E-Commerce Times 05/23/13
Actor Ashton Kutcher has his hand in more than just the show Two and a Half Men and other roles, including his portrayal of Steve Jobs in the upcoming film Jobs. While other actors venture into businesses such as clothing lines or fragrances, Kutcher actively invests in the tech community with a venture fund. He shared his insight into the mobile sector in a keynote interview at CTIA 2013, the wireless industry trade show held this week in Las Vegas.
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TechNewsWorld 05/23/13
Twitter has announced it is deploying a long-awaited security measure: two-factor verification. The move comes about a month after The Associated Press' Twitter account was hacked. Twitter is late to the game with this security tactic. A number of companies already feature it. However, the company must have scrambled to get it in place after hackers sent the stock market reeling last month. Using the AP's Twitter account, the hackers falsely reported that the White House had been bombed and that President Obama had been injured in the attack.
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LinuxInsider 05/23/13
They say springtime is a season of rebirth and renewal. Not only have we seen the birth of Cloverleaf from the ashes of Fuduntu, but now Cinnarch has gone through a similar transformation. No real death was involved this time. Rather, the Arch-based distro decided to give the Cinnamon desktop at its foundation the proverbial boot, calling it "too much a burden to maintain/update going forward." Instead, they've turned to GNOME, with the result that Cinnarch has now renamed itself "Antergos," a Galician word "to link the past with the present."
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CRM Buyer 05/23/13
The personality inventory known as the "Myers-Briggs Type Indicator" is premised on the idea that different people process information in different ways. Some people are verbal processors. Others are visual processors. Some people respond more strongly to images -- others to text. The most effective way to learn is to map the different learning styles to each individual's characteristic strengths, according to Myers-Briggs. Moreover, when used in combination, the different styles become reinforcing components of the overall learning experience.
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MacNewsWorld 05/23/13
So is Apple a tax-dodging evil company with a dark heart? No. The answer is no. However, Apple is certainly a corporation, and all corporations are driven first and foremost by profit -- no matter what the company says about the joy of making great products. Astoundingly passionate and driven individuals, who sometimes run corporations -- perhaps like the late Steve Jobs -- might be driven by the joy of creation, with profit becoming just a tool to enable the chance to create a dent in the universe.
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