Techmeme: Tennessee media apparently don't believe Steve Jobs' liver transplant … (Rex Hammock/Rex Hammock's RexBlog.com)

6:10 PM ET, June 20, 2009

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Jobs Had Liver Transplant — Apple Chief on Track to Return to Work at End of June; No. 2 May Expand Role — Steve Jobs, who has been on medical leave from Apple Inc. since January to treat an undisclosed medical condition, received a liver transplant in Tennessee about two months ago.

Joe Wilcox:

Steve Jobs' Return is Still Vaporware — I could copy and past my June 5 post, “Steve Jobs' Return is Vaporware,” in response to the story. Once again, WSJ reporters Yukari Iwatani Kane and Joann Lublin recount information that could only have come from Apple and, again, timing is to the company's strategic benefit.

Discussion: The Loop

Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:

Report: Steve Jobs Is Recovering From Liver Transplant, Still Coming Back to Apple — The Steve Jobs health story takes yet another twist, this time a happier one: The Wall Street Journal is reporting that the Apple CEO underwent a liver transplant earlier this spring and is recovering from the operation.

Discussion: Technologizer, BetaNews, Bloomberg, Mercury News, Boy Genius Report, The SiliconANGLE and 9 to 5 Mac

Rex Hammock / Rex Hammock's RexBlog.com:

Tennessee media apparently don't believe Steve Jobs' liver transplant is a story, much less a local story — About 11 p.m., Friday, WSJ.com broke a story about — Steve Jobs having a liver transplant in Tennessee. — 12 hours later, no Tennessee media outlet has

Discussion: Between the Lines

Alexander Haislip / PE Hub Blog:

Steve Jobs May be in Memphis — Apple CEO Steve Jobs lives at the end of a quiet cul-de-sac in a swank part of downtown Memphis in a yellow house with white trim and a pool in the backyard. Or maybe he doesn't. — One thing is now for certain, he was in Tennessee for a liver transplant.

Discussion: Forbes

MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Not Only Was Steve Jobs Sick, He Had A Liver Transplant.

Discussion: Daring Fireball

Arn / Touch Arcade:

Full Commodore 64 Emulator Rejected from App Store — iPhone developer Manomio has been secretly working on a major App Store project for the past year that has just been completed, but may never see the light of day in its current form. Readers may remember Manomio as the developer behind …

Discussion: Daring Fireball

Noam Cohen / New York Times:

Twitter on the Barricades in Iran: Six Lessons Learned — Political revolutions are often closely linked to communication tools. The American Revolution wasn't caused by the proliferation of pamphlets, written to whip colonists into a frenzy against the British. But it sure helped.

Discussion: techPresident

Jesus Diaz / Gizmodo:

Jailbreak Now Available for iPhone OS 3.0, But Not for iPhone 3GS — We knew this was coming, but it's good to know that hackers can still get into the iPhone OS so easily: PwnageTool for Mac OS X is now available for iPhone OS 3.0. Here are the details. [Updated]

Discussion: Boy Genius Report, Engadget, Stay N' Alive, The Apple Core, IntoMobile, iSmashPhone, Lifehacker and TUAW

Fred / Electronic Frontier Foundation:

ASCAP Wants To Be Paid When Your Phone Rings — ASCAP (the same folks who went after Girl Scouts for singing around a campfire) appears to believe that every time your musical ringtone rings in public, you're violating copyright law by “publicly performing” it without a license.

Discussion: textually.org

Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:

Adding value in the new news ecosystem — How can and should news organizations and others add value to the new news ecosystem that is being used in the Iran story? — Or to put the question another way: The New York Times keeps talking about how expensive its Baghdad bureau is and what a fix we'd be in without it.

David Brooks / Nashuatelegraph.com:

Woman wins fight against music biz — dbrooks@nashuatelegraph.com — A Hudson woman won her fight with the recording industry over alleged illegal music downloads, thanks partly to a report from a Dartmouth professor that cast doubt on whether her computer was involved.

Discussion: Techdirt, Pierce Law, Recording Industry vs … and Slashdot

Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:

Flip Has Little Chance In An iPhone World — As successful as Pure Digital has been with their Flip line of video cameras - selling $150 million worth of them last year - they face a new type of threat that they can't defeat. The video capable iPhone, and video mobile phones in general …

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