Verizon iPad commercial hits the air


You didn't think Verizon would start selling its iPad / MiFi bundle without an ad blitz, did you? Big Red's running a new commercial called "Breakaway" that features a dude using the combo to tear down the walls of his unfurnished home and wind up sitting alone on a bluff in a plastic chair. The magic of iPad, the power and reliability of Verizon. Video after the break.

Kendra Wilkinson Reveals Reason for Her New Playboy Cover

Kendra Wilkinson is back in the pages of Playboy – but still hasn't gone back on her word to husband Hank Baskett not to pose nude again for the magazine.

The star of Kendra on E! – and the former star of The Girls Next Door, about life with Hugh Hefner in the Playboy Mansion – explains the situation on her blog.

"I AM on the December cover of Playboy," she writes, "but it wasn't from a recent shoot. The photos are from a shoot I did 2 years ago when I was still living in the mansion."

She adds: "I'm flattered to be on the cover again and as you all know Playboy has a very special place in my heart! I just wanted you guys to know I didn't recently pose."

Wilkinson, 25, says she wanted to clear up any confusion for fans who had seen her struggling on her show with the decision of whether or not to pose again.

After she got engaged in 2009, Wilkinson decided not to pose nude for Playboy again. "He gets really mad when I do stuff like that," she said at the time of her husband.

KARA’s Korean “Jumping” mini-album is out! (Jumping MV Kor. Version)


A DSP Entertainment official stated, “KARA’s new album utilizes the optical art concept of black and white geometric patterns, which differs depending on each member’s physical characteristics and image.” He added, “You will see a new and upgraded KARA with these modern, yet chic images.”

DSP Entertainment really wasn’t kidding when they said we’d be seeing a “new and upgraded” KARA, because this new mini-album is HOT!

After teasers galore, KARA’s Korean “Jumping” album is finally out!

Barbie Hsu finally gets in-law’s approval

Looks like Barbie Hsu has finally got the approval she's been yearning for.

Wang Xiaofei's mother, Zhang Lan, was so elated after the Taiwanese actress and host visited her in Shanghai, she's now calling Barbie her "daughter-in-law".

The 34-year-old is engaged to Chinese millionaire, Xiaofei, 29, after dating each other for 20 days.

Xiaofei's mother was down with a bad case of flu while Barbie was filming in China, so the latter took leave and made an overnight trip with her fiancé to Shanghai just to visit her future in-law.

Zhang Lan expressed that she felt much better after seeing Barbie, who brought along both Western and Chinese medicine for the elder. The millionaire's mother also added that the Wangs are lucky to have such a good daughter-in-law.

When asked about Barbie's past depression problems, Zhang Lan defended the actress by saying that anyone could get depression when a lot of stress is involved, even herself.

She also emphasized that they are a happy family and there's no need for a pre-nuptial agreement between her son and Barbie. She also looked forward to having a grandson, affirming that Barbie will make a good mother.

Don't Ask Jake Gyllenhaal About Taylor Swift

While Jake Gyllenhaal makes the rounds promoting Love and Other Drugs, there's something super-private attached to his hip. And it's not Taylor Swift's phone number. Nope, wherever Jake goes, his publicist trails, bullishly laying down the law to reporters.

"No personal questions to Jake or he'll be pulled away, you got it?"

That's the line we (and many, many other reporters) got last week at the premiere, with one of those daring glares right at us like, you mention Taylor Swift I'm going to kick your ass.

But one journo didn't exactly play by the rules...

At a Love press conference in NYC, an interviewer went for it and asked J.G. what the deal was with Taylor Swift.

After the few seconds of awkward silence, Anne Hathaway jumped in for her buddy:

"Hang on, hang on, I have to say something! I have been Jake's onscreen love interest for years, all right? You keep the conversation to me and only me, otherwise I'm going to get nasty!"

Way to shut it down, girl! Jake's team was very pleased. But really, we must ask: Why is this duo being treated with the same secrecy as Robert Pattinson's relationship with taking a shower? It's all good, sexy fun, everybody. Own it, already!

See Miranda Kerr in Full Pregnant-and-Nude Bloom

Guess we have Demi Moore to thanks for this?

Miranda Kerr has passed another Hollywood Mommy-to-Be milestone with what seems to be the now-obligatory preggers 'n' nekkid photo.

So what prompted the supermodel to bare all?

Mrs. Orlando Bloom stripped down as part of W magazine's family issue.

The glossy's December installment, which hits newsstands Wednesday, also features Usher and sons Usher V and Naviyd, Madonna and Lourdes, Katherine Heigl and Naleigh, and Jenna Jameson and her twins—yes, her actual sons, Jesse and Journey, not just her chest.

Google’s Response To Facebook’s Response To Google’s Facebook API Ban

Yesterday Facebook released a clever way to continue to download Google user data, despite Google banning Facebook from using their APIs. It looks to me like they aren’t going to try to stop Facebook from using this more manual approach. Instead, for now, it’s being escalated only via words:

We’re disappointed that Facebook didn’t invest their time in making it possible for their users to get their contacts out of Facebook. As passionate believers that people should be able to control the data they create, we will continue to allow our users to export their Google contacts.

That’s a nice swipe there in the beginning, about how they wish Facebook had spent time giving people a way to liberate their own Facebook data rather than building tools to end run around Google. That last bit though, about “people should be able to control the data they create” doesn’t quite hit the mark though in my opinion.

We’re talking about your Facebook friends list and their email addresses. You create your list of friends, of course, but you generally aren’t uploading email addresses to Facebook, your friends do. Still, I think there are excellent logic arguments for allowing users to download friends’ email addresses, too. More on that later.

3 million Samsung Galaxy S Android smartphones sold in the US

While announcing the new Samsung Continuum for Verizon, Samsung has also unveiled that it sold more than 3 million Galaxy S handsets in the US – where all four major mobile carriers are offering different versions of the device.

The news comes one month after the South Korean company announced it has shipped 2 million Galaxy S units Stateside.

Paul Golden, Chief Marketing Officer at Samsung Mobile USA, declared to Reuters that “we’re in a situation where we wish we had more supply,” further saying that the main problem is producing Super AMOLED displays (which are included in all Galaxy S models).

Samsung has shipped more than 7 million Galaxy S smartphones globally until now, and sales will most probably pass the planned 10 million mark pretty soon. Let’s hope that “pretty soon” is also when Samsung will manage to push Android 2.2 Froyo on its Galaxy S handsets in the US, because all of them (including the new Continuum) run Android 2.1 at the moment.

SNSD receives a ‘Double Gold’ just 3 months after Japanese debut


Girl group sensation, SNSD, recently surpassed the 100,000 sales mark on the Japanese Oricon Charts for the second consecutive time!

As of November 9th on the Oricon’s ‘Weekly Singles Chart‘, SNSD’s second single ‘Gee‘ sold 13,320 copies in the 3rd week, and thus achieved the 100,000 milestone for accmulated sales.

What’s interesting to note here is that ‘Gee’ is gaining more popularity than their debut track ‘Genie‘. While ‘Genie’ took 8 weeks to surpass 100,000 sales, ‘Gee’ managed to overcome it in just 3.

The Recording Industry Association of Japan (RIAJ) will bestow the group with a second ‘Gold‘ disk for ‘Gee’, in recognition of their phenomenal sales. Congratulations, SNSD!

Source: Star News

Hebe: Selina is not afraid of scars

During her full house concert on Saturday in Hong Kong, Hebe Tien told fans that her friend and group-mate Selina Jen is really brave and not afraid of being disfigured from her burns.

Hebe said, according to Selina it didn't matter if the scars remain as they were just a reminder of a chapter of her life.

Selina had been in recovery since her filming accident in China last month which caused third degree burns on over 30% of her body.

Hebe also dedicated the song 'You're beautiful' to her good pal, reminding fans that Selina was truly beautiful despite the pain she's going through. She added that Selina would always shout, "Yes!" from where she's seating whenever Hebe sang this song on stage in Taiwan.

Selina's dad, Father Jen, also commented on his blog on Sunday that Selina was now able to pass motion on her own, a sign that her body is recovering.

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