6/20/2010 11:29:00 AM
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Amanda Bynes announced early this morning she'll retire from acting.
"I don't love acting anymore so I've stopped doing it," she wrote on Twitter. A quick volley of tweets included further explanation: "Being an actress isn't as fun as it may seem" and "I've never written the movies & tv shows I've been apart of I've only acted like the characters the producers or directors wanted me to play."
The 24-year-old star became famous on Nickelodeon, eventually starring in films like 'She's the Man' and 'Hairspray' and posing as cover girl for magazines like Cosmopolitan and Maxim.
Consider this: you may have an Android phone with a front-facing camera, and so do your distant loved ones (yes, friends count too). Now slap that free IM app Fring onto your phone, and the once-dormant chat camera shall finally come to life -- right now only the Streak and EVO 4G are supported, whereas the others (like the X10) will have to rely on their main cameras. Still, Fring also supports dual-camera Symbian devices plus Skype video calls to and from computers, and since it isn't locked down to any particular connection method, users with unlimited data allowance get to make free 3G video calls! Take that, FaceTime. Read on to watch our very own transatlantic banter.
Oh sure, we shouldn't be getting all that aroused about an age-old technology, but given the massive video quality improvement -- clearer picture with more tolerable lag -- and the aforementioned affordability of mobile data, it seems like 3G video calls might be able to make a comeback. That said, with each minute of Fring video sipping up about 1MB, do watch out for your carrier's fair use policy. We're sure you kids will behave, anyway.
6/20/2010 11:27:00 AM
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It's happened before, and it's happening again: the EVO 4G's getting hard to find. We're sure you'd be able to track it down locally, but the option that requires the least dreadful physical movement -- ordering online -- isn't an option for now, with Sprint saying "this device is so hot we can't keep it on our virtual shelves." We imagine the situation will clear itself up shortly, but it makes you wonder -- could the screen separation fix on the assembly line be the culprit behind the shortage?
6/20/2010 11:27:00 AM
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We aren’t too sure what’s going on here, but all of a sudden our tip line has been flooded with emails from irate iPhone 4 pre-orderers who say their order has been cancelled for no apparent reason. Gizmodo is also hearing the same thing, so it seems there’s definitely something to this. We’ve got two sample emails that we were sent in after the break in case you’re curious. But in the event you’ve received such an email, we’d love it if you would keep letting us know so we can get to the bottom of this.
6/20/2010 11:24:00 AM
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Well, none of this will come as a big surprise here, but it's always nice to hear it straight from an official source. Microsoft has confirmed that a $199 version of new Xbox 360 will be coming in the fall to replace the now-$149 Arcade, which is no longer in production. In addition, the company's also spilled a few more beans -- Kinect will be available as a bundle with the new Xbox 360, and though there isn't any official pricing information on that one just yet, we've seen some telltale evidence on that front which would lead us to believe it'll run somewhere in the neighborhood of $399 for an Elite and $299 for the Arcade. So now you know.
6/20/2010 12:32:00 AM
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She has never been one to fade into the background.
And, just eight days after wearing a studded bra and knickers to a baseball game, Lady Gaga arrived to watch the New York Yankees take on the New York Mets wearing little more than a black underwear set and a Yankees shirt.
The 24-year-old singer even adjusted her shirt so it showed off more of her cleavage as she stood for a rendition of God Bless America.
With her hand patriotically placed on her chest, Gaga managed to keep a straight face as she stood with her black bra clearly on display.
But her friends weren't as successful, and failed to stop giggling as they watched the Alejandro singer with astonishment.
6/20/2010 12:31:00 AM
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Its existence has been an on-again, off-again rumor for over a week now, but it looks like a new build of Android 2.2 Froyo for the Nexus One -- FRF72 -- is very real. It finally leaked in the past few hours, we've tested it on a Nexus One of our own, and as far as we can tell, it's straight-up legit. Get it if you dare -- it's up on Google's official servers right now, but if it's pulled, we've no doubt it'll be floating around on a bunch of mirrors ad nauseam. G'luck to ya, folks!
6/20/2010 12:31:00 AM
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Ah, the inexorable rise of a once-small Taiwanese company. Acer chairman JT Wang has told investors in a conference call this week that his company is on track to overtake HP in worldwide laptop shipments before the year is through. That assertion is backed up by Gartner's data, cited in the Wall Street Journal, which indicates that Acer shipped 9.49 million mobile computers in the first quarter of 2010, just ahead of HP's 9.47 million. Positive vibes are also being felt on the desktop front, where Acer aims to shift 10 million units this year, while a decent $15 million is being invested into "developing a a smartphone platform based on Google Inc.'s Android." We'll be curious to see whether this thrifty strategy pays off against HP's ebullient $1.2 billion acquisition of Palm, but one thing's for sure: PC vendors are hungry for some of that sweet smartphone pie.
6/20/2010 12:31:00 AM
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Now that OnLive's beta is (kind of) out the door -- a "bumpy takeoff" as coined by founder Steve Perlman -- the company is talking about its future plans. One of those happens to be a piece of hardware dubbed the MicroConsole that'll serve as the link from the service to your TV. Talking with Joystiq at E3, Perlman said it expects to push the device out "by the end of 2010" and that beta users are already using it. So, when can we get in on that beta?
6/20/2010 12:30:00 AM
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Since "6th aunt" Mona Fong's entry into TVB, the whole station only pursues one word - "cheap".
Speaking of that, it is because of "cheap" that the Artiste Department started searching back into the old files to see who still owes TVB? Searched and search, suddenly discovered that Stephen Chow who left TVB 20 years ago still owes TVB! Wah! The Stephen Chow today is worth a hundred times more. Mona confirmed with TVB Foreign Affairs Director, Tsang Sing Ming, he admits that Stephen still does have an artists contract with TVB. He said: "But is not convenient for me to reveal the details of the contract. Actually there are many celebrities who left TVB and still have a contract with us, like Ekin Cheng."
We're going to give Megan Fox the benefit of the doubt. We bet that behind her overexposed ('tho impressive) T&A there exist some acting chops that the babe should be using for more challenging roles than Stereotypical Hot Girl in Robot Revenge 4.
Social-networking powerhouse Facebook saw its revenues climb as high as $800 million in 2009, $100 million more than previously estimated, according to a media report.
app development. Before there was even an App Store, the web app Facebook put out that was optimized for the iPhone was brilliant. Then the App Store came and with it was a great Facebook native app. Then came version 3 of the app, which was even better. Those days, sadly, are long over.
TVB series "The Mysteries of Love" has once again been accused of plagiarizing 2 Japanese drama series, one of them being Kimura Takuya’s Mr. Brain.
Here’s a lesson for the movie studios: You can make a sequel 11 years after its predecessor as long as the story is great and the characters are so beloved that earlier generations are still attached to them. That’s what Disney-based Pixar did with the third chapter in the Toy Story franchise. Toy Story 3 grossed an estimated $41 million Friday night, suggesting that many of those 20-somethings who watched Toy Story 2 when they were in elementary school came back to the franchise to see its latest chapter. Now Buzz Lightyear and Cowboy Woody are destined for Pixar’s record books, with the highest-opening ever for a Pixar movie. Based on the Friday numbers, Toy Story 3 could earn as much as $120 million for the three-day frame. (The studio’s previous opening-weekend record was $70 million for Finding Nemo in 2003.)
Last week, the Shanghai expo received guests from both Taiwan and Mainland China to act as a delegation visiting both the Taiwan and China exhibits. Eddie Peng, along with the lead actress of "Hear Me," Michelle Chen and director Zheng Fen joined together as a team and visited the England and Greek exhibitions, avoiding the Taiwan exhibition that good friend Jolin sang the theme song for. Whether not visiting the Taiwan exhibit was to avoid arousing suspicious, he hurriedly changed the subject by saying, "Seeing the England and Greek exhibitions allowed me to better understand local cultures and conditions. I want to bring my mother on a trip to Europe."