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Lenovo ThinkCentre M92 Tiny System Review: Pint-Sized Power
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
“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
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.
U.S. Department of State cancels large Kindle contract
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?
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.
Google’s Motorola Files New Patent Case Against Apple
The complaint at the U.S. International Trade Commission claims infringement of seven Motorola Mobility patents on features including location reminders, e-mail notification and phone/video players, Motorola Mobility said yesterday. The case seeks a ban on U.S. imports of devices including the iPhone, iPad and Mac computers. Apple’s products are made in Asia.
via Google’s Motorola Files New Patent Case Against Apple – Bloomberg.
Motorola Mobility to layoff 4000 nationwide and 700 in the Chicagoland area
The layoffs does not impact the move from Libertyville to the new downtown Chicago location. The move is expected by the summer of 2013. Motorola Mobility will become the landmark the Merchandise Mart’s largest tenant and will occupy nearly 600,000 square feet on the top four floors and the rooftop.
The layoffs will not have an impact on the Motorola Mobility move to downtown Chicago.
Changes coming in Version 1.1 of the Twitter API | Twitter Developers
In the coming weeks we will release version 1.1 of the Twitter API. To help you plan ahead, we’re announcing these changes now, before the new version of the API is available. Changes will include:
- required authentication on every API endpoint
- a new per-endpoint rate-limiting methodology
- changes to our Developer Rules of the Road, especially around applications that are traditional Twitter clients.
via Changes coming in Version 1.1 of the Twitter API | Twitter Developers.
Most individual API endpoints will be rate limited at 60 calls per hour per-endpoint. Based on analysis of current use of our API, this rate limit will be well above the needs of most applications built against the Twitter API, while protecting our systems from abusive applications.
New Apache project will Drill big data in near real time
Because Hadoop uses MapReduce to perform data queries, searches have to be done in batches. So, while you can perform highly detailed analysis of historical data, for instance, one area you would not want to use Hadoop for is transactional data. Transactional data, by its very nature, is highly complex and fluid, as a transaction on an ecommerce site can generate many steps that all have to be implemented quickly.
Nor would it be efficient for Hadoop to be used to process structured data sets that require very minimal latency, such as a Web site served up by a MySQL database in a typical LAMP stack. That’s a speed requirement that Hadoop would poorly serve.
via New Apache project will Drill big data in near real time | ITworld.
Expanding supported query languages will be one area of focus for the Drill project. Another will be adding support for additional formats, such as JSON, since right now Dremel only supports the Google Protocol Buffer Format.