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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 …
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The Verge, WMPoweruser, ZDNet, Gizmodo, The Next Web and Los Angeles Times. Tweets: @fxshaw. Thanks:@thekenyeung
| Peter Kafka / AllThingsD: |
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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PC Magazine, The Seattle Times, PandoDaily, SplatF, Digits, GigaOM and GeekWire. Tweets: @danprimack. See also Mediagazer
| Anna Heim / The Next Web: |
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Hulu Blog, Trust But Verify, Media Decoder, Engadget, CNET, FierceOnlineVideo News, Reuters, CNNMoney.com, Mashable!, Neowin, The Verge, Business Insider, TechCrunch, BGR, The Verge and GigaOM
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See also Mediagazer| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
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.| Caroline Winter / Business Week: |
Bitcoin: Making Online Gambling Legal in the U.S.? — Michael Hajduk had sunk one year and about $20,000 into developing his online poker site, Infiniti Poker, when the U.S. online gambling market imploded. On April 15, 2011, a day now known in the industry as Black Friday …
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Ars Technica and The Verge
| Mike Isaac / AllThingsD: |
Welcome to CES: A Trade Show, Not a Tastemaker — This week, most of the developed world will stagger halfheartedly back to the office, attempting to work after two weeks of twinkling lights, post-nog hangovers, and watching bad TV sprawled across couches inside the houses we grew up in.
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MarketBeat and dailywireless.org
| 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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Macgasm, MacNN, AppleInsider, Softpedia News, MacRumors and ITworld.com
| 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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sociable.co and PhoneArena
| 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.
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| 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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Engadget, Android Community, Liliputing, The Verge, Pocketnow, Android Police and AndroidOS.in
| 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 … | 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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ZDNet, TechCrunch and The Next Web
| 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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How ImgPage Uploads 25 MB Photos to Cloud Files Using the Mailgun API — The team over at Mailgun just posted a Python tutorial written by Mailgun customer Paul Finn about how to use Python and the Mailgun API to upload large images to Cloud Files.
How ImgPage Uploads 25 MB Photos to Cloud Files Using the Mailgun API — The team over at Mailgun just posted a Python tutorial written by Mailgun customer Paul Finn about how to use Python and the Mailgun API to upload large images to Cloud Files.
Hortonworks » Blog:
Week in Review: SQL IN Hadoop and Hive, Beyond Batch with YARN, NFS access to HDFS and HBase MTTR — Or as it's more commonly being called: Week-ish in Review. Let's recap on the latest - there's some juicy technology goodness here.
Week in Review: SQL IN Hadoop and Hive, Beyond Batch with YARN, NFS access to HDFS and HBase MTTR — Or as it's more commonly being called: Week-ish in Review. Let's recap on the latest - there's some juicy technology goodness here.
Unison's blog:
“Yammer sucks” — Not to be mean to Yammer, or anything — it's a very good tool for some use cases — but that's what a customer told me recently (and others feel the same way).
“Yammer sucks” — Not to be mean to Yammer, or anything — it's a very good tool for some use cases — but that's what a customer told me recently (and others feel the same way).Who's Hiring In Tech?
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