Steve Jobs

There is an adage that when you die, you die alone - unless you happen to be a celebrity. International Business Times UK looks back on some of the high-profile deaths of 2011.

Time has named The Protester as Person of the Year for 2011 during NBC's TODAY show.

The 1976 contract that established Apple as a corporate company sold at auction on Tuesday for $1.59 million (£1.03m), some ten times high than its estimate.

An untethered jailbreak for the iPhone 4 iPod touch running iOS 5 has been created, and the hacker responsible has posted a video online to prove it.

Eric Schmidt, the executive chairman and former CEO of Google believes that the Android smartphone operating system is beating the iPhone and iOS.

The much-anticipated Apple television might actually be the new iMac and arrive in the first half of next year, according to an analyst's research note.

Beyonce's baby announcement tops the TPS chart of twitter in 2011.

What would happen if Mark Zuckerberg suddenly decides to delete Facebook and kill himself? Would our society plunge into chaos? A new parody explores this sci-fi possibility.

A contract which formalised the founding of Apple Computer Co is expected to bring in six figures at auction.

References to the iPhone 5 and iPad 3 have been found in the latest iOS software update from Apple, confirming that version 5.1 is being tested on the two future products.

South Korean sales of Apple's latest iPhone 4S have been lower than originally forecast, with Korean customers reportedly disappointed in the phone's performance and lack of features.

According to yet more unconfirmed reports, Apple's next entry into the iPhone series will go against deceased co-founder Steve Jobs' wishes housing a new 4-inch screen.

The iPhone 4S and Steve Jobs' death contributed to earn Apple UK 14 million hits in October, making it the second most popular online shop in the UK.

While a full fat Apple television may not be seen for another year or so, the Apple TV set-top box might soon get an update.

Controlling every aspect of the user experience was one of Steve Jobs' main objectives while at Apple, and it comes as no surprise that the late co-founder wanted to create his own mobile network for the iPhone.

'Occupy' 'Arab Spring' and Steve Jobs have been announced as some of the most used words in the English language media in 2011, according to the latest survey by Global Language Monitor.

With the cat-out-of-the-bag that Apple's deceased co-founder Steve Jobs has been posthumously nominated for Time magazine's 2011 Person of the Year, the IBTimes takes you through the key reasons why the tech-guru doesn't deserve to win.

Adobe has announced that it is no longer developing Flash for mobile devices, and is instead focusing on creating Flash-based applications instead.

The late Steve Jobs has been named the most influential person in gaming history in a survey of 1,000 executives from the gaming industry.

With Steve Jobs new biography revealing yet more choice-remarks from Apple's now deceased chairman towards Microsoft's founder, Bill Gates has issued his own statement forgiving his long-time rival and friend.

Mona Simpson, the author and sister of the late Apple co-founder and CEO Steve Jobs revealed the final words of her brother at a memorial service at Stanford University.

Coldplay has joined other artists, such as Adele, in not allowing its new album 'Mylo Xlyoto' to be streamed on services such as Spotify.

An Apple television is a 'guaranteed product' that has been in development for some time and will use personal assistant Siri to replace a conventional remote control, according sources.

Reports claim that Sony is making progress with a Steve Jobs film, to be based on the official biography by Walter Isaacson, and the writer of The Social Network is said to be involved.

Steve Jobs swore to destroy Android and spend all of Apple's money to stop the Google operating system, which he claimed to be a stolen idea from Apple.

Despite his reputation for talking down competitors and claiming Android to have 'ripped off' the iPhone, Steve Jobs described HP's dramatic exit from the tablet market as "tragic".

Rumours of an Apple television have done the rounds before and resulting in nothing more than the Apple TV set-top box, that Steve Jobs referred to as "a hobby" after it sold badly.

Rumours of an Apple television set are continuing to build, with Bloomberg reporting Tuesday that the software engineer who built iTunes is leading development of the future product.

Steve Job’s father boasted about meeting the man himself and called him a ‘great tipper’, without realising he was his biological son.

The authorized Steve Jobs autobiography was released Monday, documenting the life history of the Apple co-founder and former CEO who died earlier this month.