9/06/2010 07:56:00 PM
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A Super AMOLED 7-inch tablet was highly unlikely to ever materialize in a marketable form, but that didn't stop many of us from dreaming about one. Consequently, there was palpable disappointment when Samsung failed to deliver on our unicorn hallucinations with the Galaxy Tab, but the company says not to worry. The Tab's 7 inches of glorious visuals are being handled by a Super TFT panel, surely the Korean company's answer to Sony's Super LCD. It's a screen technology that has been developed "alongside" Super AMOLED and just so happens to offer better battery performance and an obvious saving in cost. We're usually inclined to consider such moves cynical marketing ploys -- keep the Super branding, drop the actual super hardware -- but the SLCD display on the HTC Desire gives us faith that perhaps TFTs really can be souped up. Video after the break.
9/06/2010 07:53:00 PM
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Ahead of their comeback, girlgroup 2NE1 reveals the preview to their 2nd title song ‘Clap Your Hands’ through YG’s official blog YG-Life on 6th September, as well as a few photos to the MV filming of the song.
Meanwhile, 2NE1 is set to promote 3 title songs for their upcoming 1st full length album ‘To Anyone’ which will be released on 9th September. They will then have their comeback stage on 12th September on SBS Inkigayo.
9/06/2010 07:53:00 PM
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Ladies and gentlemen, presenting the new fourth-generation iPod touch: it's so much like an iPhone that it has a Phone app (wait, what?). Better yet, if you do a Spotlight search on it, it'll return results from a messaging app it's not supposed to have. How's that for value? This would all be a great big enigmatic mystery if we weren't ourselves familiar with the practice (and pitfalls) of splicing disparate images into unholy creations. Well, at least now Microsoft isn't alone in making self-published Photoshop gaffes.
P.S. -- There's one more misplaced app on this magical device, but we'll let you figure it out for yourself!
9/06/2010 07:52:00 PM
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First the good news, for those who've waited months to get their paws on that 11.6-inch multitouch capacitive screen: there's no longer anything stopping you from dropping a stack of change on the Windows 7-wielding ExoPC. Originally restricted to the first 1,200 dedicated fans, preorders are now open to all, with the 32GB tablet setting you back CAD $649 (about $624) and the 64GB version CAD $749 (about $720), with both models featuring up-to-160MB/s fast SanDisk P4 mini-SSDs and up to four hours of battery life. The bad news is that you'll no longer find GPS on that 64GB model, as the prototype didn't pan out, and we're afraid that September 30th ship date has already slid back to October 15th. Take a gander at our hands-on preview (or better yet, wait for our review) if you've yet to make your mind up.
9/06/2010 07:52:00 PM
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Following TVB's Siu Sang King Raymond Lam being admitted to the hospital due to cervical displacement, yesterday Bosco Wong and Ron Ng both join the injured group. Both of them were injured one after the other while filming for Female Fist. Along with Kenny Wong's earlier broken finger, TVB Siu Sangs are in some disaster.
The day before, Raymond was filming for new series Colorful World of Sister Fa and because of his neck pains, he was admitted to the hospital. He was unable to attend the Growing Through Life promotion yesterday. Bosco was also unable to attend the promotion because of his injury. Damien Lau, Cecilia Yip, Toby Leung, Vivien Yeo and Dominic Lam had to lead the promotion.
9/06/2010 11:41:00 AM
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Early reports indicate Europe will pay a pretty penny for Samsung's Galaxy Tab, but the 7-inch tablet may cost a good bit less when it comes to US shores -- the Wall Street Journal paraphrases a Samsung executive who claims it could run between $200 and $300 depending on the all-important carrier subsidies. The Korea Times, meanwhile, suggests a $300 to $400 retail price according to a different Samsung bigwig, who added that the Tab "will cost slightly more than the Galaxy S smartphone." As you're probably aware, Sammy's Galaxy S typically retails for about $200 in the US -- excepting Sprint's Epic 4G at $250 -- so if you held a bursting Li-ion battery to our head and forced us to guess, we'd say the latter range of dollar signs is far more likely.
By the way, Vodafone shows the Galaxy Tab as "coming soon." Hit our more coverage links for details.
9/06/2010 11:37:00 AM
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Kate Hudson may rock some high-octane looks on the red carpet, but she prefers a more relaxed vibe when it comes to her everyday attire. “My personal style has never changed,” she tells Elle UK in its October issue, adding: “I love comfortable clothes and a lot of accessories.” In fact, the fewer clothes the better, says the actress and mom, who took time out from her Tuscan vacation with six-year-old son Ryder and British rock star boyfriend Matt Bellamy, to pose for the magazine’s cover. “I don’t like clothes that constrict me. It’s like, would you like to put some clothes on? No, I wouldn’t!” But one thing she’ll happily pile on? Her coveted accessories, especially her mom’s jewelry gifts. “For my birthday this year, she made me a gold necklace with a comedy/tragedy mask pendant. It has a little diamond as the tear,” she says. Claiming not to splurge on sartorial investments, Hudson says she does like to buy nice furniture like “chairs and lamps” and has one particular cabinet which is very close to her heart, as it’s full of her favorite scarves…Hermès scarves. “I have nearly 200 and I buy them all over some new, some from eBay, some from weird little places. I have a cabinet that I lay them out in. I love them they’re so beautifully made.”
9/06/2010 11:36:00 AM
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Two weeks ago you'd have to pay an Australian importer for a specialized USB key. Four days ago open-source software let you roll your own. Today, there's no need for any of that -- you can hack your PS3 with a tethered smartphone. Working closely with the PSGroove team, hacker Kakaroto adapted the same jailbreak to the Nokia N900, and the open-source community lost no time porting it to the Palm Pre as well. If the videos after the break are any indication, both versions work just as well as the original, and you too can get your game on with downloads and detailed instructions at the source links below.
9/06/2010 12:13:00 AM
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Attendance picked up on Saturday after a typically slow start to the Labor Day weekend on Friday. George Clooney’s The American was able to pull ahead of fellow newcomer Machete, resulting in a clear weekend win for the understated action movie.
The estimates for the top two new releases of the weekend – The American and Machete – were so close on Friday that it is still debatable which film came out on top. But who cares about Friday at this point? It’s the weekend winner who gets to tack that all important “Number One Film in America” line onto their TV spots, after all.
And it looks like that honor will go to The American. With an estimated $12.9 million through Sunday, Clooney’s American was able to slip past Robert Rodriguez’s Machete – though again, the difference we’re talking about here is fairly negligible.
Teenage heartthrob Justin Bieber is on cloud nine these days as his 4 million albums have been sold worldwide in less than a year. Bieber’s Madison Square Garden has also been sold out.
Mando-pop princess Jolin Tsai has admitted Sunday that she was very upset about the ceaseless rumours that have surrounded her of late, in a series of posts on her micro-blogging account, reported Chinese media.
Even the most mild-mannered person has a temper.
Food may be the way to a man's heart, but a new house could be the way into one's future parents-in-law's good books.
This weekend, I’ve been catching up on some reading. One post that was of particular interest to me was David Beach’s article from last week about developing for Android. Beach, who is a product manager at eBay Mobile and a co-founder of 12seconds, basically says that the experience sucks for a number of reasons (all of which Google can fix, but will take quite a bit of work and time). But one quote in particular stuck out to me:
A press event was held for Material Queen to officially introduce Van Ness Wu as its new leading man. Fellow F4 Jerry Yan made a surprise appearance after dropping out of the drama several days ago. It was impossible for him to keep a low-profile despite wearing casual clothes and a cap, but he did look like he wasn’t feeling very well. Producer Chen Yu Shan later explained that Jerry has been suffering from immune system problems, but the cause of his illness is still unknown.
Hong Kong's Tsui Hark unveiled his latest blockbuster, a Tang Dynasty whodunnit, at the Venice film festival on Sunday while Kelly Reichardt cast her feminine eye on the Wild West in "Meek's Cutoff".
