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Loaded: Biography reveals life of Steve Jobs

2011-10-24
it's Monday October 24 2011 I'm Bridget Carey on cnet com and it's time to get loaded everyone's buzzing today about the steve jobs biography that's now in stores last night 60 minutes aired interviews with book author Walter Isaacson which you can now watch online the book includes stories about jobs his childhood and family Jobs was adopted and didn't know we had a sister until he was an adult and he shares that he didn't want to meet his biological father although later he learned he did meet his biological father at a restaurant and the two didn't even know they were related the book goes into details about his history and Apple and his harsh management style he also shared details about his battle with cancer as well as projects he still wanted to work on including an apple television set not just the apple TV box we know today another Apple related news the macbook pro line just got some hardware upgrades but no increase in price all three sizes the 13 15 and 17 inch models got boosts in their speed storage and graphics power Apple last upgraded the models back in February Microsoft's YouTube channel is back to normal after getting hacked over the weekend someone went into the account and deleted all of Microsoft's videos and uploaded some odd-looking messages asking for sponsorships this is the second YouTube account to get hijacked in a week last week all the videos on Sesame Street's page were replaced with porn and it took 20 minutes for to get back to normal security experts say these are likely cases where employees are careless with their passwords and the emails attached to the accounts spring will no longer offer unlimited 4G data plans for devices like tablets netbooks USB cards or mobile hotspot devices like the mifi now this is not the case for sprint smartphone so no need to panic smartphone users you still have unlimited data plans this is for all other connected device plans in the past customers signed up with a plan that had a limit on 3g but it promised unlimited 4g data and starting next month that won't be the case those are your headlines for today I'm Bridget Carey for cnet com and you just been loaded
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