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Apple event: Jobs takes the stage to announce new products

9/02/2010 02:51:00 AM kenmouse , Posted in , , , , , , , , , , , , , 0 Comments

Apple ships 120 million iOS devices since iPhone's launch


Steve Jobs just dropped a few numbers on us. Firstly, that big one above, 120 million iOS devices have been shipped since the iPhone's debut back in 2007. 230,000 is the next number of significance -- that's the tally of daily iOS activations. Moving down to even more granular stats, Apple says 200 apps are being downloaded every second, which has resulted in the mind-bending 6.5 billion total downloads of iOS applications. This is from a catalog of over 250,000 total apps, with 25,000 of them being available for the iPad.

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'I'm a girl who eats': Glee star Lea Michele refuses to follow the super-skinny Hollywood trend

9/02/2010 02:50:00 AM kenmouse , Posted in , , 0 Comments

She's starring in one of the most popular shows on TV and is well on her way to becoming a household name.

But Glee star Lea Michele refuses to let the success of the show change her, insisting she will never become a typical Hollywood girl.

The 24-year-old, who plays Rachel Berry, insists she will never starve herself to achieve the super-skinny Hollywood look.


And she says she doesn't care how she looks so long as she feels good on the inside.

'I love being healthy,' Lea tells Glamour magazine. 'I get a lot of sleep. I'm a girl who eats... I feel beautiful no matter how I look. I have my family to thank for that.'

5'2" Michele claims to eat whatever she wants, and says she never diets.

And she insists nothing is more important than just being comfortable in her own skin.

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Katy Perry debuts at No. 1 on Billboard 200 albums chart

9/02/2010 02:50:00 AM kenmouse , Posted in , , 0 Comments

Though she did not earn the numbers we expected, Katy Perry comes in at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart. Her Teenage Dream set sold 192,000 copies in its debut frame. It’s still her best ever sales week, though. Her last album, 2008′s One of the Boys of “I Kissed a Girl” fame, debuted and peaked at No. 9 with 47,000 albums sold.


American Idol alum Fantasia debuts at No. 2 with Back To Me, selling 117,000 copies. Eminem‘s Recovery falls two spots to No. 3, moving 98,000 units. And Usher’s companion to this year’s Raymond V Raymond, Versus, premieres at No. 4 with 46,000 copies sold.

Little Big Town’s The Reason Why debuts at No. 5 with 42,000 albums sold. While selling 30,000 copies, Kem’s Intimacy drops from last week’s No. 2 to No. 6. Justin Bieber’s My World 2.0 lifts one place to No. 7, selling 29,000 units.

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IE slips in usage share; Chrome resumes growth

9/02/2010 02:49:00 AM kenmouse , Posted in , , , , , , 0 Comments


Internet Explorer's growth slowed once again, and Chrome shook off its slump in August, new statistics show.

Although Microsoft made progress in its goal to exterminate IE6 in favor of IE8's more modern and secure design, Internet Explorer overall slipped from 60.7 percent to 60.4 percent of global usage, as measured by Net Applications.

Chrome had slipped for the first time in its history, sinking to 7.2 percent in July, but returned to growth with 7.5 percent of August usage, Net Applications said.

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Rain unveils new digital single ‘W Song’

9/02/2010 02:48:00 AM kenmouse , Posted in , , 0 Comments


Back in May, Rain signed a lucrative contract with SK Telecom / SK Telesys and endorsed the SK900 W Phone. A little over a month ago he released a couple of commercials for this W Phone and now he has released a full digital for the company titled W Song.

The song is quite catchy with a nice uptempo beat. Thanks to daniell for the tip and remember to support the artist by purchasing the music.

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Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt hand over dogs in bizarre custody battle

9/02/2010 02:48:00 AM kenmouse , Posted in , , , 0 Comments

When a marriage breaks up, the couple usually have to come to some arrangement over custody of their children.

But things are a little different in the case of Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt.

The estranged couple yesterday were honouring their slightly bizarre arrangement to share custody of their dogs.



Spencer arrived at Heidi's villa in Costa Rica where he performed the dogs swap - delivering two pooches and taking away another two dogs on a golf cart.

The dog exchange apparently forms part of the couple's divorce terms - Heidi filed for divorce back in June, citing irreconcilable differences.

She yesterday looked slim in a lilac sleeveless shirt over a bikini while the bearded Spencer, 26, sported a pair of blue shorts and a backpack.

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Paris Hilton Banned from Wynn Las Vegas Properties

9/02/2010 02:47:00 AM kenmouse , Posted in , , 0 Comments

In light of her arrest Friday for possession of cocaine, socialite Paris Hilton has been banned from the Las Vegas resorts Wynn and Encore, a spokesman for the properties confirmed to PEOPLE.

The ban comes after several Las Vegas insiders claimed that the heiress might be blackballed from nightclubs. After the car in which she was riding was stopped, Hilton, 29, was taken inside the Wynn, where it was allegedly discovered that she had cocaine in her purse.

Coinciding with the ban, Wynn Las Vegas also announced in a vague statement that Hilton's boyfriend, nightclub executive Cy Waits, has been "separated from the company and is free to pursue other interests." No further comment or details was provided.

Waits, 34, was stopped by police officers Friday night when they smelled marijuana wafting from the car window. According to a Waits's arrest report, also released Wednesday, he failed a sobriety test.

Charges have yet to be filed against Waits, the Clark County Attorney's office said. Just days before his arrest, Waits was recently promoted to Co-Chief of Nightlife Operations at Wynn Las Vegas and Encore.

Hilton and Waits have been dating since June.

Shakira “Sale El Sol” Album Cover Art

9/02/2010 02:47:00 AM kenmouse , Posted in , , 0 Comments


Hey Music Heads, you must check out this official album cover for Shakira’s upcoming — Count ‘Em — seventh studio album, Sale El Sol, set for release Nov. 2.

It was only a year ago that the Latin diva released her last charttopper, She Wolf. Now the Colombian beauty is back with a bilingual effort that will offer a host of Spanish and English pop faves.

Microsoft Windows 7 continues to gain ground on Vista; brings back Windows 7 'family pack'

9/02/2010 02:46:00 AM kenmouse , Posted in , , , 0 Comments

Nearing its first birthday, Microsoft's Windows 7 is starting to grab more customers than its predecessor, Vista, according to new stats released Wednesday by Net Applications.


For the month of August, Windows 7 grew to take in a 15.87 percent share of devices accessing the Internet, while Vista dropped to 14 percent. That's only the second month in which Windows 7 started to outshine Vista. In July, the newest flavor of Windows grabbed 14.46 percent of the market, compared with Vista's 14.34 percent share, according to Net Applications.

Microsoft's push to convince customers to upgrade may be working for Vista users, but has a ways to go for those still using XP. Among all operating systems, both Microsoft and non-Microsoft, Windows XP continues to hold the leading share, installed on 60.89 percent of the devices tracked for August. That's only a percentage point less than in July and around twice that of Windows 7 and Vista together.

The data shows that Windows 7 usage has climbed from a little more than 2 percent when it was released last October to its current level of almost 16 percent. Over the same period, Vista has dropped 5 percentage points from almost 19 percent last October, while XP has fallen around 10 percentage points from close to 71 percent almost a year ago.

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ViewSonic ViewPad 7 video hands-on

9/02/2010 02:45:00 AM kenmouse , Posted in , , , 0 Comments


We just got a chance to mess around with ViewSonic's upcoming ViewPad 7 (one of possibly four tablets they plan to release this year), and while it is indeed a plastic rebadge me-too Android tablet, we mean that in the best sense. Let's take these one by one:
  • Plastic: It looks and feels enough like metal / glass that we won't fault ViewSonic for the cost savings here.
  • Rebadge: ViewSonic has an exclusive on this design for its particular markets (Europe), while the OlivePad is doing its version over in India.
  • Me-too: This might be the biggest knock, since ViewSonic is dropping the ViewPad into a world that's going to be up to its knees in 7-inch Android tablets in a few month's time.

ViewSonic wins points for an above average build quality, better than crappy LCD (it's not great, but we've seen a lot worse, and the capacitive response is just fine), passable processor (a 600MHz Snapdragon won't win any bake-offs, but it also makes Android 2.2 completely usable in our opinion), and better-than-Augen Google blessing. Check out our video hands-on after the break.

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