Remains of the Day: Omit needless words

06.07.2011
Walter Isaacson and Simon & Schuster take Strunk & White's classic maxim to heart with a new title for Steve Jobs's biography, an inside trader tells all...to the court, and a popular iOS game crashes into schools. The remainders for Wednesday, July 6, 2011 aim to make every word tell.

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It's still eight months away, but Steve Jobs's has gotten a new title. Previously a moniker reportedly picked by Simon & Schuster's PR folks, the Walter Isaacson-penned tome will now simply be called . Simple, classic, and iconic--just like the man and his products. While the title change is being attributed to Isaacson and his family, we find it more than possible that the name was altered to prevent .

(Reuters)

Walter Shimoon, a senior director at components firm Flextronics International, pleaded guilty to charges that . Shimoon could serve up to 30 years in prison, where the closest he's likely to get to Apple is probably reading Steve Jobs's biography in the library.

(Trademarkia)