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Jobs let Time Editor Walter Isaacson write a biography of him and it looks like Hollywood is ready to commit before the book even comes out.

There are two apples, which have changed the course of human history forever. One is the falling apple had helped Newton find universal gravitation, and the other is Apple, the company Steve Jobs founded.

For all that he achieved in his life in terms of his public image, Steve Jobs was famously not a public philanthropist, unlike his equally titanic tech rival, Microsoft’s former head Bill Gates.

Steve Jobs, the co-founder and former CEO of the world’s most valuable technology company, died at the age of 56 on Oct. 5, Wednesday, leaving behind a legacy that would make his rivals envious.

Steve Jobs' posthumously released biography, now available for pre-order has become a chartbuster on online bookstores. Author Walter Isaacson spent over two years conducting forty exclusive and unprecedented interviews with Jobs and over hundred of his family members, friends, adversaries, competitors, and colleagues for the book which chronicles rollercoaster life and searingly intense personality of a creative entrepreneur.

Reports show that Sony Pictures Entertainment is in the planning stages and making deals to acquire the rights to make a Steve Jobs movie about the Apple co-founder.

Apple has been really taken a bite this time, albeit a bitter one. The company's co-founder and former CEO Steve Jobs passed away at 56 years of age after losing his battle against a rare form of pancreatic cancer.

The new iPhone can now be preordered.

The gods are always envious of the talented and it became evident on Wednesday - Apple's co-founder and former CEO Steve Jobs, a visionary and creative genius, died at 56 after fighting a long battle with cancer.

The United States claimed Steve Jobs as one its national heroes, but the rest of the world loved him too much to let him go down in history as just an American genius. The outpouring of heart-felt grief across the world over his death was encapsulated by global media that tried to put Jobs' place in history in perspective. Here is a glimpse into how global media looked at Steve Jobs and his legacy:

The respect that Steve Jobs commanded didn't stem exclusively from his corporate position as the co-founder of Apple and a visionary CEO. A man of diverse interests, hailed as a revolutionary, Jobs strictly kept his personal life to himself. However, he always stood by what he believed in and wouldn't care much about his public-perceived image. Here are some little known facts about Jobs, whose personal life was marked by experiments with the obscure.

Steve Jobs' biological sister Mona Simpson, who wrote Anywhere But Here and The Lost Father, fictionalized her brother as a barely disguised character in the novel A Regular Guy.

A look at how people are mourning Steve Jobs.

TNT will remember Steve Jobs' death by re-airing its 1999 film Pirates of Silicon Valley.

Steve Jobs, in pain and too weak to climb stairs a few weeks before his death, wanted his children to understand why he wasn't always there for them, according to the author of his highly anticipated biography.

Amidst an outpouring of social media tributes to Steve Jobs on Wednesday in the immediate aftermath of the Apple co-founder's death, so have donations toward awareness and research of his longtime battle with pancreatic cancer.

TNT has scheduled back-to-back re-airings Thursday night (8 and 10 p.m.) of Pirates of Silicon Valley, the 1999 TV movie about the race between technology rivals Apple and Microsoft to build their computer empires.

Steve Jobs died at his home on Wednesday night, and the sad event eclipsed most other news stories, including Sarah Palin's official decision not to run for president.

Outpourings of public grief and appreciation swept the globe on Thursday after the death of Apple (AAPL.O) co-founder Steve Jobs.

Steve Jobs and Bill Gates' history dates back through 30 years of rivalry, competition, and friendship.

Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, who changed the daily habits of millions by reinventing computing, music and mobile phones, died Wednesday at the age of 56.