Steve Wozniak

Google Inc.'s new cellphone has gotten a winning endorsement from Apple Inc. co-founder Steve Wozniak. Wozniak, a self-proclaimed "gadget freak" who left Apple in 1987, remains one of the biggest fans of its products. He stood in line in 2007 to buy the first iPhone because he couldn't wait for Apple Chief Executive Steve Jobs to send him one. He didn't have to wait for the Nexus One. Google Inc. executive Andy Rubin gave one to him. Wozniak first praised the phone this month at an NBC station in the Bay Area.

Apple fans camped out overnight and queued up for hours to snag the iPhone 4S, which went on sale in brick-and-mortar stores slightly more than a week after the death of company co-founder Steve Jobs. The latest iPhone model, which rolled out in seven countries, is poised to outstrip last year's launch of the iPhone 4, which sold more than 1.7 million handsets in its first weekend. On Friday morning, more than 200 people waited outside the Apple store at the Grove shopping center in L.A.'s Fairfax district as employees doled out coffee, bottles of water and umbrellas to shield against the sun. "My friends and I were so excited about the phone, we got here at midnight," said real estate agent Tony Wu, 27, who had dozed in a lawn chair overnight before getting ushered into the store at 9 a.m. "It was ridiculous.

Steve Wozniak, who helped usher in the personal computer era when he co-founded Apple Computer Inc., emerged from semi-retirement Wednesday with plans to create new wireless devices to help "everyday people track everyday things." Wozniak, who in 1976 created the first Apple computers with high school friend Steve Jobs, said he has formed a new company called Wheels of Zeus, or wOz, a play on his nickname.

Christie's, the high-end auction house, is selling off one of Appledom's rarest relics: an original Apple-1 personal computer, famously designed and built in a parental garage by company founders Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak in 1976. The Apple-1 machine, for which Christie's will open the bidding Nov. 23, is expected to fetch $160,000 to $240,000. The lot comes with the original components of the Apple-1, made at a time when owning a "personal computer" meant ordering a box of electronic parts and assembling them with a soldering iron.

Put this in the "Wait, really?" category: Steve Wozniak, the computer programmer who co-founded Apple Inc., Monday was named a contestant on the upcoming season of "Dancing With the Stars." The man known as the Woz created the original circuit board used for the Apple computer and teamed up with Steve Jobs in 1976 to sell it.

Rocky Clark, 35, and at last about to receive his undergraduate degree in electrical engineering and computer sciences from UC Berkeley, wants it clearly understood that he was not a dropout. "I never dropped out of college," he insisted. "I simply took a year off to earn money for my fourth year of school. And then my career kept going up." Indeed. Rocky Clark is Apple computer creator Steve Wozniak.

Once when the word "revolutionary" described a computer product, it was more than a marketing cliche. A quarter-century ago two friends working in a Silicon Valley garage began a business that became Apple Computer, and it transformed the world's relationship to computing. Steve Wozniak was a 25-year-old underappreciated engineering grunt at technology giant Hewlett-Packard and a mainstay of a Silicon Valley hobbyist group called Homebrew Computer Club.

Christie's, the high-end auction house, is selling off one of Appledom's rarest relics: an original Apple-1 personal computer, famously designed and built in a parental garage by company founders Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak in 1976. The Apple-1 machine, for which Christie's will open the bidding Nov. 23, is expected to fetch $160,000 to $240,000. The lot comes with the original components of the Apple-1, made at a time when owning a "personal computer" meant ordering a box of electronic parts and assembling them with a soldering iron.

* Harlan Waksal, brother of convicted inside trader Samuel D. Waksal, resigned as chief scientific officer of ImClone Systems Inc., the biotechnology company announced. * Hewlett-Packard Co. said it would adopt a "poison pill" provision to ward off unwanted suitors who pursue a hostile takeover. * Apple Computer Inc. co-founder Steve Wozniak said his new company, Wheels of Zeus Inc.

The estranged wife of computer whiz Steve Wozniak filed an assault charge against her husband, alleging that he abused her during a recent scuffle at his Los Gatos office. Candace Wozniak told police that she had visited her husband's Silicon Valley office to discuss money and that her husband "literally" threw her out. But Wozniak, the 36-year-old co-founder of Apple computer, denied the charge and said his wife had come to his office to drop off their two children.

It's usually past midnight when Ron Wayne, co-founder of Apple Inc. — colossus of the tech world, and Silicon Valley's most adored franchise — leaves his home here and heads into town. Averting his eyes from a boneyard of abandoned mobile homes, he drives past Terrible's Lakeside Casino & RV Park, then makes a left at the massage parlor built in the shape of a castle. When he arrives at that night's casino of choice, Wayne makes a beeline for the penny slot machines.

Apple Inc. co-founder Steve "Woz" Wozniak has seen his share of software glitches in the gadgets he has created and in those he collects. But Wozniak said he was surprised several months ago when his 2010 Toyota Prius started accelerating on its own -- to as much as 97 mph -- when he used cruise control to increase the vehicle's speed. He said he had to tap the brakes to stop the car from accelerating. Wozniak, 59, wanted to alert Toyota Motor Corp. and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to the possible safety issue, but he grew frustrated when no one would listen.

Google Inc.'s new cellphone has gotten a winning endorsement from Apple Inc. co-founder Steve Wozniak. Wozniak, a self-proclaimed "gadget freak" who left Apple in 1987, remains one of the biggest fans of its products. He stood in line in 2007 to buy the first iPhone because he couldn't wait for Apple Chief Executive Steve Jobs to send him one. He didn't have to wait for the Nexus One. Google Inc. executive Andy Rubin gave one to him. Wozniak first praised the phone this month at an NBC station in the Bay Area.

Put this in the "Wait, really?" category: Steve Wozniak, the computer programmer who co-founded Apple Inc., Monday was named a contestant on the upcoming season of "Dancing With the Stars." The man known as the Woz created the original circuit board used for the Apple computer and teamed up with Steve Jobs in 1976 to sell it.

* Harlan Waksal, brother of convicted inside trader Samuel D. Waksal, resigned as chief scientific officer of ImClone Systems Inc., the biotechnology company announced. * Hewlett-Packard Co. said it would adopt a "poison pill" provision to ward off unwanted suitors who pursue a hostile takeover. * Apple Computer Inc. co-founder Steve Wozniak said his new company, Wheels of Zeus Inc.

Apple Computer Inc. co-founder and wireless entrepreneur Steve Wozniak is moving out of his famed, castle-style mansion in Silicon Valley. The problem: He can't get a digital cell phone signal. "When I moved in, the only cell phone that existed was the Moto brick," Wozniak said Wednesday in an e-mail, referring to the landmark Motorola Inc. telephone of the mid-1980s. "It was the size of a small lantern."

Santana, the Doobie Brothers, Bonnie Raitt and James Taylor will join their Soviet counterparts in a July 4 rock concert in Moscow produced by Bill Graham, according to organizers of the American Soviet Peace March. The six-hour show, to take place in the 25,000-seat Dynamo Stadium, will cost $600,000--most of which will be paid by Apple Computer founder and US Festival sponsor Steve Wozniak.

It's usually past midnight when Ron Wayne, co-founder of Apple Inc. — colossus of the tech world, and Silicon Valley's most adored franchise — leaves his home here and heads into town. Averting his eyes from a boneyard of abandoned mobile homes, he drives past Terrible's Lakeside Casino & RV Park, then makes a left at the massage parlor built in the shape of a castle. When he arrives at that night's casino of choice, Wayne makes a beeline for the penny slot machines.

Steve Wozniak, who helped usher in the personal computer era when he co-founded Apple Computer Inc., emerged from semi-retirement Wednesday with plans to create new wireless devices to help "everyday people track everyday things." Wozniak, who in 1976 created the first Apple computers with high school friend Steve Jobs, said he has formed a new company called Wheels of Zeus, or wOz, a play on his nickname.

Once when the word "revolutionary" described a computer product, it was more than a marketing cliche. A quarter-century ago two friends working in a Silicon Valley garage began a business that became Apple Computer, and it transformed the world's relationship to computing. Steve Wozniak was a 25-year-old underappreciated engineering grunt at technology giant Hewlett-Packard and a mainstay of a Silicon Valley hobbyist group called Homebrew Computer Club.