Tech

In April 2012, Korean IT News reported Apple's iPhone 5 might use Liquidmetal alloy — the rumor fizzled; the iPhone 5 shipped in aluminum that September.

Exeter researchers built a 3D printer that extrudes molten chocolate layer by layer — mass-personalized confectionery, before 3D printing went mainstream.

Walter Isaacson, Jobs's biographer, distilled his subject's leadership into 14 imperatives for the April 2012 Harvard Business Review. Here they are.

Pune teacher Vandana Suryawanshi became the first foreign teacher — and the only Indian — selected for the US Space Foundation's teacher liaison programme.

In January 2011, even Mark Zuckerberg's own Facebook page was compromised. If the founder isn't safe, what chance do the rest of us have?

Mona Simpson's eulogy for her brother Steve Jobs — the intimate portrait, the family story, and those final words: Oh wow. Oh wow. Oh wow.

In a 1985 Playboy interview at 29, Steve Jobs said 'it better be damn good' — twenty years later, his Stanford address made mortality his most quoted theme.

The iPhone 4S arrived in October 2011 with an A5 chip, 8MP camera and Siri — how Apple's specs stacked up against the Galaxy S II, Sensation XE and RAZR.

In September 2011, Netflix apologized for its price hike — then made things worse by splitting DVD-by-mail into Qwikster. A live case study in disruption.

A 2011 archive note on the dawn of bring-your-own-device: when companies were just figuring out that employees wanted work on their own phones.

Google brought voice search to Chrome's address bar in 2011. Did talking to your browser ever catch on? Revisiting the feature that foreshadowed everything.

Reuters reported in August 2011 that Apple's Asian suppliers were building a cheaper 8GB iPhone 4 — a play for emerging markets ahead of the iPhone 4S.

Neuroscience suggests handwriting engages the brain in ways typing doesn't — from letter recognition in kids to deeper learning in older students.

A Hamburg teen forgot to mark her 16th-birthday invite private on Facebook. Some 1,500 strangers showed up — and she fled her own party.

Voice calls are dying and carriers know it. Why unlimited minutes aren't generosity — they're the carriers admitting the minute is obsolete.

Hackers breached email-marketing giant Epsilon in April 2011, stealing data for 2,500+ clients — triggering breach notices from Chase, Citigroup and more.

A Bangalore call-center firm could hire only 3 of every 100 graduates in 2011, exposing India's employability gap and the failures of its education system.

In 2011, Amazon Web Services was a thrifty side bet renting servers for pennies an hour. How the cloud became Amazon's real empire.

In 2011, Facebook let users rent The Dark Knight with Facebook Credits. Why social movie streaming flopped -- and what it got right too early.

At Mobile World Congress 2011, Visa bet big on paying by phone. The plan, the security debate -- and how the mobile-wallet prediction played out.