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  Watch Steve Jobs play FDR in Apple film, circa '1984'

  You'll have to go to Buzzblog if you want to see Steve Jobs playfully portraying Franklin Delano Roosevelt - right down to the cigarette holder - it's there in all of its 20-second glory.

  By Paul McNamara | 07 May, 2012 14:39

  Tags: steve jobs, software, IBM, Apple

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  Steve Jobs’ rage at Android was all “for show” –- Google CEO Page claims

  Steve Jobs’ holy rage against Google’s Android mobile operating system was just some “differences” created “for show,” according to Google CEO Larry Page in an interview transcript published this week.

  By John Cox | 05 April, 2012 10:45

  Tags: Apple vs. Google, Bloomberg, business issues, Configuration / maintenance, corporate issues, Data Center, Google, Google Android, hardware systems, networking, personnel, steve jobs, wireless

• In Pictures: Who could play Steve Jobs?

  If you're casting someone to play the late-Steve Jobs, what qualities would you look for? Enigmatic? Ruthless? Sneaky? Clever? Charismatic? All of the above? Among today's leading men, here are 10 who could portray the iconic Apple CEO, for better or worse.

  By Tom Kaneshige | 05 April, 2012 09:08

  Tags: Apple, slideshow, steve jobs

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  A 1985 gift to Jobs meets 2012 copyright law

  Last week we learned that not even reverence for the memory of Steve Jobs can protect a YouTube video from a copyright-wielding entertainment industry behemoth.

  By Paul McNamara | 27 February, 2012 16:35

  Tags: Apple, Facebook, networking, sony, Sony Music Entertainment, steve jobs, wireless, youtube

• In Pictures: Apple Innovation, 10 future tech ideas

  How will Apple fare in the post-Steve Jobs era? Everyone is wondering whether or not Apple can deliver amazing technology in the future. From the wacky to the reasonable, here's a list of innovation ideas.

  By Tom Kaneshige | 13 February, 2012 08:46

  Tags: Apple, slideshow, steve jobs

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  FBI unbolts Steve Jobs 1991 investigation file

  The FBI today released a background check it did on Apple's founder Steve Jobs when he was being considered for a position on the President's Export Council under George H.W. Bush in 1991.

  By Michael Cooney | 10 February, 2012 05:23

  Tags: Apple, consumer electronics, fbi, FOIA, government, industry verticals, networking, security, smartphones, steve jobs, wireless

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  Goodbye e-books, hello apps

  "It doesn't matter how good or bad the product is, the fact is that people don't read anymore ... Forty percent of the people in the U.S. read one book or less last year."

  By Mark Gibbs | 03 February, 2012 09:33

  Tags: apps, books, Configuration / maintenance, consumer electronics, Data Center, e-books, e-readers, hardware systems, iPad, library, media, networking, online media, pc, software, steve jobs, tablets, wireless

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  IN PICTURES: Happy birthday, iPad! RIP, pretenders

  Two years ago, on January 27, Steve Jobs unveiled the iPad. Computing has never been the same, despite all the 'iPad killers' - here are some of the failures

  By Galen Gruman | 30 January, 2012 11:31

  Tags: Apple, iPad, mobile solutions, mobility, pc, slideshow, steve jobs

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  Virgin America jet emblazoned with Steve Jobs quote takes to the skies

  Silicon Valley-based airline Virgin America named one its jets after Apple co-founder Steve Jobs. But the jet isn't named "Steve Jobs."

  By Network World staff | 25 January, 2012 02:28

  Tags: airbus, Apple, megaupload, networking, steve jobs, Virgin Atlantic, wireless

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  Apple CEO Cook receives $376 million stock award

  Apple granted Tim Cook a “promotion and retention award” valued at $376 million when he took over as CEO in August, the company revealed in its 2012 proxy statement, filed Monday with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

  By Ann Bednarz | 10 January, 2012 15:31

  Tags: Apple, CEO compensation, CEO pay, executive bonuses, infrastructure management, management, networking, SEC, steve jobs, tim cook, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

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  Tech stories of 2011: Jobs, Android and Anonymous rank in top 10

  In 2011, the increasingly mobile and socially networked world of technology became more intertwined than ever with politics and the law. Patent wars shaped competition in tablets and smartphones, hacktivists attacked a widening array of political and corporate targets, repressive regimes unplugged citizens from the Internet, and the U.S. government moved to block the giant merger of AT&T and T-Mobile USA. With the passing of Steve Jobs, the world lost a technology icon who redefined the computer, entertainment and consumer electronics industries. These are the IDG News Service's picks for the top 10 technology stories of the year:

  By Marc Ferranti | 14 December, 2011 03:32

  Tags: 3g, 4g, Android, Android OS, Android tablets, antitrust, Apple, applications, at&t, bill gates, business issues, Carriers, Components, consumer electronics, cybercrime, data breach, desktop pcs, Google, government, Handhelds / PDAs, hardware systems, hewlett-packard, icann, intellectual property, internet, Internet-based applications and services, Internet service providers, intrusion, iOS, iPad, iPhone, legal, legislation, Leo Apotheker, Meg Whitman, memory, mergers and acquisitions, Microsoft, mobile, Mobile OSes, Music and audio, operating systems, oracle, patent, personnel, processors, Regulation, restructuring, samsung, sap, security, smartphones, social networking, software, sony, steve jobs, tablets, Telecommunication, telephony, t-mobile, Windows, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows desktop, Windows desktops

• Jobs biography Amazon's top seller in 2011

  A biography of the late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs was Amazon's best-selling book this year despite hitting store shelves and electronic readers only in late October.

  By AAP | 13 December, 2011 08:46

  Tags: amazon, steve jobs

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  'Lost' interview with Steve Jobs to screen next week

  A "lost" interview with the late Steve Jobs, from the mid-1990s, will screen at 19 U.S. theaters for two days next week. Only 10 minutes of the original 69-minute conversation were ever aired.

  By John Cox | 08 November, 2011 05:48

  Tags: Apple, business issues, corporate issues, networking, personnel, steve jobs, wireless

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  Video: Steve Jobs one-on-one, the '95 interview

  In 1995, Steve Jobs was on the cusp of middle age -- 40 years old -- when he sat down for an http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9220609/Steve_Jobs_interview_One_on_one_in_1995 by the Computerworld Information Technology Awards Foundation as part of an oral history project. The Foundation also produced the Computerworld Honors Program, whose executive director, Daniel Morrow, conducted this interview.

  By Computerworld Staff | 28 October, 2011 01:32

  Tags: Apple, Business Management, hardware systems, steve jobs

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  Why Steve Jobs is right about Android

  Over the weekend I wrote an article titled "What If Steve Jobs Is Right?" As the title implies, the post was a hypothetical look at the possibility that Steve Jobs' assertion that Android is a "stolen product" is true.

  By Tony Bradley | 25 October, 2011 04:02

  Tags: Android, Apple, applications, Cell Phones, consumer electronics, Facebook, Google, iOS, mobile, Mobile OSes, smartphones, steve jobs, Telecommunication, twitter