BYOD makes employees work extra 20 hours unpaid

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Many employees are working up to 20 additional hours per week unpaid as a result of bring your own device (BYOD) policies adopted by their firms.

via BYOD makes employees work extra 20 hours unpaid – ComputerworldUK.com.

Skype was the most popular video communications technology, with 70 percent of mobile workers using it as their first preference, and 36 percent used a Cisco platform. This was followed by 29 percent who preferred to use Apple’s FaceTime, and 13 percent chose Google’s Gmail video chat.

Mirrors Finished for NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope

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“Hubble is the size of a school bus,” Mountain said. “JWST is the size of a tennis court.”

JWST’s mirrors are so flat that if you stretch them all out across the United States, “the largest bump would be no bigger than two inches. That’s how smooth these mirrors are,” Mountain added.

Via Mirrors Finished for NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope | Space.com.

Resilient ‘SMSZombie’ Infects 500,000 Android Users in China

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If an Android user downloads the app and sets it as the device’s wallpaper, the app then prompts the user to install additional files. “If the user agrees, the virus payload is delivered within a file called ‘Android System Service,’” TrustGo explained.

via Resilient ‘SMSZombie’ Infects 500,000 Android Users in China | SecurityWeek.Com.

The article states that this only affects users of China Mobile.  I find it interesting that to get infected not only do you have to install the bad app, you also have to agree to install these additional files.  Wouldn’t the second prompt raise some suspicion?

Lenovo ThinkCentre M92 Tiny System Review: Pint-Sized Power

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Those skint specs extend to just 4GB of DDR3, a slow 5400-RPM mechanical hard drive, and no wireless connectivity of any kind. These can all be upgraded, mind you, but you’ll have to pay for each one. The system itself is next to impossible to actually dismantle, too, so you’re stuck ordering these upgrades when you order the system. When we’re starting at $699 we should have at least wireless ethernet and Bluetooth standard, especially given just how small and portable the M92 really is.

via AnandTech – Lenovo ThinkCentre M92 Tiny System Review: Pint-Sized Power.

$699 base price.

AT&T won’t charge for FaceTime over 3G, but will require shared data

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“By blocking FaceTime for many of its customers, AT&T is violating the FCC’s Open Internet rules,” Bergmayer said in a statement. “These rules state that mobile providers shall not ‘block applications that compete with the provider’s voice or video telephony services.’ Although carriers are permitted to engage in ‘reasonable network management,’ there is no technical reason why one data plan should be able to access FaceTime, and another not.”

via AT&T won’t charge for FaceTime over 3G, but will require shared data (Updated) | Ars Technica.

A freasy future for GNOME

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But lot of projects are already tackling the issue, each from their own perspective: Mozilla launched a mobile OS, LibreOffice is working on an online version, KDE has OwnCloud, there’s FreedomBox. In what sense are they different? I’ve the feeling that their ultimate goal is exactly the same as ours: offering freedom to those who want it.

via A freasy future for GNOME – Where is Ploum?.

U.S. Department of State cancels large Kindle contract

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The Kindle was identified as the only product that met the department’s requirements, according to the Justification and Approval (J&A) for other than full and open competition. Apple’s iPad was rejected because it fell under the tablet or computer category rather than as a single-function e-reader, and had additional features that “are not only unnecessary, but also present unacceptable security and usability risks for the government’s needs in this particular project.”

via U.S. Department of State cancels large Kindle contract | ITworld.

Disappearing test cases or did another part of MySQL just become closed source?

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MySQL test cases were always an important part of the MySQL source tree. They were particularly useful for storage engine developers and for other people extending MySQL, for example, at Facebook, Twitter, and Taobao. But also for Linux distributions which add their patches to the base MySQL, and even to users, who don’t modify the sources — they still want to confirm that a particular bug was fixed or that their custom-built binary has no obvious flaws.

In May, at the Ubuntu Developer Summit in Oakland, Oracle had 7 representatives there, and they promised that Oracle will be more contributor- and distribution-friendly. It is sad to see that instead of that the MySQL source tree is being closed down.

via Disappearing test cases or did another part of MySQL just become closed source? « The MariaDB Blog.