3/17/2010 12:51:00 PM
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Wall Street 2’s Shia LaBeouf looks every bit the stockbroker as he suits up in a Club Monaco three-piece on the cover of the April issue of GQ.
Shia opens up about his “wild nights” with some of Wall Street’s bad boys as he researched his role in Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps, his fake hand, and his romance with co-star and Oscar nominated actress Carey Mulligan.
3/17/2010 12:49:00 PM
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Britney Spears is once again a solo artist.
The 28-year-old pop princess and her talent-agent boyfriend Jason Trawick called it quits at the end of February after about a year of dating, a source exclusively tells E! News.
"They were fighting a lot and have not been getting along," the source says.
William Morris Endeavor Entertainment, where Trawick plies his trade, confirmed Tuesday that the 38-year-old agent is still representing Spears. A rep for the blond-again Circus star has not yet responded to a request for comment.
Meanwhile, this isn't the first time the business-and-pleasure-mixing duo have required some time apart.
Spears and Trawick cooled off over the holidays in December, but rekindled the flame in time to attend the Grammys together on Jan. 31, where Spears was nominated for Best Dance Recording for "Womanizer."
3/17/2010 12:48:00 PM
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Dear Microsoft, you did a good job at out-Appling Apple with the Windows Phone 7. At least on paper. But instead of trying to beat them completely, it seems that you want to screw it all with two stupid decisions.
The first one: Eliminate application multitasking. After making fun of Apple's iPhone for not supporting multitasking, you are exactly following Apple's task model... just when it seems that they are bringing multitasking with iPhone OS 4.0.
If this morning's news of Internet Explorer 9's support for HTML5 and video acceleration got you excited, and you happen to run Windows XP, prepare to get unexcited: You won't be able to install it on your OS. Sorry!
3/17/2010 12:40:00 PM
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Windows Phone 7 won't have full multitasking for third party apps, which, given Windows Mobile's multitasking past, took people off guard. Here's how Microsoft's Scott Guthrie answers for this. Warning: The rationalizations might sound a little familiar.
Microsoft's stance is one that's been well-established by another company, and it revolves around broad experience. From a blogger roundtable at Mix today:
How do you trade-off battery life at the same time? As soon as you allow arbitrary apps to do things in the background, it can run out the battery pretty quickly.
In pointing out that background apps can drain your battery, Guthrie is right. Microsoft is taking a conservative approach in taking away the very option—the "hand grenade"—that is multitasking, in service of a smooth, predictable user experience on the whole. And yeah, for current smartphone platforms that do support multitasking, nobody's come up with a truly user-friendly way to manage the apps—Android's implementation is confusing to a lot of people, and Palm's simpler system still causes slowdown, if left unchecked.
3/17/2010 12:39:00 PM
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Given the legally-disputed origins of the JooJoo and the current shipping delays, you'd think Fusion Garage would scrupulously maintain a squeaky-clean image with its customers as it leads up to launch, but it looks like it wasn't quite prepared to handle refunds in a sensible way -- we just confirmed that the company asked a customer for his bank account information in order to deposit a refund directly after running into some troubles with PayPal. Here's the relevant exchange:
3/17/2010 12:39:00 PM
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We couldn't shake the feeling that the mysterious Samsung-branded Windows Phone 7 Series device being passed around at MIX10 this week was just a warmed-over i8910 HD, and it turns out there's a very good reason for that: Samsung says it is a warmed-over i8910 HD. Even crazier, TechRadar writes that its contact at Samsung basically pegged the stunt entirely on Microsoft, simply saying "they used the i8910 HD to demo Windows 7" and that "this demo was a one-off." The whole thing reeks of the original Zune, which began life as a Frankenstein'd Toshiba Gigabeat -- but we don't think this new trick is going to make it all the way to retail since the i8910 HD clocks in with 640 x 360 resolution (WP7S requires 800 x 480) and a processor that falls well short of the standard-issue 1GHz Snapdragon. At any rate, we're trying to get the straight dope on this from Microsoft now that Samsung's washed its hands of it and we'll update you when we've got more.
3/17/2010 12:38:00 PM
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We've heard it all before, but it's always nice to get a modicum of legitimacy from a primary source. T-Mobile has now officially announced the release details for the HTC HD2 -- you know, that phone whose cool factor has dropped a few Mega Fonzies since we confirmed once and for all it wasn't getting a Windows Phone 7 upgrade. Look for it next Wednesday, March 24th, for just a penny under $200 on a two-year contract (and $450 without). Hey, at least this one's definitely got copy and paste, right?
3/17/2010 12:36:00 PM
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After a week of nonstop teasing with individual concept photos and the MV teaser for their upcoming single Run, SNSD has successfully gotten into our skin. As the date for the release of their dark new track draws nearer, the group continues to tease their fans by dropping even more teaser shots.
This time around, the 9 sexy-cheerleaders-gone-bad released a group “Black Soshi” concept photo. If you thought the individual shots were hot, then I can’t wait to hear what ya’ll have to say about this one! I must say, the dark concept has never looked so good!
3/17/2010 12:37:00 AM
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'American Idol' runner-up Adam Lambert showed off his assets in a pair of tight pants while promoting his debut album, 'For Your Entertainment,' in Tokyo.
Known for his racy sense of fashion, it wasn't just the trousers that wowed. Spikes accessorized his leather jacket. Glitter in his hair and on his face along with heavy eye makeup completed his outrageous look.
Who wants to see Sandra Bullock and Ryan Reynolds reunite on the big screen?
Not long ago Jolin Tsai and Jay Chou were rumoured to be getting back together again, but now news is coming out that, the two met to talk about business! Due to the fact that there is only one album left on Jolin Tsai's contract with Chen Ze Shan, it is now rumoured that Jay Chou intends to sign Jolin Tsai, after all Jolin Tsai's yearly income is 3.5 hundred million, if he was to obtain the heavenly queen, his books will certainly look good, but the agent companies from both sides have not commented on the rumour, only expressing that they are not clear about the contents of the contract, leaving it to the imagination of the outside world. 
Ready for another long, drawn-out copy and paste controversy to overtake your every waking moment for a year or two? Good: Microsoft just mentioned in a Q&A session here at MIX10 in no uncertain terms that clipboard operations won't be supported on Windows Phone 7 Series... so that's that. Kind of ironic considering that the WinMo of old has been enjoying the functionality since time immemorial, isn't it? Of course, anything is possible going forward -- they've said on several occasions in different talks and sessions this week that they're already looking at a number of enhancements that were scoped out of the initial release of the platform -- but for the phones you buy this holiday season, don't expect to be copying anything between apps.
It’s day one of Showest: the theater industry’s annual convention where the movie studios trot out their wares for the theater owners. This year, all is coming up roses with business up 10 percent over last year’s numbers thanks in large part to the success of 3-D. In fact, of the 31 films in 2009 that crossed the $100 million mark, seven of them featured an extra dimension. As such, John Fithian, president of the National Association of Theater Owners, was happy to report that the major financing for the roll-out of 3-D is complete. Plus, this bottleneck that’s expected over the next few months with too much 3-D product and not enough screens should ease up as the theaters roll out an additional 2,500 screens by the end of the year.
RIHANNA has offered to help pal Katy Perry plan her hen night.
Chinese film starlet Zhang Ziyi has taken the blame for an earthquake donation scandal in her first comments on a flap that sparked a firestorm of Internet criticism and questions about her honesty.
No, multi-talented Taiwanese artiste Show Luo and adorable singer Rainie Yang were never together and are not attracted to each other, says Alien Huang, host of variety programme 100% Entertainment,
Sure it helps to be good looking, but if a guy really wants to win the heart of teen star Miley Cyrus, he needs to embrace the entire Cyrus clan. 
Months after his death, Michael Jackson set a music-industry record, thanks to a deal between his estate and Sony Corp. valued at as much as $250 million, according to people familiar with the terms.
Apple's retail sales rebound from early 2009's poor performance
Soon after Jay Park / Jaebeom uploaded a video on Youtube featuring his own rendition of B.O.B’s Nothin’ on You, an immense number of people flooded the account’s profile page for more information on Jaebeom. In fact, Jay’s Youtube account already has nearly 20,000 subscribers after only three hours! He’s only got one video up, but it’s already received over 150,000 views and five thousand comments (and counting), undoubtedly making this one of today’s hottest kpop issues.
Jolin Tsai’s contract with Warner Music is expected to be up after the release of her new album in July. Following their well-publicized “bowling-date”, her ex Jay Chou is rumored to be interested in signing her. Warner Music was quick to react and reportedly offered 100 million (NTD) to re-sign the songstress.