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Oracle Buys Social Media Marketing Firm Vitrue for $300 Million

Oracle Buys Social Media Marketing Firm Vitrue for $300 Million

Oracle is buying Vitrue , a cloud-based social media marketing firm that helps major advertisers market themselves on Facebook.

The iPod-Free Life: Android Phone As Media Player

The iPod-Free Life: Android Phone As Media Player

Something interesting happened to me early this year: I started hating my iPod. It was a second-generation 16GB iPod Touch, running the most recent version of iOS that was available, and it was a...

Target Rolls Out Shopkick Integration Nationwide

Target Rolls Out Shopkick Integration Nationwide

shopkick , the location-based shopping app backed by Greylock and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, is having its biggest rollout yet Target says its making the service available in its stores...

The Open-Source Graphics Card Is Dead

The effort to create an open-source graphics card suffered a premature and quiet death some time ago...

Linux Mint 13 Cinnamon: A Spectacular GNOME 3 Fork

I recommend you give Linux Mint 13 Cinnamon a spin as soon as you can. It's still just a release candidate but in my opinion this release couldn't get much better than it already is.

U.S. Launches Digital Roadmap To Open Up Government Data And Court Developers

U.S. Launches Digital Roadmap To Open Up Government Data And Court Developers

Theres all sorts of data that the government has, but very little of it is actually accessible by developers. But the U.S. Government is trying to change that: Wednesday at TechCrunch Disrupt, U.S...

Samsung Chromebox gets a premature outing, $330 price tag (video)

Samsung Chromebox gets a premature outing, $330 price tag (video)

Samsung has been almost completely silent regarding its Chromebox since its CES outing , so we were taken aback when we were tipped off that it was hiding in plain sight on TigerDirect's web store...

Apple expected to spend $27 billion on semiconductors in 2012

Apple expected to spend $27 billion on semiconductors in 2012

A new analysis expects Apple to remain the the world's biggest chip buyer this year, projecting $27 billion worth of semiconductor purchases from the company in 2012.

Fire up your creativity with the latest Dream Studio release!

Rock musician and software developer Dick MacInnis, announced a few days ago the availability of the new Dream Studio release which is based on Ubuntu 12.04.

RAMPAGE 6 notepad runs Android 2.3 in a rugged package

RAMPAGE 6 notepad runs Android 2.3 in a rugged package

The last time we heard from SDG Systems, it was shilling its Trimble Nomad with Android 1.5. The company's new device, the RAMPAGE 6 (confusingly, it's also known as the Mesa Rugged Notepad...