Advanced Communicator: Hybrid Dual SIM DUOS users can alternate between two different phone numbers for maximum flexibility including calling and texting vs. mobile data use – and choose the most advantageous pricing plans for each. You’re always juggling work and personal life but now you can use just one phone. Simply switch from one line to the other number you’ve dedicated for personal calls and messages or to freely surf the web – keep your private life private. When you travel you’ll be glad for the convenience of having a double SIM handset. Instead of purchasing a new SIM card to replace the original SIM, simply switch to the other line. Improved Productivity From remote access to your handset’s sensitive data to accessing online documents directly, users experience the ultimate in mobile office features. ThinkFree handles all your Office documents, including PDFs, for simple, productive viewing and editing. ThinkFree Online lets you upload your documents for easy storage, accessible to your mobile anytime from anywhere. pCloud Service offers a 3-step security management system including HW encryption so you can remotely lock your handset at any time, tracing methods to recover your phone, and remote wipeout in the case of loss or theft so you can feel assured of full privacy of your personal and professional data.

Outstanding OS: Flexible Android OS Users will notice immediately how easy and pleasurable it is to operate with improved application management, better connectivity and enhanced audio quality, including seamless video calling. Android’s Gingerbread software combined with a more powerful processor (832MHz) lets you handle mobile tasks faster and more efficiently. Android Market satisfies every user’s desire with a huge, always growing supply of apps geared to enhancing your lifestyle. Users also enjoy a host of Google Mobile Services including Google Latitude so you can see where your friends are and share your own location for meet-ups or unlock check-in offers to popular shops, restaurants and services. Google Places lets you find, rate and share places so you can discover your new favourite place.

Anti-abortion Anonymous hacker arrested in U.K.

Shortly after hacking into Britain's biggest abortion provider's Web site and stealing 10,000 database records of women registered with the service, self-proclaimed member of Anonymous James Jeffery proudly touted his triumph on Twitter.

It was this misstep that quickly led to his arrest, court hearing, admission of guilt, and impending sentence, according to the Guardian.
It all started on Thursday when the British Pregnancy Advisory Service reported that there were 26,000 attempted break-ins to its Web site over a six-hour period. According to the Guardian, the site was also defaced with the Anonymous logo and a statement.
At the same time, under the Twitter username Pablo Escobar, Jeffery tweeted the name and log-on details of a BPAS administrator to prove he was able to pull off the heist.
BPAS provides abortions, pregnancy counseling, and advice on contraception. The organization said that despite Jeffery stealing tens of thousands of database records, he was unable to access medical or personal information of women who had received treatment there.
Shortly after the break-in, 27-year-old Jeffery was arrested and yesterday he was brought before the Westminster magistrates' court in London. There, the hacker admitted to two offenses under the Computer Misuse Act and claimed to be a member of the hacking group Anonymous.
Jeffery said the reason he hacked into BPAS's Web site was because he "disagreed" with the decisions of two women he knew over their pregnancy terminations, reports the Guardian. Originally he said he wanted to "release all the details" of those registered on the BPAS site but eventually decided against it because he thought that would be "wrong."


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New iPad first tablet with Bluetooth 4.0: Should you care?

Unless you've been living under a rock, no doubt you've heard all about Apple's new iPad. It comes packed with plenty of welcome upgrades. Among these are a crisp Retina display, a new A5X processor with quad-core graphics to drive all those pixels, and an optional 4G LTE connection for swift cellular data. What slipped under the radar, though, was the iPad's Bluetooth 4.0 support.
In fact, the new iPad is the first tablet with Bluetooth 4.0, aka Bluetooth Smart Ready. Not exactly impressed? Well, I admit that Bluetooth tech has faded from people's minds as a hot mobile feature. This new Bluetooth version, however, promises to bring a host of attractive features.
Tablets, Bluetooth, and you
The most notable new ability of Bluetooth 4.0 devices is to sip power slowly, especially gadgets designed to operate as sensors. These include gizmos that measure fitness performance such as heart rate and activity like the Motorola Motoactv and Nike FuelBand.


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HP Launches New Cloud Solutions

HP Launches New Cloud Solutions

CRN Network, December 21, 2011, 1130 hrs

HP has introduced new cloud solutions to advance deployment of private, public and hybrid clouds. The company has integrated its HP CloudSystem with Alcatel-Lucent to enable communication service providers for networking.



HP has also introduced HP CloudAgile Service Provider program, HP CloudSystem Matrix 7.0, HP Cloud Protection program, HP Enterprise Cloud Services–Compute, and training programs to transform legacy data centers for cloud computing.


“Clients want to understand, plan, build and source for cloud computing in a way that allows them to gain agility, reduce risk, maintain control and ensure security,” said Santanu Ghose, Country Head, Converged Infrastructure Solutions, HP India.


HP CloudSystem Matrix 7.0 enables clients to build hybrid clouds with push-button access to externally sourced cloud-based IT resources. This solution also includes automatic, on-demand provisioning of HP 3PAR storage. The comprehensive HP Cloud Protection program offers comprehensive strategy, roadmap, design and implementation services spanning people, process, policies and technologies to deliver the same level of security for a hybrid cloud as a private IT environment would receive.


HP Enterprise Cloud Services–Compute automates distribution of application workloads across multiple servers. It improves data protection through backup and restore options, and manages additional virtual local area networks within their cloud environment. HP Enterprise Cloud Services for SAP Development and Sandbox Solution helps to evaluate and prototype the functionality of SAP ERP software via a private cloud.


The company is also offering three HP ExpertONE certifications – HP ASE Cloud Architect, HP ASE Cloud Integrator and HP ASE Master Cloud Integrator – that encompass business and technical content. HP Cloud Curriculum from HP Education Services offers course materials in multiple languages covering cloud strategies. HP Storage Consulting Services for cloud enable clients to understand their storage requirements for private cloud computing as well as develop an architecture that meets their needs.

Skype 5.3 for Mac

This Monday Skype released a new version of its client software for Apple Mac, which brings a number of improvements.

The latest version 5.3 is optimized for Mac OS X Lion and includes support for high definition (HD) video calls.

The company said: "With Skype 5.3 for Mac OS X, you'll also be able to send and receive HD quality video when talking to your friends and family."

For an extra cost, the software include features like group video calling or group screen sharing. Also, Skype made a deal with Facebook to offer video chat to the social networking service.

In May, Skype was acquired by Microsoft for $8.5 billion. The Windows version is 5.5
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A ten years old girl finds flaws in mobile games

Numerous mobile devices may be exploited by a new vulnerability discovered by a ten years old girl by the name CyFi.

The vulnerability, presented at the DefCon hacker conference held in Las Vegas, consist in advancing the clock on a tablet or phone, which open, in many games, a loophole that can be exploited. The bug was discovered by CyFi after she get bored with the pace of farming games and start seeking ways to speed them up.

CyFi said, while addressing the kids section of the conference: "The world of apps has obvious not thought about security, yet. Here is an import lesson they can learn from a Girl Scout. I'll show a new class of vulnerabilities I call TimeTraveler."

The vulnerability has been verified by various security researcher groups and individuals. The vulnerability is present with both Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android
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Can the PlayStation Vita succeed?

Price
The Kindle Fire has become one of the hot holiday gadgets of the year, and it can play games. It only costs $199. The Nintendo 3DS is $170.

In today's new tech landscape, $250 once again seems expensive. The 3G-enabled version of the Vita will cost even more: $300. That's the cost of a PlayStation 3 or Xbox 360 bundle. It's $50 more than an entry-level iPod Touch.
(Credit: CBS)

Let's also not forget how much more Vita games will cost, not only compared with the 3DS, but also the thousands of titles in the App Store. Sure, a 99-cent bubble-popping game won't compare with something like Uncharted: Golden Abyss, but explaining that to the casual consumer may not be an easy task.

Features
In an age of convergence devices, we've come to expect far more from our gadgets. The PS3 and Xbox 360 are making strides for their streaming-media and home theater functions. Smartphones are useful as cameras, always-on computers, and phones--and, of course, game systems.

The Vita will have to offer apps and services that make it multifaceted. Sure, there already does seem to be plenty of support from social entities like Twitter and Facebook, but we've already come to take these types apps for granted. The Vita will need to eventually match the content prowess of its big brother, the PlayStation 3, in order to maintain customer appeal. Even the Nintendo 3DS has Netflix. Can Sony develop software and partnerships that make the Vita more than a fancy game system?

Fun
Hard-core games are a joy...for hard-core gamers. Studded with dual control pads, front and back touch panels, gyroscopic sensors, and front- and rear-facing cameras, the PlayStation Vita is a machine dripping with potential. It's all for naught, though, if it's not fun. Those extra control schemes can also get confusing, especially for a newcomer to gaming. Heck, they even got confusing for us. During our time with games like Little Deviants, we found it confusing switching back and forth between control schemes. Also, that 5-inch screen might be big and gorgeous, but stretching your thumbs to reach across it for touch-gaming, isn't as simple as it sounds.

Android tablets have told the tale over and over again: an extra USB port or SD card slot doesn't sell a gadget. The Vita's control schemes are utilized in unique ways for some of the launch games, but cheap, mass-appeal games with unique qualities will be essential. As good as Uncharted looks, Infinity Blade II for the iPhone and iPad isn't too shabby, either. Graphics alone can't sell the Vita. Sony will need to tap deeply into its rich game library for ideas that can reach out in new ways, much like many of the most critically successful indie downloads on the PSN network, such as Flower.

As we mentioned above, it's here where Sony needs to flex its gaming muscle. The company needs to pounce on the fact that a game machine without buttons is missing out on satisfying and precise analog controls.

"NIVANSYS TECHNOLOGIES" Recruiting: Dot Net Freshers @ Bangalore

"NIVANSYS TECHNOLOGIES" Recruiting: Dot Net Freshers @ Bangalore

Company NIVANSYS TECH
Website www.nivansys.com
Job Position Dot Net Freshers
Eligibility B.Tech/BE/B.Sc/MCA
Experience Fresher
Location Bangalore
Date Posted 2011-12-16

Job Description

NIVANSYS Technologies Pvt Ltd

Job Role: Dot Net Freshers

Candiates Should Have:

Bachelor Degree in Engineering, Computer Science or related technical field is required

Freshers 2011 pass outs.

Candidates should have knowledge of c#, .Net, SQL, ASP.Net.

Good Communication&cross team collaboration

Contact Us:

Ms. Disha

Forward Your Resume: careers@nivansys.com

Reference : Niva_Freshers DotNet

"Axis Services" Recruiting: Java developer @ Hyderabad

"Axis Services" Recruiting: Java developer @ Hyderabad
Company Axis Services
Website www.axisservices.co.in
Job Position Java developer
Eligibility BE/BTech/MCA
Experience Fresher
Location Hyderabad
Date Posted 2011-12-17

Job Description

Axis Services

Job Role: Java developer

Candiates Should Have:

Java, J2ee, Java script

B.E, B.Tech (Any stream all - 65% is mandatory), MCA(Java)

Complete java knowledge

Excellent technical knowledge

Excellent communication skills is mandatory

Selection Process:

JAM

Written exam (Technical, aptitude)

PIR

FACE TO FACE (HR)

INTERVIEW DATE: 19-12-2011, Timings: 10AM to 2PM

Salary package: 2.4 lac TO 3.5

VENUE DETAILS:
Dilsukhnagar,
Konark Theater opposite
Apollo pharmacy in that building 3rd floor
Axis services.

Contact Us:

Mr. Naresh.Thumma

Forward your resume: hr@axisservices.co.in

Call : 9492907275

“INSPIRATIONS INDIA” Recruitment : PHP Software Developer

(0-2 Yrs) Experience
Company INSPIRATIONS INDIA
Website http://www.inspirationsindia.net
Job Position PHP Software Developer
Eligibility AnyGraduate/MCA
Experience 0 – 2 Years
Location Kolkata
Date Posted 2011-12-18

Job Description

PHP Developer

Industry: IT-Software/ Software Services
Functional Area: E-Commerce, Internet Technologies
Role: Software Developer

Job Description :

PHP Software Developer – Need to develop Web based E-commerce, content management solution(CMS), and web based systems and solutions using PHP4 , PHP5 , and mysql, Ajax, and Javascript or jquery. WordPress, Joomla, Oscommerce experience is an added plus. Candidate , need to work on time bound jobs, and must know the Basic PHP and mysql and also HTML. Science background, MCA Or Engineering background required.

Desired Profile :
-Software developer PHP – Must Have very Good knowledge in PHP, Mysql, Ajax, Javascript, Jquery coding .
-Knowledge in Joomla, WordPress, Os-commerce, zen cart etc 3rd party software is an added plus.
-Should have good knowledge in HTML and Css. Science background, MCA Or Engineering background required.

Contact Details :
Name: Mr. Manoj Biswas

Address:
23 , kalabagan lane flat no-5 KOLKATA,
West Bengal,
India 700033

Email : hrd@inspirationsindia.net

Apple New Operating System Lion

Get in touch with your apps.

Multi-Touch gestures in OS X Lion make it feel as though you’re controlling your content more directly than ever before. So when you scroll down on your trackpad or Magic Mouse, your document scrolls down. When you scroll up, your web page scrolls up. When you swipe left, your photos move left.

Multi-Touch gestures transform the way you interact with your Mac, making all you do more intuitive and direct. Now an even richer Multi-Touch experience comes to OS X Lion. Enjoy more fluid and realistic gesture responses, including rubber-band scrolling, page and image zoom, and full-screen swiping. Learn more about gestures and animations
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Mavenvista Recruitment....

VENDX has evolved out of more than 100 man years of Business experience.
Some of the prominent Industry veterans and young purchasers have shared their wide experience & processes in purchase, which enabled us to evolve a product which addresses the needs of Purchasing fraternity.

The venture is promoted by Mr.Suhrid Shah who has over 25 years of experience in different domains like engineering, chemicals & trading besides IT . This real life experience has assisted him to understand the user perspective to ensure comprehensive functionality with highly user friendly interfaces. His orientation towards the processes enabled him to acquire for the first time in India, ISO9002 certification for his Chemical Trading firm.

Mr.Shah, confirmed his finding thru case study taken up by the final year students of Indian Institute of Management – Ahmedabad (IIM – A ) and leveraged technological understanding of Indian Institute of Science, Banglore(IISc) to launch the technology platform to establish a sound bridge between suppliers and buyers.

Dr.Subhash Bhatnagar, ex- dean of IIM – A is on the Advisory Board of the organization.

Akash Tablet Compressed Commercial Variant In November

Akash maker, the world is the cheapest of Tablet PC at a price of Rs.2, 250, DataWind announced Wednesday plans to launch the commercial variant of the tablet in the country in November-end. "We intend to launch the commercial version of the device somewhere in the late November-"

Suneet Singh Tuli, CEO of DataWind, told IANS in the context of the implementation compressed for students for human resource development (HRD) Minister Kapil Sibal.

According to the fire, a commercial variant, the price would be higher than the student version, but does not reveal any details.

"It would be a bit 'higher, but highly competitive, is not available throughout the world," said Fire.

The company expects to have a customer base of about 100,000 customers a month for the commercial variant of the tablet.

"I hope to nearly 100,000 customers per month on my card that can be priced around Rs.2 0.500-3, 000"

Tuli said the capacity of the facilities of the company will increase production of Hyderabad from the current 700 units per day to around 100,000 units per month.

"We may need to increase the capacity of 100,000 units in time to come to meet demand."

The company was also scouting for an alternative plant to increase production.

"Our basic plan is to give the tab''for the Indian market first, but demand is so great that we must develop a completely new plant, and we are scouting for a place."

In response to estimate the enormous export potential, which were donated by Sibal, who says the product is not only 220 million students in India, but also for the rest of the world, Tuli said: "It is certainly a great product, but our first priority. to provide India and the world. "

In addition, the company announced a new tab, in the hope the price tag of about $ 10, using more local components.

"We should have more local components. And with the expansion of production, as we plan, we believe that the Indian component manufacturers would soon see the option and thereby reduce our prices. "

At the time, tab to consume about 35 percent of South Korea, 25 percent of China, 16 in the United States, 16 in India and the rest from around the world.

At the same time, senior company officials told IANS that the version of the basic units of student co-telecom service provider Aircel, which would provide SIM cards which can then be used to access the Internet via the 3G network.

"We tied with Aircel for the product. They will give you the network to access the 3G Internet service."

Apple Reaches Deal On New York Knockoffs

Apple has signed an agreement with several New York retailers that sold the fake Apple store in Flushing.

Under the agreement, which was presented at a New York District Court on Thursday, owners of Apple's history and the Fun Zone stores to supply all their fake Apple products within five days after its approval. Apple will then destroy the items.

How would Apple know they have it? The agreement stipulates that "the parties must work together to identify the documents and things to be delivered."

The owners, Janice and Jimmy Chiang Kwok Po, and other unnamed John is doing, you must also stop the name of Apple, so Apple is more of a story. These products include headphones, cases, and branded with the Apple logo.

"Representatives of Apple visited ... The story of Apple stores and Fun Zone on several occasions over several weeks and bought a selection of cases and stereo headphones with one or more of the Apple brand, but not manufactured or approved by Apple, "Apple in August has said in his initial filing.

Intel CEO Touts And Ultrabooks Chip 'Haswell'

SAN FRANCISCO--Intel Chief Executive Officer Paul Otellini said Ultrabooks will realize Intel's vision of the "complete" computing experience and spoke about an upcoming power-efficient chip for Ultrabooks.

"The Ultrabook is our vision that delivers the complete computing experience...more responsive, engaging," said Otellini, speaking today at the company's developer conference in San Francisco. "Implications of the Ultrabook are huge," he said.


Ultrabooks are very light, thin Windows laptops that Intel and PC vendors hope will compete effectively with the MacBook Air. Meant to emulate tablets in some respects, Ultrabooks are also designed to have instant-on capability and a relatively long battery life despite their compact size.

"It will be affordable," Otellini said, touching on an imperative for Ultrabooks. What affordable means is not clear but generally this means under $1,000. Most analysts believe that's the maximum cutoff to be competitive with Apple's MacBook Air.

And Microsoft's upcoming Windows 8 will be the software catalyst that helps transform the personal computing experience, Otellini said. The operating system will run on both tablets and laptops.


Two chips will accelerate the evolution of the Ultrabook, Otellini said. The first is Ivy Bridge--due to ship early next year--the follow-on to the widely-used Sandy Bridge processor. The second is Haswell, which is expected to be Intel's first complete system-on-a-chip--not unlike what competing ARM chip suppliers use in smartphones--for mainstream computing.

Haswell will reduce "platform power" by factor of 20, he said. "All-day usage, 10 days of standby."

Google's Andy Rubin also made an appearance to announce a "continuation" of its partnership with Intel. To this end, Intel showed off its Medfield Atom chip in a smartphone running the Android Honeycomb OS.

Intel showed Medfield smartphones that are expected in the first half 2012, Otellini said.

Aha Integrates Applications For Ferrari

At the International Motor Show in Frankfurt, showed Harman International Aha app integration is developed for Ferrari. It's a big-name customer to a product little known, and could announce the future implementation Aha with other manufacturers.

Aha CNET given an exclusive look at the performance before the Frankfurt Motor Show.

Using the iPhone on the App Oh, and the combined amount of CPU Ferrari cloud-based services have become available, such as Slacker, Yelp, Twitter, and traffic. If you touch the sound card of the main unit display Aha, a list of services is a vertical menu.

Ferrari Aha main unit

AHA main unit contains the Slacker Internet radio.

(Credit: Harman)

Choose Slacker starts a flow of music from the service, and displays an interface that can mark favorites or ban the song being played. The interface allows you to choose one of the channels Slacker DJ Commissioner or a custom channel, similar to Pandora.

Yelp implementation is heavily modified. Instead, users may have access to any word, Aha includes two search box, one of the other restaurants and cafes. Restaurant Search button just says "I'm hungry," the company the option to make comprehensible to most users.

And this research are much wiser than those obtained from the Yelp iPhone application. Rather than simply display all the results within your current location, see the implementation Aha under the current car. It receives only the results that are close to current path of the vehicle ahead, read them aloud to the driver. To minimize driver distraction, Aha returns only a handful of results. When the driver is hit, the address in the navigation system with a tap.

The search function instead of coffee as well, suggesting how they could implement more research Aha still useful for a pilot.

When the driver presses the button of traffic, the system also limits the results of the path, taking into account the direction of the car. The system reads the road disturbance to the driver.

As with other services, Aha, Aha-centered implementation of Facebook and Twitter for audio rather than text. When a driver chooses Facebook, the head unit will read the updates that show alone initially entered the update. The driver would be able to post tweets to do with the current location of the car or other variables.

During the demonstration, a representative said today Aha Ferrari has no plans to offer integrated management unit in an application model to production. But buying interest in the cloud services, the Ferrari's lack of experience in the area, and demonstrating that the probable production application.

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DoCoMo: Apple lawsuit won't block Japan Samsung tablet

NTT DoCoMo's CEO said Thursday that the launch of the Samsung Galaxy Tab next month will not be affected by a patent-infringement lawsuit by Apple.

Such lawsuits from Apple, which allege patent infringements related to its iPad tablet, have blocked or delayed sales of Samsung's tablet across Europe, Australia, and Korea.

"We have heard from Samsung that there will be no obstruction to sales," said DoCoMo chief Ryuji Yamada. "We have been told that the patent situation is different in Europe and Japan."

Yamada spoke to reporters at an event to mark the launch of the tablet on its high-speed LTE network next month, along with a tablet from Fujitsu. He said tablets, until now grouped into the same product category as smartphones, will be a main focus for the company moving forward.

Apple has brought lawsuits against Samsung in courts around the world for patent infringments related to its smash-hit iPad tablet.

In Japan, Apple sued Japanese units of Samsung for damages of 1 billion yen ($13 million) in a Tokyo court, Japanese media reported.

Calls to Apple's Japan offices went unanswered. A Samsung employee that answered the phone at their Tokyo office said the company's spokesperson was unavailable Thursday evening.

China's Alibaba takes aim at Baidu in Internet search

China's largest e-commerce company Alibaba Group entered the search engine business so that China's leading search engine, Baidu, wouldn't sleep well, Alibaba CEO Jack Ma said over the weekend.

"If Baidu sleeps well then China's Internet users won't sleep well," Ma said during a speech at the company's annual Alifest this weekend.

Alibaba, best known for its Chinese e-commerce websites, launched a beta version of its new search engine last year called eTao.com. This put the company in competition with Baidu, which dominates China's search engine market with an 80 percent user market share, according to CNZZ.com, an Internet analytics web site.

Ma's comment was one of the first times Alibaba has publicly spoken about its intentions for eTao. In June, eTao was made into its own company under Alibaba Group.

Following Ma's comment, Baidu spokesman Kaiser Kuo said the company never obsesses with what its rivals are doing, but instead obsesses with what its usesr want. "As long as we are able to deliver that, we will sleep just fine," he said.

Both Alibaba and Baidu are the leaders in their respective markets. But even as Alibaba dominates China's e-commerce scene, many of the country's Internet users rely on Baidu to search for products online, according to analysts.

Alibaba's eTao site has been designed primarily as a shopping search engine, allowing users to query for products and group-buying deals. But the site also allows users to search for general web pages as well. eTao's market share, however, is so small that research firms don't list it.

Alibaba's eTao site launched months after Google decided to shut down its search engine for mainland China last year, a move that allowed Baidu to expand its market share to the point it has a near monopoly. Last month, the company faced criticism from a Chinese state-run television network in what analysts said was an effort by authorities to regulate the search giant.

Names Of The WTC Memorial, Organized By The Algorithm

Obama today joined thousands of people to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center site in New York, laying his hand on a bronze monument bears the names of the victims - a list organized by algorithm.

The 2983 names of 76 bronze panels around two swimming pools with waterfalls in the towers stood, in the design of architect Michael Arad "The absence of reflection." In a list of apparently random panels of those who died September 11, 2001, and the World Trade Center bombing of February 26, 1993.

But the monument to the victims carefully thought reflects a complex network of relationships with others - professional, social, and accidentally. This happened thanks to an algorithm created by an artist data Jer Thorp in New York City local design projects.

Steve Jobs, CEO, Who Was Fired From His First Job

Inspiring speech excerpts from the start by Steve Jobs at Stanford University June 12, 2005.

In fact, I never had a college degree, and is closer than ever I graduated from college. Today I want to tell you three stories from my life.

Best decision I ever made

The first story is the issue of points. The ped out of Reed College in the first six months of the year. Why? Well, it started before I was born. My biological mother was a young bachelor, and decided to put me up for adoption.

She felt very strongly that I should be adopted by college graduates, but my biological mother later found out that my mother had never graduated from university and my father had never graduated from high school. She refused to sign the final adoption papers. She said only a few months later, when my parents promised that I would go to college.

This was the beginning of my life. And 17 years later, I went to college. But I naively chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford, and all my savings of the working class parents were spent on my college tuition. After six months I could not see the value in it. So I decided that. It was pretty scary at times, but looking back it was one of the best decisions I ever made.

It was not all romantic. I did not have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in the halls friends. I returned Coke bottles for the five cent deposits to buy food, and I'll walk the seven miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple. I liked it. And much of what I found by following my curiosity and intuition has proven invaluable in the future.

Let me give you an example: I decided to take a calligraphy class at Reed College and learned about serif and san serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations. None of this had even a hope of practical application in my life. But ten years later, when designing the first Macintosh computer, it all made sense to me. If I ever ped, ped never on this calligraphy class, and personal computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do. Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future.

Love and loss

My second story is about love and loss. Woz (Steve Wozniak) and I started Apple in my parents garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years Apple had grown up in a society of two billion dollars with over 4,000 employees. We just released our finest creation of the Macintosh a year ago, and then I got fired.

I really did not know what to do for a few months. I felt I had let the previous generation of entrepreneurs down. I even thought to leave the valley. But something slowly began to dawn on me: I always liked what I did. Turn of events at Apple had not changed a bit and I decided to start over.

Successful pregnancy has been replaced by the lightness of a beginner again, less sure about everything. I am free to enter one of the most creative periods of my life. During the five years I started a company named NeXT another company named Pixar, and fell in love with an amazing woman who would be my wife. A significant turnaround, Apple bought NEXT and I retuned to Apple. I'm sure none of this would have happened if I had not been fired from Apple.

I am convinced that the only thing that forced me to take I liked what I did. Your work will fill a large part of his life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what they do a good job. If you have not found it yet, keep looking until you find. Do not stop.

If today were the last day of life

The third story is about death. When I was 17 I read a quote that went something like this: "If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you'll certainly be right." I was impressed, and from that moment, the past 33 years, I looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: "If today were the last day of my life, I would like to do, what I'm about to do today?" And whenever the answer is "No" too many days in a row I know I need to change something.

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. A year ago I was diagnosed with cancer. The doctors told me it was incurable and that I should expect to live longer than 3-6 months. My doctor advised me to go home and get my affairs in order, as is the medical code for "prepare to die. "I lived with that diagnosis all day. Later that evening I had a biopsy and was told that he turned out to be a very rare form of pancreatic cancer that is curable with surgery. I had surgery, and thankfully I'm fine now.

It was the closest, I was faced with death. Having had the experience, I can now tell you a bit more certainty than when death was a useful but purely intellectual concept: No one wants to die. Death is probably the best invention of life unique. It erases the old to make way for the new. Currently, the new is you, but someday not too far from now, you will gradually grow old and be cleared. Your time is limited, so do not live the life of someone. Do not let the noise of others' opinions stifle your inner voice.

When I was young, there was an amazing publication called The Whole Earth Catalog created by a fellow named Stewart Brand and brought to life with his poetic touch. In the back of their final issue was a photograph of a road in the early morning, the kind you might find yourself hitchhiking on if you were so adventurous. Underneath were the words: "Stay Hungry. Madness." It was their farewell message.

And I've always wanted for myself. And now, when you go to start over, I hope for you. Stay Hungry. Stay foolish.