7/16/2010 10:55:00 AM
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Pink was rushed to the hospital after falling from a harness into a barricade during a concert Thursday night at the Easy Credit Station in Nurnberg, Germany, UsMagazine.com reports. She was hanging from the harness when she fell onto a steel barricade. The show ended immediately.
Pink is doing well now and even Tweeted from the ambulance on the way to the hospital. "To all my nurnberg fans... I am embarassed and very sorry. I'm in ambulance now but I will b fine."
The singer also explained what happened, "didn't get clipped in2 harness correctly, drug me off stage, fell in2 barricade. Getting xrays.I hope it at least looked cool!!!"
7/16/2010 10:54:00 AM
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Lindsay Lohan appears in a sexy retro bathing suit on the cover of the latest German GQ.
It's just one of the many pics featured in the August issue that were taken on the beaches of Malibu shortly after the embattled actress was fitted for her SCRAM bracelet, (which she conveniently covered up during last month's shoot).
As for the mag's accompanying profile piece, it's in the country's native language, which is just as well. After all, when it comes to scandal-plagued Lindsay, there's already enough to read these days.
So, go ahead and enjoy some more photos after the jump—no translation needed!
7/16/2010 10:54:00 AM
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Apple’s promised iOS4 update has been pushed out for the iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS and iPhone 3G. iOS 4.0.1 apparently “improves the formula to determine how many bars of signal strength to display,” after Apple discovered they had been using the wrong calculations. Previewed earlier today in the iOS4.1 developer beta, the update is expected to make the iPhone’s signal meter more accurate, but not address the hardware issue experienced by iPhone 4 owners where holding the smartphone in a certain way can significantly impair antenna performance.
Apple’s solution for that remains to be seen; the company has arranged a press conference tomorrow morning at 10am PT – which we’ll be liveblogging at http://live.slashgear.com/ – to discuss the iPhone 4, but given no hint as to what exactly they’ll be covering. At least two analysts have suggested a hardware fix may be in the works.
7/16/2010 10:53:00 AM
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The DROID X proved to be extremely popular today, as the first production run is now sold out online. Folks looking to avoid the dreaded mail-in-rebate by buying online will now have to wait until July 23rd for their handset to ship. In-store sales have been equally strong with most stores selling through their launch day inventory. If you didn’t snag a DROID X yet don’t despair, additional shipments are expected to replenish the brick and mortar stores in the upcoming days.
7/16/2010 10:51:00 AM
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Kim HyunJoong and Jung SoMin has been confirmed as the main cast for upcoming MBC drama ‘Playful Kiss’.
The production group for the upcoming series announced on 16th July the final casting for the drama. With that, Kim HyunJoong will play Baek SeungJo and Jung SoMin will lay Oh HaNi in the drama.
The drama is an adaption from a Japanese manga, and it is said to be the one of the major manga-drama remakes in Asia next to ‘Boys Over Flowers’.
The drama is set for filming in mid-July, and it will take over the timeslot for ‘Road Number 1′ to be aired on MBC from September.
7/16/2010 10:48:00 AM
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Jennifer Aniston's social life seems pretty busy lately.
Last week, she went to dinner with actor Chris Gartin. And just last night, she hit Soho House with producer Scott Stuber, who she worked with on The Break Up and Love Happens.
Jen arrived with the 40-year-old producer and opted to sit out on the patio. While the two have been friends for a while, an eyewitness had this to say about their dinner...
"She was dressed cute but casual, in a black strappy top, jeans and heels," the source tells E!. "Jen was playing with her hair during dinner and seemed nervous and excited. She was listening intently and put on her glasses at one point."
7/16/2010 10:47:00 AM
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As we suspected, there is no recall planned for the iPhone 4.
That's according to a report in The Wall Street Journal on Thursday afternoon. Apple is holding a press conference on Friday morning to talk about the iPhone 4. There's been much speculation regarding what Apple has planned, but it's widely believed the company will address the growing outcry over the iPhone 4's reported antenna problems.
The Journal added that detail as an update to its previous story, which said that Apple engineers knew of the potential problems with the design of the iPhone 4. The device's antenna is inserted directly into the metal band running around the exterior of the device.
Bloomberg BusinessWeek reported earlier Thursday that Apple CEO Steve Jobs was told by a senior engineer of the pitfalls of the iPhone 4's design, but that he was ignored. Carrier partners were also given little time with the latest model iPhone to do proper testing with it, according to Bloomberg's sources.
7/16/2010 10:47:00 AM
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We didn't have a ton of details on the so-called HTC Ace when it turned up in a leaked roadmap last week, but a fresh set of rumors are now suggesting that the Ace is actually the Desire HD, which will reportedly pack a number of HD-esque upgrades over the standard Desire. That includes a larger 4.3-inch WVGA screen -- no word if it's AMOLED or SLCD -- and an 8-megapixel camera with 720p video recording. Other rumored details include Android 2.2, 4GB of internal storage, the same 1GHz Snapdragon as the current Desire and, perhaps most interestingly, talk of a "unibody aluminum design." Unfortunately, the rumors still don't include any actual images of the device, but there's still plenty of time for those to leak out before the supposed October release.
7/16/2010 10:47:00 AM
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‘Little Goo Hara’ Jin HyeWon reveals new member to her upcoming group NamNyeoGongHak (남녀공학).
Their agency announced on 16th July, “The new member to the group is Ryu HyoYeong, 18 years old, who had appeared on SBS Star King on 29th May introduced as Miss ChoonHyang.”
With that, Jin HyeWon and Ryu HyoYeong will be 2 of the 4 female members for the upcoming 9-member mixed group. The profile of the other members have yet been revealed.
At the same time, Core Contents Media also confirmed that Ryu HyoYeong’s twin sister Ryu HwaYeong will join T-ara as the 7th member.
7/16/2010 10:46:00 AM
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After the reveal of the songs highlights medley through their official homepage on 15th July, SHINee will be revealing the teaser video to their 2nd album ‘Lucifer’ at 8pm KST on 16th July.
The teaser video will be revealed on SHINee’s official homepage, auction (www.auction.co.kr) etc and the video had made use of the technology of matrix camera or Flow-mo.
The title song ‘Lucifer’ is a urban electronica number, a genre of 80s electronica which was made known through break dance.
7/16/2010 10:45:00 AM
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Hey Xtina Fans, we’re getting our first look at the video promo for “You Lost Me,” the power ballad featured on the pop star’s latest album, Bionic.
Director Anthony Mandler, who wrote the treatment for the vid, explained the concept in a chat with PopEater this week: “From the first keys of the opening of the track, we know that we are about to watch something that is going to move and transform us. In the end, we’ve traveled through Christina’s world. One that is physical, mental and spiritually charged. Nothing is what it seems. Everything is fractured and evolving, falling away … fragile…”
7/16/2010 10:45:00 AM
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Yes, it’s true. Sources confirm that Kevin Bacon has joined Matthew Vaughn’s X-Men: First Class cast. Details of his role are being kept under wraps, but sources tell us he will play a villain, sparring against protagonists Charles Xavier, played by James McAvoy, and Magneto, Michael Fassbender’s role. It’s not clear who Bacon’s character is specifically, or how he’ll figure into the X-Men universe, but it will be fun to watch. Deadline Hollywood first reported this last week.
Also joining the team is up-and-comer Jennifer Lawrence who received raves earlier this year for her leading role in the Sundance smash Winter’s Bone. The 19-year old actress will play Mystique, the role originated by Rebecca Romijn in the X-Men trilogy. The Hollywood Reporter first reported this news today.
Twentieth Century Fox declined to comment on either casting addition. Filming is set to begin this summer in London.
7/16/2010 10:40:00 AM
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Facebook is about to announce that they’ve hit 500 million users — a milestone that cements (as if it hadn’t already) the site’s status as one of the web’s biggest successes ever. Of course, at Facebook’s growth trajectory it hasn’t been a matter of if the social network would be hitting 500 million, but when it would (in fact, the movie poster for the upcoming movie The Social Network uses the 500 million stat in its tagline). Still, it’s finally about to become official. So how do we know?
As part of its celebration, Facebook is apparently asking many of its employees to upload photos of themselves celebrating and giving thanks to users. And all of those photos are being hosted on one Drop.io account. In the interest of not totally raining on their parade I’ll hold off on sharing all the photos (Facebook will undoubtedly make the Drop.io folder private anyway), but we’ve included a couple of them.
7/16/2010 10:39:00 AM
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We're having a hell of a time believing this, but BusinessInsider's Dan Frommer is citing "a source familiar with the negotiations" as saying that RIM, Google, and Apple -- yes, Apple -- were all in the mix for Palm at one point or another as the bidding war went on earlier this year. We all know how that story ended up playing out, but prior to HP's winning bid, RIM allegedly made a generous offer and could've ultimately come away with the prize had it not failed to re-up the bid (and may have even reduced it, looking at Palm's SEC filings) after HP made its move. For its part, Google apparently made some not-too-serious moves, primarily in a perceived head game with Apple.
Speaking of Apple, the company was said to be in it primarily for Palm's sizable patent portfolio -- but is claimed to have also been interested in keeping the platform alive, possibly in an effort to compete in the physical QWERTY market where the iPhone has not. Of course, if you look way back, it's important to remember that Mac OS X itself is based on outside work (if you consider NeXT "outside"), so we guess that keeping webOS alive in some capacity after an Apple acquisition wouldn't be totally unprecedented -- but it'd still be really, really weird at best.
7/16/2010 12:27:00 AM
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We don't really like the Droid X as a phone, but that part barely matters now. You probably shouldn't buy the phone because doing so supports something very wrong—something anti-customer and anti-innovation—that Motorola is doing.
According to a forum of Android modders, as pointed out by MobileCrunch, the Droid X is locked down with an authentication chip called an eFuse. Even if you aren't a hardcore techie, you can grasp what it does.
The eFuse is there to verify what's called a bootloader—the very first process to load filled with important stuff encompassing the core software of the phone, like firmware. And if the eFuse doesn't see specific, pre-programmed code within Motorola's guidelines, it will essentially short out and the Droid X will cease to function at all. (To resuscitate the phone, you'd need specialized hardware only found at Motorola.)
7/16/2010 12:25:00 AM
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Channel is the favorite of all ladies and also the counterfeit market. Although they don't buy fake Chanel, but in many office ladies' closet there are still Channel-styled jacket. In Episode 6 of idol drama "Summer's Desire," Huang Xiao Ming (plays Luo Xi) carefully put a blanket on Barbie Hsu (plays Xiao Mo). Lately some viewers contacted GTV, expressing they couldn't find this Channel logo blanket in the counter; they wonder where they can buy it? After investigation, it's confirmed the crew bought it from night market and it's a counterfeit.
"Summer's Desire" features showbiz as its story background. Huang Xiao Ming and Barbie are big stars and their accessories and outfits are real designer brands. In real life, Barbie is also a fashionista. Would she feel embarrassed of putting on a fake Channel product? Yesterday her manager expressed, during filming she couldn't possibly pay attention to the blanket. Artiste's responsibility is to focus in their performances. If the blanket is fake, should ask the crew for more details.
7/16/2010 12:22:00 AM
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New York Senator Charles Schumer (D) has written an open letter to Apple’s CEO Steve Jobs asking for a quick and transparent fix for the iPhone 4’s antenna woes. Citing the Consumer Reports report from several days ago, Schumer’s letter also asks for “a written explanation of the formula it uses to calculate bar strength.” We’ve got the full letter for your scrutiny after the bounce.
One of our reliable Apple connections (not Jason Burford) just let us know some pretty fantastic news. It’s been widely assumed that Apple will start to roll out their FaceTime real-time communication protocol to more and more of their mobile devices (and possibly their computers), but until now, we’ve been in the dark on how this will actually work. After all, there are no phone numbers to call on an iPod touch or iPad. Here is how we have been told FaceTime will work on non-iPhone devices:
This weekend is all about mind games. Chistopher Nolan (The Dark Knight) is playing a big one on audiences with Inception while Nicolas Cage is seeing if he can educate his student Jay Baruchel in The Sorcerer’s Apprentice. The results are likely to be markedly different. Inception is set to score big, though the long run time and narrow swath of the movie-going public that’s itching to take the trip are going against the challenging film. Apprentice, despite audience enjoyment, is suffering from a muddled marketing campaign and an unmotivated audience. The film opened to a weak $3.9 million on Wednesday, a number that will likely not help build the word-of-mouth that Disney was counting on. Read on for the numbers.
U.S. sales of video games fell 6 percent in June to $1.1 billion after the strong appeal of Nintendo Co., Sony Corp. and Microsoft Corp. consoles failed to offset weak game purchases.
Charlene Choi (Ah Sa), who has been bothered by the cold this month, originally planned to fly to Shanghai to attend to a radio promotion event. But before she leaves, she suddenly felt uncomfortable; felt dizzy and wanted to throw up. At the end, she even fainted on the floor. Ah Sa was sent to the hospital and she felt better after being treated. She returned home to rest after getting an intravenous injection.
Zaizai’s new film “Love you ten thousand years” will be released in early August, and it is reported/ rumoured that ZZ has declined going to "Kang Xi Lai Le"* which always uses Zaizai and his previous relationship with DaS to create topic, and will also not be appearing in the Saturday entertainment program called "Big Variety Show". Zaizai's manager Zhi Xiang Li said "Variety shows will not really allow us to talk about the movie."
Apple looks to have yet another problem on its hands.
The multi-talented Jay Chou is successful in just about anything he does, but would he make a good talk show host? It's hard to say at this point, but President Chou is apparently interested in expanding his career into hosting.
Mel Gibson's estranged wife Robyn is finally speaking out and defending him against allegations that he hit former girlfriend Oksana Grigorieva.
Lindsay Lohan has entered rehab for the fourth time, We has confirmed.
Apple’s executive team will no doubt be fuming this morning, as Bloomberg reported that a senior Apple engineer and antenna expert voiced concerns about potential reception issues with the iPhone 4 due to its antenna design in the early phases of the hardware design process, citing a source familiar to the matter.
Fans of pop star Ayumi Hamasaki (31) will be able to see her in 3-D in movie theaters starting next month. A total of 22 state-of-the-art 3-D cameras were used to film her nationwide tour last year, and the footage has been edited (with some use of CG) to create a new kind of concert experience.
Mobile ad network Millennial Media, which claims that its network reaches 82 percent of 72 million mobile web users in the U.S., is reporting that globally, Apple OS requests are up by 36 percent in June, after dropping 33 percent in May.
If Taylor Lautner was actually going to be in the upcoming X-Men: First Class, would teen wolf Wolverine be the right role for him?
Katy Perry‘s “California Gurls” tops the Billboard Hot 100 chart this week. Surprise! Well, not really. This is its sixth straight week at No. 1. At this point, it’ll be news when it’s not there anymore. Eminem’s “Love the Way You Lie” featuring Rihanna is No. 2 for the third week in a row. B.o.B’s “Airplanes” switches places with Usher‘s “OMG,” moving to No. 3 while Usher drops a spot to No. 4. Travie McCoy’s “Billionaire” stays at No. 5.
Is it Friday yet? Bloomberg is reporting that: “Apple Inc.’s senior antenna expert voiced concern to Chief Executive Officer Steve Jobs in the early design phase of the iPhone 4 that the antenna design could lead to dropped calls.” The article cites an anonymous source, “familiar with the matter,” who went on to say:
