Year: 2010

Stem Innovation (http://www.steminnovation.com/) has released the Tandem USB Digital Desktop Speakers for Macs and the TimeCommand audio alarm clock for the iPhone, iPod touch and ipad.

Apple CEO Steve Jobs has been named CEO of the Decade in the MarketWatch 2010 CEO Awards (http://www.marketwatch.com/story/apples-jobs-rock-star-of-corporate-america-2010-12-08). “MarketWatch” calls him the “rock star of corporate America.”

Here’s what the publication has to say about Jobs: “Jobs’s tenure as the chief executive at Apple Inc. during the past 10 years is well-documented. After pulling his own company back from the brink of bankruptcy before the decade started, he almost single-handedly went on to save the recording industry with the iPod and iTunes.

Apple dropped its challenge of an US$19 million patent verdict lost to OPTi Inc. a day before a court was to hear the appeal, reports “Bloomberg” (http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-12-08/apple-tesla-moneygram-leisure-world-intellectual-property.html?cmpid=yhoo).

Apple CEO Steve Jobs will among those honored as the “best the information technology (IT) industry has to offer” in a new IT Hall of Fame created by CompTIA (http://www.comptia.org), a non-profit trade association for the IT industry.

“Some of the iconic figures of the American business scene have emerged from the IT industry and the intent of the IT Hall of Fame is to recognize these game-changers,” says Todd Thibodeaux, president and chief executive officer, CompTIA.

Customs officials in Shenzhen, a southern Chinese city just across the border from Hong Kong, recently caught 14 housewives trying to carry 88 iPads and 340 mobile phones into China, in a bust worth 950,000 yuan, or roughly $143,000, the Guangzhou Daily reports — and as noted by “The Wall Street Journal” (http://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2010/12/08/china-detains-ipad-smuggling-housewives/?mod=yahoo_hs).