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FIRST LOOK: Kevin Jonas's Wedding Photo!

12/30/2009 01:33:00 AM kenmouse , Posted in , , , 0 Comments

Kevin Jonas and Danielle Deleasa's wedding earlier this month was like a fairy tale – complete with a castle, an enchanted forest and glass slippers in the bride's shoe size, a gift from the groom.

"I knew that my princess needed her glass slippers and her castle," Jonas told PEOPLE of the nuptials.

"I always wanted my wedding to have that princess feel," adds the new Mrs. Jonas. "I couldn't have imagined this," she says of her lavish wedding Dec. 19 at Oheka Castle in Huntington, New York.

Despite a blizzard blanketing the roads around the castle, the wedding went forward without a hitch, and the bride, escorted by her father Thomas "Bucky" Deleasa, walked down the aisle to "Bella Notte," from Lady and the Tramp, played on the guitar by a friend of the Jonas family. "I'm an Italian girl. It just fit me and my dad," said Danielle of the song choice.

The groom's father Kevin Jonas Sr., an ordained minister, officiated along with Danielle's childhood pastor, Rev. Ron DePasquale Jr. After reciting traditional vows, the couple exchanged Jacob & Co. wedding bands that they designed for one another.

"I've never seen a more beautiful bride," said Kevin of Danielle, who he calls his "Jersey Girl" and who wore a strapless tulle and Chantilly lace Vera Wang gown at the ceremony.

For all the details – and exclusive photos – pick up the new issue of PEOPLE on newsstands Dec. 30.

“Star Trek” Sequel 2010

12/30/2009 01:32:00 AM kenmouse , Posted in , 0 Comments

Zoe Saldana has revealed that production on the hotly-anticipated Star Trek sequel will begin in the new year.


The stunning Domincan, who played Uhura in the 2009 box office smash, tells MTV News that a script is in the works for a follow-up before the end of 2010.

“I spoke to J.J. [Abrams] and Bryan Burk, his producing partner at Bad Robot, and they are still in the middle of building the script with Alex Kurtzman and Bob Orci, and we’ll probably be going into pre-production around this time next year.”

Star Trek claimed the top spot on a list of the most-pirated movies on 2009 last week.

Last week, Star Trek claimed the top spot on a list of the most-pirated movies of 2009.

Kim Bum tops J-pop music chart in Korea

12/30/2009 01:32:00 AM kenmouse , Posted in , , 0 Comments

Korean actor Kim Bum has topped Korea's J-pop music chart with his Japanese debut album, according to his agency King Kong Entertainment on Tuesday.

"Christmas Eve's Sky", the title track from his single album released in Japan last month, was ranked at No. 1 on various Internet music sites including Melon and Bugs Music.

"The song had ranked high on charts since its release, but we didn't know it would reach No. 1," an official at the agency was quoted as saying. "Everyone [at the agency] was surprised. We would like to thank the fans in Korea for their huge support."

The actor-turned-singer held a five-city tour in Japan over the Christmas season, performing dinner shows and meeting with some 3,000 fans to promote his debut album.

The 20-year-old actor, who first gained popularity through MBC sitcom "High Kick" in 2006, shot to stardom early this year through KBS TV series "Boys Over Flowers", which is based on a popular Japanese comic series.

He recently starred in the Korean film "Emergency", where he played an aspiring actor working as a host at an upscale bar.

Charmaine Sheh is TVB's top earner!

12/30/2009 01:31:00 AM kenmouse , Posted in , , , 0 Comments

2009 is the year for Charmaine Sheh as she is newly crowned as TVB's highest earner, triumphing Raymond Lam!

The life of a TVB artiste is not easy. Other than having to constantly compete for awards and popularity, one also has to fight it out in being the top earner. As the 2009 draws to an end, the list of the artistes' salary for the year is also revealed.

Garnering a total of 15 million viewers for her shows, Charmaine has officially become TVB's highest earner for the year, triumphing Raymond Lam, who is in 2nd place and Michael Tse (otherwise known as "Laughing Gor"), who is in 3rd. Bernice Liu, who was in 3rd place last year, is no where to be found near the top.

With big earnings raking in, the artistes' taxes have naturally increased. An accountant revealed how much these 3 artistes have to pay up for taxes in the following year. After TVB takes away 20% commission, Charmaine is estimated to pay up HKD 2 million ($400,000) worth of taxes while Raymond needs to pay HKD1.4 million ($280,000).

It is no wonder that Raymond says that paying up taxes is a very painful matter while a more optimistic Charmaine is looking towards purchasing a flat to reward herself.

Firefox Mobile: Don't hold your breath (...yet)

12/30/2009 01:29:00 AM kenmouse , Posted in , , , 0 Comments

It’s depressing to say after the massive online revolution we have basked in with the Firefox movement, the long awaited mobile version is nothing to get excited about — as my first hand experience with the browser is nothing short of awful.


Firefox Mobile, codename “Fennec”, is still in the confusing alpha/beta stage (I’m currently running 1.0 beta 6 which is compatible with Weave) and is due to be released in “the next few days”, probably just after New Year at this rate even though the BBC reckon it will be during 2009 still.

Though, Jay Sullivan, vice-president of mobile at Mozilla, said that provided things went smoothly, the goal was to have a release candidate next week (which has been and gone and still nothing), and a final version out essentially before the year is through.

My guess is that we’ll see wider availability in January 2010.

But two things to stress: this is only the experience of one person using one device - the Nokia N900, and the browser is still in beta at this point, so things could change. Yet, with the principles in functionality in this browser, I doubt anything will particularly change at least for the N900 edition.

Once the browser is further developed to other non-touch devices, maybe we will see a browsing revolution, yet again I doubt it. Those who are using a non in-built browser will no doubt be using Opera, and to sway these already happy users will be a task and a half at least.

If I’m frank and honest, the application is slow and sluggish, it takes ages to respond to the touch commands you put to it, it causes the entire phone to slow down to a grind - which is saying something as this is one of the most powerful devices for its size I have ever seen - and the menu’s; don’t get me started on the menus.

Imagine that the page you are viewing is on rails. You should be able to slide down and slide up, even if you touch-flick it diagonally upwards or downwards. Yet in Firefox Mobile, the user interface is such that there are no rails and there are buffers each side. You need to carefully drag the page up and down as to not show the menus each side (which contain bookmarks and your tabs) which becomes rather annoying very quickly.

However there is one gimmick to Firefox Mobile which is interesting, don’t get me wrong, but hardly groundbreaking. Weave enables you to take your desktop Firefox session with you, by synchronising your open tabs, bookmarks and passwords to your mobile device, so you can pick up where you left off.



Besides this, all it offers is a standard browser which works across multiple platforms - something rival Opera managed a long time ago. I suspect the vast majority of people who are sick of their in-built phone browser who turned to Opera, won’t be swayed by Mozilla’s new offering because after all, most people don’t like change.

CNET seem to question why the browser requires the horsepower of the N900, including a powerful processor and 3D graphics hardware support. The reason being is so that it can support memory-intensive applications and plug-ins such as Flash. Yet funnily enough when running say, FarmVille - a very complicated and CPU-intensive application on the phone, it runs better in the in-built Mozilla based browser than the Firefox Mobile browser. It’ll run on less powerful devices, but based on what I’ve seen already, these devices may well suffer in comparison to the extremely powerful N900.

In the end, maybe most phones have an awful web browser with basic functions, a lack of standards and poor rendering. Yet comparing Firefox Mobile to its first venture to a mobile phone, the Nokia N900, the in-built browser is far better, quicker and better integrated than Firefox Mobile.



Matt Miller, the smartphone and cell phone guru, posted his long and exhaustive review of the N900 which I can safely say, I completely agree with every word he says. The phone is brilliant, but as we both agreed, we prefer the in-built browser and Firefox Mobile just drags the phone down.

I would say don’t hold your breath yet. Opera Mobile users will probably stick with Opera, and N900 users will probably find the in-built Mozilla browser far easier to use in the long term. The pro’s feature of Weave synchronicity don’t seem to outweigh the con’s, and for this I suspect many may be disappointed by not feeling the true baton passing between the desktop and the mobile versions of the browser.

We shall see.

09 Review: With search war stalemate, Google branches out

12/30/2009 01:24:00 AM kenmouse , Posted in , 0 Comments

Google continued to lap the competition in 2009, but found itself jousting with a formidable foe: the U.S. government.

Scrutiny from federal regulators played a role in almost every major story that involved Google this year, from its continued domination of the search and search advertising markets, to its battle with authors and publishers over the effects of the Google Book Search settlement, to CEO Eric Schmidt's role overseeing both Google and Apple as a director. At year's end, no major federal action had been taken against the company, and Google showed no signs of slowing down its innovative engineers with plans to move into operating systems and possibly consumer electronics.

Google's settlement with groups representing authors and publishers technically took place in 2008, but the battle over its propriety raged throughout 2009. And the year will end without a clear decision regarding how Google will be allowed to display portions of out-of-print yet copyright-protected books that it has scanned. However, a second final settlement drafted in consultation with the Department of Justice was approved in November.

Opponents accused Google of trying to corner the market on digital books, while the company insisted it was doing the world a favor by improving access to books. A final hearing on whether to approve the revised settlement is scheduled for February 2010, meaning this story isn't done just yet.

Google will end the year about where it began when it comes to search market share: around 65 percent of the U.S. market, according to ComScore. Microsoft's launch of Bing, a revamped version of Live Search, was definitely noticed in Mountain View, but Bing seemed to take more share from Yahoo than it did from Google as the year progressed.

Not all was rosy for the Google economic engine: the company was forced to lay off employees for the first time due to the prolonged economic slump in the advertising market. Still, Google appeared to weather the storm far better than its competitors, and once the dust had cleared opened up its checkbook for strategic purchases such as On2 Technologies and AdMob.

It was a banner year for one of Google's most important side projects. Android, its mobile operating system, started to gain traction among the phone makers of the world, and led to a landmark deal between Google and Verizon to develop "a family of devices" based on Android.

However, late in the year, Google was reported to be planning to sell consumers a phone of its own: the $199 Nexus One, given out to Google employees at a holiday party. The company has not yet commented on whether the Nexus One will be its first consumer electronics product, or just another developer phone sold to a limited audience.

Android began setting itself up as a main contender to Apple's iPhone, which is probably why the government raised an eyebrow at Schmidt's role as a director at both Apple and Google. For a while, Schmidt shrugged off the controversy, but eventually stepped down from Apple's board after acknowledging that the overlap between the two companies had become too great.

That decision came after Google decided to shake up the computer market with plans for its own operating system--Chrome OS--based on its Chrome browser. Chrome OS is not expected to arrive on Netbooks until late next year, but the company showed off its novel approach to operating system development late in the year during an event for the media. Chrome OS is designed as a lightweight, fast operating system that runs nothing but Web applications; that might appeal to some, but it's still not clear if the masses are ready for such a product.

And while cloud computing through products like Chrome OS may be the future, the current cloud situation can be stormy from time to time. Google suffered a prolonged outage in May that knocked out traffic to just about all of its services, and sporadic Gmail outages frustrated users on several occasions.

Rainie Yang and Show Luo’s Hot Passionate Kiss and Hot Bed Scene Being Described as Incest

12/30/2009 01:21:00 AM kenmouse , Posted in , , , 0 Comments



December 28, 2009, on CTS, Rainie Yang and Show Luo (Xiao Zhu) kissed nonstop in the idol drama <Hi My Sweetheart>! Earlier they filmed a hotel-drunken-bed scene; due to the lack of chemistry when filming the kiss scene, the director requested that they demonstrate “fiercely hit and passionately kiss” in front of the camera. The two can only follow the director’s instructions and kiss like two octopus lips.

According to “Ming Bao,” after the director called out “cut” for the kissing scene, Rainie and Show immediately jumped away from each other. Rainie even used tissues to wipe her lips nonstop saying, “Kissing with Show feels like incest.” She dared not watch the replay because it would have been too awkward and embarrassing. Rainie then again laughingly said, “<Hi My Sweetheart> is the idol drama that I kissed with the most styles; I performed stealing a kiss, passionately kissing, and even forcing a kiss.”

Big Bang ‘2010 Big Show’ tickets sold out in just 5min in 1st window sales

12/30/2009 01:20:00 AM kenmouse , Posted in , , 0 Comments

Big Bang’s upcoming concert ‘2010 Big Show’ 1st window ticket sales is sold out in just 5 minutes, with all 12,000 seats taken up by fans.

The window opened at 8pm on 28th December on GMarket for Big Bang’s ‘2010 Big Show’, and the 12,000 seats for 29th January’s show were sold out in just 5 minutes. About 150,000 fans had logged in to get the tickets, making it a record ratio of 12.5:1 competition for the tickets, showing the great interests for Big Bang’s upcoming concert.

Especially since the Big Bang members have only been promoting solo for year 2009, and busy with their Japanese promotions, it has been quite some time since we have seen Big Bang perform as a group domestically. There is great anticipation for this concert by the whole group and in addition, the concert is said to have a strong concert branding over the past years.

The Big Bang members have also gathered together for the concert directing meetings and poster filming amidst their busy schedule preparing for the year-end shows.

It is revealed that for this concert, there will be an overhanging stage which will bring the group closer to the audience. And this is idea given by DaeSung and SeungRi personally.

The concert will take place from 29th till 31st January 2010. And the 2nd and 3rd window sales for the ticket will take place on 29th and 30th December on GMarket.

Nokia claim Apple infringe patents in all phones, PMPs & computers

12/30/2009 01:19:00 AM kenmouse , Posted in , , , , 0 Comments

The ongoing legal battle between Nokia and Apple has gained another layer of complexity today, as Nokia demand a United States International Trade Commission (ITC) investigation based on accusations of “Apple’s practice of building its business on Nokia’s proprietary innovation.” Distinct from the litigation in Delaware, which concerns Nokia’s wireless standard patents, this new investigation would concern UI, camera, antenna and power management technologies.

Such technology, Nokia claims, are what enables the Finnish company to make smaller, longer-lasting and cheaper handsets, with the company’s general manager in charge of patent licensing, Paul Melin, describing the IP as “pioneering”. ”Nokia has been the leading developer of many key technologies in small electronic devices” the executive claims.

Apple has already accused Nokia of “stealing” the Cupertino company’s technology, in response to the original Delaware suit. ”Other companies must compete with us by inventing their own technologies, not just by stealing ours,” said Bruce Sewell, Apple’s General Counsel and senior vice president.

Apple Tablet to get display panels from Innolux?

12/30/2009 01:18:00 AM kenmouse , Posted in , , , 0 Comments



As the day draws near for an expected but rumored Apple tablet announcement, more details regarding this mythical beast are surfacing. This time it’s news of Innolux, a subsidiary of Foxconn (whom we all know produces the iPhone for Apple), making the touch screen panels for the upcoming tablet — rumored to be the iSlate. According to Digitimes, another Foxconn subsidiary, G-Tech Optoelectronics, will be in charge of strengthening the glass for the device and Taiwan-based Wah Hong Industrial will be providing other components. And of course, we can expect Foxconn to get these tablets into production soon and into our eager hands!

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