steve Jobs has had a heart attack. Someone created a legitimate-looking Web page using Wired's public upload image viewer, which generates a page containing an image under a Wired logo banner, Wired said. ...
What's Wrong with Steve Jobs?
Apple Watch —
... of itabout Steve's health situation. I don't know who Valleywag's source is. I wouldn't publish a single-sourced story on a topic of such importance, or any other. Anonymous sources could easily be looking to profit from Steve's hardship. These rumors could send Apple's shares rolling. That wasn't the case today, as Apple closed up $1.28. I didn't see Valleywag's report hit the mainstream media. But what if it had? On Jan. 22, somebody used Wired's image viewer to distribute a fake story about Steve having a heart attack. MacJournals has posted a ...
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