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  • Lisa Brennan-Jobs’ “Small Fry” to offer additional details about Steve Jobs, her relationship with her father, in forthcoming memoir

    There’s two sides to every person.

    As such, Lisa Brennan-Jobs, a daughter of the longtime Apple CEO Steve Jobs, has published an excerpt from her coming memoir, “Small Fry,” which contains heartbreaking details about her difficult relationship with her father.

    This marks the first time Jobs’ daughter has written in depth about her father, who initially denied paternity and refused to pay child-support payments to her mother, Chrisann Brennan.

    Jobs died in 2011 at 56 of complications from pancreatic cancer.

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  • Apple publishes support article detailing how to remove free U2 album

    You know how iTunes recently downloaded the new, free U2 album, no matter whether you wanted it or not?

    That’s not going over as well as it could have.

    Per Re/Code, Apple has released a new support document detailing how to get rid of the new U2 album, Songs of Innocence.

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    The document states that users should first visit the special Songs of Innocence removal page at http://itunes.com/soi-remove. They will then need to click “Remove Album,” before signing in with the Apple ID that they have associated with purchases from the iTunes Store.

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  • British iOS device repair firm finds connection between third-party USB adapters and damage to iPhone 5 power management components

    You know those nice, cheap third-party iPhone cables you can buy for dirt cheap at the check out line at the convenience store? They might be capable of damaging a power management component in the iPhone 5 handset.

    Per iOS device repair firm mendmyl, a series of damaged power management components in Apple’s iPhone 5 handset has been traced back to unofficial USB adapters as well as USB-to-Lightning cables.

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    The working theory, though not officially confirmed, is that the third-party charging accessories do not properly regulate electrical current as it flows into the handset, which will then either burn out or render a power distribution component labeled “U2”, which is located just beneath the A6 processor on the iPhone’s logic board. The U2 component routes power to the iPhone 5’s battery and integrated charging controller as well as the sleep/wake button and controls certain USB functions for the handset.

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  • Apple posts Steve Jobs memorial web site

    Compiling some of the many e-mails the company has received since the passing of Steve Jobs, Apple launched a new feature on its website on Wednesday called “Remembering Steve.”

    Per AppleInsider, the tribute site, at apple.com/stevejobs/, continuously scrolls with personal messages sent in by customers and admirers of Jobs. Submissions are still being accepted at the address [email protected].

    “Over a million people from all over the world have shared their memories, thoughts, and feelings about Steve,” the site reads. “One thing they all have in common — from personal friends to colleagues to owners of Apple products — is how they’ve been touched by his passion and creativity.”

    The memorial page arrives as Apple is set to hold a celebration of the life of Jobs at its Cupertino, Calif., campus today. Apple’s retail stores will temporarily close from 10 a.m. Pacific to 11:30 a.m., allowing employees to watch a live broadcast of the event.

    Another, more private tribute to Jobs was held on Sunday at Stanford Memorial Church, attended by Apple executives, family, friends and dignitaries, including former U.S. President Bill Clinton. It also included performances from cellist Yo Yo Ma, singer Joan Baez, and U2 frontman Bono.

    Jobs passed away on Wednesday, Oct. 5 at the age of 56 after a long bout with cancer. A smaller service, featuring friends and family, was held just a few days after the Apple co-founder died.

  • Larger memorial held for passing of Steve Jobs, CEOs and celebrities in attendance

    A private memorial for Steve Jobs, held Sunday at Stanford Memorial Church, was attended by a long list of notable people, including politicians, actors, musicians and peers of the late Apple co-founder.

    Though Apple was “tight-lipped” about the hundreds of people who attended the event, Apple 2.0 obtained some of the names of those who attended. They include former U.S. President Bill Clinton, Google CEO Larry Page, and Adobe co-founders John Warnock and Chuck Geschke.

    Per Fortune, former U.S. Vice President Al Gore, who also remains a member of Apple’s board of directors. Actor Tim Allen, who plays the character Buzz Lightyear in the “Toy Story” films by Pixar — a company acquired by Jobs in 1986 and sold to Disney for US$7.4 billion in 2006 — was also present.

    Bono, lead singer of the band U2, was there as well. U2 and Apple have been closely tied for years, with songs by the band appearing in Apple’s commercials, and a special U2-branded iPod was released by the company in 2004.

    Others present included actor Stephen Fry, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emmanuel, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison, former California first lady Maria Shriver, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, and singer Joan Baez.

    Sunday’s memorial was an opportunity for a larger number of people to pay their respects to Jobs. A smaller service, featuring family and friends of the late Apple co-founder, was held earlier this month, just a few days after he passed away.

    Jobs died on Wednesday, Oct. 5 after a long bout with cancer. He was 56 years old. The list of some memorial attendees follows in alphabetical order:

    Tim Allen, actor

    Joan Baez, folksinger

    Bono, U2 frontman

    Bill Campbell, chairman of Intuit

    Bill Clinton, former President

    Ron Conway, founder of Angel Investors

    Tim Cook, Apple CEO

    Michael Dell, CEO of Dell

    Rahm Emmanuel, mayor of Chicago

    Larry Ellison, CEO of Oracle

    Scott Forstall, Apple senior vice president

    Stephen Fry, actor

    Bill Gates, chairman of Microsoft

    Chuck Geschke, Adobe co-founder

    Al Gore, former Vice President

    John Lasseter, chief creative officer of Pixar

    Jon Miller, chief technical officer of News Corp.

    Rupert Murdoch, CEO of News Corp.

    Larry Page, CEO of Google

    Maria Shriver, former first lady of California

    Larry Sonsini, Silicon Valley attorney

    John Warnock, Adobe co-founder