Year: 2005

Jobs among ‘Names to know in 2005’

Posted by | Jan 3, 2005 | |

Apple CEO Steve Jobs is among 15 people chosen by the Wall Street Journal to watch in 2005–“men and women who are set to shape the course of business, politics and world affairs in the next year.” Others included: Kofi Annan, U.N. secretary-general; Nick Denton, blog publisher; Robert Iger, Walt Disney Co. president and chief operating officer; Mel Karmazin, Sirius Satellite Radio chief executive; and John Thain, New York Stock Exchange chief executive.

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Sony forms division to take on iPod, iTunes

Posted by | Jan 3, 2005 | |

Sony has established Connect Company, a new division tasked with developing products and services to rival Apple’s iPod and iTunes. “Connect Company was established on Nov. 1 and brings together Sony experts from Japan and the U.S. The division will enter into operations early next year and will eventually employ 300 to 400 workers. Engineers will work on new portable audio players equipped with hard disk drives like the iPod or with computer memory chips.

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Business 2.0 predicts iPhone for 2005

Posted by | Jan 3, 2005 | |

Erick Schonfeld of Business 2.0 predicts that Apple will introduce an iPhone this year. “Long craved by the Mac faithful, a sleek, beautiful cell phone that doubles as a digital-music player is coming soon from Apple’s iPod division. Although Steve Jobs has often dismissed the notion of such an offering because other companies are better at making phones, an already-announced but vague partnership with Motorola will allow Apple to stick to what it does best: great tech design.

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Jobs named Sunday Times Business Person of 2004

Posted by | Jan 3, 2005 | |

Apple CEO Steve Jobs has been named the Sunday Times Business Person of the year. “It is not often that a company boss gets to bathe in the success of a product that is a smash hit with consumers. It is rarer still for that product to be genuinely important, transforming not just the company that designed it but the face of an industry. It is even more remarkable for one chief executive to enjoy this level of success, not at one company, but at two quite different businesses in the same year.

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