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Let Jason Kilar Take a Bow — Hulu CEO Jason Kilar is headed out the door, as is CTO Rich Tom. Other employees at the video site are going soon, as well. — None of that is surprising, and if you're trying to figure out what that means for Hulu, you're asking the wrong question.
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Shenanigans: Google Maps redirect issue on Windows Phones is a matter of competition, not compatibility — Sources close to Microsoft in contact with TNW have cast doubt on Google's telling of the Windows Phone 8 and Google Maps controversy. A thorough look shows that the situation … | John Koetsier / VentureBeat: |
Google Play will hit a million apps in June (probably sooner than the iOS app store) — I think we're well past the time when number of apps is the defining factor of a mobile ecosystem, at least if you're Apple or Google. Perhaps not so much if you're Windows Phone or RIM.
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| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
OS X Mountain Lion Now Accounts For A Majority Share Of Mac Web Traffic, Growing Nearly Twice As Fast As Lion — OS X Mountain Lion, or version 10.8 as it's known according to Apple's numbering system, accounted for 32 percent of all web traffic measured by Net Applications, a firm that charts OS share and other web metrics.
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Facebook Mobile User Counts Revealed: 192M Android, 147M iPhone, 48M iPad, 56M Messenger — Facebook keeps user counts for its mobile apps hidden, but analyst Benedict Evans found a way to uncover them and they provide critical insight into the direction and performance of Facebook's mobile efforts.| Justin Rubio / The Verge: |
RCA's upcoming Mobile TV Tablet features two tuners for live television broadcasts — RCA has announced that it will be launching a Mobile TV Tablet with a pair of tuners for those who want to watch live television on the go. Priced at $299 and set for release in the spring … | Tim-o-tato / Droid Life: |
Google Play Adds “Free for Print Subscribers” Option for Play Magazines — For people who actually read magazines on their tablets, this news is huge. Recently, Google has enabled the ability for paper magazine subscribers to transfer their subscriptions to the cloud and read their content right …
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| Katie Notopoulos / BuzzFeed: |
How Almost Anyone Can Take You Off Facebook (And Lock You Out) — Getting your buddy's Facebook account turned into a “Memorial” state is surprisingly easy — and locks them out of Facebook . Warning: this will seriously mess up someone's account. — Source: brotographs.com
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| Barb Darrow / GigaOM: |
Netflix open sources tool to clean up your AWS cloud — Those Netflix engineers are at it again — releasing source code to an in-house tool they use to keep their Amazon Web Services pared down and tidy. Janitor Monkey is a tool they use to automate the detection and clean up of unused AWS resources.| James R. Hagerty / Wall Street Journal: |
Flextronics CEO Sees Hope for U.S. Tech Production — The CEO of Flextronics International Ltd., a Singapore-based company that helped hundreds of firms move manufacturing of electronic parts and products to Asia, says it is getting “easier to justify” production in the U.S.
| Jeff Barr / Amazon Web Services Blog: |
AWS Management Console Improvements - Tablet and Mobile Support — Managing your AWS resources has become easier and more direct over the years! Let's do a quick recap before we dig in: — We launched Amazon SQS (2004) and Amazon S3 (2006) as pure APIs, with no tool support whatsoever.
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Blekko Launches Izik, A Tablet-Optimized Search App — Search startup Blekko is launching a new app today called Izik (pronounced “Isaac"), which it says has been designed specifically for the search experience on tablets. — CEO Rich Skrenta said Izik is an attempt to recapture … Sponsor Posts
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