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Billy Ray 'So Sad' About Miley Cyrus' Bong Video

12/11/2010 10:45:00 AM kenmouse , Posted in , , , 0 Comments

Billy Ray Cyrus caught wind of Miley Cyrus' bong scandal and turned to his Twitter fans for emotional support.

"Sorry guys. I had no idea. Just saw this stuff for the first time myself. I'm so sad. There is much beyond my control right now," he wrote on Twitter.

A video obtained by TMZ shows the 'Hannah Montana' star taking hits from a bong that was reportedly filled with a natural herb called salvia, which when smoked has psychedelic qualities. Possession of salvia is currently legal in California. The video was reportedly taken five days after Miley turned 18.

According to the report, the video was shot by one of Miley's friends and it is very possible that someone stole or copied the video from that person's camera. The video begins with Cyrus taking a hit from the large bong and immediately begins to feel the effects of the drug. Soon, she's seeing things that aren't there, including her ex-boyfriend Liam Hemsworth.

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Robert Pattinson Auctions Himself—for How Much?

12/11/2010 10:44:00 AM kenmouse , Posted in , , 0 Comments

So, Twi-Hards. It's time to put your money where your bitchin' mouth is.

How much would you pay to meet Robert Pattinson?

Kristen Stewart's main man was auctioned up for a Breaking Dawn meet and greet, and sold for...

Only $80,000!

One lucky fan (with megarich parents) won a trip to travel to Vancouver with three friends, stay at the Four Seasons, and then head to the über-secret B.D. set where Rob will play host.

The prize was offered on Charity Buzz to raise funds for the GO Campaign, a nonprofit group that supports grassroots projects for orphans and vulnerable children globally.

Too adorbs!

For that amount of money, Kristen better come with and be her charming girlfriend self.

Really though, how much do you think it would have went for if Stewart's cute butt was the one up for auction?

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Google Nexus S review

12/11/2010 10:43:00 AM kenmouse , Posted in , , , 0 Comments


It can be difficult to review a phone like Google's Nexus S in a world already populated by so many outstanding Android devices. Not only does the manufacturer of this phone make a series of handsets that are all essentially the same (the Galaxy S line), but countless other OEMs are cranking away on hardware for the platform. Of course, the Nexus S is a decidedly different phone altogether. Picking up where the company's Nexus One left off, the S continues Google's legacy of creating standalone, "pure Android" phone experiences, seemingly aimed less at the mainstream and more towards developers. Unlike the failed experiment of the Nexus One, Google appears to be taking a more realistic approach to the S; the phone will be sold through Best Buy (and Carphone Warehouse across the pond), which suggests that the company has bigger plans for this device.

And what a device it is -- the Nexus S boasts a 1GHz Hummingbird CPU, 512MB of RAM, a 4-inch, 800 x 480 curved Super AMOLED display (dubbed the Contour Display), 16GB of storage, a 5 megapixel rear and VGA front-facing camera, and near field communication capabilities. But hardware is only half the story here -- the big news is that the Nexus S showcases the next major evolution of the Android OS, namely, Gingerbread (or version 2.3). The update comes with a slew of new features alongside some UI improvements that show Google isn't slowing down when it comes to pushing its mobile operating system forward. So is the Nexus S a real standout in the Android world, or is it more of the "me too" tech we've seen lately? Read on after the break for the full review to find out!

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iPad Mini rumors surface again

12/11/2010 10:37:00 AM kenmouse , Posted in , , , , , 0 Comments

Just a few days after reports of iPad 2 rumors flooded the blogosphere, Reuters is stoking the fires with a story that says Apple is "preparing new iPads," as in plural. And one of those models, according to the usual anonymous supply chain sources, is "about half the size of the current tablet computer, and will include front- and back-mounted cameras" for Apple's FaceTime video-conferencing app.

Aside from the cameras, one source claimed the new iPad "would be slimmer, lighter, and have a better-resolution display than the first iPad."

Duh. None of that's new info--or particularly revealing (of course, the new iPad is going to be slimmer and have a better screen, right?). But it's interesting that we continue to hear chatter about Apple having a smaller iPad up its sleeve. Back in October, Steve Jobs famously scoffed at the notion of a 7-inch iPad, insisting the screen would be "too small to express the software." Since then, Barnes & Noble has released the $250 7-inch Nook Color and several other Android-powered 7-inch tablets have hit the market or will soon.

As part of its story, Reuters reporters quoted Steven Tseng, an analyst at RBS in Taipei, who said, "It makes sense for these suppliers to begin delivering their goods in February. I think Steve Jobs will announce the new product in January, and we should see the new product hitting shops in about April."

Yes, the iPad was announced on January 27, 2010, but when Jobs announced it there wasn't another iPad on the market to clear out of the channel. So, we're not sure why Jobs would unveil a new iPad--or perhaps iPads--a good two months before they were to go on sale. A few weeks maybe, but two months, probably not.

In any case, that's the latest iPad intel out of Asia. Just something to consider while you're standing in line at your local Apple Store buying an iPad this holiday season.

Bam! Kapow! Explodey New Thor Trailer Is Here!

12/11/2010 10:37:00 AM kenmouse , Posted in , 0 Comments


Get ready to duck!

The newest trailer for Thor is here, starring Chris Hemsworth as the Norse god and Natalie Portman as his lady friend, and stuff is seriously blowing up left and right!

They don't explain why, but...

We see Thor's father (Anthony Hopkins) strip him of his godlike powers and trusty hammer, and banish him to Earth. And from the sound of it, that's a pretty bad punishment. "Oh no, this is Earth, isn't it," he asks upon his arrival.

Fortunately, Portman is there to look after this strange new guy who literally fell out of the sky. And it can't all be bad. He may be stripped of his powers, but he hasn't lost his ability to beat up highly trained commandos...something we see him do a lot of.

Hopefully those abilities will come in handy when he takes on the giant robot blowing everything up with its death ray. (Yes, there's a giant robot that's blowing everything up with its death ray! They had those in Norse mythology, right?)

Check out the trailer and tell us what you think. Thor hits theaters May 6.

Taylor Momsen: A Promoter of Masturbation

12/11/2010 10:36:00 AM kenmouse , Posted in , , 0 Comments

Don't look at us. She said it. And because Taylor Momsen is so edgy and cool, she can talk about masturbating a lot and it makes her awesome. Deal.

In an interview with The Guardian (UK), Taylor said unequivocally that “I’m a promoter of masturbation. Don’t sleep around ... learn yourself first!"

"Guys do, but girls don’t. And that’s why girls have so many bad experiences. But you can know your body, know yourself, know what feels good."

"You don’t have to give yourself away just to have sexual relevance," she adds.

"I don’t think sex is something people should be afraid of. It’s part of human nature. I don’t think it should be shameful, particularly for girls and young girls.”

The Pretty Reckless singer may look back on this and wish she'd shut her yap (that or she'll blame her parents like usual), but doesn't make a terrible point.

Hold out, don't put out, girls. There are alternatives that don't talk back.

Motorola's new logo: it's red

12/11/2010 10:35:00 AM kenmouse , Posted in , , 0 Comments


Been wondering about what impact Motorola's January split into two distinct entities will have on your humble consumption of consumer electronics? Well, after attending Moto's big Christmas do in London, we seem to have uncovered one of the biggies: the Droid maker is switching to a crimson new brand identity from the start of the new year. They won't tell us much more than that, but we can only surmise that the slight chromatic deviation will be in an effort to distinguish between the Mobility arm, which will make all the pocketable things we know and love, and the Solutions group in charge of the less glamorous business hardware. We're sure there'll be some reshuffling of middle management and other structural reorganizations taking place, but we've got the big story right here: the stationery, it is a-changing.

Android dominates Verizon smartphone sales; BlackBerry tanks

12/11/2010 10:34:00 AM kenmouse , Posted in , , , , 0 Comments


Investment research firm ITG has been investigating the sales figures from Verizon Wireless and it has come up with a pretty interesting find: the vast majority of smartphones sold by Verizon Wireless are Android handsets. That fact, while pertinent, is not all that shocking. What is shocking is this: in October of 2009, BlackBerrys accounted for 93% of Verizon Wireless’ smartphone sales. Just over one year later, in November of 2010, Android accounted for 80% of Verizon Wireless’ smartphone sales and BlackBerry’s share comes in at under 20%. How did Android go from not having a single handset in Verizon’s lineup in October of 2009 to sales domination eleven months later? You can credit Verizon’s fierce marketing blitz around the devices, consumer demand for more media centric devices with bigger screens, or RIM’s slow, measured approach with hardware. Whatever you want to credit or blame, those numbers are staggering and should not be ignored.

Robert Pattinson & Kristen Stewart Get Romantic in Louisiana

12/11/2010 02:45:00 AM kenmouse , Posted in , , , 0 Comments

Onscreen lovebirds Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart are making no secret of their real-life romance while shooting the latest Twilight installment.

The pair, along with the rest of the film's cast, are now filming Breaking Dawn in Baton Rouge, La., after a stop in Brazil, and have been seen getting cozy around the southern city.

Pattinson, 24 and Stewart, 20 recently joined about two dozen other cast members for a private dinner at Fleming's Prime Steakhouse and Wine Bar, but seemed to only have eyes for one another.

"Kristen and Rob were very couple-like," a restaurant source tells PEOPLE. "There was a lot of hand-holding, sitting next to each other. Everyone was talking around the room, but Kristen and Rob were just talking to each other, not really into the conversations everyone else was having."

At another outing to Cadillac Café, a strip-mall karaoke bar less than a mile from the studio where shooting is taking place, the two were spotted looking "very much a couple," says an onlooker.

"I mean, they weren't slobbering all over each other … but they sure looked like a couple and were talking with each other like a couple," the onlooker says. "They [seem like] a couple in love."

Miley Cyrus Caught Taking Bong Hits of Salvia: 'Is It Me Tripping?'

12/11/2010 02:45:00 AM kenmouse , Posted in , , , 0 Comments


It's been a year peppered with scandal for Miley Cyrus. She did a bit of underage drinking and, of course, there's been a near constant uproar over her provocative choices in stage attire. Now comes a fresh scandal, and this one involves a big old bong.

A video obtained by TMZ shows the 'Hannah Montana' star taking hits from a bong that was reportedly filled with a natural herb called salvia, which when smoked has psychedelic qualities. Possession of salvia is currently legal in California. The video was reportedly taken five days after Miley turned 18.

According to the report, the video was shot by one of Miley's friends and it is very possible that someone stole or copied the video from that person's camera.

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iPad 2 dual-camera rumors refuse to die: “slimmer, lighter & better resolution”

12/11/2010 02:43:00 AM kenmouse , Posted in , , , , 0 Comments

Apple’s second-generation iPad 2 will have both front and rear facing cameras, according to the latest leaks, with two of four sources at component makers talking to Reuters confirming that they believed their wares were headed for the refreshed iOS slate. In addition to the dual-cameras, the iPad 2 was tipped to be “slimmer, lighter and have a better resolution display”; Genius Electronic Optical Co Ltd and Largan Precision Co Ltd were tipped as having inked supply deals with Apple, though there’s no confirmation as to which device(s) their camera components will end up in.

The leaks follow a supposed iPad 2 case assembly which emerged yesterday, complete with an opening for a rear-mounted camera in the top corner of the tablet. Meanwhile previous rumors tipped Apple as using an LCD rather than AMOLED display, together with the possibility of a carbon-fiber chassis.

Although Apple is yet to publicly confirm either that it is working on a new iPad or when such a tablet might be expected to reach the market, that hasn’t stopped predictions of an April 2011 sales debut. Foxconn is believed to be readying production for mass shipments in January next year.

Jake Gyllenhaal, Taylor Swift Go for a Drive

12/11/2010 02:43:00 AM kenmouse , Posted in , , , 0 Comments

Get out of my dreams, get into my car!

Jake Gyllenhaal was in the driver's seat taking a spin through Beverly Hills on Thursday. His passenger: lady love Taylor Swift, naturally.

Swift, who turns 21 next week, was typing on her iPhone as her man, 29, cruised in his Audi Q7.

Gyllenhaal's back in the country after a jaunt to Australia, where he and Anne Hathaway were promoting Love and Other Drugs.

"Taylor is smitten. She loves how nice and affectionate he is," a source recently told Us Weekly of the couple, who've now been dating for about six weeks.

Motorola Android tablet specs and Honeycomb home screen leaked in Taiwan?

12/11/2010 02:42:00 AM kenmouse , Posted in , , , , 0 Comments



Turns out Andy Rubin might not be the only fella who's been showing off the elusive Motorola Android tablet. Earlier this week, some lucky guy from Taiwan claims to have stumbled upon the same Honeycomb device, and was kind enough to share the above homescreen spy shot as well as some thoughts on his one-hour hands-on. We're told that there'll be a 7-inch version as well as a 10-inch version (the latter appears to be what Rubin had), and the one we're looking at here has a 1280 x 800 display of unknown size, NVIDIA Tegra 2 T20 dual-core chip, gyroscope, a 5 megapixel main camera, and a 2 megapixel front camera. Memory-wise it has a 32GB embedded MMC and a microSD slot.

The poster reckons the hardware -- which is "pretty light" -- is all ready for launch, but Honeycomb still needs some final fine-tuning. Sadly, he hasn't got a date, but said device will apparently be priced like the current Motorola high-end phones, and will be available in three flavors: UMTS, CDMA, and LTE (which we heard about a little while back). Well, only time will tell whether this guy really does have a good friend at Motorola, or that he's been talking to some unicorns.

Angry Birds: New payment system, 50 million users

12/11/2010 02:41:00 AM kenmouse , Posted in , , 0 Comments

Angry Birds creator Rovio is ruffling its feathers and spreading its wings. At an event today touting the game's popularity, the company discussed an in-app payment system it will soon open up to all developers.

Dubbed Bad Piggy Bank, the service is designed to be a "one-touch payment" option for consumers who want to buy goods in-game. Rovio was quick to point out that no registration or credit card is required at the time of purchase. Instead, users will be billed on their monthly phone bill.

Rovio said its decision to launch Bad Piggy Bank is rooted in its desire to be a company that is "all about choice." It also said the functionality should appeal to developers who want to generate more cash from their respective programs.

It will take some time to get Bad Piggy Bank off the ground. Not only does Rovio need developer support, but the company must also ink deals with carriers to ensure that they can bill a user's mobile plan.

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Microsoft said to be planning second Windows Phone 7 update for MWC in February

12/11/2010 02:41:00 AM kenmouse , Posted in , , , 0 Comments


Coming this February, at a Mobile World Congress near you, from the company that popularized the Service Pack: a second major update to Windows Phone 7. The observant among you will already be leaping out of their seats to point out that the first WP7 update hasn't even been delivered yet, but it seems like Microsoft's calendar stretches beyond the next month and the company's already churning away on enhancing and improving its rebooted mobile OS. Such is the scuttlebutt coming out of WinRumors, and it's kind of hard to argue with the postulation that Steve Ballmer wouldn't be keynoting MWC in 2011 without something significant to announce. Word is that users will be getting added customization options for their phones, while developers will gain an extra few API hooks and controls that will ideally lead to more sophisticated apps in WP7's future. Sounds good to us, now how about some landscape love, Microsoft?

See Marisa Miller Naked!

12/11/2010 02:40:00 AM kenmouse , Posted in , , 0 Comments

Here's one more reason to be thankful it's Friday.

Model Marisa Miller takes it all off—save for a pair of sneakers—in Marc Jacob's new skin cancer awareness campaign, Protect the Skin You're In.

The image of the 32-year-old Victoria's Secret strutter will appear on T-shirts and will be available at Marc Jacobs boutiques, with all proceeds benefitting the NYU Cancer Institute.

Just in case you're looking for a stocking stuffer...

Microsoft Offer of $15 BILLION Rejected by Facebook

12/11/2010 02:40:00 AM kenmouse , Posted in , , , 0 Comments

Mind you, before you start thinking “but that’s not a lot of money, right?”, you’ve got to consider that this offer didn’t come in just yesterday. News of it, however, DID just come in TODAY via LeWeb over in Paris, where at “How to get acquired,” one of the many panels held at the conference, Microsoft’s Senior Director of Strategy and Acquisitions Fritz Lanman spoke in reply to a question host Loic Le Meur. The question was one concerning a rumor started in the book “The Facebook Effect” by David Kirkpatrick saying Microsoft tried several times. Turns out that’s true -at least part of it.

Replying to the rumor, Lanman noted “Yeah we tried to acquire Facebook. Facebook had a lot of similarities to Microsoft back in the day.” And went on to say that their original offer was somewhere around $15 billion around the year 2007. In the book The Facebook Effect, it’s written that Ballmer asked Mark Zuckerberg directly, “Why don’t we just buy you for $15 billion?” To which Zuckerberg replied, “I don’t want to sell the company unless I can keep control.”

The book continues by saying, “Ballmer took this reply as a sort of challenge. He went back to Microsoft’s headquarters and concocted a plan intended to acquire Facebook in stages over a period of years to enable Zuckerberg to keep calling the shots. But Zuckerberg rejected all the overtures.” Eventually Microsoft ended up agreeing on a $240 million small stake in the company, Facebook and they now working together in a search partnership.

Google Cr-48 laptop torn down and destroyed in one unlucky day (video)

12/11/2010 02:39:00 AM kenmouse , Posted in , , , , , 0 Comments


Boy, we know the Cr-48 is supposed to be a test platform and all, but even by that standard, Google's Chrome OS laptop has had a very rough first day on the job. Ambushed by one of our kindly tipsters upon its arrival, the Cr-48 has been gutted and disassembled (mostly, the motherboard is mercifully left attached to the chassis), revealing the typical arrangement of tiny electronics, which includes Hynix memory chips and a SanDisk-branded SSD. We're just glad to see that masking tape isn't playing a structurally integral role in its construction. Things don't really get much better for the slinky 48 once it gets back home to Google HQ, however, as its makers have put together an entire video composed of creative destruction methods for it. Cruel, cruel people.

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HTC: 60 million handsets anticipated in 2011?

12/11/2010 02:38:00 AM kenmouse , Posted in , , 0 Comments

Taiwan-based news outlet DigiTimes cited "industry sources" Friday in a report that claims cell phone manufacturer HTC will ship 60 million handsets in 2011, triple 2010's number. It's unclear as to whether this refers solely to smartphones or whether this also involves yet-to-be-released tablet devices.

As one of the biggest hardware manufacturers producing Android phones (from the successful Droid line to the discontinued Nexus One), this is a promising sign for the Google-built mobile operating system. HTC is also a big manufacturer of Windows Phone 7 devices, with the Surround on AT&T and the HD7 on T-Mobile.

No more information was provided in the DigiTimes rumor except that the sources in question floated the figure at a gathering of handset component suppliers in Taipei.

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