In a column entitled “Where’s Steve?”, referring to Apple’s CEO Steve Jobs, Robert Cringely, which is the pen name of both tech journalist Mark Stephens and a string of writers for a column in InfoWorld, says “Steve has stopped using his computer”, according to a friend of Cringely’s, who “for years been one of Steve Jobs’ Internet chat buddies. And as such his chat client has – again for years – shown as Steve came online each day and remained there for hours and hours as you’d expect a Silicon Valley mogul to do. And it’s a trend that continued well past Jobs’ announcement that he was taking a six-month leave of absence to get well. But then Steve started logging-on less and less. And several weeks ago he stopped logging-on at all. Silence.” Cringley concludes that anyone who “actually expects Steve Jobs to return to Apple” will care about this latest revelation.