Rupert Murdoch Admits the WSJ Is Still Being Hacked

If you thought the Wall Street Journal only announced that it had been infiltrated by Chinese hackers once the debacle was over—think again. Rupert Murdoch has tweeted that the newspaper is still coming under sustained attack. More »

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Batman-themed Nokia Lumia 900 coming soon, utility belt clip not included

A befuddled Joker once pondered "Where does he get all those wonderful toys?" Soon you'll have a chance to inspire the same sort of wonderment amongst your friends -- at least the more eagle-eyed ones. Nokia has announced it's launching a Batman-themed Nokia Lumia 900, with the minimalist logo of (spoiler alert) Bruce Wayne's alter-ego laser-etched onto the back. It's the same treatment that was given to a special edition Lumia 800 earlier and, no surprise, it'll be available exclusively in Batman's favorite color. It's also exclusive to Europe, at least initially, where it's said to be going on sale in a few weeks. Act fast and you might have yours in time to listen to Christian Bale grumble his way through the conclusion of the Dark Knight Trilogy.

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Douglas Crets: Designing a Life, Making Meaning: Simple Design Choices

Last week, I visited the Institute of Design (also known as the d.school) at Stanford University. Stuart Coulson, an adjunct professor at the school took me and my colleague Claire Lee around and gave us a little information about the school, its origins and what it was doing.

I learned a few things I didn't know. The d.school isn't really a part of the University itself. It's an independent organization in the school that students can take part in and get add-ons to their degree. The school is also using a $100 million grant to build micro-design and innovation centers all over the world. They are working in Africa pretty intensely, where Microsoft BizSpark will be in October at DEMO Africa.

Inside the second floor design studio, I found a white board shown above. I have been looking at that phrase written across the bottom, written down by a student trying to figure out a design thesis.

"Deep existential search for meaning."

Making Something so Someone Can Experience Life

On June 7, five teams will be presenting their design solutions to what will probably be a capacity crowd at the Palo Alto Campus. They are part of the Entrepreneurial Design for Extreme Affordability class where Claire and I visited with Stuart.

Two things struck me about this space. One is that there is frenetic energy here. Humans are makers. Some of us making meaning, or words, or ideas. Some of us make things. Some of us make math and papers, and we put things into order. But mostly we make.

The other thing that struck me is that entrepreneurial talent is best used when it solves a problem for someone. There are many problems out there. Sometimes our old thinking keeps those problems in place. We need to figure out how to remove the old thinking in order to get the simple solution into place.

I know this issue well, but I know it from a writer's perspective.

When I was a poet in training at Syracuse University, I had a teacher named Brooks Haxton, who wrote this wonderful poem, which he reads here.

Brooks always said that the purpose of writing was to give a gift to someone, or to make something for someone else. You have a reader, he would say, and that reader is really curious about the thing you are trying to tell him. You shyould make it so that reader really understands what you are trying to say.

Brooks was very poetic, but also very utilitarian, and he didn't quite like it when poets would try to be tricky with language first, and cover up the things that they could have said quite simply -- and beautifully -- with spare and minimum language.

The art and craft of poetry he taught me was the art and craft of putting things into clarity. Bringing light into the world. Making something simple so that everyone can understand it.

I once got in trouble with this sort of thinking. A poet in our group had written a poem that, in my reading of it, seemed like it was just bits of interesting, sometimes archaic, but definitely eccentric sentence fragments. One of the fragments, I remember, had something to do with a sheep carcass or a leg of lamb.

The poet came up to me after class and asked me what I thought. I said that the part about the sheep made me feel nauseous. She was extremely offended. I didn't understand this. When you give something to a reader, he is allowed to have the reaction he has, and if you write something in a certain way, it's assumed that you, the writer, intend to deliver that reader to his feeling.

Apparently not. Apparently, the sentence fragment was just that -- a fragment, and it didn't mean anything. How could I dare feel nauseous about the imagery? It was art, after all.

I took it in stride, but the lesson I came away with is, the work we do in the world has an impact, and we should do our best to put that work together in order to create that impact. At the very least, we should be mindful that we are going to have an impact.

More than 10 years later, I don't write poetry nearly as often as I used to. Now, I manage a global online community, and every single sentence I write. Every piece of advice I transmit. Every introduction that I make from one entrepreneur to another. Every new person I know becomes a part of a gigantic and seemingly immeasurable ongoing conversation.

So it has to be very very simple.

I try to avoid bureaucracy at all costs, because I have learned that we now have the kind of technology that makes living simpler. You want to know something, you ask. You need something, you ask. You need to make something, you go to the place that creates the opportunity to make that happen.

But there are parts of the world where that isn't happening.

D.school seems set up out of an awareness that problems are out there waiting to be solved. It seems designed for nimble action.

We stop outside a lecture, where a group of students are standing around taking notes and presenting ideas. At the front of the class is a white board and someone writing her idea down in black ink. That's it.

I follow Stuart into the Extreme Affordability class. Everything is really simple. There are designs on the wall. There are prototypes on shelves. There are photos of young men and women in Burma helping to install water pumps. There are bags of maize on the ground in anti-humidity bags that apparently are the favorite design innovation of Bill Gates.

Entrepreneurs make things so that life is less hard. That's how you know you have a great idea.

I have conversations about simple solutions every day at the Microsoft BizSpark Facebook Page. Entrepreneurs come there every day and they talk about ideas they are working on, or drop links in to companies and apps they are building.

I hope that BizSpark becomes this: not a place to show off what you know, but a place to find out things you need to know. A place to learn. A place to find other entrepreneurs. A place that is aware of the solutions that the world needs.

We are living in the maker's era. We will make solutions for people. You have at least that kind of commitment from me. I want to help other succeed. So, let's start talking about that now.

You can follow me on Twitter @douglascrets or, for entrepreneur-related discussions, and to help expand the community of entrepreneurs, tweet me @bizspark.

You can join this community if you are an unfunded startup, less than three years old, and earning less than one million dollars in revenue. You can find out more here.

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Veep Cautions Women Over Breast Cancer | Daily Guide Newspaper

Mr. Mahama and Dr. Mrs. Wiafe Addai arriving at the Baba Yaya stadium.

VICE PRESIDENT John Dramani Mahama has debunked assertions that breast cancer is a spiritual disease which is inflicted on innocent people by witches.

He has consequently cautioned the general public, notably those inflicted by the disease, not to visit spiritualists or herbalists for an antidote, but to rather visit the hospital for proper treatment.

Mr. Mahama was addressing about 20,000 people who participated in this year?s annual Susan G. Komen Ghana Race for the Cure, which was the country?s second edition.

The participants, including men, women and students, walked through the principal streets of Kumasi on the AU Day to create awareness about breast cancer, after which they converged on the Baba Yara Stadium.

Mr. Mahama, the guest of honour for the event, lamented that people suffering from the disease often had the wrong notion that it was a spiritual disease and therefore resorted to herbalists for treatment.

He disclosed that such people normally visited the hospital at a time that the disease had reached an advanced stage and was almost impossible to cure.

Organized by the Breast Care International (BCI) Ghana in collaboration with Peace and Love Hospitals, the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure series is the world?s largest and most successful educational and fundraising event for breast cancer.

Mr. Mahama passionately appealed to sufferers of the disease to rush to the hospital in the early stages of the disease for effective treatment.

He disclosed that the breast cancer menace was sending scores of women to their graves, therefore all hands must be on deck to curb it, stating government?s desire to contribute to reducing breast cancer cases in the country.

Mr. Mahama stated that ignorance about breast cancer was the main cause of the many deaths that had been recorded as a result of the disease, urging the populace to join BCI, Ghana, to make more noise about breast cancer so as to save more human lives.

Breast cancer, he opined, ?is beatable?, explaining further that early detection and right medication from experts could make the disease not deadly.

The President of BCI, Ghana, Dr. Mrs. Beatrice Wiafe Addai, a renowned breast surgeon, expressed worry that whilst breast cancer deaths was reducing in the advanced world, the case was the opposite in under-developed countries including Ghana.

The world-acclaimed breast cancer expert attributed the anomaly to lack of knowledge about the disease, calling for help from all including the government to enable the BCI, Ghana, educate a sizeable number of Ghanaians about breast cancer.

Dr. Mrs. Wiafe Addai also deflated speculations that witches caused breast cancer, insisting that the real cause of the disease was still not known.

She however assured that early detection and prompt action by visiting the hospital early for right medication was the best way to defeat breast cancer.

The Paramount Chief of Goaso Traditional Area, Nana Akwasi Bosompora I, who represented the Asantehene, charged traditional leaders to play leading roles in battling breast cancer.

He sternly cautioned women, especially traders, to refrain from putting money in their brassiere, reminding them that money was poisonous therefore any contact it made with human breast could result in fatal consequences.

FROM I.F. Joe Awuah Jnr., Kumasi

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Blogging For Mental Health ? Journeying Beyond Breast Cancer

As soon as I saw this, I had to join in!

Mental health affects everyone and everything we do. Yet, mental health is a topic many don?t feel comfortable discussing. Today, May 16, 2012, the American Health Association ask bloggers to spread the word about the importance of good mental health and reduce its stigma.

Here?s the request:

Join us on Wednesday, May 16, and publish a post on your blog about mental health?s importance, how we can diminish stigma, or the challenges of making lifestyle and behavior changes. Tell your story. Share your experience. Mental health affects everything we do. No matter what you regularly blog about, there?s a way to incorporate mental health.

Well, as regular readers know this is a subject I write a lot about. I don?t think it?s one we can avoid as health bloggers. In one form or another, we have all touched on it.

We now know that the incidence of depression following a cancer diagnosis is high. While most people will understand that dealing with a chronic illness like cancer causes depression, not everyone understands that depression can go on for many months and even years after cancer treatment has ended (one of the most frequent searches that comes up on my blog analytics is ?depression following cancer?). What is even less well understood is the depression that seemingly comes out of nowhere for no apparent reason and there is less support and understanding for this.

Depression is an isolating and lonely place and people are reluctant to talk about it for fear of being stigmatised or just plain misunderstood ? which of course adds to the feelings of isolation and loneliness. Like?Eleanor Rigby?(with a face that we keep in a jar) we?put on a mask?to face the world, because it isn?t socially acceptable to wear any other face.

Ah yes. The mask. I have written about my mask here on several occasions, and I am admitting that I have felt forced to wear it again recently, when really I have wanted to howl at the despair I am feeling after my mother?s death and the loss of my baby. While it may seem like I am coping on the outside, I am struggling inside. What helps is knowing that I am not alone. Knowing that this is a universal struggle so many of us deal with everyday. I wish we didn?t have to hide it, but sometimes in order to appear like ?normal? functioning adults we do.

The title of this challenge is blogging for mental health and it is very apt for me ? because, as I have also written here many times, it is blogging that has saved my mental health. Knowing that there is a place where I can write from my heart, a place where I can take off my mask, and know that I am being heard, held and understood is so healing.

If you want to join me in this challenge, then you will find all the details you need here. I hope you do for I know how empowering it is when we can speak out about our struggles with depression, and help each other find ways to better mental health.

I want to end this with a quote I shared earlier today on the JBBC Facebook page. I think it is a beautiful reminder to us to deal compassionately with each other. The greatest gift we have to give is our compassion ? to let others know they are not alone in their struggles.

Compassion asks us to go where it hurts, to enter into the places of pain, to share in brokenness, fear, confusion, and anguish. Compassion challenges us to cry out with those in misery, to mourn with those who are lonely, to weep with those in tears. Compassion requires us to be weak with the weak, vulnerable with the vulnerable, and powerless with the powerless. Compassion means full immersion in the condition of being human.
? Henri J.M. Nouwen

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HBO Go on Roku, Samsung and Xbox opens up to Time Warner (and possibly others) tomorrow?

HBO subscribers currently locked out of streaming HBO Go to their connected TV devices (namely Samsung HDTVs / Blu-ray players, Roku boxes and Xbox 360s) could be in for a treat soon, as our sources indicate Time Warner Cable is preparing to announce access for its customers on all three platforms tomorrow. There's also a few small pics of the updated menus for Xbox 360 and Roku flashing the TWC logo, as well as currently unsupported providers Bright House Networks (both), as well as DirecTV and Comcast (Roku). We've contacted both HBO and Time Warner Cable for comment but have not received a response yet, but we'll keep an eye out for an expanded activation menus hitting our devices soon.

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ClearMechanic Launches ?OpenTable for Car Repairs? | Dealer ...

San Francisco, CA ? ClearMechanic, provider of technology to improve the auto repair experience, today announced a solution that allows customers to book instant repair and service appointments online.

Launching this summer at select repair centers in the San Francisco Bay Area, customers looking for a service center can visit ClearMechanic.com, search for appointment availability at multiple dealerships and repair shops and instantly book an appointment with their provider of choice.

?Today, customers need to either wait for an emailed response to schedule an appointment, which can take up to 24 hours, or make a phone call during business hours,? said Brad Simmons, CEO of ClearMechanic. ?Even sophisticated online scheduling tools used by dealerships require three to four minutes of data entry to make appointments, which is unheard of in other industries.?

Simmons continued, ?By giving customers the ability to schedule instantly online, we can cut that time by more than half. The service department will have fewer interruptions from phone calls, fewer walk-ins and the ability to book customers during nights and weekends. It?s a win-win.?

Traditionally, dealership service centers have struggled with how to capture younger consumers. Studies show the age of average dealership service customers is now 50 years or older.? ClearMechanic?s new solution helps these service centers capture the elusive Facebook generation by giving younger car owners the option to make instant online appointments, just as they expect from restaurants, airlines and hotels.

?ClearMechanic is introducing a long overdue solution in the automotive repair industry.? It?s exactly like an OpenTable for service repair centers,? said automotive service expert Ronald Rameshnauth of OilReset.com.

The new solution will work on a pay-for-performance model, only charging the service center a flat referral fee when a customer makes a confirmed appointment through the ClearMechanic website.? If customers do not book appointments through ClearMechanic, then the service center pays nothing.

ClearMechanic is currently inviting a limited number of Bay Area service centers to participate in the pilot program, with a consumer roll-out planned for this summer. Interested Bay Area service centers, with high satisfaction scores on leading reputation sites, are welcome to submit their service centers for consideration by visiting?www.clearmechanic.com.

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About ClearMechanic, Inc:

Founded in 2009, ClearMechanic has proven experience creating award-winning applications for the automotive repair industry. Their existing mobile and web applications have supported 200,000 repair recommendations and bring transparency and ease to repair center customers. ClearMechanic?s goal is to create a win-win for service centers and their customers and bring today?s Internet customers back to the service bay.

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