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Swift, Lautner: Taylor-Made for Cutest Date Night Ever

12/05/2009 12:29:00 PM kenmouse , Posted in , , , 0 Comments

It doesn't get much more wholesome than this.


Proving that they are in fact the antidote to oversexed, oddly tatted teen stars, Taylors Swift and Lautner continued their campaign of low-key and PG canoodling last night, cozying up on—and OMG off!—set.

While, save for the odd trip to the hockey rink, the only lovey-dovey Tay-Squared sightings we're normally privy to take place in front of the Valentine's Day cameras, last night was apparently date night for the dynamic duo.

Fresh off of dominating the Grammy nominations and box office, respectively, the couple started the day by filming a few more scenes for their star-studded romantic comedy before leaving the set together in Lautner's no doubt New Moon-funded gray Porsche Turbo.



They wasted no time in getting their hibachi on, dining at nearby Japanese fave Benihana before making their way, parental entourage in tow, to the nearby Menchie's. While there, the Taylors, along with Swift's mother and bodyguard, all dug into some self-serve frozen yogurt, but not before taking time to pose with fans.

It's so sweet, you could get a cavity just thinking about it.

Microsoft "Runs Out" of Cheaper Windows 7 Family Packs, Just In Time For Christmas

12/05/2009 12:29:00 PM kenmouse , Posted in , , , 0 Comments

Pack was a great offer, bundling three full Home Premium upgrades for $150. It was also a limited time deal, but without a set terminus. Well, now we have an expiration date: gift-buying season.

Paul Thurrott traces the arc from start to finish:

When Microsoft first briefed me about the Family Pack back in July, I was told that it would be a limited-time offer "until supplies last" (sic) in the United States and "other select markets." I communicated Microsoft plans for the Family Pack in various articles over the next few months, noting that it was a temporary offer only.

Unfortunately, that's just now becoming obvious to potential customers here in the United States, where the Family Pack has apparently completely disappeared. Numerous email messages this week complain that attempts to find the Windows 7 Family Pack online or at brick-and-mortar electronics retailers have proven fruitless, killing plans for planned holiday presents.

In other words, stocks have run dry, as Microsoft said they eventually would. Minor issue! Seeing as Windows 7 is software, any limit on the supply is totally self-enforced. It's possible that they set aside a certain number of licenses at launch, and they've just burned through them faster than planned. It's also possible that they planned this arbitrary supply excuse so they don't look like assholes when the cost of upgrading a household's worth of PCs to Windows 7 suddenly doubles right before Christmas.

How am I supposed to tell my parents I love them this Christmas, if not with a box of vouchers for OS upgrade licenses?

What's Eminem Saying About Adam Lambert On 'Elevator'?

12/05/2009 12:27:00 PM kenmouse , Posted in , , , , 0 Comments

Song's lyrics, also directed at Lance Bass and Clay Aiken, can be perceived as containing anti-gay slur.

Late Thursday, a pair of brand-new Eminem tracks from his upcoming Relapse: Refill album hit the Internet, and while both are filled with his trademark lyrical irreverence, a line in one of the songs — "Elevator" — is raising more than a few eyebrows.

In the track, Em jabs at former 'NSYNC member Lance Bass and a pair of former "American Idol" contestants, Clay Aiken and Adam Lambert, all of whom are openly gay. While the actual wording of the lyric is in question, here's what Eminem appears to be rapping, according to several sites, including ThisIs50.com:

"Sorry, Lance, Mr. Lambert and Aiken ain't gonna make it/ They get so mad, when I call them both fake/ It's all these f---ing voices in my head, I can't take it/ Someone shut that f---ing baby up, before I shake it."

However, as gay-news site Towleroad.com has noted, "fake it's" sounds phonetically like "f----ts," a similarity that they claim is anything but coincidental, given the rapper's previous history with the word.

"Eminem cleverly avoids using the word 'f----ts" in his new song 'Elevator' when referring to Adam Lambert and Clay Aiken, replacing it with the words 'fake it's,' " site founder Andy Towle writes in a post. "Of course, phonetically, it sounds just like 'f----ts.' "

Contacted by MTV News on Friday (December 4), a label rep for Eminem had no comment, and official lyrics for the song were not available at press time.

At the moment, Lambert seems to be leaning toward the less provocative lyric. On his Twitter account Thursday night, Lambert wrote, "Wow, Eminem mentioned me in a song?! I must be doing something right!? Even if he used the 'F word,' whatever," then followed that up with a second tweet, which reads: "Oh, he says 'fake it.' My bad."

In 2001, Eminem drew the ire of the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation over his use of gay slurs on songs like "Kill You" and "Criminal" — from his The Marshall Mathers LP — which featured lines like "You f----ts keep eggin' me on/ Till I have you at knifepoint, then you beg me to stop," and "My words are like a dagger with a jagged edge/ That'll stab you in the head/ Whether you're a f-g or a lez."

GLAAD called the lyrics "homophobic" and "hate filled," and protested outside the Staples Center in Los Angeles during the 2001 Grammy Awards, where Eminem was nominated for a number of awards, including Album of the Year. During the show, Em answered his critics by performing a now-famous duet with Elton John, which ended with the two embracing and Eminem giving the finger to the crowd.

In the lead-up to the 2001 Grammys, Moby also famously called Eminem "a homophobe," which Em responded to by referring to the DJ/producer as a "36-year-old, bald-headed f-g" on the song "Without Me," and threatening to fight him during the 2002 MTV Video Music Awards. Eminem said in interviews at the time that the content of his songs shouldn't be taken literally, and told MTV News' Kurt Loder, "I think that some people are a little too uptight, and take things a little bit too seriously."

Da S : God will send me a man

12/05/2009 12:27:00 PM kenmouse , Posted in , , 0 Comments

Yesterday, DaS Barbie Xu came to Shanghai to attend a christmas tree lighting event, she made a christmas wish : "For next year, I hope my work will be smooth." Asked if she had hopes for a new year for next year, DaS said with confidence : "I'm not worried about that, God will send me a man, he'll appear at the right time."

Yesterday, DaS appeared wearing a black gown and gorgeous crystal jewelries for Swarovski's Grand gateway's 16meters trees, and lighting the 500 thousand imitation crystal tree.

This "christmas tree" coming from Austria is worth more than 1 Million. Facing such an gigantic thing, DaS stated : "I heard that making a wish to crystal works really well !"

When the press asked her about jer love life, DaS was very confident saying "I'm not worried, God will send me a man, he'll come at the right time, I'm notanxious nor demanding. Now, my schedule is very busy, if God sends me such a "big gift" right now, I'm afraid I might not have time to manage it."

She still very honestly said that she is very happy with what she has now, she even used "perfect" to describe it : "My life is perfect, I have family, friends, that's enough, I'm very happy, it looks like the only thing I need to improve is my career. "

DaS says that for christmas she will be working and next year, movies propositions arrive non-stop, now she is like a workoholic. Except from being an actress, DaS has a bigger "scheme" she revealed "Now that many people from the entertainment business are investing for movies and dramas, I want to follow them. But, investing on things like that, for me it's more a hobby than about making money."

Microsoft tweaks browser ballot as EU antitrust deal nears

12/05/2009 12:26:00 PM kenmouse , Posted in , , , , , , , 0 Comments

Rivals' complaints lead to randomized choices; EU may approve changes Dec. 15, ending case

Microsoft has revamped the browser ballot screen demanded by European Union antitrust regulators and may get final approval as early as Dec. 15, a source familiar with the case told Computerworld today.

As first reported Thursday by the Bloomberg news service, Microsoft modified the ballot screen after rivals, including Opera Software and Mozilla, demanded changes. Last month, Opera, Mozilla and Google, which make the Opera, Firefox and Chrome browsers, respectively, submitted change requests to the European Commission, asking that the order of the browsers be randomized and that the ballot be displayed in its own application, not in Internet Explorer.

The EU's antitrust case, which kicked off last January, had been sparked by complaints filed by Opera in December 2007, when the Norwegian browser maker accused Microsoft of shielding IE from real competition by bundling it with Windows. To level the playing field, the commission wants Microsoft to let consumers decide which browser they use.

Previously, Microsoft had tweaked the ballot to gain the commission's preliminary approval in October. Microsoft first agreed to the ballot approach last July as a way to resolve the case.

According to the source, who asked not to be identified because the terms of the settlement have not been officially approved, the top five browsers -- IE, Firefox, Chrome, Opera and Apple's Safari -- will appear in random order each time the ballot is displayed.

Mozilla had been the most vocal about how the ballot would display choices. Last month, for example, Jenny Boriss, a Firefox user experience designer, denigrated the ballot's layout and said that it gave IE more than three times the space than rivals' browsers because the ballot would be displayed within Internet Explorer.

Hakon Wium Lie, Opera's chief technology officer, agreed with Mozilla that randomizing the browsers on the ballot would be a better solution than Microsoft's original idea, which was to list them alphabetically by maker, a move that would put Apple's Safari in the preferred left-hand position. "Alphabetizing would just lead to opportunistic naming," Lie said in early November. "We could call ourselves AAA Browser Maker and get the first spot."

Lie also supported other changes, including removing the ballot from the framework of IE -- Microsoft's proposal would craft an HTML page to display the ballot, which would then appear inside its own browser -- and assurances that Microsoft would disable any security warning when people picked a browser to download and install. "The general security warning that you get prior to a binary download should not appear," Lie said last month.

It's unclear what other changes, if any, have been made to the ballot as proposed in October.

The deal may be finalized as early as Dec. 15, when EU commissioners meet to vote on a number of issues, the source told Computerworld. If the date is accurate, Microsoft would begin pushing the ballot to European users of Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7 in mid-February. The company's must release the ballot via Windows Update eight weeks after officials sign off.

When the ballot screen is approved and then delivered to PCs, users will be offered a choice of browsers only if they have set IE as the default Web application. New PCs sold in the EU will also include the ballot screen, which will appear the first time the owner tries to go on the Internet.

The ballot was not Microsoft's first choice. Last June, the company said it would ship Windows 7, then still in development, to European customers minus a browser, and leave it up to computer manufacturers, or OEMs, to decide which browser, if any, they installed. In August, Microsoft abandoned the idea, claiming it faced resistance from OEMs and corporate customers.

Mozilla and Opera declined to comment on the reports of changes and an impending agreement. Google spokesman William Echikson said in an e-mail today that his company believes "more competition in the browser space will mean greater innovation on the Web and a better user experience for people everywhere."

Currently, Microsoft still controls a majority of the browser market, although its share has tumbled in the last several years. IE accounted for 63.6% of all browsers online in November, according to U.S.-based Net Applications, while Firefox had 24.7%, Safari 4.4%, Chrome 3.9% and Opera 2.3%.

Irish metrics firm StatCounter, however, found IE's share last month was 56.6%, while Firefox'had 32.2%, Chrome 4.7%, Safari 3.7% and Opera 2%.

Amy Adams Is Pregnant

12/05/2009 12:26:00 PM kenmouse , Posted in , , 0 Comments

Amy Adams and fiancé Darren Legallo are expecting their first child together, PEOPLE has learned exclusively.

The couple, who have been together seven years, met in acting class in 2001 and became engaged in July 2008.

Adams, 35, will next be seen in the romantic comedy, Leap Year, which hits theaters on Jan. 8.

Wonder Girls wins “Best Asian Artist of the Year award”

12/05/2009 12:24:00 PM kenmouse , Posted in , , 0 Comments

On December 1st, the Wonder Girls held their concert in Shanghai, China and the girls got to stay an extra day in Shanghai.


On December 2nd, the MTV Style Gala 2009 awards were held in Shanghai, China and the Wonder Girls won the award for "Best Asian Artist of the Year."

The girls worked hard over the past year and they deserved it. They also looked stunning in their black dresses. Thanks to jonathan for the tip and wonderfulsworld / tom.com for sharing the photos.

Camangi WebStation pre-orders open at $399

12/05/2009 12:23:00 PM kenmouse , Posted in , , , 0 Comments

While Camangi’s WebStation Android slate got off to a patchy start, we’ve been curious as to what sort of price the company can bring the 7-inch touchscreen tablet in for, and now we know. Preorders are being taken for the WebStation – only in the US, Japan and Taiwan, at least at first – for $399 (unless you had an “early bird” coupon which saves you all of ten bucks) with free shipping.



That gets you a 7-inch WVGA touchscreen, WiFi b/g, GPS, a 624MHz Marvell PXA303 CPU and a battery apparently good for up to 4 days standby (with GPS and WiFi shut off) or 4-5hrs active use. Since the OS is Android 1.5 there’s also the App Market for downloading new software, but you’ll get a browser, email client and media player as standard.

Availability is said to be limited, but if you order before December 16th Camangi say you should have the WebStation by the end of the year. $399 is higher than our hoped-for target price of $300, but still seems semi-reasonable for a niche device; anybody tempted to get an order in?




TVB 42nd Anniversary Awards Results

12/05/2009 12:20:00 PM kenmouse , Posted in , , 0 Comments

Best Series
Rosy Business

Best Actor
Wayne Lai - Rosy Business

Best Actress
Sheren Tang - Rosy Business

Best Supporting Actor
Michael Tse - Emergency Unit

Best Supporting Actress
Susan Tse - Rosy Business

My Most Favourite Male Character
Michael Tse - Leung Siu Tong (Laughing Gor) - Emergency Unit

My Most Favourite Female Character
Tavia Yeung - Yiu Kam Ling - Beyond

Most Improved Actor
Pierre Ngo - Rosy Business, Sweetness in the Salt

Most Improved Actress
Aimee Chan - Off Pedder, Burning Flames III

Best Host
The Super Trio Show - Eric Tsang, Chin Kar Lok, Wong Cho Lam, Louis Yuen

Best Variety Show
The Club Sparkle - Hosted by Sandra Ng and Chin Kar Lok

TVB.com Popularity Award
Wayne Lai

Most Appreciated Program
One From the Heart

Best Performance of the Year
Tavia Yeung

Lifetime Achievement
Lee Tim Sing - Producer of Rosy Business, Sweetness in the Salt



What a suprise! Rosy snatched all the awards!

Microsoft, Yahoo Finalize Search Deal

12/05/2009 12:19:00 PM kenmouse , Posted in , , , 0 Comments

Microsoft and Yahoo have finalized the terms of a broad search and advertising agreement intended to help them compete more effectively with Google.

The companies announced the agreement, which Microsoft's Bing search engine would power Yahoo's search results, and Yahoo would provide premium search-advertising services for both companies, in July.

They had hoped to finalize the deal in late October but needed more time to work out the details.

In a statement on Friday, the companies said they hope that the transaction will close in early 2010 and that they welcome the broad support the deal has gotten from key players in the advertising industry.

"Microsoft and Yahoo believe that this deal will create a sustainable and more compelling alternative in search that can provide consumers, advertisers and publishers real choice, better value, and more innovation," the partners said.

In October, four ad executives and the president of the American Association of Advertising Agencies sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Justice in support of the agreement. The DOJ is still reviewing the deal for possible antitrust concerns.

The agreement was nearly a year-and-a-half in the making, during which time Yahoo rejected acquisition offers from Microsoft. The stated goal of the arrangement is to offer stronger search competition to Google, which has about 70 percent market share. Combined, Microsoft and Yahoo make up most of the rest.

T.O.P’s unaired kiss scene

12/05/2009 12:19:00 PM kenmouse , Posted in , , , 0 Comments



Last week, Big Bang's T.O.P was supposed to kiss actress Jooni on episode 14 of the hit drama IRIS. But for some reason it never aired. I don't know why they didn't air it, maybe they were afraid of the fan girl backlash?

Anyways, here's the unaired extended kissing scene.

Miley Cyrus Tattoo “Just Breathe”

12/05/2009 12:45:00 AM kenmouse , Posted in , , 0 Comments

Controversial pop tart Miley Cyrus strutted around a Florida hotel on Thursday in a teeny-weeny bikini that exposed the teen’s newly-inked tattoo.


The 17-year-old singer was snapped enjoying a day of relaxing with friends at the Fontainebleau Resort on Miami Beach. Miley’s hot pink two-piece did little to distract from the phrase “Just Breathe” etched across her ribcage in cursive.




Rihanna Wows Crowd At New York Concert

12/05/2009 12:45:00 AM kenmouse , Posted in , , 0 Comments

Singer powered through 30-minute set that included fan favorites like 'Umbrella' and the recently released 'Russian Roulette.'


When Rihanna first arrived on the scene, she was a sun-kissed Caribbean singer who managed to score a minor hit with the reggae-tinged "Pon de Replay." And with each subsequent album, the Def Jam star has evolved, with hits including dance floor favorites like "S.O.S." and sweeping ballads such as "Take a Bow" added to the mix.

On Thursday night at Manhattan's Hammerstein Ballroom, Rih Rih's repertoire was on display as the singer powered through a 30-minute set during a special performance for The Release, a MySpace Music concert series. She was continuing to celebrate the release of her fourth album, Rated R.

"New York City, make some noise," Rihanna urged the crowd.

The leggy singer arrived onstage decked out in a shimmering sequined minidress as paparazzi pictures of her appeared on the television screens behind her. Rihanna's accessories, in contrast, were dark: black shades, black gloves and a heavy dose of black eye makeup.

The booming synths of "Wait Your Turn" then flooded the sound system.


"I pitch with a grenade," she sang as two backup singers and dancers flanked her. "Swing away if you're feeling brave."

The lights quickly dimmed after one verse, and Rihanna took a seat onstage as she launched into a sultry version of "Russian Roulette."

Along with "Take a Bow" and "Disturbia," Rihanna delivered a spirited rendition of "Don't Stop the Music," during which she swaggered back and forth across the stage, at one point fondling a male mannequin. The audience roared in approval.


After a quick wardrobe adjustment, Rihanna returned to the stage, this time with a black vest over her dress and coordinating boots. T.I.'s "Live Your Life" kicked in, and Rihanna appeared at the top of the stairs near the middle of the stage. By the time she hit the bottom step, "Run This Town" blasted through the speakers and Rihanna — sans Jay-Z and Kanye West and with a whiplike microphone in her hand — took command again.

"Feeling it coming in the air," she sang. "And there's screams from everywhere/ I'm addicted to the thrill/ It's a dangerous love affair."

Rihanna closed things out with her Grammy-winning hit "Umbrella," for which fans fittingly opened countless umbrellas in celebration of the hits that rained down on them tonight, giving the Ballroom an appearance not unlike an aerial shot of a domed stadium.

Chris Brown: Rihanna 'Knows How Sorry I Am'

12/05/2009 12:42:00 AM kenmouse , Posted in , , , 1 Comment

Chris Brown apologized and made no excuses for the night he assaulted his former girlfriend, Rihanna.

"I was wrong for what I did," Brown told ABC News' Robin Roberts. "And I would definitely say that it's not something that I look past or look over. Something that's really, really touchy. And, and like I said, I'm -- I'm really sorry for -- for what went down. And what happened."

Brown, 20, spoke candidly to Roberts about his year-long relationship with pop sensation Rihanna, which began as a friendship.

Brown -- then a 15-year-old skinny teen with a winning smile -- had rocketed to the top of the Billboard charts and was hailed as the next Michael Jackson. The prince of R&B and 16-year-old teen pop queen Rihanna had a seemingly fairytale relationship. But something disturbing emerged.

Brown beat Rihanna during an argument after a pre-Grammy Awards party Feb. 8, 2009.

"I never ever had problems with anger. No, no domestic violence with any of my past girlfriends or any altercations," Brown said. "I never was that kind of person. ... I look at it, and it's really, like really difficult. It's like, 'How could I be that person?'"

According to the police affidavit, the argument began when Rihanna read a text message on Brown's phone from another woman. Brown shoved Rihanna into the window of his car, while driving. According to the police report, he punched her several times and said, "I'm going to beat the s**t out of you when we get home." When Rihanna countered by calling her assistant's phone, Brown warned, "You just did the stupidest thing ever. I'm going to kill you," and threw her phone out the window, the report noted.

Brown, who fled the scene, turned himself in to police eight hours later and was charged with two felonies, assault and making criminal threats. He was released after posting $50,000 bail, but faced a firestorm of controversy.

"It was something that -- I really have to really think about it. I was like, 'Man, I let a lot of people down,'" he said.

In the fallout from the assault, advertisers for the Milk Mustache campaign and Wrigley's Doublemint gum dropped the singer. Some music stations across the country also banned Brown's songs.

Brown's YouTube Apology Was Heavily Coached

But it was the public apology he posted on his YouTube page, six months after the assault, which drew some of the sharpest criticism. In a video, Brown apologized to his fans, claimed to have apologized to Rihanna "countless times," and reiterated that he was seeking help.

"I take great pride in me being able to exercise self-control, and what I did was inexcusable. I am very sad and very ashamed of what I've done," he said, speaking directly to the camera. "I intend to live my life so that I am truly worthy of the term 'role model.'"

In Rihanna's exclusive interview with Diane Sawyer, which aired on "20/20," Rihanna said it sounded like Brown "might have been reading off of a teleprompter."

Brown revealed to Roberts that he had been heavily coached.

"I had a week of -- not -- not even a week, maybe three or four days of PR. And they just telling me like, 'OK, don't say this. And don't say it this way, 'cause they're gonna take it this way,'" he said. "So, I had in my -- my head wasn't really giving me a chance to be me. It was just being myself through other people. ... It was genuinely from me, but it wasn't projected genuinely."

Brown Reacts to Rihanna

Brown also reacted to Rihanna's comments from her exclusive interview with ABC News' Diane Sawyer, when the pop star broke her silence about the night Brown beat her.

"I know that he felt really bad about doing it. I just didn't know if he understood the extent of what he did," she said in the "20/20" interview. "The thing that men don't realize. When they hit a woman, it's -- the face, the broken arm, the black eye. It's gonna heal. That's not the problem. It's the scar inside."

Brown told Roberts he understood Rihanna's remarks about the wound that does not heal.

"I can, I can see what damage it does, mentally, more than physical," he said.

Brown has talked about domestic violence in his own family. On the "Tyra Banks Show" in 2007, he talked about the abuse his mom suffered from his stepfather, who has always denied the charges.

"He forgot the pain that he witnessed with his mom. Fame came to Chris very, very young. At a very young age, so with fame comes a lot of things and the most dangerous thing is the freedom. No limits. No boundaries. You're a kid and the word 'no' doesn't exist," Rihanna said.

Brown said it was difficult to hear his former lover's remarks.

"It's really difficult. ...And it kind of -- it hurts. But it's just -- it's just something that I have to be responsible for, because I'm responsible for my actions," he told Roberts.

Brown, 20, pleaded guilty to felony assault and was sentenced to five years of probation, community labor and one year of domestic violence counseling. He said the classes have helped him control his emotions.

"In this class, I'm not saying necessarily teaches you how to love, but like those emotions that get mixed up when you just in love or just whether it's jealousy, insecurities, whatever the case may be in -- in relationships. They teach you how to control a lot of -- certain things," he said.

'Changed Man': Brown Says Rihanna Heard Song and Cried

The couple briefly reunited three weeks after the assault in Miami and Brown wrote the song, "Changed Man," for Rihanna as a plea for forgiveness. The lyrics refer to the turmoil that struck their relationship.

"What do you do when the truth isn't quite enough/ They looking at you telling you that we need to break it up/ You need to do what you do, it's me and you in love/ But I'mma make it up to you and show the world I'm a changed man," he sings.

While Rihanna said that she has not heard the song, Brown told Roberts that he played it for her a month after the incident and she cried.

"I played the song for her. ...The day I did it...a month after the situation," he said. "She called when she first heard the song. And I mean, I'm not trying to say -- call her any liar or anything like that. But I played the song for her when I first wrote it. And she cried."

Brown Focuses on Future

The couple officially broke things off in March 2009. A restraining order requires Brown to stay 100 yards from his former girlfriend for the next five years, unless they are attending music industry events.

Brown told Roberts that he still has "love for" Rihanna, but there are no words left.

"I've said like everything that I can with me and her. Me and her have talked. Me and her have spoken about the situation," he said. "And she knows how sorry I am."

Despite the public scrutiny, Brown said it has made him into a stronger man.

"I think just being -- I would say ridiculed, but just criticized and -- and scrutinized by a lot of people. And just being able to see who I am as a person, it just shaped me to be a more stronger and -- better young, black male," he said.

Now, though some fans believe his music is tainted by the assault, Brown said he's focusing on his craft. His new album, "Graffiti," is set to be released Dec. 8.

"I really just -- just try to -- try to focus on what it is that I can do as far as my talent. ...and really show people what they fell in love with me for. And just really kind of give them -- give them all of me back," he said.

Android 2.1-equiped Motorola Sholes tablet spied in China as XT701?

12/05/2009 12:41:00 AM kenmouse , Posted in , , , 0 Comments



No sooner do we get brief corner glimpses of the supposed Motorola Sholes tablet do we get tipped off to this writeup from Androidin.net which has a number of pictures of an eerily similar keyboard-less handset with a 3.7-inch screen, Android 2.1, FM radio, and interestingly enough, only a 5 megapixel camera -- last we heard it was going to be 8. Also debatable is a HDMI port, since the image that would show it is a tad too blurry. Otherwise, it seems to be about in line with what we expected, and it also seems destined for China Unicom as the XT701 (analogous to China Mobile's Motorola Android device). Now how about a few dashes of hope we'll see this stateside, eh Moto? Two more shots after the break.


Jake Gyllenhaal Drops the G-Word!

12/05/2009 12:41:00 AM kenmouse , Posted in , , , 0 Comments

Is there hope for Jake Gyllenhaal and Reese Witherspoon's relationship?

Amid reports of "are they or aren't they still a couple," Gyllenhaal, 28, used the buzz word of the week – girlfriend – shortly after arriving at a Beverly Hills Hotel suite Thursday for a press conference for his new film Brothers.

"I've learned so much from the kids in my life, and somehow they just become the center of your life and the way you look at things," he told Grazia Australia, referring to his 3-year-old niece Ramona (daughter of Maggie Gyllenhaal) and possibly Witherspoon's children, Ava, 10, and Deacon, 6. "Obviously I exist in my girlfriend's world and my sister's world in a different way, but it's opened my heart and I feel much more grown up and want to be grown up as a result of it."

Regardless, he'd rather talk about his movie about a love triangle with Natalie Portman and Tobey Maguire than about his actual love life.

"As I get more famous, there is less that is just mine so I hope you understand I want to protect that as much as I can," he says. "I understand the news cycle, I really do, but as we all know news cycles come and go and I don't have to comment on them."

A source maintains that Gyllenhaal and Witherspoon have split after two years together, but their reps say they are still together.

Rainie Yang to Enter the Japan Market; Pre-empt the Issue of "Ambiguous" Digital Single

12/05/2009 12:41:00 AM kenmouse , Posted in , , 0 Comments

Rainie Yang relied on "Devil Beside You" and "Miss No Good" to gain high fame and high popularity overseas, she announced that in January next year she will be entering the Japanese pop music, Japanese version of "ambiguous" will be the first issue of digital singles, to help the idol singer to lead the charge, older generation idol Eason Chan has also personally encouraged, making her very flattered.

Taiwan's "United Daily News" reported that Rainie Yang has attended the Japanese "PAX MUSICA Music Festival", and the idol Eason Chan on the same stage. Backstage Eason Chan praised Rainie Yang for working very hard and hopes to have the opportunity to co-operate with her, both cheering each other on. King of Singers actually said: "I will continue to work hard!" Letting Rainie Yang have an insight into the attitude of big-name singers most modest philosophy.

During Rainie Yang's trip to Tokyo she purchased a lot of winter clothing for her mother and adored puppy Yumi, very considerate. At the "Customs" when a fan recognize her, the fan came up to her with an expensive brand-name LV tourist visa, hoping to obtain signatures. She could not bear to sign on the purse, and kindly asked whether or not to sign on white paper.

After "Hi My Sweetheart" finished filming, Rainie Yang focused on new album "Rainie & Love 雨爱". She even made a special invitation with a photographer who worked with Takeshi Kaneshiro and Rie Miyazawa, Yoshihiro Kawaguchi to cover her photo shoot. Kawaguchi immediately agreed, literally delaying his Japanese work, and made a special trip to Taiwan to shoot Rainie Yang's unique beauty. Kawaguchi came from afar but they encountered rainy weather, fortunately after Rainie finished her makeup and hair, the rain actually stopped, so she shouted "lucky!".

December 13, if you pre-order Rainie Yang's new album "Rainie & Love 雨爱“ it will come with a poster and calender!

Manly Droid Strikes Back: New Ads Dismiss iPhone

12/05/2009 12:39:00 AM kenmouse , Posted in , , , , , 0 Comments

Verizon Wireless' attack on the iPhone has devolved into chest-beating, with a Droid ad that vaguely slams Apple's "beauty" and any phone thverizon droid apple iphoneat's a "tiara-wearing, digitally clueless beauty pageant queen."

The ad is full of little quips like that: "It's not a princess, it's a robot. A phone that trades hairdo for can-do." Though the iPhone isn't directly mentioned, there appears to be a white phone that kind of looks like it.

I'm lamenting the days when Droid ads actually mentioned some features. This commercial is all about image, and the message is clear: Guys, this phone is for you.

The ad essentially admits that the Droid isn't pretty. And that's true. The phone is a plain, rectangular block that's bigger and heavier than the iPhone and, to quote Computerworld's Matt Hamblen, geared towards "guys, especially."

Not to say that appreciating beauty is a gender thing, but there's a certain testosterone in lines like "racehorse duct-taped to a SCUD missile fast" and "does dig through the Web like a circular saw through a ripe banana." An earlier Droid ad showed stealth bombers blasting the phone into the rural countryside like meteorites.

That angle appears to be paying off. According to a mid-November snapshot of brand loyalty by YouGov Brand Index, loyalty to Motorola spiked among men ages 18 and up after the Droid launched.

But is the shock and awe really necessary? Though I'm not a fan of the Apple smugness, what I like about iPhone ads is how they demonstrate the product. Seriously, look at a few of them.

By obsessing over image, Verizon is just as guilty of what it appears to be mocking.

So Nyeo Shi Dae and Super Junior will attend Melon Music Awards

12/05/2009 12:38:00 AM kenmouse , Posted in , , , 0 Comments

After no-show for 2009 MAMA (Mnet Asian Music Awards’ which took place previously on 21st November, there have been much attention as in whether SM Entertainment artistes Super Junior and So Nyeo Shi Dae will attend upcoming Melon Music Awards.


And it has been confirmed on 4th December that 2 groups will be attending the music award ceremony according to the staff of Melon Music Awards.

10 singer teams, most loved by music fans this year, were chosen for the 15 award categories for the awards, as reported earlier.

Meanwhile, the award ceremony will take place on 16th December at 7pm in Seoul Olympic Hall.

Supermodel Heidi Klum is back to work and back in shape

12/05/2009 12:38:00 AM kenmouse , Posted in , , 0 Comments

Eat your hearts out, ladies! Heidi Klum is back to work — just seven weeks after delivering her fourth child. The catwalk stunner shot scenes for a commercial promoting German haircare product Drei Wetter Taft on the streets of Los Angeles on Thursday.


In the new ad, Heidi is seen stylishly stepping out of a Porsche as her curly tresses withstand an afternoon downpour. The model stunned observers with her post-baby figure at the annual Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show last month.


Google Public DNS: Wonderful Freebie or Big New Menace?

12/05/2009 12:37:00 AM kenmouse , Posted in , , , 0 Comments

Today's news can prompt two very different views of Google, based on the announcement of its free Google Public DNS.

In one view, Google is our best friend and a noble public servant. In the other, Google may be the darkest force on the Internet. Which is it? We all must decide.

Here's the news: Today Google has begun offering an experimental, but stable, Public Domain Name Server (DNS), described in a Thursday post to Google's Official Blog.

The goal is for the new DNS to increase browsing speed and improve Internet security. I have read the technical description and believe it to the extent that I have already changed the DNS at my office to point to the new Google Public DNS. It is, however, too early to tell if my browsing has become faster.

DNS is an Internet protocol that acts as both telephone directory and switchboard. It provides for the translation of a URL, such as www.pcworld.com, into the IP address of the server that hosts the site.

When you type a URL into your browser and press the "enter" key, the DNS delivers the IP address back to your browser and the page is displayed. However, a single Web page might include content from a dozen or more different locations, most of which require a DNS lookup.

Because of this, the average Internet user may generate hundreds, even thousands, of DNS "hits" over the course of a single day. As Web pages and the Internet have become more complex, demand for DNS services have expanded exponentially.

Normally, users access a DNS provided by their Internet Service Provider. The IP address of at least one DNS is part of the Internet setup on every PC and many other devices. Usually the IP addresses of at least two DNS's are entered to provide redundancy.

There is much more to DNS than I've explained here. Google has an excellent "how-to" and technical explanation describing its Public DNS and how to use it.

One cool feature: The IP addresses are easily memorable: 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4. If you are comfortable changing your DNS, you can do so right away.

As for whether this might be wonderful or awful, here's the gist:

A key reason for the love users generally feel toward Google is that the company often does that are good for everyone, not just Google. For example, the company didn't have to create a new, public DNS that we can all use--for free--to speed our browsing, but they did.

Google's Public DNS is very likely to be a better, faster, more secure DNS than what your ISP offers. Google is making that promise to us backed by its reputation. I trust Google enough that I've already made the change.

The downside is that Google's Public DNS will also give the Internet giant an unparalleled look what people are doing on the Internet. It will, for example, be able to log every DNS request made by every user of its system. If that doesn't frighten you at least a little, it perhaps ought to.

While I generally trust Google, whose response to most paranoia is, "Why would we risk our whole business to do something as stupid as that?" I am aware that many others don't trust the company and feel they have good reasons.

We also don't know about "passive" uses for all the data Google collects. Things we are not aware of but wouldn't like if we knew about them. I am not accusing, just making the case that Google's activities require careful monitoring.

Do I believe Google tries to do the right thing? Yes, but I am also one of the few people who generally trusts Microsoft and always trusts Bill Gates. The paranoids say I am a fool.

Jay Chou coming to Hong Kong in Christmas to promote movie

12/05/2009 12:37:00 AM kenmouse , Posted in , , 0 Comments

In the movie "The Treasure Hunter", with the design of action director Tony Ching, Lin Chi Ling not only tries out being a fighting girl for the first time she also goes crazy fighting, in the movie she suddenly becomes "fierce", so much so that her opponent Jay Chou almost cannot handle it. In order to be even more into the performance, in one of the scenes where she goes crazy, Lin Chi Ling throws out all her usual cuteness, in front of everyone's eyes was a crazy woman that no one could have ever imagined. Chiling's full on performance even made Jay Chou say: "When filming this scene, it seemed like Chiling became someone else completely, I was really shocked by her. It was very crazy, I suddenly had a cold feeling in my heart!"

Jay Chou also revealed the fact that in order to get into the mood, before filming the scene, Lin Chi Ling sat alone at the side, on her face was a murderous look, no one dared to walk up to her, it was like you shouldn't walk close to a stranger, until they started filming this scene, everyone finally got to see Chiling's "crazy" performance like she was possessed, she hit and chased her opponent Jay Chou fiercely, just simply "crazy". Chiling on the other hand smiled saying she put a lot of effort into this time's breakthrough change of character, she spent the morning everyday practising kung fu, luckily Lin Chi Ling has the basics of dancing, so it wasn't so bad.

On other news, Jay Chou and Lin Chi Ling will be visiting Hong Kong on the 23rd to the 24th to promote their new movie.

4minute’s OFFICIAL “Jingle Jingle” MV released!

12/05/2009 12:37:00 AM kenmouse , Posted in , , 0 Comments



A couple days ago, girl group 4minute released their Christmas track Jingle Jingle, which also features Mario and Amen. We were able to see a video of them singing in the studio, which we originally thought was the MV, but it turns out to not be the official MV. We had a feeling though, because it was such a low budget production compared to what we are used to seeing from Cube Entertainment. Anyway, the OFFICIAL Jingle Jingle MV is now out!

The music video takes on a very cartoon like winter wonderland concept with its retro and cute animation. We also get to see our sexy rapper Jiyoon take on a whole new hairstyle and it seems the girls ditched the sexy and powerful concept for a new cute and cozy look to fit the mood of the holiday season!

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