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Motorola Droid's website published a bit early, with specs galore

10/23/2009 11:40:00 AM kenmouse , Posted in , , 0 Comments



A 3.7-inch, 16:9 touch screen with 480 x 854 resolution. A 5 megapixel camera with 4x zoom, autofocus, and dual LED flash. A 1400 mAh Li-ion battery for up to 385 minutes of usage time and 270 hours standby. A 550MHz processor (marginally better). A pre-installed 16GB microSD card. GPS, Bluetooth, 802.11b/g WiFi, and a micro USB port. Six ounces of weight spread out over a 2.4 x 4.6 x 0.5-inch body. We know, you were wanting the Motorola Droid's price and release date, too, but that's the one detail not on this page, we're afraid.

Update: Guess Motorola realized the error of its ways, but not to fear, we've got the site and specs captured in the gallery below.




Ella Reveals About Jerry Yan's Incident of Unfortunate Fall from Chair

10/23/2009 11:40:00 AM kenmouse , Posted in , , , 0 Comments

After many months of hectic filming, filming for the super-idol drama serial - [Down With Love] has finally wrapped up in Taiwan some time back. During the post-filming celebrations, Ella appeared in a little black dress and she shared on her exciting experiences filming together with Jerry Yan; and even revealed that Jerry had a "spate of bad luck" just before filming wraps up.

The super-idol drama, being a collaboration between Jing Xi Ying Shi, An Wei Wei Shi and Taiwan's GTV, has a strong cast. Not only has the production team invited Asia's Super Idol Jerry Yan and Asia's Number 1 Female Heavenly Group - S.H.E's Ella as lead actor and actress respectively; the cast also included artistes like Chen Zi Han, Yuan Wen Kang, Jade Liu Li Yang, Michael Zhang etc - all of whom are artistes with both fame and would interest the media and viewers.

When sharing on her role, the vivacious and carefree Ella said her challenge this time is to act as a "down-and-old, riches-to-rag girl". In order to raise funds to repay the debts her father owed, she has to take on many odd-jobs. And through this opportunity, she got to develop a sweet romance with her employer in the serial - Jerry Yan's role. The Cinderella storyline is interesting to Ella. Even the previously reported by media to be "bad temper and difficult" Jerry Yan has appeared very obliging and mild-tempered thoughout, and once said, "Ella is one of the women who impacted me most."

[DWL] has filmed for 3 months and the cast endured filming under the scorching heat of 40 degree celsius and sacrificed many hours of sleep. Nonetheless, Ella is still very excited. For at one moment, she could be wearning a little yellow cap and a round-neck white blouse with a blue pinafore with a Chibi Maruko-chan look; and at the other moment, she is required to piggyback a 20kg prop refrigerator to run up and down. Every exaggerating image and styling she has to put on, and each romantic and funny scene has allowed her to satisfy her every acting craving she has had since 3 years ago. The excited Ella could not help but always mention her character Yang Guo as a person who is "very mature and sensible in character and lovable".

Despite filming has wrapped up, Ella still reminisces about the memorable filming experiences with the cast and Jerry Yan. She revealed that Jerry seemed to be hit by a series of misfortune just before filming wraps up. "There was a scene where his character - Lawyer Xiang Yu Ping was kidnapped, and one of the extras accidentally caused Jerry to fell off a chair. Shortly after this incident, Jerry has to film a scene whereby he was forcefully shoved into the car by the kidnappers. While filming thi, his eyes and head got knocked against the side of the door. It was really a "spate of bad luck" for him then."

Although Jerry was injured by one after another incident on the set just before the end of filming and even had to visit the hospital, he appeared very optimistic. He not only reassured the production team that his injury was superficial, but also joked that it was good luck to "see red*" just before filming ends, as it would symbolise that [DWL]'s viewership will definitely scale to great heights.

Chris Brown Takes Stab at Public Absolution, Rewrites History With New Single

10/23/2009 11:34:00 AM kenmouse , Posted in , , 0 Comments


Well, what are the chances? Just two days after Rihanna debuted her new single, chronic one-upper (among other things) Chris Brown has rolled out a new song of his own.

And while those looking to link Rihanna's "Russian Roulette" to her Brown beatdown did so courtesy of tenuous lyrical metaphors and heavy speculation, Brown isn't making his listeners work quite so hard with "Crawl."

Interestingly, while RiRi came out fighting, draping herself in barbed wire and peppering her dark tune with gunshots, Brown—still deep in character and career rehabilitation—went the Céline Dion route, releasing a slow jam that paints him as nothing more than a hopeful man who just so happens to be unlucky-in-love.

Well, in his defense, you try finding something that rhymes with "girlfriend-beater."

"Everybody says we're through / I hope you haven't said it too," he sings in his second new track. "So where do we go from here with all this fear in our eyes?"

Presumably, he means other than to the side of the road to pick up trash.

"And where can love take us now," he continues. "We've been so far down / We can still touch the sky.

"I need one more chance / We can still have it all…So let's crawl, crawl, crawl / Back to love."

Whether his attempt at musical absolution manages to crawl up the charts remains to be seen. So which star wins in the battle of the comebacks—Rihanna or Chris?

Dell Adamo XPS opens up for Windows 7 festivities, but still not for sale

10/23/2009 11:33:00 AM kenmouse , Posted in , , , 0 Comments



So much for Business Week's "confirmed" October 22nd launch date from over the weekend, eh? We just spoke with Dell's PR who told us that the company has yet to confirm a launch date for its slender Adamo XPS, and still won't, except to say that it's not reaching the unwashed masses at any point today. That doesn't mean today was all bad for the vigilant in waiting, as we finally got our first public showing of the front of the laptop, proving once and for all that the most recent press photo isn't crooked. So there you have it, a chiclet keyboard and touchpad that likes to curl up close with the screen -- mystery's over, folks, now we play the waiting game.

Update: Laptop Mag notes a removable battery and what's likely to be an Intel ULV processor -- it's definitely not Atom.

Park JaeBum confesses his feelings on broadcast show

10/23/2009 11:25:00 AM kenmouse , Posted in , , , 0 Comments

Former 2PM member Park Jae-beom will reveal his feelings on TV for the first time since leaving the boy band last month, according to a broadcaster on Thursday.

KBS announced that it will air a video by the former boy band leader on the first episode of "Sunday Night", a new current events variety program.

The producers of the show flew to Seattle to interview Park, but he instead shot a video of himself talking about how he feels and sent it to the show.

The former K-pop idol reportedly said in the video that he "will say something after time passes" and that he is currently reflecting upon himself.

The 22-year-old singer had come under heat over controversial comments he made about Korea on his MySpace account before his debut. He quit the group four days after the comments became public and returned to his hometown Seattle on September 8.

The show, hosted by comedian Nam Hee-seok, is set to premiere Sunday at 11:35 p.m.

HTC's HD2 continues to impress, reveals multi-touch web browsing

10/23/2009 11:22:00 AM kenmouse , Posted in , , 0 Comments



We've seen plenty about HTC's hot HD2, gone hands-on and sized it up next to everyone's most/least favorite smartphone, but there's one thing we haven't seen yet: multi-touch in IE. The video embedded below from Techblog.gr is in a language you may not quite understand, but certainly everyone can grok the snappy UI performance and the pinch zooming demonstrated at the 2:20 mark. It does look a wee bit unresponsive at this point, but HTC still has time to make things perfect before releasing it here -- though to be honest we'd rather just have it now.

Wonder Girls debuts on Billboard Hot 100 at the #76 spot

10/23/2009 11:20:00 AM kenmouse , Posted in , , 0 Comments

Korean pop group Wonder Girls have become the first Korean artists to enter the Billboard singles chart, according to their agency JYP Entertainment on Thursday.

The group's single "Nobody" entered the Billboard Hot100 at No. 76, the first time for a Korean artist to be placed on the chart in its 115-year history. Only three other artists from Asia as a whole have ever made it onto the chart.

The Billboard chart combines the number of airplays, album sales and digital downloads.

Earlier in the week, JYP had announced that according to an airplay analysis chart by music website Mediabase, "Nobody" was played over 65 times by radio stations between October 12 to 18, increasing the group's airplay ranking by 16 spots from the previous week to No. 107.

"Nobody" was also the top-selling single for the same week with 30,418 copies, outselling pop stars Madonna and Shakira.

The girl group, who announced their U.S. debut in June, signed with management company Jonas Group and had been opening for popular boy band The Jonas Brothers U.S. tour over the summer. They performed in front of over 1.5 million fans in 42 cities over 53 performances.

"It was good targeting U.S. teenagers because they don't discriminate," an official at JYP Entertainment was quoted as saying. "And it was absolutely effective to target the U.S. market with a Korean concept and song without the help of American producers and songwriters."

The five-member girl band, who debuted in Korea in 2007, is one of the most successful pop groups in the country with three consecutive No. 1 singles, "Tell Me", "So Hot", and "Nobody".

More : This Time Round Wonder Girls Are Ready To Greet “你好(Hello)! China”

Having being so sucessful in the states, Wonder Girls’ “Nobody” will take step into China’s market this time.

Wonder Girls will be attending China Mobile Festival held on the 28th this month in Beijing, and will be performing hit song “Nobody”.

The festival is one of the biggest event that the mobile company & the department of culture & arts jointly organised. International top star including Jackie Chan & Zhang Ziyi will also be attending the event.

Wonder Girls will be representing korea’s artiste for this event & will be performing “Nobody”. Also, the Wonder Girls will also be attending the closing red carpet ceremony.

Since June 2009, Wonder Girls had digitally released their hit single “Nobody” in the United States, taking up the challenge by entering the US market. However, this time round the girls will also be releasing it in mandarin version, to venture out for the chinese market, as reported earlier by Wonder Girls & producer JYP himself when they were at the press conference during their visit in China in June.

The soaring popularity of Wonder Girls is tremendously increasing, the request for the girls to perform on big events are extremely high.

Previously, Wonder Girls did not participate actively with promotions in China. However, their company JYP Entertainment expressed that they are ready & prepared to take on the china market. Also expressed that, the first solo concert in China will take place in Shanghai, on December 2 2009. This would be the time for the Wonder Girls to showcase their title deemed as “Asia Sisters” in china once again, hopefully they would receive much attention.

Archos 9 PC Tablet hits shelves today

10/23/2009 11:19:00 AM kenmouse , Posted in , , , 0 Comments

The Archos 9 PC tablet has been somewhat overshadowed by its smaller, Android-based sibling, but the French company would like to remind you that, with the debut of Windows 7, the 9-inch touchscreen “future of netbooks” is now available to buy. £449.99 ($748) gets you a resistive touchscreen, Atom Z515 processor and integrated WiFi and Bluetooth, all in a device 800g and just 1.7cm thick.


The Archos 9 display runs at 1,024 x 600, but Archos are claiming it can deal with 1080p Full HD video; you’ll need to plug in an external monitor to make the most of that, but sadly there’s only a VGA port on offer rather than HDMI. The hard-drive is also pretty paltry if you’re looking at storing HD content, being a mere 60GB in size.

Connectivity includes two USB 2.0 ports, the aforementioned VGA, audio in/out and 10/100 ethernet. A 1.3-megapixel webcam is integrated, and Archos will happily sell you a matching Bluetooth QWERTY keyboard.




Park Bom to release solo debut song, “You and I”

10/23/2009 11:19:00 AM kenmouse , Posted in , , , 0 Comments

YG Entertainment has just released more information regarding 2NE1 lead vocalist, Park Bom's, solo debut!

It has been revealed that Bom will release a solo track called, "You and I" on the 28th. She will be the second member from 2NE1 to make a solo debut, with Sandara Park being the first, with her hit single "Kiss."

Park Bom's song will be produced by none other than Teddy, who in the past has produced hit songs "Lollipop," "Fire," "I Don't Care," and "Kiss."

The R&B/Hip-Hop track will showcase Bom's strong vocals and complimented with a high production MV, that was filmed throughout many locations in Seoul.

2NE1 is also currently working on their new album and preparing for another strike on the music industry before year end.

Stay tuned for the release of Park Bom's single, "You and I" on the 28th!

Apple must upgrade Boot Camp to support Windows 7

10/23/2009 11:13:00 AM kenmouse , Posted in , , , 0 Comments

Promises update by year's end for Snow Leopard, abandons nine older Macs

Apple today announced that it will update its Boot Camp utility before the end of the year to support Microsoft's just-launched Windows 7.

In a short support document posted to the Apple site, the company said it would soon revise Boot Camp, a utility that lets users run Windows and its applications in a separate disk partition on an Intel-based Mac.

"Apple will support Microsoft Windows 7 (Home Premium, Professional, and Ultimate) with Boot Camp in Mac OS X Snow Leopard before the end of the year," the document said. "This support will require a software update to Boot Camp."

The document also listed nine older iMac, MacBook Pro and Mac Pro models that will not be able to run Windows 7 in Boot Camp. Although all the machines use an Intel processor, Apple did not elaborate on why they would not support Microsoft's new operating system.

On the list were four iMacs, including the 17-in. and 20-in. models from 2006; four MacBook Pros, including 15-in. and 17-in. notebooks released that same year; and the mid-2006 Mac Pro workstation powered by an Intel Xeon Dual-core running at 2.66GHz or 3GHz.

Owners of those machines have an alternative to Boot Camp in VMware's Fusion 3.0, the virtualization technology set to launch Oct. 27. Fusion 3.0, works on any Intel-based Mac, according to VMware.

Fusion 3.0 will run all editions of Windows 7, including Starter, Home Premium, Professional, Enterprise and Ultimate. It requires an Intel Mac with Mac OS X 10.5.8 or later, or Snow Leopard, also known as Mac OS X 10.6.

Apple did not set a ship date for the Boot Camp update.

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