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	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Tony Fadell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Fadell graduated from University of Michigan with a BS in Computer Engineering in 1991.
		On October 14, 2005, Apple announced that Fadell would replace the retiring Jon Rubinstein as Senior Vice President of the iPod Engineering group on March 31, 2006.
		Fadell is an alumnus of Grosse Pointe South High School in Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Tony-Fadell (839 words)

	Apple - Press Info - Bios - Tony Fadell
		Tony Fadell is senior vice president of the iPod Division at Apple reporting to the CEO.
		Fadell joined Apple as the first member of its iPod hardware engineering team in 2001 and was promoted to vice president of iPod engineering in 2004. ; He became senior vice president of the iPod Division in April 2006.
		Tony later became VP of business development for Philips U.S. Strategy & Ventures focused on building the company’s digital media strategy & investment portfolio. Prior to joining Philips, Fadell was a hardware and software architect at General Magic.
	www.apple.com /pr/bios/fadell.html (190 words)

	SvD
		Tony Fadell sitter som spindeln i nätet för Philips forsknings- och utvecklingslaboratorier över hela världen och leder ett tiotal projektteam parallellt.
		Tony Fadell har cirka 100 personer under sig och bär titlar som inte vilket visitkort som helst kan rymma; Chief Technical Officer, Director of Engineering, Director of New Business, Co-Founder of the Philips Mobile Computing Group.
		Tony Fadell har varit teknikintresserad sedan barnsben, men med åren tycker han att "tekniken börjar tråka ut mig".
	www.fadell.com /fadellvs3/At_Work/Articles/SvD/svd.html (1073 words)

	Strategic News Service - Future in Review 2007
		Tony Fadell is senior vice president of Apple’s iPod Division and is responsible for creating all generations of Apple’s iPod digital music device.
		Prior to joining Philips in 1995, Tony was a hardware and software architect at General Magic, working with Sony, Philips, Matsushita, Toshiba, and other CE firms to develop a line of personal handheld communicators.
		Tony graduated with a BS degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Michigan in 1991, and won the College of Engineering’s “Recent Alumnus of the Year” award in 2004.
	www.futureinreview.com /participants.php?galleryid=3405 (220 words)

	ITworld.com - Apple senior executives reshuffled
		Apple also announced that Jon Rubinstein, Apple's senior vice president of the iPod Division will retire on March 31 and be succeeded by Tony Fadell.
		Fadell is known as the "father of the iPod," because he bought the concept of the product to Apple.
		Fadell joined Apple's iPod Engineering team in 2001 and was promoted to vice president of iPod engineering in 2004.
	www.itworld.com /Tech/4535/051017applereshuffle/pfindex.html (364 words)

	iPod History - Invention of the iPod
		The iPod originated with a business idea dreamed up by Tony Fadell, an independent inventor.
		Fadell's idea was to take an MP3 player, build a Napster music sale service to complement it, and build a company around it.
		Apple hired Fadell in early 2001 and assigned him a team of about 30 people, including designers, programmers and hardware engineers.
	www.ideafinder.com /history/inventions/ipod.htm (163 words)

	The Cult of Mac Blog
		Fadell was not permitted to comment for this article.
		notes, Fadell is forbidden from telling his story to the press, but he's been telling it at campus recruiting fairs for the last couple of years, according to this Slashdot post.
		Fadell's personal website makes no mention of the iPod, but another version of his site, showcased in a graphic designer's portfolio, clearly highlights the iPod as one of Fadell's creations.
	wiredblogs.tripod.com /cultofmac/index.blog?entry_id=296135 (528 words)

	ZoomInfo Web Summary: Tony Fadell
		Fadell joined Apple as the first member of its iPod hardware engineering team in 2001 and was promoted to vice president of iPod engineering in 2004.
		Tony Fadell, Senior Vice President, iPod Division (age 36), joined the Company in 2001 as the first member of the iPod engineering team and was promoted to Vice President, iPod Engineering in 2004.
		Fadell was a co-founder, Chief Technology Officer, and Director of Engineering of the Mobile Computing Group at Philips Electronics from 1995 to 1998.
	www.zoominfo.com /Search/PersonDetail.aspx?PersonID=2497321 (478 words)

	TONY FADELL (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Tony Fadell будет старшим директором iPod эппл компьютера, iSight & специального проектная группа.
		Fadell градуировало от университета Мичигана с bSc в компьютерной инженерии в 1991.
		It is licensed under the GNU free documentation license.
	www.faktoru.com /wiki/ru/to/Tony%20Fadell.htm (184 words)

	Mister iPod: Tony Fadell
		Tony Fadell, heimlicher Star der Computerindustrie, darf das eigentlich niemandem erzählen.
		Tony Fadell schliesst das Telefongespräch mit einer Bitte: «Schreiben Sie nichts über die Geschichte des iPod.»; Klar, er hat dazu ja nichts gesagt.
		Fadell erscheint zum Fototermin in Manhattan in Jeans und Designer-Hemd; dessen grelles Weiss erinnert an den iPod.
	www.hossli.com /2004_portfolio/port_04_tony_fadell.html (1570 words)

	Where Did The iPod Come From?
		"Tony's idea was to take an MP3 player, build a Napster music sale service to complement it, and build a company around it," Knauss said.
		Knauss said Fadell approached several companies and was turned away by all of them, except for Apple.
		Knauss said Fadell was familiar with PortalPlayer's reference designs for a couple of MP3 players, including one about the size of a cigarette packet.
	www.pro-networks.org /forum/ntopic36589.html (306 words)

	Stop the Fight.
		Fadell, 29, is the highest-ranking technical official in a high-profile division of a company with 265,000 employees.
		Ask Fadell where he'd be if he lived in the era before computers, and he responds, "In jail." In high school he was a phone phreaker.
		Which is not to suggest that Fadell, at the ripe old age of 29, has forgotten his roots.
	www.fastcompany.com /online/17/stopfight.html (5014 words)

	The Talent Story of the iPod - Articles - ERE
		But in fact there was one person without whom none of this would have been possible: the founder of the iPod, Tony Fadell.
		Fadell had spent years working for Philips leading up their mobile computing group and at General Magic in various senior engineering positions.
		While it may indeed be getting easier to find the next Tony Fadells, I would argue that it's getting harder to hire them.
	www.ere.net /articles/db/896431F3D83B4D2B90C37AA81371B2D0.asp (1930 words)

	iPod, the rejected startup
		Tony Fadell helped develop handheld devices for General Magic and Philips.
		Tony had a vision of a portable MP3 player complemented by an online music store.
		He shopped the idea around to big companies such as Real Networks and only one company decided to experiment with his idea, hiring Tony as a contractor to build a prototype in two months.
	www.niallkennedy.com /blog/archives/2006/05/ipod-the-reject.html (370 words)

	Apple Heroes and Villains
		Tony Fadell has been credited as the father of the iPod.
		In the late '90s, Fadell shopped around the concept of a hard disk-based music player to several companies, but it was only Apple that took the bait.
		It should be noted that while Fadell came up with the business model, Jobs shaped the iPod, especially its ingenious interface.
	wiredblogs.tripod.com /herosandvillains/index.album?i=12&s=1 (78 words)

	History of the iPod - addict3d.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Tony Fadell, former employee of General Magic and Phillips, envisioned a brand new MP3 player.
		Out of desperation, Fadell turned to Apple, which years before had sworn off consumer electronics with their unsuccessful Pippin and Newton.
		Fadell was not confident that Apple would fund (or even complete) the development of custom hardware and software for the player, so he shopped around for an existing player to use as the basis of the Apple player.
	addict3d.org /index.php?page=viewarticle&type=news&ID=8698 (826 words)

	Officer Profile\|Reuters.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Fadell was a co-founder, CTO, and director of engineering of the Mobile Computing Group at Philips Electronics where he was responsible for all aspects of business and product development for a variety of products.
		Fadell later became VP of Business Development for Philips U.S. Strategy & Ventures, focusing on building the company's digital media strategy and investment portfolio.
		Fadell was a hardware and software architect at General Magic.
	www.investor.reuters.wallst.com /stocks/OfficerProfile.asp?rpc=66&symbol=AAPL.O&ID=760780 (207 words)

	Editorial - Apple's Top Five Business Decisions \|\| The Mac Observer
		Fadell was not content to market PDA's for the rest of his career, and left Philips.
		Fadell drew up a business plan for his service and player, secured the blessings of Harry Fox (the dominant music licensing firm in the U.S.), and went to Microsoft, Real (which actually had a music subscription service in the offing), and Sony.
		Fadell took his plan to Apple, where he was well received.
	www.themacobserver.com /editorial/2006/12/21.1.shtml (3359 words)

	Quando Real perse l'occasione di fare l'iPod
		Si chiama Tony Fadell e passerà alla storia per avere inventato in soli sei mesi l'iPod portando alla Apple l'esperienza di anni nel campo dei dispositivi da tasca e di sei mesi alla Real.
		Allora Apple allestì frettolosamente un team di sviluppo alla cui guida venne messo Tony Fadell (il cui sito personale, benché arrivi solo al 2000, rivela molti dettagli interessanti sulla sua carriera).
		Fadell era reduce anche da un'avventura andata male, la creazione di una società denominata Fuse che, come General Magic, avrebbe dovuto creare dispositivi da tasca, alcuni dei quali legati anche al mondo della musica digitale.
	www.macitynet.it /macity/aA17654/index.shtml (529 words)

	Macworld: News: Apple names Tim Cook COO, Rubinstein to retire
		What’s more, Apple’s senior vice president of the iPod Division, Jon Rubinstein, will retire in March, 2006, to be succeeded by Tony Fadell.
		Rubinstein’s successor, Tony Fadell, has been part of the iPod Engineering team since 2001, and was promoted to vice president of iPod engineering in 2004.
		Before joining Apple, Fadell worked at Philips Electronics, and was a software and hardware architect at General Magic.
	www.macworld.com /news/2005/10/14/cook/index.php?pf=1 (251 words)

	Tony Fadell (iPod Engineer) Featured In Michigan Engineer Magazine \| iPoding \| What's that in your pocket?
		Tony Fadell, the lead engineer behind the iPod, is an Alumni of the University of Michigan College of Engineering and is featured in the latest issue of Michigan Engineer:
		He created the iPod, an inexpensive device that can play music in a digital format, and he led the development of an online site from which music buffs can download any of 200,000 singles for 99 cents each.
		Fadell, senior director of Apple Computer's iPod, iSight & Special Projects Group, has created three generations of the iPod and the iSight Camera, a video camera for conferencing over broadband.
	www.ipoding.com /modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1941&mode=thread&order=0 (271 words)

	Digital Vision Program » blog » Speaker:Tony Fadell, Apple
		Tony Fadell is vice president of Engineering for Apple’s iPod Division and is responsible for creating all generations of Apple’s iPod digital music device.
		Previous to Apple, Tony was a cofounder, CTO, and director of engineering of the Mobile Computing Group at Philips Electronics.
		This entry was posted on Thursday, January 19th, 2006 at 3:00 pm and is filed under Events, Seminars.
	rdvp.org /archives/2006/01/19/tony-fadell (300 words)

	A Brief History of the iPod
		Unlike the bulky flash memory-based MP3 players from Rio and other companies, Fadell wanted to deliver a small hard drive-based player that was linked with a content delivery system where users could legally obtain and download music.
		Out of desperation, Fadell turned to Apple, which years before had sworn off consumer electronics after their unsuccessful Pippin and Newton.
		The executives at Apple were very enthusiastic about implementing Fadell's plan at Apple - unbeknowst to Fadell, Apple had bought the rights to SoundJam MP months before.
	www.lowendmac.com /orchard/05/1014.html (3455 words)

	Tony Fadell, inventeur de l'iPod - pomey.com ::: l'actualité des inventions et présentation des innovations des ...
		Tony Fadell, inventeur de l'iPod - pomey.com ::: l'actualité des inventions et présentation des innovations des sciences et des technologies.
		Nous vous proposons une petite présentation de son inventeur, Tony Fadell.
		Au début des années 90, Fadell avait lancé sa propre société, du nom de Fuse.
	www.pomey.com /dc/index.php?2006/02/23/299-tony-fadell-inventeur-de-l-ipod (530 words)

	Wired News: Inside Look at Birth of the IPod
		Knauss said Fadell left Philips and set himself up as an independent contractor to shop the idea around.
		Knauss said at one of the first meetings with PortalPlayer, Fadell said, "This is the project that's going to remold Apple and 10 years from now, it's going to be a music business, not a computer business."
		"Tony had an idea for a business process and Apple is transforming itself on his whim and an idea he had a few years ago," Knauss added.
	www.wired.com /news/mac/0,2125,64286,00.html?tw=rss.CUL (734 words)

	Amazon.com: "Tony Fadell": Key Phrase page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		One of the weirdest open secrets in Silicon Valley is that engineer Tony Fadell is the unacknowledged father of the iPod.
		Arthur Miller, playwright Clarence Darrow, attorney Gerald Ford, thirty-eighth U.S. president Gilda Radner, actress and comedian Raoul Wallenberg, Holocaust rescuer Tony Fadell, "father" of the iPod UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN 1 337...
		The hardware guy, Tony Fadell (he pronounces it Fuh-dell) had worked on developing a number of devices at General Magic (a com- pany started by...
	www.amazon.com /phrase/Tony-Fadell (557 words)

	Who's your paddy? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Here's a piece [1] in iDip [2] that sources this piece by John Markoff in the New York Times [3] from about a year ago, that touches on the subject of Tony Fadell [4], who gets some credit [5] as "father" of the iPod.
		I've written about Tony and the iPod [8], and have talked with him about the iPod a number of times.
		Never got the impression that he didn't play a leading role, although he was always careful to spread the credit, too.
	www.itgarage.com /node/556/print (141 words)

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