Brangelina Going Strong on Valentine's Day

Haters try to keep them down, but Brangelina keeps on shining.

Angelina Jolie has not only donated money and time to Haiti, she bought partner Brad Pitt an olive tree - a symbol for peace and longevity - to mark Valentine's Day.

The star - who raises six kids (possibly with baby #7 come in order to save their love) with Brad - will surprise him on the romantic day with the 200-year-old plant.

A source said: "Angelina bought it from a nursery called The English Garden Centre in Valbonne, near their house. It's a very special tree and cost her a fortune."

Olive trees symbolize peace, longevity and stability and it is believed Angelina has bought the plant for Brad to cement their love and quash recent split rumors.

The couple put on a solid show of unity at the Super Bowl in Florida on Sunday, taking their eight-year-old son Maddox to watch the annual NFL championship game.

They were also making out in public there - take that, tabloids!

John Mayer Not a Racist, Just a Guy Who Says Stupid Things

John Mayer is in a bit of trouble. The guitarist used the N-word in an interview with Playboy and is now trying to recover from what could be a costly mistake.

"Someone asked me the other day, 'What does it feel like now to have a hood pass?' And by the way, it's sort of a contradiction in terms, because if you really had a hood pass, you could call it a n**** pass. Why are you pulling a punch and calling it a hood pass if you really have a hood pass? But I said, 'I can't really have a hood pass' I've never walked into a restaurant, asked for a table and been told, 'We're full.'" he said. After the article came out, Mayer frantically apologized on his Twitter account.

"Re: using the 'N word' in an interview: I am sorry that I used the word. And it's such a shame that I did because the point I was trying to make was in the exact opposite spirit of the word itself. It was arrogant of me to think I could intellectualize using it, because I realize that there's no intellectualizing a word that is so emotionally charged," he tweeted.

But is Mayer really racist? Or just a fool who shoots his mouth off too much?

At a concert, Mayer offered his apologies again for using the racial slur. "I went as I've begun to do, into a wormhole of selfishness and greed and arrogance, thinking that if I just continued to be witty and pull together the most fast phrases that I could, that I could be clever enough to buy myself another day without thinking that anybody had finally pinned me down and said, 'you're a creep.'"

New Heidi Klum Photos: GULP!

DT is a Spanish magazine and we don't know what the name of it stands for. But we can hazard a few guesses:


Damn Tantalizing. Dreamy Tatas. Delectable Teases.

After all, this is the same publication that once published these photos of Megan Fox.

And this topless shot of Adriana Lima.

Now, in an attempt to shut down servers at all male-based companies, the magazine has run off a new set of Heidi Klum pictures that can only be described as positively, ridiculously, insanely, almost unlawfully hot. Check them out below and be warned:

Excessive popping of the eyes may cause retina damage.

Wall Street Journal: Windows Mobile 7 coming next week


We pretty much knew that Windows Mobile 7 is coming next week at MWC, but the Wall Street Journal has a piece up confirming the announcement, along with a few other interesting details. As we'd heard, the new UI is a riff on the Zune HD interface, and the OS "reflects a much tighter focus" on hardware / software integration, all based around a "small number" of hardware chassis specs -- pretty much what we've known, but it's interesting that the Journal's source says the plan is to "limit the wild variation" that's typically been the hallmark of Windows Mobile. The WSJ also says that the long-rumored Pink project is a separate phone designed to replace the Sidekick -- which we also basically knew -- but that it won't make an appearance at MWC at all. Hmm, sounds like someone ought tell all those Twittering Danger employees. We'll see what happens -- it all goes down early on Monday.

7 reasons to move on from ageing, tired Windows XP

There is no doubt that Adrian Kingsley-Hughes has passion for what he does, and his latest post in regards to sticking with Windows XP certainly made me chuckle. But we have to face facts that Windows XP is now in excess of nine years old, and should have ran past its self-by-date


Stick with what you know It’s old and tired

That dazzling blue interface was revolutionary for Microsoft and incredibly bold of the company to go so bright and cheerful, almost. But with the temptation of “floating” glass windows, transparency and clarity in the newer versions of Windows, you barely need to learn anything new.

You should just be able to start Vista or 7 for the first time and be guided through everything, and comfortable enough using your prior knowledge to get everything out of it that you had with XP.

Twins reunites for the new Tiger year producing female power

Separated from the music scene in the last two years, Twins finally gets back together in the year of the Tiger. It is confirmed that they will be opening a "reunion" concert on April 16th and 17th at Hong Kong Coliseum this year. It was said that the "Twins Fan Club" from China, Taiwan, Malaysia, Australia and etc. will be coming together in Hong Kong to show their support at the concert.


Soon to enter the Year of the Tiger, Twins expressed that the two good sisters can finally reunite before their 10th anniversary! There is still two more months before their concert in April, but a group of Twins fans had already been "song hungry" for two years. Earlier Ah Sa and Ah Gil both secretly recorded their new song "Everyone Bounces Up" as their concert theme song. When the time comes, they hope fans can hear their voices and be so excited that they bounce up too. They also hope that Twins will be able to rise for every step they take in the future.

DaS will get to "Kang Xi"'s stage and jointly with XiaoS play with hot males!

The "Kang Xi " storm is getting more and more strong, "Kang XI Festival" has been touring in the whole country from last year to this year, it came to the country's biggest cities and the responses were really great. on March 27 th 2010, XiaoS, Tsai Kang Yong will with many big stars come to Bei Jing continuing their whirlwind of super entertainment, releasing "Kang Xi festival" brightest light !

The organisers revelaed that there were many guesses from outside about the special guest of the Bei Jing event and this special person will be Xiao S's sister DaS !! She'll come to "Kang Xi" stage and play with the hot boys invited to her limits !

Talking about DaS, what will come first to your mind ? "Meteor Garden " ' s commoner cinderella San Cai ? "Corner With Love" 's kind hearted little princess Xin Lei ? "Connected "'s capable single mother Grace ? Or "Forbidden City Cops009 "'s pretty lovestruck Mei Xi Wang ? She who had always appeared as sweet and gentle, graceful and elegant, is now accumulating tittles such as a first rated (TV )actress, Movie star, Singer, Host an author, is a female star famous all over Asia.

Hailey Glassman on Jon Gosselin's Penis: It's Tiny!

Considering the shady exploitation of his children, and the flaunting of relationships so soon after separating from his wife, this seems impossible to believe.


But Hailey Glassman swears it's true: Jon Gosselin's penis is even smaller than his capacity to care about anyone but himself.

In a revealing interview with Steppin Out, the 23-year old does not speak favorably about her ex-boyfriend's manhood. She says:

"He was so small I didn't think he would cheat on me... He's hung like a nine-year-old boy. I'm serious. This is true."

How tiny does Hailey claim Jon measures? "3 inches."

c: Sex Rehab Cheater?

Stop the presses. The National Enquirer is alleging that Tiger Woods cheated ... while in sex addiction rehab. They may be stretching it a little bit here.


Sure, the entertainment news rag broke the scandal of Tiger's affair with Rachel Uchitel, which in turn led to nearly a dozen other affairs unraveling.

And sure, they also broke the John Edwards-Rielle Hunter scandal, for which some people think they deserve a Pulitzer Prize (seriously, look that up).

But Tiger cheating on Elin Nordegren in sex rehab? Come on.

The only reason he's there is to salvage the marriage she's somehow still committed to. Such an affair would also be fairly hard to pull off logistically.

Google Buzz Privacy Issues Have Real Life Implications

Merging something designed for public broadcasting (Buzz) with something inherently private (Gmail) was just looking for trouble.

Google is -deservedly – getting a lot of heat for the fact that its latest social product has a number of privacy flaws baked into it by design.

They’ve since made some improvements to the product, but that’s not where the story ends.

Some people think the complaints are unwarranted and the issues not all that bad, while some think it’s mostly annoying and others don’t even know there are issues yet (or that Google launched something new at all). And then there those whose lives are already being impacted by the privacy loopholes in Google Buzz – and not all in a good way.

See for example this story of an anonymous woman who writes a (self-proclaimed) feminist blog, which she started after leaving an abusive marriage. (found on Hacker News)

Hint: the title is ‘Fuck you, Google’.

G-Dragon says the plagiarism controversies were unbearable

Big Bang’s leader G-Dragon is no stranger to controversy. He recently sat down with Asia E and talked about how the plagiarism accusations and controversy effected him.

Here’s the full translation courtesy of sjay.x @ BBVIP.net

Kwon Ji-Yong, 23 [Stagename: G-Dragon], whose heart was filled with anticipation of his album’s release, felt despair. Merely just a day before the release of his title track “Heartbreaker,” the song was accused of plagiarism. His Me2day, which had been a meaningful way for him to communicate with his fans before, now seemed a foreign and scary place.
G-Dragon commented that “Regardless of whether it really is plagiarism or not, I think being labeled a ‘plagiarist’ itself is just disgraceful. On the internet people were having an online war about whether ‘it has been plagiarized’ vs. ‘it hasn’t.’ The company [YG Entertainment] said they’d fly over to America to set things straight. By the looks of things, it seemed like there would be a huge impending legal battle. Everything was just so hard for me. It makes me happy to sing and dance in front of other people, that’s all…but some people seemed to only pay attention to the bad stuff; I thought I was gonna go crazy. After a contemplating for a while however, I decided that singers should answer to any controversies through their performances.”

Tang Wei's powerful enemies engineered her media ban

The media ban imposed on Chinese actress Tang Wei two years ago for starring in the sexually charged 2007 film "Lust, Caution" was a result of her having powerful enemies, said Chinese film director Lu Chuan.

Chinese media reported in 2008 that the media ban saw Chinese regulators ordering television stations and print media to pull advertisements featuring Tang and barring them from reporting on the actress.

Lu said on his blog that there were two seldom-mentioned theories about why Tang was slapped with a media ban. The first is that the 30-year-old star had failed to attend a function by someone related to the political elite. The second is that another well-connected actress had turned party officials against Tang and engineered her ban.

Rumours have been rife on the Internet that "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" actress Zhang Ziyi, who had been embroiled in numerous scandals in recent months, was the mastermind behind Tang's ban. However, Lu refused to name any names.

HP Compaq Airlife 100 3G smartbook announced

HP Spain have announced a new smartbook, the Compaq Airlife 100, with a netbook-style form factor, 10.1-inch touchscreen and integrated 3G. While HP aren’t spilling the beans on the Airlife 100’s chipset, last we heard they were playing with Qualcomm’s 1GHz Snapdragon, so it seems a reasonable assumption.



Elsewhere there’s a 16GB SSD and WiFi along with the 3G connection, while HP also reckon the frugal smartbook will be leggy enough to last for 12 hours on a single charge. Alternatively standby is tipped at 10 days.

From the photos it’s obvious that there’s a webcam and an SD card slot, together with some useful shortcut keys around the trackpad; HP have also loaded up their own touchscreen UI. According to the company, the Compaq Airlife 100 will arrive in Europe this spring, as a subsidized deal with carrier Telefonica. No word of a US launch or any pricing details.

Windows XP patch fiasco gets even crazier, Microsoft now scrambling for solutions


If you ever needed a reason to go Linux, here you go. The noise surrounding this patently obscure Windows XP bug / patch fiasco has just reached a fever pitch, and now we've got engineers within Redmond scratching their heads, too. As the story goes, Microsoft recently patched a security hole that took care of an antediluvian DOS vulnerability, and in doing so, some users began to see BSODs and endless reboots. Today, we've learned that the patch has been yanked, and Microsoft is suggesting that malware is to blame. But here's the skinny -- the patch simply disturbed the malware, which called a specific kernel code that directs your PC to keel over; in other words, any application that calls that same code could theoretically leave your machine in dire straits. And that, friends, probably explains the software giant's following quote:
"In our continuing investigation in to the restart issues related to MS10-015 that a limited number of customers are experiencing, we have determined that malware on the system can cause the behavior. We are not yet ruling out other potential causes at this time and are still investigating."

Rock, meet hard place.

Madonna and toyboy Jesus Luz put on public display of affection in sweaty Rio nightclub

Only a week ago Madonna reportedly dumped her toyboy lover after running out of things to say.


Not that there was much conversation going on as they got stuck into a passionate embrace as they were reunited in Rio de Janeiro this week.

The 51-year-old mother-of-four looked as though she was desperately trying to reclaim her youth as she and 23-year-old Jesus Luz kissed on some stairs of a nightclub seemingly oblivious to their fellow partygoers.

And while 30 years ago she knew how to get into the groove, last night she was happy to sit back and let Jesus enjoy himself with his friends at the sweaty venue.

Leona Lewis “I Got You” Official VIDEO Premiere


Leona Lewis Presents: “I Got You” Official Music VIDEO Premiere

We Are the World Remake: What Did You Think?

The 25-year anniversary remake of "We Are the World" debuted tonight during Winter Olympics coverage on NBC.

The production featured over 80 artists and celebrities, as the video below features the young (Justin Bieber), the high (Snoop Dogg) and the deceased (Michael Jackson sang a posthumous duet with sister Janet, using old footage).


Vince Vaughn even got a solo.

Angelina Jolie Says She's "Open" to Adopting Child in Haiti

Even CNN's hard-nosed global reporter Christiane Amanpour is curious about Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt's family.

In an interview with Jolie while she was still in Haiti, Amanpour asked the star if she plans to adopt a child in Haiti.

"I'm always open to children around the world," Jolie replied. "We're that kind of family. Brad and I talk about that."

Not so fast, though: "But that's not what we're focusing on at this time, by any means," she continued. "We're not here for that. We're here to see how we can help protect the children in country and scale up the needs here."

Late Thursday, X17 photographers snapped Jolie's arrival back at LAX following her three-day trip to Haiti. She toured an SOS Villages camp for orphans, a Doctors Without Borders hospital near Port-au-Prince, a makeshift camp in the southern city of Jacmel and a Save the Children relief supply center. During her SOS Villages visit, Haitian kids were starstruck, yelling "Angie! Angie!"

Jolie and Pitt, 46, donated $1 million to Doctors Without Border to provide medical assistance to earthquake survivors.

Howard Stern Is the Only Choice To Replace Simon Cowell?



It has been a week dominated by the buzz of Howard Stern potentially making the jump from satellite radio to Fox to replace Simon Cowell on 'American Idol.' Entertainment newscasts proclaim just how much money Stern could be offered ($100 million! More!), speculation of Stern coming to 'A.I.' cast a bizarre shadow over Ellen DeGeneres' debut on the show and Stern himself has spent hours upon hours on his Sirius/XM show laughing about the opportunity and having seven months off a year to count his 'A.I.' money.

The topic has divided our readers. We asked you on Wednesday whether you approved of the potential move. 80,000 people voted and 68 percent said "thumbs down" to Stern in place of Cowell. Our Facebook fans battled back and forth: Some would never watch the show again! Some would start watching only if Stern joined. Our own Girls on Pop editors questioned the move, saying that Stern does not bring enough musical experience to the show (they also state Ellen doesn't have any either). Many of our readers in their comments have stated that Stern would bring nothing but a potty mouth and stripper skits to a popular and family-friendly franchise.

As a devoted listener of Stern's for 16 years, it's time to speak up. The hiring of Stern to replace Cowell is a game-changing, series-saving move and there is no one on the planet more qualified to take Simon's seat.

Tina Fey Goes Rogue in Vogue; Talks of Palin Backlash

It's Tina Fey's world and we only live in it. In a previous PopEater article, we compared the post-'Saturday Night Live' trajectories of previous stars of the show, and Fey was, for anyone who doesn't live in a cave, super-hot. She came off a career-best year in 2008: The game-changing Sarah Palin impressions on 'SNL' and writing and acting on her creation, the Emmy Award-winning '30 Rock.'


However, as anyone who follows the pop cultural firmament knows, there is one abiding rule: What goes up must come down. But Fey has defied that fundamental law of entertainment physics. '30 Rock' is still a TV juggernaut. 'Date Night' with Steve Carell is coming out in April. And perhaps most tellingly, she has the endorsement of 'Vogue' editor Anna Wintour, not known for giving out praise lightly. In the March edition of the magazine, Wintour glows about Fey in her editor's letter: "There is nothing ordinary about her brilliance, her perceptiveness, or her beauty."

Samsung Wave Bada phone spotted already

If you want to keep your upcoming cellphone quiet until its triumphant MWC 2010 debut, it’s probably a bad idea to put up a huge banner showing it in all its glory. Unfortunately Samsung didn’t appear to get that memo, and so we have the first official shots of the Samsung Wave, running their new Bada platform.



the:unwired’s Arne Hess is already on the ground at MWC and the above photo showed up in his photo stream. Of course beyond the name and what we can glean from the images there’s no telling what the Wave’s full specifications might be; it’s obviously a full touchscreen device with a camera (and what looks like an LED flash) on the back, but we’ll have to wait until Samsung’s press conference to find out exact functionality.

Nokia Feel Symbian app suggests activities based on what you feel

Ready for a new experimental app from Nokia Beta Labs? Meet Nokia Feel, an application that lets you tell your phone how you feel, and then suggests things that you could do.


The app includes a list of feelings that you can choose: Happy, Lucky, Lonely, Hungry, Energetic, Bored, Creative, Caring and so on. After you tell the application how you feel, it will suggest specific activities for each feeling.

For example, if you’re feeling creative, the app can suggest things like: write a story, “draw a nice picture”, or contribute to Wikipedia.

It’s not clear yet if Nokia Feel is compatible with all Symbian phones (probably not), but it should work with all the touch-enabled ones.

Here's What Final Fantasy For iPhone Will Look Like

I'm more excited about Final Fantasy 1 + 2 coming to the iPhone than just about any upcoming iPhone game. It's Final Fantasy! For iPhone!


This is what it looks like in motion. You still have to use the traditional iPhone control scheme of putting your left thumb over 1/6 of the screen, and your right thumb over another 1/6. But still, it's not like this is an action game where you need to see everything on the screen at once. And that's why it'll theoretically transition well to the iPhone, letting you pick up the action whenever you've got a free second, but being able to save/pause when it's your turn at the post office.

Opera Mini reaches 50 million monthly unique users

Today, Opera Software announced that the Opera Mini mobile browser passed the 50 million unique monthly users mark last month (January).

This represents a 150% increase compared to January last year, when about 20 million users used Opera Mini to browser the Web on their phones and smartphones.

Opera says that, according to Gartner, “mobile phones will overtake PCs as the most common Web access device worldwide” by 2013 – which means that the adoption of Opera Mini will grow even more.

App Store Now Has 150,000 Apps. Great News For The iPad: Paid Books Rule.

During Apple’s iPad event in January, CEO Steve Jobs announced that Apple now had over 140,000 apps in the App Store (along with over 3 billion downloads). If the numbers by app analytics company Distimo are correct, that number is now past 150,000.

But the App Store is growing so big, so quickly that these milestones alone are hardly noteworthy anymore. But Distimo also offers up some nice data along with the milestone number. For example, of the 150,000 apps, some 75% are paid applications while only 25% are free. This is in stark contrast to the second largest app store, Android Market, where recent data suggests that over 60% of the app there are free.

"Hot Summer Days" Successful First Day ; Maggie Cheung romance is a highlight

The cooperation between Hua yi, 20Th cnetury Fox, and Star : "Hot Summer Days" aka "The Whole City is hot in love" is directed by new directors  Wyng Shya and Tony Chan and Starring Jacky Cheung, Rene Liu, Vivian Hsu, Nick Tse, Barbie Hsu etc... started showing on the 11th. On its first screening day, it ranked first in many cities,According to the Beijing 萬達theater manager  : "Hot Summer Days"  first day had outstanding results compared to the movies that were already screening and it is predicted that on Valentines and CNY Day, it will be even more amazing. Maggie Cheung love Motto enlightening Daniel Wu also became the movie's highlight.

On the afternoon of Feb 11th, the movie started screening, and many fans came to theaters to be frist to see it, after seeing it, they also very quickly gave their impressions. Some audience stated that : " <Hot Summer Days> is some short love stories that are somehow also linked together, the dialogues were really good and Rene's performance was really natural, Nick Tse stunned me, and at the end, the scene where the whole city had a black out was really moving, when hearing people discussing about it, they all said that they calso cried."

G-Dragon’s solo concert to be aired in Japan on 13th February

Male group Big Bang leader GDragon’s solo concert will be aired in Japan.


According to a YG Entertainment rep on 12th February, “His solo concert, held last year, will be aired on Japan channel TBS on 13th February.”

It was initially set for the concert to air in March in Japan, but it was aired earlier than planned. While in Korea, due to all the criticisms that some performances contain inappropriate content for youngsters, there is no confirmation that it will be aired at all.

Angelababy says William Chan and Gillian Chung do not match

Angelababy attended "All Well Ends Well 2010" charity premiere last night. As for her old lover William Chan recently started new rumors with Gillian Chung, Baby appeared unconcerned, but when asked if William and Gillian are compatible, she said no.

When Angeababy was asked about William and Gillian's rumors? She said: "None of my business, we are just regular friends." Do you believe in the rumors? She said: "I don't know, I have no time to show my concern to these distant friends, we have not kept in touch for a really long time. His problems, I am not worried about." Can't be friends with William? She said that they will say Hi when they meet each other. Does she feel Gillian and William match? She said: "Honestly, they don't match."

Additionally, Eric Tsang expressed earlier that he'll be stepping in on the "All Well Ends Well 2010" premiere, yesterday he was no where to be seen. As to Eric saying that "72 Tenants of Prosperity" beat "All Wells Ends Wells" by 4 million? Director Raymond Wong said: "4 million dollars is gone after a meal! Its best to win based on box office sales, we are just getting warmed up, the competition hasn't even started. But, this battle attracting everyone's attention, it is a good thing, I hope audience will watch both movies and support it."

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