Jacky Cheung to Release Cantonese Album "Private Corner"

It’s been 5 years since Jacky Cheung released a Cantonese album; his new album <<Private Corner>> will be released worldwide next Friday (January 29th). This album has been in preparations for a long time – all because Jacky takes the production of his album very seriously. Originally, a portion of the songs were already recorded, however after Jacky listened to them again, he decided to give up on 6 songs and instead choose a few new songs to re-record, resulting in additional time and costs. In post-production, the album was first sent to the U.S. for sound-mixing, then sent to Germany for disc printing, so that his fans – who have waited a long time for this album – can enjoy the highest quality recording.

Jacky described his creative album from 5 years ago as his most personal album to date; however this time around, he took the musical genre that he enjoyed listening to the most [jazz] and converged it into a record – presenting his “private corner” so that all his fans can experience his “private world.”

Oprah Winfrey Top Television Personality In America

Oprah Winfrey has reclaimed her spot as America’s top television personality, according to a new Harris Poll, conducted by Harris Interactive.




In a poll of 2,276 adults surveyed between Dec. 7 and Dec. 14, 2009, the Queen of Talk was voted the nation’s most popular TV host, followed by controversial FOX News personality Glenn Beck in second place, and Jay Leno in third, who fell from last year’s top spot.

The results come just months after Oprah’s announcement that she will pull the plug on her long-running daytime talk show in Sept. 2011.

First Look: “Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps” Pictures



Take a peek at the first images from Oliver Stone’s Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps, starring Shia LeBeouf and Michael Douglas. Douglas reprises the role that won him an Oscar in the 1987 original, while former Even Stevens star LeBeouf plays a successful investment banker whose firm is being threatened by bankruptcy.

Brangelina Split ‘Down to Family Feuding’

BRANGELINA are set to split because their families hate each other — insiders say.

Sources close to both Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt have told Ian Halperin, author of the recent bestseller Brangelina: The Untold Story of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, that matters have become a “tragic tale of indecision, jealousy and hatred between the Jolie and Pitt clans.”

“I’m amazed we haven’t picked up shotguns yet and squared off,” said a Pitt insider.

“We just don’t get along. There’s never been any family gatherings or celebrations here. I have yet to see family members on either side have a civil conversation. It’s always arguing and backstabbing.”

Recent reports claim Brad’s brother, Doug, urged the star to dump Angelina.

HP Slate: Coming 2010, Way Less Than $1500, Plain Old Win 7

HP just popped a video of CTO Phil McKinney demonstrating the "slate" we showed you first at CES 2010. McKinney affirms that this is not just some will-o-the-wisp, but in doing so, might've taken away some of its allure.



The highlight of Steve Ballmer's slate introduction was the different modes—ebook reader, movie player—you can quickly jump to. But then and now, the story is really Windows, and those modes are just apps, running with the Start menu and all the familiar Windows accoutrements in full view. Being powered by Windows 7 is great, but I am not sure how I feel about this approach. What we see here is a Windows 7 desktop running a browser and a NYT app (aka another browser). I still think it's cute, but I think everyone would agree that the hardware is not the story—smoother software is needed to make the tablet lifestyle palatable.

What Would Life Be Like Without Windows?

It's the thought experiment we all like to engage in. What would life be like without Microsoft Windows? To listen to the free open source software crowd, the demise of Windows -- and by extension, Microsoft's hegemony over the PC universe -- would signal a kind of rebirth for information technology. Software would finally be free of the corporate shackles that have stifled innovation and dragged down the best and brightest among us.

Such thinking is naïve, at best. Rather than freeing IT, the demise of Microsoft would plunge the industry into an apocalyptic tailspin of biblical proportions -- no visions of hippie utopia here. The withdrawal of the Redmond giant's steady hand would cause today's computing landscape to tear itself apart at the seams, with application and device compatibility and interoperability devolving into the kind of Wild West chaos unseen since the days of the DOS big three: Lotus, WordPerfect, and Ashton-Tate.

And don't believe that the Web will somehow mitigate the impact of Windows' demise. Although Google talks a good story about supplanting traditional compute models with a Web-centric paradigm, the truth is that the folks from Mountain View are no less sinister when it comes to grandiose plans for world domination. If anything, the rise of Google -- or any dominant cloud-computing player -- should be perceived as a potential threat to IT independence. As the saying goes, never put all your IT eggs into a single vendor's basket.

Nokia X6 16GB officially announced, will be available this quarter

We told you yesterday that the Nokia X6 16GB has three color versions and we were almost right. Today, the X6 16GB has been officially announced, and the truth is that it has four color versions: all black (pictured below), all white, white with yellow highlights, and white with pink highlights.



The Nokia X6 16GB doesn’t include Comes With Music, but its other features are similar to the ones of the 32GB edition (save for the internal memory, of course): Symbian^1 (the new name for Symbian S60 5th Edition), 3.2 inch touchscreen display with 360 x 640 pixels, HSDPA, Wi-Fi, GPS, Ovi Maps with free navigation, TV out, 5MP autofocus camera, and preloaded games (Spore, Asphalt4 and DJ Mix Tour).

So Nyeo Shi Dae ‘Oh!’ doing strong on album sales chart “faster than ‘Gee’ minialbum did”

Girlgroup So Nyeo Shi Dae upcoming 2nd album ‘Oh!’ is dominating both music and album chart.



According to online album sales site Yes24, after the reservation sales for the album started on 21st January, the album has been gaining overwhelming interests and popularity. And on Yes24, 1100 albums were sold in just 10 hours after the reservation sales started on 21st January. They also set the record with hitting the #1 spot for album sales on consecutive days.

Son Ye-jin to star in new drama with Lee Min-ho

Korean actress Son Ye-jin is set to play the female lead role opposite actor Lee Min-ho in a new MBC drama this coming April, Son's agency said on Monday.



Barunson Entertainment announced through a press release that the actress has been cast for the role of Park Gae-in, a furniture designer in her late 20s, in the drama tentatively titled "Personal Taste."

The TV series, to be based on a novel of the same name by Korean writer Lee Se-in, will focus on the story between a woman and man living together, with the woman thinking the man is homosexual.

Kenix Kwok gives up acting to focus on family

Hong Kong actress Kenix Kwok has announced that she intends to stop taking on television projects to focus on her family.

Kwok, 40, had just given birth to her first child, a baby daughter, via Caesarean Section on January 14.

She said that she will give up acting to make sure she does not miss any part of her child's growing up years.

She also told reporters that she intends to have more children with actor husband Frankie Lam as her daughter would be very bored without siblings. She added that "it would be best to have two, at most three children so that she [her daughter] would be happier".

With Kwok staying at home for their children, it would fall on Lam to bring home the bacon. However, Lam said that he did not object to Kwok's decision and was happy to take up the burden.

"I hope I can get more work. I rather shoulder a heavier burden than have her work," he said.

The birth of their as yet unnamed baby girl had changed both Lam and Kwok.

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