Feeling a little GaGa, Perez? Celebrity blogger wears banana-print boxers for dinner with singer

Can she get any more GaGa? Outrageous singer steps out in a shredded jacket ending the year in the same way she began



She's one of the year's most outrageous stars and he's a showbiz blogger who's become something of a celebrity himself.

So when Lady GaGa and Perez Hilton got together for a dinner date at Nobu in Miami, there was little surprise that the duo pulled out all the stops with their bizarre outfits.

GaGa, 23, maintained her penchant for ridiculous ensembles - this time teaming a black PVC jacket that appeared to have been put through a shredder, with a rubber skirt, fishnet stockings and black PVC boots.



The singer, who shot to fame this year with debut single Just Dance, also donned a bright yellow wig topped off with a leather cap and shades.

Meanwhile, Perez looked equally silly wearing what seemed to be a pair of banana-print boxer shorts with a black dinner jacket, a t-shirt emblazoned with a cover of People magazine featuring Madonna and gold shoes with black socks.

The celebrity blogger dressed up as Lady GaGa earlier this year at a Hallowe'en party held in Los Angeles by Heidi Klum.

Kim Kardashian Denies Tweeting For Dollars; Her Calendar: Sneak Peek!

Reality starlet Kim Kardashian has responded to allegations that she pockets up to $10,000 per Tweet to endorse products for QuickTrim, Reebox, and promote a new line of premiunm salads from West Coast fast food giant Carl’s Jr.



“I want to clear this up because there has been a lot of talk about this. Carl’s Jr did not pay me to tweet about their salads,” the 28-year-old socialite wrote on her blog New Year’s Eve. “Yes, obviously I was paid to be in the commercial… we all have to work! But I was not paid to tweet or talk about the salads on my blog, Facebook account, MySpace account or any other online outlets,” Kim wrote.



Kim — who catapulted to reality stardom after appearing in a sex tape with R&B singer Ray J — says she Tweets in hopes of sharing her favorite items with followers — not for monetary compensation.

“I want my fans to know what products, gadgets, foods, clothes and beauty products I like and I love sharing all that with my fans. You all know I’ve posted about certain clothes and products on my blog since I started blogging two years ago.”

Kim Kardashian Calendar: Sneak Peek!



Well, almost.

But Kim Kardashian is nothing if not a forward-looking woman.

With that in mind, the large-breasted reality star is giving fans a sneak peek of her calendar. Her 2011 calendar, that is.

In her latest blog entry, Kim says she snapped some photos with some blonde hair and some with dark hair.

TVXQ Has Officially Disbanded?

According to Yahoo! Japan, as of December 31, 2009, TVXQ has finally disbanded. We're going to start the new year with a pretty depressing note.

Though fans have been doubting this news or staying in denial, Japanese reports have stated that these boys are absolutely finished. No longer are the days when the boys traveled together, have any sort of interaction, or even react with one another back stage! Since the break of the news about trouble in paradise for the boys, there has been little to no interaction among them at all. The boys have been using separate dressing rooms or setting up walls to avoid contact with one another. Apparently, BREAK OUT will be their final single to be released and the boys will be releasing their BEST album in February. Finally, a final goodbye concert is to be held sometime in June. It is implied that after these events take place, the boys will end their relationship with one another as the group TVXQ.

However, fans that still want to keep their faith alive, there has been no official news released by the boys, AVEX, nor SM Entertainment. Is it Yahoo! Japan being unnecessarily dramatic or is there some truth to this? We'll find out soon enough.

Out with the new, in with the old for Jay Chou's relationships

Jay Chou has had his share of rumors, but he has always kept his lips sealed on his personal life. He has admitted to his previous relationship with newly-engaged Patty Hou, but has denied allegations that Taiwanese pop star Jolin Tsai is also his ex-girlfriend.

A few days ago he and Chi-ling Lin went onto “Shen Chun Hua Life Show”, where he was asked if he had had “countless” relationships. Not wanting to appear cocky by the media, Jay hastily replied, “Actually, I have only been in two relationships,” finally confirming his past connections with Patty Hou and Jolin Tsai. However, he still denied any relations with his current “J-Girl”, Jessie Chiang.

When Host Shen Chun Hua asked him which two relationships he had been in, he played dumb, asking “Oh? Did I say that? Well let everyone go home and watch the replay then.” He then proceeded to avoid the question, asking the host to talk about Chi-ling’s love life instead.

Although Jay stubbornly refused to reveal with which two people he has had relationships with, he once said that “a girlfriend is someone I can put my arm around.” Interestingly enough, in 2005 he was photographed with his arm around Patty Hou on the streets of Japan, exposing their relationship. They dated for about a year before breaking it off.

The media began circulating with reports of a relationship
between Jay Chou and Jolin Tsai in 2003. Jolin, after years of relentless questioning by the press, publically admitted their former relationship, but until now Jay still denied the “Double J” romance. Since the Chou-Hou relationship was revealed by photos from the paparazzi on their excursion to Japan, Jolin was the last to know and it ultimately created tension between the two former lovers. Jay Chou finally loosened his lips and by admitting to having two past relationships, indirectly admitted to the “Double J” relationship.

However, regarding his supposed current flame Jessie Chiang, Jay brushed aside the accusations, commenting, “The media takes a picture of something and calls it something else.”

“I haven’t been photographed by them for the past 2 years because my paparazzi-dodging skills have vastly improved,” Jay managed to joke, “but in all seriousness I do eat dinner with other people too.” However, he and Chiang have been spotted not only eating dinner, but playing basketball and riding motorcycles together. She even has a copy of Jay Chou’s garage key. But he remains tight-lipped about the situation, continuing to say that she’s just “one of the guys.”

He also doesn’t hesitate to suggest a possible romance with his “Treasure Hunter” co-start Chi-Ling Lin. He and Chi-ling are now close friends who often talked about very personal issues. What kind of personal issues? That’s the “Secret” they can’t tell you.

Google: My 10 Resolutions for 2010

As 2009 becomes 2010, Google remains the most interesting technology company. Google is involved in so many--probably too many--things and the regulatory environment, if not competition, has begun to heat up.

With that in mind, I offer 10 "New Year's Resolutions" for the crew at the Googleplex, in the hope that Google can, in some cases, change its ways before government steps in to change them:

1. Do a better job of communicating with users regarding privacy. This seems obvious enough, but Google needs better help users understand what it is (and isn't) doing with the information it gathers about them and their habits.

Ultimately, Google will be ordered to submit to some form of external oversight, so perhaps the company should get ahead of the curve and fund an independent Google privacy watchdog. It would provide counsel to the company and transparency to its users.

I trust Google's current management--as I trust Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer--but users have reasons to fear Google's collection and use of information, even in its search index. There will be restrictions placed upon the company, and I believe that will be a good thing over the long haul.

2. Be more proactive in dealing with government. 2010 is likely the year the Feds will start moving in on Google. I am especially interested on how the company has used "free" services, underwritten with ad revenue, to stifle real or potential competition outside of its core search business. Ultimately, Google is going to court.

3. Stay out of the social network business. Google has tried social networking and failed. Knol and Orkut have not come close to success. Give up.

4. Google should decide it is not a hardware company. I do not like the idea of Google competing with hardware vendors. I though the Droid was supposed to be Google's idea of what a smartphone should be. Now it's the Nexus One. What will it be next week? My hope is the handset manufacturers will gang up against Google for this sort of behavior.

5. Likewise Chrome OS hardware. It's great for Google to create specs and reference designs, probably wrong for it to actually brand and sell hardware. I think "Made for Chrome OS" stickers are as far as it should go.

6. Make better applications. Am I the only one who notices that Google Apps don't nearly compete with Microsoft Office if you actually care what the output looks like? Or if you need features beyond the basic set Google provides?

7. Give up on the AdMob purchase. 2010 really is the year Google will bump into external restrictions, if it doesn't impose them itself.

8. Support competing operating systems. Where is Google Maps Navigation for the iPhone? Apple has said Google can submit the app for approval. I haven't heard anything since.

9. Make Google Voice a more useful service. Google Voice could replace people's telephone service with a VoIP product, but isn't quite up to the task in its present form. Great start, though.

10. I have tried playing with the Google Wave collaboration beta and still find it to be a head scratcher. I think this is another technology in search of a problem to solve. No collaboration product--I am thinking of Lotus Notes and Microsoft Groove as primary examples--has yet become a must-have for average business users. Wave shows promise, but isn't even close in functionality and ease-of-use. Having said that, collaboration is an incredibly tough problem to solve.

So, there are 10 things that Google should do to improve products and get ahead of the regulators.

As we begin a new year, I am wondering whether 2010 will be the year customers start to rebel against Google or whether the aura of "free" this and that has completely blinded them to the potential and real dangers Google may pose.

People who worried about Microsoft should really worry about Google.

Apple iSlate tablet: involved teams in “cone of silence”?

We’re still hearing rumors of a January 26th launch for the much-discussed Apple Tablet, and according to the latest from oft-insider Josh Gruber of Daring Fireball, all the signs are coming together for just such an unveil. Gruber highlights the fact that “everyone working on it has dropped off the map”, something which last happened in the run up to the original iPhone’s announcement back in early 2007; in fact, many of the people who have now gone into stealth mode are the same engineers and software teams responsible for the iPhone Mail, Calendar, and Safari apps.



Gruber describes it as a “cone of silence”, and it’s one that – despite talk of Apple discussing ebook and other deals with publishers – even content partners might be kept out of. Apparently Apple goes into such meetings without prototypes, mock-ups, designs or even verbal confirmation that such a product is in the works; instead, they merely ask if the would-be partner is interested in getting involved “if we were to create a new platform”.

As for the potential functionality, Gruber reckons predictions of a Kindle rival, overgrown iPod touch or simply an HD media viewer all miss the point: the Apple iSlate (as we expect it to be called) will be all those and more. Apple may illustrate its purpose – set its context to potential buyers, as it were – by highlighting two or three key uses, just as they did with the iPhone, but the iSlate won’t be limited to any such small subset.

Disney Completes Acquisition Of Marvel Entertainment For $4.24 Billion

Just in time for the New Year Disney has confirmed that they have finally completed the acquisition of Marvel Entertainment to the tune of $4.24 Billion Dollars. With the deal finally done Disney now owns the rights to nearly 5,000 Marvel Characters including Spider Man and Iron Man.

The acquisition was approved as of Thursday by the Marvel shareholders including Marvel’s Chief Executive Isaac Perlmutter, who will oversee the Marvel business and report to Disney’s CEO Robert Iger.

Disney’s purchase of Marvel’s shares is it’s largest purchase since buying Pixar Animation Studios for 7.4 billion in 2006. Disney purchased Marvel for 4.24 billion.

We can’t wait to hear more about what Disney plans to do with these new characters they own in the future.

G-Dragon’s tears were a mistake

It seems like Big Bang G-Dragon didn't cry on purpose after all. Some of you might have thought he had the tears during his performance of Heartbreaker at the SBS Gayo Daejun as an additional detail of the performance but that's not the case. Some other people thought he was crying about all the controversies he went through in 2009.

But those tears had no absolutely no meaning as now there's been clarification on the whole incident. Before he started singing, he was placed in a box with a "G" on it. It came down and he popped out of it as his entrance but in the box, there was so much smoke, that he couldn't help but shed some tears.

He started to tear up because of the smoke but couldn't wipe it before the performance so it looked like he was just sentimental on stage. Then for Gossip Man, he wiped off the tears and finished the song.

So there you have it. G-Dragon is not a cry baby. But to be honest, the tears made his performance more memorable.


Rainie Yang and Show Luo get lubby dubby for “In Your Eyes” MV!

Shortly after Alien Huang released his rock melody “Screwed Up” MV, his famous ex-girlfriend Rainie Yang and best buddy/fellow 100% Entertainment co-host Show Luo pair up in the lubby dubby-filled MV for the track “In Your Eyes” (EDIT: for our non-North American readers, “lubby dubby” is slang for extremely sentimental love). The song is the second track to be released in MV form off of Rainie Yang’s soon-to-be-released-tomorrow album “Rainie & Love”.

The saccharine-filled MV, which was to be expected from the cute, puppy love lyrics of the target song. As such, the MV plays it safe with a by-the-numbers cute puppy love MV rulebook. Since the duo are also the leads to their latest idol drama “Hi My Sweetheart”, the MVserves as a commercial vehicle for their rom-com extravaganza with obligatory inserted scenes from the show.

There are still some interesting things to note in the MV though. For one, Show’s hair is noticeably shorter in the front, which is a slight shift from the Asian idol trademark hair that sweeps down at an angle. Also, Rainie Yang sports parted hair and a balled up pony tail hair style while wearing a baggy hoodie, a mainstay look with frequent 100% Entertainment guest co-host Butterfly Jie Jie. Everything’s so familiar, yet so not.

With this recent duet by the two popular Taiwanese entertainers, one has to ask if their latest collaboration is up to snuff with other famous Mandopop guy-girl duet songs. Will it be as well-known as Will Pan/Zhang Xiang Zhi’s “Bu De Bu Ai” ballad? Are people going to queue up this song in KTVs as much as Jolin Tsai/David Tao’s “Marry Me Today” song? Is this song going to bombard the airwaves like Genie Cho/Alien Huang’s “Ai De Zhu Xuan Lu” tune? The slip from my fortune cookie says no, but then fortune cookie sayings were clearly written to be humorous by appending them with “in bed” (EDIT: for our non-North American readers, fortune cookies are…umm, just Wikipedia it).

Rainie and Show’s latest musical outing isn’t be destined to be the next duet masterpiece, but the MV has the star power of Taiwan’s currently hottest celebrity pairing, and the song is a formulaic cute love melody guaranteed to satisfy fans from both Rainie and Show camps. Put another way, this MV’s pretty much like eating candy: it won’t fill you up, but it’ll satisfy your cravings temporarily until it’s time for the good stuff.

Check out Rainie Yang and Show Luo’s latest cute collaboration MV below, courtesy of awesome YouTube channel mengsion!

Rainie Yang & Show Luo’s “In Your Eyes” MV:

TVXQ, top earnings in Korea for 2009

Despite the turmoil that TVXQ / DBSK / Tohoshinki is going through, the boys are still bringing in the big bucks. On December 30th, tvN ENEWS '블랙박스 / Blackbox' ranked the top 10 entertainers in terms of revenue earned and the boys of TVXQ came out on top. The top 10 ranked as the following:

1) TVXQ ₩ 127,340,000,000 (around $109.1 million US dollars)
2) Rain / Bi ₩ 62,000,000,000 (around $53.1 million US dollars)
3) Big Bang ₩ 20,000,000,000 (around $20 million US dollars)
4) Super Junior
5) Kim Hyun Joong
6) Ko Hyun Jung
7) SNSD / Girls' Generation
8) Lee Byung Hun
9) Yoo Jae Suk
10) Kang Ho Dong

TVXQ's revenue for 2009 was estimated at ₩ 127,340,000,000 (around $109.1 million US dollars). ₩ 91,200,000,000 came from album sales, ₩ 35,940,000,000 came from concerts, and around ₩ 2,000,000,000 came from advertisements to come up with the total revenue. This coinciding with the news that TVXQ was the #3 earner in Japan is great news for the boys.

Looking at all the money they generated it seems there should be plenty of money to go around, unfortunately there's big turmoil with SM Entertainment. Hopefully, it can all be resolved soon.

HTC to debut a new touchscreen tablet at CES 2010?



Forget the iSlate, an unconfirmed rumor suggests that HTC may have multiple models of a new touchscreen tablet, a device that the Taiwanese handset manufacturer has been secretly working on for the last 18 months, ready for debut. One model of the rumored tablet will feature a Qualcomm processor (Snapdragon?), a touchscreen display (multi-touch?), new software from Adobe (Flash?) and will run Android. The tablet will reportedly be shown to a select group of HTC customers at a private showing next week during CES. HTC has been working closely with Google in the development of the tablet and is expected to roll out a second model of the touchscreen tablet with Google’s Chrome OS. Slap some wireless 3G connectivity onto these slates and HTC may win the prize as the manufacturer with the hottest portfolio in 2010.

Wipe The Slate Clean For 2010, Commit Web 2.0 Suicide

Are you tired of living in public, sick of all the privacy theater the social networks are putting on, and just want to end it all online? Now you can wipe the slate clean with the Web 2.0 Suicide Machine. (Warning: This will really delete your online presence and is irrevocable). Just put in your credentials for Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, or LinkedIn and it will delete all your friends and messages, and change your username, password, and photo so that you cannot log back in.

The site is actually run by Moddr, a New Media Lab in Rotterdam, which execute the underlying scripts which erase your accounts. The Web 2.0 Suicide Machine is a digital Dr. Kevorkian. On Facebook, for instance, it removes all your friends one by one, removes your groups and joins you to its own “Social Network Suiciders,” and lets you leave some last words. So far 321 people have used the site to commit Facebook suicide. On Twitter, it deletes all of your Tweets, and removes all the people you follow and your followers. It doesn’t actually delete these accounts, it just puts them to rest.

The Web 2.0 Suicide Machine runs a python script which launches a browser session and automates the process of disconnecting from these social networks (here is a video showing how this works with Twitter). You can even watch the virtual suicide in progress via a Flash app which shows it as a remote desktop session. You can watch your online life pass away one message at a time. Taking over somebody else’s account via an automated script, even with permission, may very well be against the terms of service of these social networks.

From the FAQs:

If I start killing my 2.0-self, can I stop the process?
No!

If I start killing my 2.0-self, can YOU stop the process?
No!

What shall I do after I’ve killed myself with the web2.0 suicide machine?
Try calling some friends, take a walk in a park or buy a bottle of wine and start enjoying your real life again. Some Social Suiciders reported that their lives has improved by an approximate average of 25%. Don’t worry, if you feel empty right after you committed suicide. This is a normal reaction which will slowly fade away within the first 24-72 hours.

The light-hearted video below explains the benefits of committing Web 2.0 Suicide and disconnecting from “so many people you don’t really care about.” Unplugging from your social life online will leave you more time for your real life, which you’ve probably been neglecting. With the Web 2.0 Suicide Machine, you can “sign out forever.” Not that we are recommending you do this in any way. But you may enjoy the video.

web 2.0 suicide machine promotion from moddr_ on Vimeo.

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