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12.04.2011
The authorized biography of Steve Jobs will make its way to shelves next year--will carbon-fiber-encased Macs be close behind? Elsewhere, RIM wonders why nobody pays attention to it after it's yelled "Look at me! Look at me!" at the top of its lungs, and Microsoft's new app store takes a page from somewhere or other. The remainders for Monday, April 11, 2011 are hot off the presses. "

(SFGate.com)

After years of , Steve Jobs has given an all-access pass to writer to chronicle the Apple co-founder and CEO's life and times in a volume titled --and no, we haven't reached the punchline yet; please hold your laughs until the end. Isaacson, a former managing editor of has also penned biographies of Albert Einstein and Benjamin Franklin, and was only picked after Jobs was told that Apple didn't have sufficient resources to resurrect .

(9 to 5 Mac)

Are Apple's aluminum enclosures finally heading for the recycling bin? Reports suggest that Apple is investigating carbon fiber composites for its designs, and may have hired Kestrel Bicycles CEO Kevin Kenney, the very man who holds the patent on the carbon-fiber bicycle frame. I'm down with it--as long as I can get my new MacBook with a front-mounted basket and a bell.

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