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Oracle creates unified suite of marketing software

The company has built up Marketing Cloud through a series of acquisitions of marketing-related software companies

New Bing apps begin to bridge gap between Windows 8 and Windows Phone

Ability to sync settings between Bing apps on Windows Phone, Windows 8 represents tiny step in the right direction

VERIZON rains on Netflix party — Amazon, Apple annoy MADISON AVE — YAMMER’s social-email convergence — Time for TIZEN

Famo.us public beta launch set for mid-April

California fights drought with big data, cloud computing

Sensors, the Internet of things, and hackathons will also have a role in historic drought

Microsoft revamps Dynamics CRM for fresh run at Salesforce.com

Dynamics gets new marketing automation, customer support, and social media monitoring to compete against Salesforce.com's Service Cloud, ExactTarget, and Radian6

KPN strikes deal with Silent Circle to offer encrypted phone calls

The move to offer Silent Circle services in the Netherlands, Germany, and Belgium reflects growing concern about U.S. spying and surveillance

White House defers to FCC on further action on Net neutrality

In response to a petition backing an open Internet, the White House said the Federal Communications Commission is an independent agency

Review: Google Chrome wants to be your OS

The Chrome Apps architecture enables native-like apps, written in JavaScript with platform APIs, that load fast, run quickly, and work offline

Backup? Documentation? We never needed it before

With no paperwork to fall back on, the techie must unravel a system problem with only one basic tidbit: the vendor name