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Nexus One sees red, nearly doubles battery life? (video)

7/04/2010 11:58:00 AM kenmouse , Posted in , , 0 Comments


These five Nexus One smartphones may seem to have defects, but there's actually nothing wrong with their AMOLED screens -- the funky colors are an attempt to improve battery life by turning off unnecessary sub-pixel LEDs. Hooking up his handset to an industrial power meter, Android engineer Jeff Sharkey discovered a blood-red screen drew 42 percent less current than full color -- the least of any combination by far -- purportedly doubling the effective battery life of the phone. While you're probably not going to be able to test the requisite software patch for yourself unless you're mildly familiar with Google code, you'll find a video of the crimson wonder after the break to fuel your dreams of a eyestrain-free astronomy cheat sheet... and Android bullfighting, of course.

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Cecilia Cheung Aims to Have 3 Sons and 1 Daughter

7/04/2010 11:58:00 AM kenmouse , Posted in , , , 0 Comments

Cecilia Cheung is already a mother of two sons and having a happy family life, making her have happy smile on her face all the time. She accepted interview by Cable TV lately, disclosing he wants to have three sons and one daughter. She expressed becoming a mom again feels experienced and familiar, she even praised first son Lucas is a good brother that he cares his younger brother Quintus a lot. Talked about Quintus' Chinese name, she said have to wait for husband to announce.

Asked Nicholas Tse and Luca's father and son relationship, she said Nicholas always leave home for work, so she would play Nicholas' movies and MV at home for Lucas to watch them. Lucas loves to watch the MV Nicholas and grandpa Patrick Tse filmed in the airplane, because Lucas likes airplanes.

In the past there are many negative rumors about the Tse family, Cecilia fought back, saying in the family there is a funny father-in-law, a open-minded mother-in-law, a husband who loves her, and two healthy sons, it's already way beyond A+. She promised to continue having kids for the Tse family. She believes it's better to have one more son and a daughter, three As and one Q.

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'Eclipse' box office: $121M after three days

7/04/2010 01:27:00 AM kenmouse , Posted in , , , , 0 Comments

With $68.5 million in its coffers after a record-breaking Wednesday plus another $24 million on Thursday and an estimated $28.6 million on Friday, the third installment of the Twilight franchise, Twilight Saga: Eclipse has earned a shade over $121 million and is on its way to a $200 million six-day total. The Last Airbender, despite the incredibly dismal reviews, should have a decent number two finish for its debut weekend. The M. Night Shyamalan flick took in $16 million on Friday after pulling in $16 million on its opening day for a 5-day holiday weekend gross that could total $70 million.

Toy Story 3 will have crossed the $300 million mark at the end of this weekend, pulling in what should be an estimated $45 million from Friday thru Monday. That will put it over last summer’s $293 million grosser Up and well on its way to surpassing Pixar’s highest-grossing flick, 2003′s Finding Nemo, which topped out at $339 million.

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Carrie Prejean and Footballer Beau Tie the Knot

7/04/2010 01:26:00 AM kenmouse , Posted in , , 0 Comments

Carrie Prejean has taken the ol' "opposite marriage" plunge.

The onetime beauty queen turned same-sex marriage opponent had a wedding of her own Friday night, swapping vows with NFL stud Kyle Boller in a lavish ceremony in San Diego.

The Oakland Raiders quarterback and Prejean said their "I do's" at Capella Church, located inside the Grand Del Mar Hotel in the bride's beachy California hometown, in a 25-minute ceremony surrounded by friends and family.

"It was beautiful," an eyewitness exclusively tells E! News. "They had cocktails on the lawn right after. Everyone seemed really happy."

Prejean toned down her over-the-top pageant day styles, walking down the aisle in a gorgeous one-shoulder mermaid-style gown while Boller and his fellow groomsmen wore traditional black tuxedos.

Leaving behind her six bridesmaids, Prejean and her new hubby were whisked away in a white Rolls Royce Phantom.

So fancy, these two.

Boller, 29, and Prejean, 23, became engaged in February, and have been together since last July.

FaceTime and Why Apple’s Massive Integration Advantage is Just Beginning

7/04/2010 01:26:00 AM kenmouse , Posted in , , , 0 Comments

The success of iPhone 4 has been astonishing to witness, despite the antenna issues, proving once again that Apple has a unparalleled ability to differentiate around design and integration, not simply “features.”

Perhaps the best example of this so far is FaceTime, Apple’s take on video-calling. FaceTime makes video-calling on the Android-based Sprint HTC EVO look silly, because the EVO awkwardly requires users to sign up and download a third-party app, then launch it every time they want to talk. Normal people simply won’t do this.

Apple eliminated this friction by innovating at the confluence of hardware and software—hit one button mid-call and the feature just works. It really is amazing (yes, I am channeling Steve Jobs).

But FaceTime is just a teaser of Apple’s deep integration capabilities. Below the surface of hardware / software, Apple is on the cusp of differentiating on a much deeper level, a result of its strategy to vertically integrate at the component level. The advantages of integrating so deeply are subtle but incredibly powerful.

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Android 3.0 could be what Google really needs

7/04/2010 01:26:00 AM kenmouse , Posted in , , , , 0 Comments

Besides the less-than-perfect market on Android devices, newish builds of the operating system seem to be fairly well received. Froyo has made improvements in speed, but the overall user experience hasn’t changed a whole lot since the early days.

That’s going to change. Gingerbread (Android 3.0), is a major release for a reason — The user experience is gong through a major overhaul. The new design is going to hopefully bring Android up to, and maybe past, the bar set by iPhone.

It turns out that Android 2.2 (Froyo) was competing fairly directly with the new iPhone 4 as far as timing goes. Given this, I believe Google did an amazing job in keeping their phone in the headlines — even though Froyo really wasn’t that big of a release.

What is interesting though is that Google will be uncontested when Android 3.0 hits the market in the Fall. No looming iOS update at the same time means that 100% of people will be focused on what Google’s got to offer. If the update is going to be as significant as I think it will be, Google is set for huge leap forward.

ColorWare Add the New Xbox 360 to Their List [Video]

7/04/2010 01:25:00 AM kenmouse , Posted in , , , , 0 Comments

ColorWare is on a roll. Having just announced in the last few weeks that they’ve stepped up their game to include HDTVs, and even Segways, it looks like they’re getting their hands on some new gadgets, too. And this time around, if you’re not a fan of remarkably shiny black pieces of technology, then you can go ahead and choose from any color you want, and get it colored and customized specifically for you.


As usual, ColorWare is giving customers the ability to choose how they get their new Microsoft Xbox 360 colored. They can either choose to order the system, with additional (also customizable) controllers, or just send their own console in. Both options will see your new colored item shipped in about three weeks, so it really just depends on what’s more comfortable for you.

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Leehom Wang will go on stage with Usher at Beijing concert

7/04/2010 01:24:00 AM kenmouse , Posted in , , , 0 Comments


American R&B superstar Usher is recently making his concert rounds in Asia, and it has been confirmed that Taiwanese-American Leehom Wang will be his sole guest performer at his Beijing stop. Leehom Wang revealed that Usher greatly valued and also cared a lot about this collaboration. Morever, Leehom added that Usher himself especially edited a section of his American concert performance to give to him, and hoped that they can collaborate on stage and can pull off an epic and igniting performance.

Before arriving in mainland China for his Beijing stop on July 11th, Usher will begin by performing for the first time in Taiwan at Taipei World Trade Center Nangang Exhibition Hall on July 4th, before he departs to Seoul on the same weekend and arrive the following night for another concert there for a total of 22 hours.

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SS501’s Park Jung Min clarifies rumors that he has signed with Sony Music Taiwan

7/04/2010 01:24:00 AM kenmouse , Posted in , , , 0 Comments

It looks like SS501’s Park Jung Min is following the leader Kim Hyun Joong’s footsteps. After the end of the contract between SS501 and DSP Entertainment, Kim Hyun Joong decided to not renew his contract but leave the company for Keyeast Entertainment.


The fate of the other members were still left up in the air. But recently, news have come up about Park Jung Min joining a Taiwanese company. Though nothing has been officially stated, he supposedly has joined the Sony Music Taiwan.

SS501 is already very popular in Taiwan so I wouldn’t be surprised if Park Jung Min did decide to join a foreign company. But Park Jung Min himself stated in a self-penned message on DSP website this afternoon that he has not signed any contract yet. Contract talks are ongoing but there are no results yet.

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Joey Yung more screen time added, no talk about the money

7/04/2010 01:23:00 AM kenmouse , Posted in , , , , , 0 Comments

Joey Yung, Raymond Lam, Charlene Choi and Wong Cho Lam attended the TVB & EEG movie "Emerald Pearl" promotional event last night.

Joey appeared in her costume from the movie, she expressed that during filming she really hoped to wear a wig for her performance, Joey said: "This hairstyle takes more than 2 hours to set, one time we started setting it at 4am." Speaking of her performance in the movie, Joey exposes that she got more screen time added. Asked if she agreed to get paid by the guest role price? She smiled: "There's not much prices in our movie market."

Raymond adds another show again

Raymond's concert is around the corner, he reveals that there are intentions to add another night: "We added a show on the 28th and it sold out. Last night on Miss Lok's birthday, big brother Ng Yue came too, both said they wanted to add another night, but right now there is a problem with the dates at Hong Kong Coliseum, don't know where to stuff it all in!"

Raymond also reveals the theme of the concert is fire, at first the concert producer was going to use low temperature fire effects, but decided that it would not work well. So he requested to use petroleum to make real fire. This frightened Raymond as he shook his head: "If so, then after one show I'll end up in the hospital for a few days. (Bought insurance?) my company got it for me, I personally bought heavy insurance, worth 7 figures!"

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