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Apple's Jobs back on the job.


Summary: Apple boss Steve Jobs Steve Jobs - Stephen Jobs  has made his first public appearance in almost a year.

Apple boss Steve Jobs has made his first public appearance in almost a year.

The company's CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board.  took to the stage for the first time since last October to unveil some new products, including an iPod Nano A flash-based digital music player from Apple, introduced in 2005. Like larger iPod models, the nano has a color screen. Although the nano name suggests ultra-small "nanotechnology," the iPod shuffle is actually smaller. See iPod.  with a built-in video camera.

The 54-year-old, who had a liver transplant liver transplant Hepatic transplant Transplant surgery A procedure that replaces a cancer conquered, metabolically defeated, or substance subjugated liver with one no longer required by its owner, many of whom donate same after an MVA Diseases requiring transplant  this spring from someone who died in a car crash, received a standing ovation.

Looking thin and speaking quietly, he urged everyone to become organ donors organ donor Transplantation A person/cadaver that donates his/her  organ(s) to a recipient , insisting he would not be here "without such generosity."

Few chief executives have been considered as critical to their companies' success as Jobs has been to Apple, with its stock soaring and plunging on news and rumours on the state of his health.

He seemed happy to be back in the spotlight, saying, "I'm vertical, I'm back at Apple and loving every day of it."

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