Where does she get the energy? Madonna, 51, keeps up with clubbers half her age in London

At 51, she could be forgiven for preferring nights in on the couch with a cup of cocoa.


But Madonna proved aged hasn't wearied her as he hit London hot spot Aura last night.

The energetic singer and mother of four mingled with party-goers half her age at the Piccadilly venue until the early hours of this morning.

She did her best to pull together a youthful ensemble which included jack boots, shorts and a shredded leather jacket.

She went all out with accessories too, trimming her look with a trilby hat, one black glove and sunglasses.

The bizarre outfit was yet another clear indication the Queen of Pop has no plans to grow old gracefully.

HP: no webOS netbooks, HP Slate due October 2010

HP’s confirmation that it would be putting webOS into tablets and even printers was happily received, but anyone looking forward to a webOS-based netbook should think again. According to Monty Wong, vice president of the personal computing systems group at HP Taiwan, netbooks are too like mainstream computers to make them appropriate for webOS, and as such the company has no plans to develop them. Meanwhile he also had some news on the HP Slate.


Wong says that the HP Slate – DigiTimes have capitalised the name, which leads us to presume they (and the HP VP) are referring to the original Windows 7 based tablet, rather than a webOS based machine – will arrive on the market by the end of October 2010. He’s also predicting a “wide range of software and application support” in time for that launch.

Nokia N8 hits Amazon preorder

Nokia’s N8 smartphone has shown up for preorder on Amazon Germany, with the handset listed at €469.50 ($587) though with no estimated release date. No surprises with the hardware specifications, so we’re still expecting the same 12-megapixel autofocus camera, 720p HD video recording and HDMI output.


Nokia themselves have only committed to a Q3 2010 launch, and the MRSP – that admittedly excludes taxes – was lower than Amazon Germany are asking too, at €370. Still, we’re guessing that carriers will be offering it from free with a new contract, so if you’re not feeling flush you’ll still be able to get your hands on the Symbian^3 handset.

"Scream 4" Lures "Twilight" and "Heroes" Vets

"Twilight" actress Ashley Greene, "Heroes" starlet Hayden Panettiere, and Rory Culkin ("Twelve") are mulling offers for key starring roles in "Scream 4," which is heading toward a July start date.


The Dimension Films project reunites director Wes Craven with writer Kevin Williamson, who kicked off a horror-movie revival with his "Scream" script in 1996.

The story brings back original cast members Neve Campbell, David Arquette and Courteney Cox, though the new flick is seen as a passing of the baton to a new generation of slasher victims, with Williamson already under contract to write a fifth installment.

If deals are concluded, Greene would play Campbell's cousin Jill, essentially the heroine of the movie, and Panettiere would play her best friend, a nerdy film geek. Culkin would play a potential love interest for Jill.

Lake Bell ("It's Complicated") is negotiating to play a police officer who knew Sidney (Campbell) from high school.

Casting is proceeding slowly because Craven and Dimension are not sending the script to agencies in order to protect its secrecy. With only character descriptions, actors are having a difficult time deciding whether certain roles are for them.

Lindsay Lohan Parties Until 7:30 A.M. After Warrant Issued for Arrest

Lindsay Lohan didn't seem too bothered that a judge issued a warrant for her arrest Thursday.

The actress, 23, partied all night in Cannes.

She arrived at the VIP Room at 4 a.m., where she was overheard telling partygoers she will fly back to the states Friday. She was slated to attend Russell Crowe’s Artists for Peace & Justice event there, but showed up after all the celebs — including Gerard Butler — had long left.

Lohan and a few pals then moved the fete to a private yacht, where Lohan was spotted leaving at 7:30 a.m. A friend covered her head with a jacket as she climbed into a black-out Mercedes.

The arrest warrant for Lohan was rescinded Thursday night after she posted a $10,000 bail bond. A hearing is scheduled for Monday at 8:30 a.m. to determine if Lohan violated the probation terms from her 2007 DUI conviction. If so, she faces 180 days in jail.

Lohan claims her father Michael "had someone" steal her passport, which stranded her in Cannes and caused her to miss the hearing.

Jesse James: I Threw Away an Amazing Marriage

Jesse James breaks down in tears as he finally speaks publicly about the demise of his marriage to Sandra Bullock.

"I took a pretty amazing life and marriage ... and threw it away," James says in a promo clip of his interview with ABC News' Nightline, scheduled to air Tuesday night.

James, 41, admits to cheating on Bullock and says his actions – including allegations of affairs with multiple women – have made him "The most hated man in the world.” At one point, he’s so overcome by emotion, he walks away from the interview.

Since the couple’s split, James has spent time in a rehab program and has otherwise maintained a normal schedule at his Los Angeles-area home, where he's often been seen driving his kids to school.

HTC Vision to be a Desire-like Android smartphone with QWERTY keyboard?

For some reason, all of HTC’s latest high-end Android smartphones (HTC Desire, HTC Incredible, HTC EVO 4G) come without a hardware keyboard.


But fret not, QWERTY fans, as HTC is apparently readying a Desire-like handset that will also include a sliding keyboard. Codenamed HTC Vision, this upcoming smartphone has a WVGA touchscreen display and, according to Tweakers.net, its UA profile is similar to the one of the HTC Desire (save for the already-mentioned presence of a hardware keyboard).

Details on the availability of the HTC Vision are basically nonexistent at the moment, but the handset might be announced pretty soon – maybe running Android 2.2 from the start.

Google Pac-Man logo is retro-awesome

Google have rolled out their latest custom logo, and it’s perhaps their best to date. Celebrating the 30th birthday of the original Pac-Man, they’ve recreated the iconic game in a playable logo complete with audio and even a two-player mode.


To start play, hit the “Insert Coin” button (where “I’m feeling lucky” normally is to be found) and then use the arrow keys to move Pac-Man about. Hit the button again and you get Mrs Pac-Man too, controlled by the WASD keys.

Best of all, the Pac-Man logo isn’t coded in Flash so it’s playable on your iPhone, your iPad and on other smartphone browsers that don’t support the Adobe technology. We’ve tried it on an iPad and a Google Nexus One, and you can control Pac-Man by tapping the screen to change direction. Google say it’ll be available for play for the next 48hrs.

BlackBerry Bold 9800 slider breaks cover to flaunt WebKit browser

RIM’s BlackBerry Bold 9800 slider has shown up in the wild again, and this time it’s showing off a little more of the company’s work in BlackBerry OS 6. The WebKit engine is apparently heavily integrated into the new OS, and here it makes an appearance scoring a full 100/100 in the Acid3 browser test.


That’s handy, because the BlackBerry browser right now is somewhat lacking in comparison to what’s available on other platforms. The photos – courtesy of The Cellular Guru – also confirm that it uses a touchscreen display along with a slide-out QWERTY keyboard; that ‘board is apparently the same as you’d find on the BlackBerry 9700.

'Shrek' kicks off the sure-to-be successful summer kid flick biz

It’s summertime (at least at the box office) and Shrek Forever After kicks off the season’s animated kid flicks. With the Shrek series having grossed over $1 billion domestically, the fourth, and likely final, installment in the popular series is destined to be one of the top-grossing films this summer season. How high it opens is another question. It will be buoyed by the 3-D component, but a little bloom may have worn off this rose considering it’s been three years since we’ve had the green ogre in our theaters. Not to mention that the last two weren’t nearly as beloved critically as the original.

R-rated comedy MacGruber has the inauspicious task of going up against Shrek. The film — financed by Relativity Media, produced by Rogue, and released by Universal Pictures (that’s a mouthful) — is unlikely to light any fires at the box office despite the popularity of the Saturday Night Live character on the sketch comedy show. Read on for my predictions.

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