‘Idol’ singers get ‘All Shook Up’ on Elvis week
4/14/2010 12:01:00 PM
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Lambert returns to coach hopefuls, but King is too much for some to handleHe's back! Last season's runner-up, Adam Lambert, returned to "Idol" to mentor this year's hopefuls during Elvis week.
Tuesday night marked Adam Lambert’s triumphant return to “American Idol.” And much like any college freshman making an October appearance at his old high school, he was filled with advice and wisdom from the weeks he’s spent outside of the show’s cocoon and in the larger recording world.
He had the same basic lesson for everyone — show a little more energy. Given that the theme this week was the Elvis Presley songbook and that Lambert himself was so theatrical a year ago that Andrew Lloyd Webber would have been impressed, it was a natural message.
Unfortunately, Elvis is one of those singers who proves to be a much better match for some singers than for others, even after hearing the sage wisdom of last season’s runner-up. That likely means the end of the road for Andrew Garcia.
One analyst said Kin phones are a bigger deal than Windows Phone 7
Intel on Tuesday reported strong earnings for the first quarter of fiscal 2010, with the company calling it the "best first quarter ever."
Take it off!
Palm may be looking to Asia Pacific for potential buyers according to the latest information coming from the ever-churning rumor mill. Reuters suggests Palm has approached Huawei two months ago to gauge the Chinese manufacturer’s interest in purchasing the once mighty company. With its strength in manufacturing and strong reputation overseas, Huawei’s acquisition of Palm would accelerate the manufacturer’s entrance into the crowded American smartphone market. But, despite being what some might call a proverbial marriage made in heaven, the talks were said to be short lived and have not progressed since. Huawei is not alone as a potential Palm suitor; other companies on the short list include Lenovo, Huawei rival ZTE, HTC, and Dell, although the later is said to have declined to enter a bid. Anyone want to wager who will be the lucky winner in this motley pool of potential Palm purchasers if it pans out?
2PM former member Jaebeom’s casting in the movie ‘Hype Nation’ has been confirmed and he is anticipated to enter Korea in June.
After a solid week of tunes from the songbook of Lennon/McCartney, American Idol’s top 9 got a chance to work with Idol alum Adam Lambert for a fresh series of performances this week. Without revealing song or theme, here is a tease as to what to expect when the contestants hit the stage Tuesday night. –- Cynthia Wang
We don’t know who it is that’s inviting Google CEO Eric Schmidt to parties, topping up his glass frequently, and then encouraging him to talk about upcoming Android-based hardware from the company, but we hope they carry on. After the report yesterday that suggested Schmidt had told friends that Google were developing an own-brand tablet, further details have emerged from others apparently attending the same party; Schmidt supposedly confirmed that the device will run Adobe Flash content and games.
Just thought I’d pass along some new information I received from a source fairly high up the Microsoft command chain. As a former employee, I have special connections to executives at Microsoft that others don’t have. It’s my own private red phone to Moscow, as it were.
There are many iPad and iPhone owners that would agree the biggest single shortfall of the new iPad and the iPhone is the lack of support for Flash video. Apple is adamant that Flash will not be supported and until HTML5 is more common in video streaming many iPad, users can’t view the content they desire.
Failing a Palm acquisition, there might still be justification for for HTC to build out its own software platform for many of the same reasons that buying Palm would make sense -- the company's getting bigger and more important to the market by the day, after all, and being left at the mercy of Google and Microsoft to produce cohesive platforms of their own might not sit well with Chou's team ad infinitum. The HTC Smart could be regarded as its first baby step toward that goal, though the handset -- based on Qualcomm's Brew MP platform -- is actually a featurephone that won't fly with the same kinds of consumers that are cross-shopping Android and Windows Phone products. To that end, Bloomberg says that HTC's CFO revealed in an interview that his company continues "to assess [developing its own smartphone operating system], but that requires a few conditions to justify." Naturally, he went on to clam up when nudged about the Palm sitch -- and he never got around to laying out what those "few conditions" were that would spur HTC to pull the trigger on any of this -- but it's starting to seem inevitable that this is all going to go down one way or another.
