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Steve Jobs Played Franklin Delano Roosevelt In Apple's 1984 Inspirational Macintosh Ad [VIDEO]

Hand-Written Manuscript by Steve Jobs Up for Sale
Steve Jobs is remembered not merely for the company he co-founded, but also for his mannerism, determination and marketing skills that helped Apple reach the zenith of success. But what about his acting skills? Yes, the Apple wizard did have some. He appeared as former U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt in a long-lost TV commercial to charge up the company's sales team to take on IBM.
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Seagate 60TB Hard Drive in the Horizon

Seagate 60TB Hard Drive in the Horizon

Seagate has become the first hard drive manufacturer to pack 1 terabit - one trillion bits - into a single square inch, a remarkable milestone that will lead to hard drives as large as 60TB within the next decade.
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No clear future for Mexican private broadband plan

A lack of agreement between media company MVS and the Mexican government over how to unlock a private broadband project is threatening to shelve the plan for several more years as growing court appeals cloud the case.
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CERN to Tap New Europe Cloud Computing Project

Three key research centers and a consortium of Internet companies said on Thursday they would work together on a European cloud computing platform to handle the continent's rapidly growing demand for computer capacity.
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S&P 500 Posts Highest Close in Nearly 4 Years

The S&P 500 rose on Friday to close at the highest level since before the collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008, continuing a pattern of steady gains on signs of U.S. economic recovery.
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Cloud computing report slams Brazil, India, China

A U.S. software industry report on Wednesday chided Brazil, China and India for policies it said threatened the future of cloud computing, but also took aim at developed countries such as Germany that did well on its inaugural scorecard.
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Apple Mac OS X Mountain Lion: The 5 Best New Features

Apple announced its upcoming operating system for Mac computers on Thursday, dubbed Mountain Lion. The system's new features will make working on the Mac, and transferring that work to other Apple devices, extremely simple. Here are the five best features of the new operating system.
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Apple iPhone, Mac to Converge with New Laptop

Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook told the Wall Street Journal that the Cupertino, Calif.-based company's new Macintosh operating system, dubbed the Mountain Lion, will use several different features from the iPhone.
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Oracle Buying Taleo for $1.9B as Cloud War Brews

Oracle Corp agreed to buy Taleo Corp, a maker of Web-based software for recruiting employees, for about $1.9 billion, as technology giants battle for the top spot in the fast-growing cloud computing market.
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Cisco Profit Up 43 Percent in Q2

Cisco Systems Inc. (CISCO) has reported that its second quarter profit rose 43 percent from last year, helped by higher sales and better cost control.
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AMD's CEO Prepares Chipmaker for a Fight

Advanced Micro Devices' new chief executive delivered an enthusiastic pitch in his debut before Wall Street analysts, telling them he was getting the struggling PC chipmaker fit to fight in a quick-changing computer industry.
Graphics of new Amazon Kindle tablets seen at news conference in New York

Amazon Shares Fall as Outlook Disappoints

Amazon.com Inc's shares slid 12 percent in early trade on fears that heavy spending would hurt the retailer's profits even as revenue growth falls short of Wall Street expectations.
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Amazon Keeps Spending to Grow, Slashing Profits

Amazon.com warned of a possible operating loss in the first quarter following a sharp drop in fourth-quarter profits, a sign that the online retailer is continuing to spend heavily on expansion and new ventures at the expense of shorter-term profits.

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