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Jay Chou's new album 'The Era' released today; Hong Kong sales breaks previous record

5/19/2010 01:38:00 AM kenmouse , Posted in , , 0 Comments


Jay Chou's new album was released across Asia today, and Hong Kong sales have already surpassed 70,000 copies, smashing his previous album sales record. In the MV for his second title track 'The Era', Jay turns into a handsome vampire and it also features a special custom-made piano that cost $620,000rmb, again smashing his personal record for the most amount of money spent on an MV. And for his third title track 'Raining All Night', Jay continues to travel through time, and transforms into a traditional Chinese man, playing er hu. The most special thing about this MV is that it actually led to a very happy event. During filming, one of the male actors suddenly proposed to his girlfriend, who was also one of the female actors, making her very surprised but happy. And this whole process was also recorded.

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Charlie Sheen to Earn Nearly $2 Million Per Episode

5/19/2010 01:38:00 AM kenmouse , Posted in , , 0 Comments

Charlie Sheen will not only be staying on for two more seasons of 'Two and a Half Men,' the actor is getting a huge pay raise to the tune of nearly $2 million per episode, according to reports.

The deal, between Sheen's reps and Warner Bros. TV, was sealed Monday night and bumps his salary for the CBS comedy from $850,000 to between $1.8 - $1.9 million each episode, Variety is reporting.

He was already the highest paid actor in primetime, but now he'll be getting about what Ray Romano received for the final season of 'Everybody Loves Raymond,' also a CBS show.

Sheen confirmed he was returning to the hit show in an earlier statement. "To put a fitting end on the two-and-one-half months of whirlwind speculation, I'm looking forward to returning to my CBS home on Monday nights," he said.

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Christina Aguilera Swears Lady Gaga "Is Great," OK?

5/19/2010 01:37:00 AM kenmouse , Posted in , , , , 0 Comments


So Christina Aguilera has seemed a bit testy lately. Maybe it's because no one's been all that into to her big Bionic comeback or maybe it's because not enough focus is put on doing good stuff. Who knows? In any case, she didn't have nice things to say about Lady Gaga and now has to backtrack.

It all started when Out magazine asked Xtina about Gaga, really a sort of mandatory question at this point, and this was the response: "'Oh, the newcomer?' Aguilera chuckles. 'I think she's really fun to look at.'"

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CBS cancels 'Ghost Whisperer' and 'Old Christine' & more

5/19/2010 01:37:00 AM kenmouse , Posted in , 0 Comments

In a stunning move, CBS has axed both Ghost Whisperer and The New Adventures of Old Christine.


Also gone: Gary Unmarried, Cold Case, Miami Medical, Accidentally on Purpose, and Numb3rs.

Medium and Rules of Engagement, meanwhile, have been renewed.

Fans may want to hold off on eulogizing Ghost and Christine for a day or two. There’s an outside chance that ABC (which co-owns GW and has long coveted Christine) may swoop in and rescue one or both.

“There’s a 50/50 shot that Christine will move to ABC,” says one source. A reprieve for Ghost appears less likely. Final decisions are expected later this week. In the meantime, my Bubble Show Scorecard has been updated.

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It's official: Microsoft is out of the Vista doghouse

5/19/2010 01:36:00 AM kenmouse , Posted in , , , 0 Comments

Microsoft has won back the customers it lost during the three years when it was best known for the unloved and much-mocked Windows Vista. In fact, a new survey from an independent group finds that Microsoft’s customer satisfaction levels in the wake of the successful launch of Windows 7 are at an all-time high. The report also includes some bad news for AT&T Mobility and for the cable and satellite TV industries.

You can see the results for yourself in this year’s comprehensive American Customer Satisfaction Index report, released today by the University of Michigan. The annual survey covers 10 economic sectors, 44 industries, and more than 200 companies or Federal and local government agencies. Each entity is scored on a scale of 0-100, with higher numbers representing greater satisfaction.

Back in 2006, before Vista was released, Microsoft’s ACSI score was a respectable 73. (To put that number in perspective, the highest satisfaction score for 2010 is an 83 for Sempra Energy.) In 2007, the year of Vista’s launch, Microsoft’s ACSI score dropped significantly, to 70, and it dropped another point in 2008, to 69, inching up to 70 again in 2009. Those numbers are remarkably consistent and significantly lower than the pre-Vista ratings.

Last fall, Microsoft introduced Windows 7. Today, roughly six months later, the company’s ACSI score has spiked impressively, to an all-time high of 76.

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Browser wars are back: The downside for you

5/19/2010 01:35:00 AM kenmouse , Posted in , , , , , , , 0 Comments

Web video without ads? No one would mind that. However, iPad users viewing the popular New York Times site are finding out that not having to sit through ads has a price -- fewer videos to watch.

Here's why: Apple won't allow Flash based videos to run on an iPad. The Times and thousands of other sites use a media player called Brightcove to play those Flash-less videos. But without Flash, Brightcove can't include ads, or the analytic tools that allow advertisers to measure the performance of ads, said Brightcove's marketing chief Jeff Whatcott. And since ads pay the bills, The Times won't post many videos on the version of its site tuned for the iPad.

Normally, the technology industry's progress in adopting standards is like making sausage: You don't want to see it or know too much about it. But as the problem on The Times' Web site illustrates, the tiff over Flash and a rival video standard called HTML 5 is having a real effect on the Web-loving public. Users of mobile devices like the iPad and iPhone are unwilling participants in the skirmish, and you can expect ripples to reach the desktop as well.

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Is TVXQ Jaejoong dating a japanese model?

5/19/2010 01:35:00 AM kenmouse , Posted in , , , , 0 Comments


TVXQ / DBSK / Tohoshinki’s Jaejoong is once again involved in a Japanese dating rumor.

A weekly magazine in Japan reported that Jaejoong and Japanese model Mikiko Yano were spotted enjoying a date together in Tokyo’s Shibuya district. The two were seen wearing masks standing at a cross walk with arms locked looking to be enjoying each others company.

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Vic Zhou tries out a saucy and "soft beauty" image for new film

5/19/2010 01:34:00 AM kenmouse , Posted in , , 0 Comments


After series Ruffian Hero, Zaizai Zhou Yumin once again has a major breakthrough in his image for a new film. Not only wearing a pink suit, he also put on a saucy and cute pose. But actually in the film Zaizai plays a decadent rock band member and will sing in the movie, plus have a passionate bed scene with Japanese actress Kato Yuki.

Wearing a saucy pink suit, and combining it with vulgar (俗俗) taiwanese-flavored (台客) dance steps, Zai Zai Zhou Yumin will wriggle his waist and exhibit his buttock and even sing a classic old song to show off his vocal chords in the movie "Love You Ten Thousand Years".

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Android 2.1 becomes most used version, just in time to be obviated by Froyo

5/19/2010 01:34:00 AM kenmouse , Posted in , , , , 0 Comments


Rejoice, oh Android lovers. Thy OS of choice has finally graduated to the point where its latest variant is also the most used -- a statistic that is likely to last for only a day given Google's intent to reveal Android 2.2, or Froyo, at its I/O conference tomorrow. For the first time since El Goog's been keeping these platform version stats, 2.1 has risen above 1.5, the previous incumbent, having grown from 32.4 percent on May 3 (chart after the break) to 37.2 percent on May 17. This rapid ascension can only be expected to accelerate with more devices getting their Eclair permissions slips, and let's not forget that Google will be trying its hardest with 2.2 to make upgrades easier for phone makers to implement. Onwards and upwards we go.

Google begins Chrome 6 development

5/19/2010 01:33:00 AM kenmouse , Posted in , , , 0 Comments

A few days ago, Chrome turned 6. Version 6, that is, though only on the developer preview channel.

The move doesn't mean a radical new version of Google's browser is available to test--the changes over the 5.0 series are pretty minor, chiefly reflecting the fact that a new branch has sprouted from Chrome's source-code tree. But the change is important for a couple reasons.

First and foremost, it means the work of buttoning down geolocation support and other new features in Chrome 5 can begin in earnest since experimental work is now happening elsewhere. Chrome 5 will be the first stable release for Mac OS X and Linux, a move that's important for attracting mainstream users.

Second, starting Chrome 6 frees the cutting-edge coders up for developing those new features, making the new branch more than a mere twig.

Google doesn't make a big deal about Chrome version numbers, treating them as mere milestones passed on the journey to a better browser. If a feature doesn't make a particular milestone, it gets pushed back, as indeed has happened with a few items planned for Chrome 5. But Google updates Chrome relatively frequently, so delaying a feature typically pushes it back only a few months.

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