By  Jocelyn Noveck / AP It was the 1980s, relatively early in his career, and Steve Jobs was traveling in Japan. In a hotel lobby, a gaggle of girls came up and asked for his autograph. Jay Elliot was an Apple executive at the time, traveling with Jobs. “I was thinking, wow, how many CEOs have …

BANGKOK: From the titans of high technology to teenagers armed with iPads, millions of people around the world mourned digital-gadget genius Steve Jobs as a man whose wizardry transformed their lives in big ways and small. Google, Sony, Samsung, Microsoft — corporate giants that have all been bruised in dustups with Jobs’ baby, the technology …