I'll miss Jobs: Wozniak

Steve Wozniak, who started Apple in a Silicon Valley garage with Steve Jobs in 1976, said he'll miss his fellow co-founder “as much as everyone”, reports the Associated Press.

“We've lost something we won't get back,” he said in an interview with the Associated Press following Jobs' death yesterday. “The way I see it, though, the way people love products he put so much into creating means he brought a lot of life to the world.”

Wozniak, a high school friend of Jobs', last saw him about three months ago, shortly after Jobs emerged from a medical leave to unveil Apple's iCloud content syncing service and the latest version of its iOS mobile software.

Samsung is seeking an injunction to get the new iPhone 4S banned from sale in France and Italy, according to the BBC.

It claims Apple has used 3G wireless technology, which Samsung invented, without paying for it. A patent war between the companies has been rumbling on for months in courts around the world.

Apple has obtained temporary embargoes on its rivals' products in Australia and Germany, and is seeking similar rulings in several other countries.

IBM is trying to exploit a series of Oracle software and hardware price hikes in recent years to woo firms into using its database appliances, writes The Register.

Following an OpenWorld week that has seen Oracle CEO Larry Ellison fire a couple of salvos at rivals, IBM has lifted the covers off a Stop, Think and Save migration programme.

“The initiative comes at a time when Oracle clients are looking for relief from rising software and hardware costs, restrictive licensing and support practices, and uncertainty around SPARC and HP Itanium servers,” said IBM in a statement.

It may look like a glorified salon chair, but a new Japanese hair-washing robot replicates the dexterous touch of a human hand to care for the locks of the elderly and the infirm, states Reuters.

Its creators at electronics firm Panasonic say the machine features the latest robotic technology and could help replace human care-givers in this rapidly ageing nation without degrading the quality of the service.

Using robotic hand technology and 24 robotic fingers, the robot can wash hair in the way human hands do in order to help the disabled have better daily lives, says developer Tohru Nakamura.