See an Exclusive Glee Season-Premiere Photo

Glee, the breakout, blockbuster TV series we all love, returns to Fox Sept. 21 at 8 p.m., but before you watch, you hard-core fans from season one must take a look at our brand-new exclusive photo from the season premiere.

It's nothing less than a smoldering shot of one of your favorite original couples.



Which pairing is looking very romantic in season two?

Juicy, no? By the looks of this promotional still, Finn (Cory Monteith) and Rachel (Lea Michele) are most definitely living up to what Ryan Murphy promised us they would do: Keeping their hands all over each other in the new season. Holler!

So, does this pic make you squee with Glee (yup, we just did that)—or are you scowling and closing your browser window?

Hit the comments with your reaction to this Finnchel reunion shot!

New “Burlesque” Promo Poster

Get a load of the latest poster for Cher and Christina Aguilera’s highly-anticipated movie musical Burlesque.

In the film, Xtina plays a small town girl trying to make it big in the City of Angels under the guidance of a showbiz vet and cabaret owner portrayed by Cher in the film.

Burlesque hits theaters this Thanksgiving!

Lindsay Lohan Pulled Over in Her Maserati in LA

Lindsay Lohan was pulled over late last night in West Hollywood after she blew through a stop sign, according to an X17online report. But Celebuzz tells a juicier tale, one of LiLo driving up to 120 mph and blasting through multiple stop signs and red lights. The latter is less likely, as Lohan escaped the encounter with only a warning.

The 23-year-old starlet was in her $150,000 Maserati, en route to the Chateau Marmont.

Lindsay rode with a passenger, who The Hollywood Gossip identifies as Eilat Anschel. The same site notes Lohan's recent prison and rehab stints have left her with a zero-tolerance policy on illegal activities.

TMZ calls Lohan a "cop charmer," adding, "Lindsay is counting on shooting 'Inferno' in mid-November in Louisiana -- if she runs afoul of the law, the judge almost certainly will not let her leave the state."

Kanye West 'Runaway Love' Remix With Justin Bieber

It's official: Kanye West and Justin Bieber have teamed up with Wu-Tang Clan's Raekwon to remix Justin's 'My World 2.0' song 'Runaway Love.' They debuted the track on Hip Hop Connection. Twitter brought the unlikely trio together after West tweeted, "Listening to @JustinBieber 'Run Away love.'" The two pop stars then exchanged messages, and the rest is music history.

Raekwon spits two verses, while Kanye takes just one verse on the track. "Last name West, and my teeth diamonds," West raps. "She said, 'Yo, what's your occupation: crazy rhyming?'"

Bieber's vocals from the original recording remain intact.

Earlier this month, Raekwon announced to XXLMag.com that the song was "definitely gonna happen."

"When you got these kinda talents merging together to do something exciting, I think it's something that's gonna make the fans check it out. I'm big fans of both of these guys. I think, at the end of the day, shorty is a sensation," he added.

'I thought the cocaine was gum,' claims Paris Hilton as she is charged with drug possession and faces FOUR years in prison

Paris Hilton is claiming she believed the cocaine found in her purse was chewing gum.

According to police report released today, the 29-year-old was handed her purse by an officer when a small bag containing the drug fell out.

The officer reported that Hilton said she had not seen the bag 'but now thought it was gum.'

Hilton was arrested for possessing cocaine in the early hours of Saturday morning after her car was stopped by police in Las Vegas.

She has been charged with felony possession of a controlled substance, 0.8 grams of cocaine, it is claimed today.

The socialite could face four years in prison if convicted.

She is denying the allegations, claiming the cocaine which was allegedly found, along with the purse, was not hers.

She said she had borrowed the purse from a friend.

And somehow, according to Hilton, the contents of the purse were split between herself and the friend.

The report states she claimed ownership of a broken Albuterol pill - a prescription drug used to help people with breathing - Zig Zag wrappers commonly used to smoke marijuana, $1,300 in cash and credit cards.

However, 'She said several cosmetic items inside the purse were not hers,' according to the police report.



The District Attorney filed the case today, with an October 27 arraignment, according to website TMZ.

Nevada law states that if convicted, Hilton could get anywhere from probation to four years in prison - but the standard sentence is one to four years.

She could also get fined up to $5,000.

Her boyfriend Cy Waits, who was driving the car, was booked on charges of DUI.

Today, he is said to have lost his job as head of nightclub operations for Wynn and Encore properties after this weekend's events.

According to the police report, Hilton was pulled over after a policeman smelled 'the strong odour of marijuana coming from the vehicle.'

The officer then noticed the passenger was Hilton who he then observed trying to roll up the window.

The heiress was forced to step out of her luxury car as the below photograph shows.

Lindsay Lohan Tells Vanity Fair: 'I Want My Career Back'

Lindsay Lohan is determined to return to the top of the Hollywood A-List.

In an interview with Vanity Fair conducted prior to her incarceration, Lohan tells the magazine that she's willing to do whatever it takes.


"I want my career back. I want the respect that I had when I was doing great movies. And if that takes not going out to a club at night, then so be it. It's not fun anyway."

"I don't care what anyone says. I know that I'm a damn good actress. ... And I know that in my past I was young and irresponsible-but that's what growing up is. You learn from your mistakes," she says.

The actress defends herself against rumors that claim she was an alcoholic. "If I were the alcoholic everyone says I am, then putting a [SCRAM] bracelet on would have ended me up in detox, in the emergency room, because I would have had to come down from all the things that people say I'm taking and my father says I'm taking-so that says something, because I was fine," she explains.



On her father: "I think my biggest focus for myself is learning how to continue to get through the trauma that my father has caused in my life."

Her alleged drug use: "I've never abused prescription drugs. I never have-never in my life. I have no desire to. That's not who I am. I've admitted to the things that I've done-to, you know, dabbling in certain things and trying things 'cause I was young and curious and thought it was like, O.K., 'cause other people were doing it and other people put it in front of me. And I see what happened in my life because of it."

Turquoise dream! String bikini girl Britney looks stunning on romantic Hawaii break

Britney Spears certainly hasn't been singing the blues lately as she continues to enjoy a romantic getaway with boyfriend Jason Trawick.

The singer looked stunning in a turquoise-blue bikini as she enjoyed a cocktail in Hawaii.

The couple have been acting very loved up on their break in the exotic location leading to speculation that they plan to marry soon.



Jason, who is Britney's former agent , has been dating the singer for over a year now.

He's been credited with helping to bring Spears back to life after her well-documented turmoil two years ago.

He has since stopped working for Britney and now focuses his time keeping her happy romantically, while someone else looks after her career.



Perhaps looking for a little inspiration for what would be her third trip down the aisle, Britney was spotted yesterday watching a wedding ceremony from her hotel balcony.

Spears and 44-year-old former agent Trawick are staying in a luxury suite overlooking the ocean on Mauii's beautiful Wailea coast.

Meanwhile Spears shows off plenty of flesh in a revealing gown in the TV advert for her newest fragrance called Radiance.



Lady Gaga's Healthy Diet: Tofu, Turkey and Hummus

With the demands of performing on her Monster Ball tour, recording a new album and being one of her generation's top pop stars Lady Gaga has a lot on her plate – but she stays healthy by watching what she puts on her plate.

Since fainting during a concert in New Zealand earlier this year, Gaga has become a stickler for maintaining a healthy routine, according to her choreographer LaurieAnn Gibson.

"It's all about salsa with grain chips, tofu, turkey slices, hummus and coconut water," says the choreographer, who is nominated for two MTV VMAs for Gaga's "Bad Romance" and "Telephone" videos.

But a girl can't put on a show on hummus alone.

"We'll have a toast or two with a little white wine!" says Gibson, who will premiere a Ryan Seacrest-produced reality show on E! in November, of Gaga's pre-show ritual.

So just who is the real Gaga? Gibson, who choreographed the singer's videos for "Poker Face," "Love Game," "Paparazzi," "Bad Romance," "Telephone" and "Alejandro," says Gaga is a soulful theater buff who has "become a lot more comfortable with herself."

Gibson describes the pop star as "fearless," and says her new music, which Gaga has been recording while on tour, reflects that fearlessness. "She's going to take a bigger bite out of things," says Gibson. "You're going to see more of who she really is."

Dancing with the Stars Season 11 Cast Revealed!

It’s time to take off the flip-flops and put on the dancing shoes as the cast of Dancing with the Stars season 11 is now in place.

Baywatch alum David Hasselhoff will compete against Jersey Shore hunk Michael “The Situation” Sorrentino, as well as former NFL star Kurt Warner, singer Michael Bolton, Bristol Palin and actress Jennifer Grey, DWTS hosts Tom Bergeron and Brooke Burke announced in a live press conference Monday night during a new episode of Bachelor Pad.

Also ready to hit the ballroom are Brady Bunch star Florence Henderson, Hills star Audrina Patridge, former Los Angeles Laker Rick Fox, singer Brandy, comedian Margaret Cho and actor Kyle Massey.

The celebrity-professional pairings will be revealed Wednesday. And the new season of Dancing kicks off Sept. 20 on ABC. –Monica Rizzo

How much will a Windows 7 migration really cost?

Last week, the Gartner Group made some headlines (including this one from my ZDNet colleague Mary Jo Foley) with a provocative press release that tried to pin a price tag on the cost of migrating to Windows 7. The press release throws out four separate price tags, ranging from $1,205 to $2,069 per PC, with some confusing percentages to quantify overall IT budget increases. But in their zeal to come up with hard numbers, the press release adds more confusion than clarification to the topic. In some cases, the numbers just don’t add up.

Gartner was kind enough to provide me with a copy of the full report. After reading it over, I’ve come up with a slightly different set of conclusions. The executive summary? If you run a Windows shop and you’ve been paying attention to the Windows landscape for the past two or three years, you’ve got few surprises in store, and Gartner’s alarming numbers don’t apply to you. But if you pinned all your hopes on the “Save XP” movement, you’ve got some serious catching up to do, and your migration bill is likely to be much higher than it would have been otherwise.

Here are the places where I agree and disagree with the Gartner study.

Yes, it’s an important issue.

According to analyst Charles Smulders, Gartner estimates that large and midsize organizations will migrate approximately 250 million PCs from Windows XP to Windows 7 in the next two or three years. That sounds about right to me, and is certainly in line with some of the projections I’ve seen lately. And staying on XP is not an option—at least not for any workstation that is actually connected to the Internet.

Your migration away from XP should be in the final stages by early 2013.

I agree with Gartner completely on this point. Support for Windows XP ends formally in April 2014, but third-party software companies will probably be phasing out their support during 2013. In addition, it is prudent to allow some slack in the schedule for things to go wrong, as they always do. In the timeline that accompanies the Gartner report, 2013 and 2014 are colored bright red and labeled the “XP Danger Zone.”

To hit that 2013 deadline, your migration had better be under way now.

Absolutely right. If your IT operation rolls like a well-oiled machine, you’ve already begun deploying Windows 7 on a three- or four-year cycle that will have XP completely off your network in plenty of time for the April 2014 deadline. Gartner assumes PC hardware replacement cycles of 3.25 years for a notebook and a little less than five years for a desktop. If you’re buying new PCs today expecting them to last four years, they’d better be starting with Windows 7 and not with XP.

What might not have been clear in those Gartner numbers that were so widely reported is that they include the capital costs of new PCs and Windows licenses. According to my calculations, Gartner is pegging the cost of a new PC with a Windows 7 Professional license at somewhere between $723 and $1,199. PCs are depreciable assets, so those costs aren’t optional, although their timing is.

So, what happens if you haven’t already started a migration?

If you’re just beginning to realize that you’re behind in your migration planning, then Gartner’s warnings definitely apply to you. Let’s call it the “XP diehard tax,” which Gartner says you’ll pay in one of two ways:
Accelerated PC replacement. Gartner’s calculations assume the average enterprise with 10,000 PCs will need to replace roughly 25% of its machines early. In that case, you’ll be prematurely throwing out perfectly good PCs before their useful life has run out, meaning you’ll be paying a “migration tax” equal to 25% of the average cost of a PC, or about $180-$300 per PC.
Upgrades for installed PCs. This one hurts for two reasons. First, you have to pay $150-$200 for a Windows 7 upgrade license, and you have to pay for the parts and labor to upgrade memory, hard disk, and/or video adapters on desktop PCs that you choose not to replace. That’s a terrible ROI.

That sounds about right. If your natural hardware replacement cycle is disrupted, you pay extra. Where Gartner loses me in the discussion is with the numbers in the full report, which simply don’t add up. According to the report, those upgrade costs (including the Windows license) equal more than $1,600 per PC, which is double the cost of a new PC. I suspect it’s a typo, and I’ve sent an e-mail to Gartner asking for clarification. I’ll update this post when I hear back.

If you’ve put together a comprehensive migration strategy, Gartner’s numbers don’t apply to you.

A few big qualifications are buried in the fine print of that Gartner report, and a couple aren’t mentioned at all.
  • If you bought smart, you don’t need to upgrade hardware. Specs for Windows 7 are equal to or less than those for Windows Vista. So if you bought a Vista-ready machine in 2007 through 2009, it shouldn’t need any hardware upgrades to handle an OS upgrade. The losers here are IT buyers who bought cheap PCs and now need to crack them open. That was a false economy. If you bought PCs with an eye to the future, you’ve already got the hardware you need.
  • If you have a Software Assurance contract, you’ve already paid for Windows 7 licenses. Gartner notes this detail in passing, but that detail shaves $150-200 off their cost estimates.
  • Investments in deployment technology can have huge payoff. Many of the Gartner numbers seem to be predicated on the idea that an IT worker has to touch each PC and do a manual upgrade. But as the report’s authors note, smart enterprises have already eliminated the need for those manual interventions, and the savings are staggering: “[M]igration costs can be reduced significantly by investment in zero-touch PC deployment processes and tools. Gartner estimates that in the best case, an in-place upgrade can be done for $100 per PC or less…”
  • PCs running Windows Vista don’t need accelerated upgrades. For some reason, Gartner completely ignored enterprises that have already completed app compatibility testing and have begun a migration from XP to Windows Vista. Those PCs don’t face the same 2014 upgrade deadline as their XP counterparts. An IT administrator who has moved 25% or more of the enterprise desktops to Vista can comfortably switch to Windows 7, avoid the XP Danger Zone, and avoid all those early upgrades and replacement.
  • This is a tremendous opportunity for desktop virtualization. Gartner notes the potential for server-based computing and hosted virtual desktops but doesn’t calculate the potential savings. I suspect a lot of organizations will accelerate their plans for replacing PCs with cheaper, more centralized options, especially for task workers.

So, what’s the overall impact on IT budgets?

In her headline, Mary Jo Foley called out the most alarming number from the Gartner report: IT shops moving to Windows 7 need a 20 to 60 percent PC budget increase. But as the report makes clear, the PC budget typically represents only 15% of a typical IT budget, which means that a 20-60% increase in the PC budget actually represents an overall increase of only 3% (best case, according to Gartner) or 9% (worst case). And given the numbers I calculated, companies that began planning for migration three years ago and invested in advanced deployment tools could actually see their PC costs drop, percentage-wise, during the course of this migration. Imagine that.

Gmail Priority Inbox Sorts Your Email For You. And It’s Fantastic.


Email overload has finally met its match. Tomorrow, Gmail is rolling out a new feature called Priority Inbox that is going to be a Godsend for those of you who dread opening your email. In short, Google has built a system that figures out which of your messages are important, and presents them at the top of the screen so you don’t miss them. The rest of your messages are still there, but you don’t have to dig through dozens of newsletters and confirmations to find the diamonds in rough.

The beauty of the system lies in its simplicity — it’s nearly as easy as Gmail’s one click spam filter. There’s almost no setup: once it’s activated on your account, you’ll see a prompt asking you if you want to enable Priority Inbox. You can choose from a few options (the order of your various inboxes and if there are any contacts you’d like to always mark ‘Important’) but don’t have to setup any rules or ‘teach’ Gmail what you want it to mark important. It just works, at least most of the time.



The system uses a plethora of criteria to decide which messages are most important: things like how frequently you open and/or respond to messages from a given sender, how often you read messages that contain a certain keyword, and whether or not the message is addressed solely to you or looks like it was sent to a mailing list. If you come across a message that’s been marked important when it shouldn’t have been, you can hit an arrow to tell Gmail it’s messed up. Likewise, if a message that should have been flagged gets sent to the ‘everything else’ area, you can promote it. Through these actions Gmail gets progressively smarter, so the system should work better over time.



I’ve been using the service since late last week and have found it to work very well. Occasionally messages that shouldn’t have been marked ‘Important’ are flagged, but I’ve yet to encounter an urgent message that slipped into the ‘everything else’ section. My colleague MG Siegler, who has also had the feature active, has had similar success.

It’s great. I love it. But it isn’t perfect.

My biggest gripe so far is the fact that there’s no way to tell why a given message has been deemed important. Oftentimes it’s obvious — emails from my coworkers are generally given the golden arrows, as are messages from PR contacts whom I frequently communicate with. But occasionally there are oddballs that have been marked important for no apparent reason.

Sure, it’s easy to tell Gmail that ‘this message is not important’ and strip its golden badge. But what if the message was marked important for a reason that is usually sound (perhaps it contains a reference to TechCrunch Disrupt, for example)? It would be nice if I could tell Gmail something to the effect of “this sender is never important”, but not to start frowning on whatever keywords the message contained. Still, it’s a great start.

Of course, this introduces a new dynamic to the way a lot of people are going to be reading email. Email intros will become ever more important, because you’ll want to ensure that your message gets marked with coveted ‘important’ tag. It also has much broader implications. Increasingly, content will be displayed to you based on its importance rather than its time stamp — not just when it comes to browsing email, but for social networks and other content as well.

Priority Inbox will be rolling out to Gmail and Google Apps users alike over the course of the week.

i-Station Z3D 7-inch 3D Android tablet requires glasses, how convenient

Come on, you knew it would come to this. In an industry obsessed with 3D as a means of boosting sales, somebody was bound to introduce a 3D tablet that requires glasses (polarized, no doubt). While other companies like Sharp have 3D tablet ambitions designed around its glassesless parallax barrier display technology, Korea's i-Station has bolted from the gate with a 7-inch (800x480) Z3D 3D tablet featuring the Android 2.1 OS, 802.11b/g WiFi, Bluetooth 2.0, FM radio, 5000mAh high capacity battery, DMB television, either 32GB or 64GB or storage (depending upon model), and 1080p video support. And really, what could be more convenient than carrying around an extra pair of glasses just for viewing 3D content? A stylus perhaps? One can only hope. Of course, i-Station has plenty of tablet options to choose from including the similarly spec'd "i-Station Dude" and miniature "Buddy," all pictured above just for you pal. Expect the Z3D to launch in November for KRW600,000 or right around $500. A few more pics after the break.


Motorola says leaked Droid X Android 2.2 build won't be updated to the official release


Can't say this is a surprise, but Motorola posted a note on its support forums today warning Droid X users against upgrading to that leaked Android 2.2 build or any of those custom ROMS that're out there -- they'll be cut off from the official upgrade when it hits in early September and potentially "stuck on the leaked version." Ouch. Of course, that's the risk you take when you start flashing your phone with unofficial firmware, but between this, eFUSE, and those cease and desist letters, it certainly feels like Motorola is decidedly unhappy that anyone would have the gall to hack or tweak one of its handsets, even if the phone in question is the size of a small tank and marketed by aggressive murderous robot hands insisting that it "does" everything one can think of with no restrictions. Contrast that with HTC, which is not only at peace with the hacking community, but even takes the initiative to resolve similar problems.

Of course, no one would care about any of this if Motorola would just release stock Android builds for its devices as soon as they're ready, but why learn that lesson when it's possible to waste money developing Blur and adopting painfully annoying staggered OTA rollout schedules at the behest of carriers? That would just be silly.

Selling sex to be a Korean idol: Taiwanese singer reveals all

What does it take to be a pop star in Korea? Looks, an appealing personality, and according to Taiwanese singer Estrella Lin, the willingness to be pimped out by your agency.

Estrella Lin, former member of girl group 3EP Beauties, asserts that her agency attempted to barter her body to business investors while she was aiming to develop her career in Korea. The attempt was not successful, and now Lin has returned home and published a book revealing the corrupt nature of the Korean entertainment business, reports Taiwanese media.

According to Lin, actors, actresses, and singers are encouraged to sell their bodies, or are sometimes even forced, in order to obtain opportunities in Korea. The expectation is an unwritten rule in the entertainment industry of the country, said Lin.

The situation is not unheard of in Korea. Just in recent memory, actress Jang JaYeon of Boys Over Flowers fame, committed suicide in 2008 due to her coerced involvement in “casting couch” favors. F ollowing the scandal (which was ruled inconclusive due to lack of substantial evidence), a survey of entertainers was conducted – it found that one out of five actresses were forced to provide sexual services to influential figures, or had witnessed their colleagues being compelled. Out of 2,000 entertainers who were asked to participate, only 183 responded. Of the 183, however, 19.1% admitted to personally participating in or knowing of someone who took part in the “couch casting” calls. Shockingly, 62.3 percent revealed that they would face disadvantages if they refused.

And Estrella? “I was pressured to ‘sexually’ entertain investors, but I never allowed myself to do so. I’m not afraid of Koreans protesting because what I said is true.” Lin was also told to change her date of birth from 1980 to 1985, as she was considered “too old” for the industry.

Details regarding Lin’s management company have not yet been revealed.

Sources: Korean Herald, Chosun Ilbo, Korea Times

Barbie Hsu went on secret matchmaking dates

Taiwan actress Barbie Hsu has revealed that she had gone on secret matchmaking sessions after being set up by her sister Dee Hsu and now dreams of getting married and having kids, reported Hong Kong media.

"In the past, my younger sister would always arrange it (matchmaking sessions) for me, but at that time, I was always very against it.

"Because every time I came back from the meal (with the prospective partner), everyone around me will keep asking how it went, as though the whole world knew I went for a matchmaking session and made me feel very awkward," said Hsu in a recent interview with Hong Kong media.

The 34 year-old actress, who once dated former F4 member Vic Chou until their very public separation in 2008, added that her views changed as she grew older and time continued to tick away.

"I would love to start dating with having children as a premise," said Hsu. "Now, I am more open to romantic relationships because getting married and having kids is my dream."

When asked if she was still single because her standards were too high, Hsu said she was simply looking for "a gentle, healthy man who takes care of his family".

"He doesn't need to support me, I can support myself, but there is nobody like that in my life!"

Well, perhaps not "nobody".

Hsu appears opposite Richie Ren in the period comedy "The Dragon and Phoenix Inn" which opened earlier this month and she had nothing but admiration for him.

"Ren is a good man. We (Hsu and her sister) have known him for the longest time. He has always taken care of us," said Hsu.

"It's too bad he (Ren) already has a wife!"

Ren is currently not married but has a long-time girlfriend named Tina who is the mother of his son and daughter.

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