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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

From Android to AI: Google’s bot plot revealed

Google and Foxconn are paving the way for our eventual overlords. Kinda makes you long for Amazon drones, doesn't it?

Intel stresses in-memory computing with 15-core server chip

Intel's Ivy Bridge Xeon E7 v2 chips will go into servers with up to 32 sockets

Cloudant Sync helps mobile developers add offline access to their apps

When a device re-establishes connectivity, the software synchronizes changes with a remote database