9/10/2010 07:16:00 PM
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From today, people can pre-order the T-Mobile G2 at Best Buy USA, with the phone available in-store for purchasing come October 6th. It'll cost $199, and you'll have to sign up for a two-year contract.
[Best Buy via AndroidCentral]
9/10/2010 07:15:00 PM
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In interviews, the question of why Hangeng left Super Junior is always asked. He says he started dancing when he was 12, got a chance to audition and was chosen, saying "I think my life is a big coincidence", including his choice to go solo.
During this issue of MEN'S UNO photoshoot, Hangeng revealed that he prefers acting to singing, and his idol is Tony Leung 梁朝偉, saying "His films and the aura he produces have always attracted me." He sees Tony Leung as the goal, but will find a more suitable path for himself, saying "I want to be a good actor more than a singer, but I don't have lots of acting experience so I don't know what suits me, although I want to be in an action movie."
Wearing Burberry to the interview, Hangeng exudes an idol's aura, but he says his life isn't that exciting. When he has time, he often stays at home, going online to see fan messages, but doesn't use MSN or social networking sites. He maintains an 8hour-per-day sleeping pattern, and if there is spare time he will exercise.
Source: UDN
9/10/2010 05:41:00 PM
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Talented idol group 2NE1 has been tearing things up lately by dominating various music charts with not just 1, 2, or 3 songs, but up to 4 and 5, from their newest full-length album To Anyone, at a time! We also reported earlier that 2NE1 placed #1 on Japan’s HMV chart, thus proving their international love is strong.
The girls unleashed their first hot music video for Clap Your Hands just yesterday, and next up we have Go Away which was posted on 2NE1’s official YouTube channel. Yet another fresh video, with brand new looks and another catchy tune to enjoy.
9/10/2010 05:41:00 PM
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The Bodyguard” might sound a little ancient for the young ones, but Wu Chun is certainly old enough to remember this 1992 classic! The Kevin Costner/Whitney Houston movie was the source of inspiration for Fahrenheit's latest music video, “心疼妳的心疼 (roughly translates to ‘My heart aches because your heart aches’). Wu Chun not only stars in it, he also conceived the storyline of a “Bodyguard Falling in Love With an Anchorwoman”. Like all great melodramas, their love was doomed from the beginning as she was engaged already.
In the music video, Wu Chun plays the handsome bodyguard, while the engaged-in-real-life Patty Hou plays the anchorwoman of his dreams. It is actually the first time Wu Chun has been the lead of a Fahrenheit MV. He laughed, “It’s finally my turn, Jiro Wang in ‘Stay With Me’ and Aaron Yan in ‘Lonesome Spirit’ were both leads in the videos. At last, I’m taking the stage.”
Elle Magazine is celebrating it’s 25th anniversary with its October issue by profiling 25 Hollywood Game-Changing Women in their Twenties.
When Elle debuted on newsstands in 1985, Wham’s “Careless Whisper” topped the charts, “Back To The Future was hot in theaters, and The Cosby Show was the most watched sitcom in American. All the while, a new generation of talented future trailblazers were busy being born. This month, the magazine profiles 25 women at 25. Lauren Conrad, Amanda Seyfried, Megan Fox, Gabourey Sidibe, Meghan McCain, and even Diddy’s archandroid proteg Janelle Monae made the cut of stars earning honors.
9/10/2010 09:17:00 AM
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Remember that mysterious Windows Phone 7-powered ASUS from early August? Turns out it showed up at Gnomedex this year, and there's video floating around to prove it. The phone stars in a nearly 12-minute epic detailing the various parts of the platform -- all of which we've seen before -- but obviously, our attention is focused squarely on this hardware that we haven't really seen before (and looks very different from the ASUS device that Microsoft was using to demo WP7 in the early days). It's hard to say if the talk of an AMOLED display is true -- or whether this is a retail or near-retail piece of hardware -- so we'd hold off on saving up for this one just yet. Since Garmin-Asus came into existence, ASUS' phone efforts have been squarely focused on the joint venture -- and seeing how this steady supply of prototype hardware proves that they'll be making commercial WP7 devices, it'll be interesting to see whether Garmin's involved. Follow the break for the full video.
9/10/2010 09:17:00 AM
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Everyone knew it the moment they saw it. Hell, even Steve Jobs alluded to it when he was unveiling the thing. The new multitouch iPod Nano was made to be strapped to a watch band. Here it is, for $17.
OK, so there's still the issue of having headphones plugged into your watch at all times. And the limits of the Nano's looks-like-iOS-but-can't-run-apps-like-iOS operating system. But these things are pretty minor when you consider that this time next week you could be wearing an IPOD as a WATCH. Imagine the look on your 2001 self's face if you told them that in under a decade you'd be wearing one of those iPod things on your wrist. It'd be a look of incredulity. And longing!
As we wait for the premiere of “Athena – Goddess of War“ on November, a three and a half minute long trailer of the drama was recently released.
After watching it myself, the trailer got me more excited for this drama than before. The trailer introduces all the main characters including Jung Woo Sung, Soo Ae, Cha Seung Won, Choi Siwon, Kim Min Jong and Lee Ji Ah. On top of that, BoA and Lee Bo Young, who made their special appearance in the drama, can also be sighted.
Check it out below.
9/10/2010 09:15:00 AM
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Did you know that 33 percent of PlayStation gamers don't eat while playing, and that seven percent won't date non-gamers? Learn more fun facts and explore the history of the PlayStation brand in a pair new infographics direct from Sony.
The PlayStation brand turns 15 today, and Sony is helping us celebrate with a pair of large images. First off we have the Fun Facts infographic, which indeed includes facts that could be construed as fun, under the right circumstances.
9/10/2010 09:14:00 AM
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So! That church that wants to burn the Koran this weekend, Dove World Outreach Center? While we can't make them disappear altogether, they've at least been taken off the internet by their web host, Rackspace.
While the church is crying censorship, Rackspace's argument that maliciously setting fire to a holy text violates the "no hate speech" clause in Dove World Outreach's contract is pretty inarguable. Pastor Terry Jones has until midnight to gather up his internet flock and move them to another host. The First Amendment protects Jones's right to express his beliefs as he pleases, but it doesn't mean Rackspace has to put up with it—especially if it violates a binding legal agreement between the two.
9/10/2010 09:14:00 AM
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There's a rumor going around today that Verizon is stripping Google services out of its Android devices going forward in favor of their Bing equivalents (much the same way that AT&T has gone with Yahoo on some phones), but the company says this afternoon that it's simply false:
"...that is not true. We have a relationship with Microsoft and Bing is the search engine on our multi-media phones but we have never said it would be exclusive on all of our devices."
We think the wording here is pretty important: "on our multi-media phones." We take this to mean that Verizon's looking at using Bing on its high-end featurephones and its midrange smartphones, possibly keeping the end-to-end Google experience exclusive to its cream of the crop -- which would also explain why the recently-launched Fascinate didn't get the coveted Droid brand as a part of its name.
9/10/2010 09:13:00 AM
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Last week we reported that the Queen of J-pop (Ayumi Hamasaki) recruited Jaejoong to co-star in a PV for her previously released single Blossom. Jaejoong quickly accepted the proposition stating, “Ayumi Hamasaki is a big senior in my record label, so when I received the offer to appear in her PV, I was really happy. Although I feel a lot of pressure, I’ll try to do it perfectly!”
After news of this, Ayumi’s sales skyrocketed and earlier today a preview for the upcoming Blossom PV was revealed.
9/10/2010 01:18:00 AM
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A raven-haired Rihanna disrobes on the cover for her spankin’ new single, “Only Girl (In the World).”
The buzzworthy image features the Bajan singer sitting naked in a field while clutching a dress that’s nearly as red as the wig on her head!
Rihanna’s Stargate-produced dance banger will be digitally-released via iTunes on Sept. 21, while her fifth studio album LOUD! is due in November.
The island beauty debuted the cover art via Twitter earlier Thursday, along with the following message:
A tipster sends these photos of the WP7-running Samsung GT-i8700. There's not a whole lot to glean besides the fact that it has 8GB of memory and looks like something I want to play with right now. Here's the back:
9/10/2010 01:15:00 AM
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With a gold master OS, plenty of devices raring to show themselves, and a more or less obvious October launch window, it's clear that Windows Phone 7 is right around the corner. Pocket-lint is reporting today that its sources, "senior figures within the industry," are pegging October 11 as the special day, with a New York launch event to make it all official. The handsets will then be available later that month, according to one of those sources. It sounds like everybody is ready for Microsoft to start fighting back in the world of phones, the question is: are you?
With Google focusing Chrome OS on netbooks rather than tablets, their comments about Froyo not being suitable for tablets is a little puzzling. What would you suggest people use, Google? Donut, like ViewSonic's ViewPad 100?
In the wake of loosened Apple restrictions, Adobe has restarted work on a tool called Packager for iPhone that let developers make native iOS apps out of Flash programs. 
It’s official: Former House doc Jennifer Morrison is joining the cast of How I Met Your Mother as Zooey, Ted’s new love interest.
Don’t hold out for closure, Heroes fans: A key source on the canceled drama told EW that NBC is not moving forward with a movie that would wrap up the four-year series. After the Peacock announced the show’s cancellation last May, there was some talk about allowing creator Tim Kring to give fans one more chance to say goodbye to their favorite characters, but that’s as far as it went.
It was a battle of the stars as leading men Ethan Ruan, Peter Ho, Mark Chao and Raymond Lam fought it out for the lead role in Madam White Snake.
After being taken to task recently for allegedly disrespectful Twitter comments about the recent bus hijacking in Manila, action star Jackie Chan found himself in the centre of yet another controversy - a donation scandal. 
After a typically slow Labor Day weekend, the only major release for the first frame of the fall is Resident Evil: Apocal… I mean Extinc… I mean Afterlife. The durable zombie thriller franchise has some tricky competition — Machete, Takers, The Last Exorcism, and even The Expendables could sap some of its audience — but I still expect it to emerge victorious for the Sept. 10 weekend. (And believe you me, given my embarrassing predictions for last week’s triple-header, I am grateful for the impending weekend’s simplified release schedule.) Here’s how I see the numbers shaking out:
Will and Jada Smith's little girl is growing up!
Back in July, Leehom Wang was rumored to be starring in the Hollywood version of Mulan, but the latest rumors indicate that the role has gone to to Jerry Yan instead. This big-budget adaptation of the classic story is tentatively titled “巾幗英雄 (roughly translates to ‘Heroic Woman’)”. Actress Zhang Ziyi will coproduce the movie with her manager Ling Lucas and Ming “Beaver” Kwei, while “Speed” director Jan de Bont will direct. 
Looks Angelina Jolie isn't so popular after all!
The video game industry's months-long slump continues, with retailers scoring their worst August sales figures in four years. 
'He works harder than a lot of people I know,' she says of Best New Artist nominee and pal.
After seven weeks at No. 1 week, Eminem and his Rihanna-featuring “Love the Way You Lie” is no longer No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart. That title now goes to Katy Perry‘s “Teenage Dream,” while “Lie” falls back to No. 2 this week.
Apple's battle with developers might be heading toward a truce.
The Twilight actress claims when she is nervous, she smells...
Britney Spears is slamming a shocking new lawsuit filed Wednesday against her by a former bodyguard. Fernando Flores has sued the singer, 28, alleging sexual harassment, emotional distress and even the physical abuse of her kids.