Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 potential marketing pitch: 'I'm a phone too'

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer gave analysts a glimpse at the software giant’s potential marketing around Windows Phone 7. The plan: Let Windows Phone 7 ride shotgun with Windows 7. The possible punchline: “I’m a phone too.”

Here’s a slide from Ballmer’s presentation:



Will this pitch work? Ballmer thinks the ‘I’m a phone too’ line certainly won’t hurt. He said:

I think it’s probably fair to say we have a lot of work to do and all not going to happen over night. The opportunity to do interesting work, differentiated work, to build marketshare, it is actually pretty good in the phone space right now.

Google hopes to make $10 billion per year thanks to Android

At the moment, Google may not make too much money from Android, but the Mountain View-based company seems to have big plans for the near future.


Talking to The Wall Street Journal, Google’s CEO Eric Schmidt said that the company “is positioning itself to earn $10 billion or more per year in the mobile device business.”

Schmidt says that this would be possible with 1 billion people using Android phones. Money won’t come from Android itself (the OS is free and open source, as you probably already know), but from preinstalled services that are ad-supported (Web search, maps and so on).

Ballmer says Microsoft at work to rival iPad

Acknowledging Apple's early success with the iPad, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer insisted Thursday that the software maker is hard at work on Windows-based tablets.


"They'll be shipping as soon as they are ready," Ballmer said, offering few details on the products, which he said will come from partners, not Microsoft itself. "It is job one urgency. No one is sleeping at the switch."

Speaking to financial analysts, Ballmer said the goal is "not just to deliver products, but to deliver products that people want to buy."

As for Apple and the iPad, Ballmer said, "they've sold certainly more than I'd like them to have sold."

But he added that Microsoft has a lot of software knowledge and intellectual property from the decade it has spent in the tablet business. He said the task Microsoft faces is similar to the early days of the Netbook, when many of those machines were Linux-based. "We have got to make things happen," he said. "We're in the process of doing that as we speak. We're working with our hardware partners. We're tuning Windows 7."

Jay and Show face off

The two stars took part in a charity basketball match in opposing team, and Jay’s team came out on top

They are kings of the stage but in the court, it's no longer a one-man show


Taiwanese princes of pop Jay Chou and Show Luo participated in a basketball match organized by basketball star Yao Ming. The match is part of the Yao Foundation Charity Tour to raise funds.

In one of the segments in the basketball event, celebrities take on a shooting contest: for every basket made within 24 seconds, TWD 10,000 (about S$500) will be donated to the Yao Foundation.

Jay was the first to go to the line and the usually-composed star quipped that he felt "more nervous than singing in a concert".

SS501 to turn into SS301?


Following confirmation about Kim Hyun Joong leaving DSP Entertainment for Keyeast, more information regarding SS501’s future have been revealed today.

It’s been revealed that fellow SS501 member Park Jung Min will also leave DSP Entertainment, possibly SS501 as well, to pursue his acting career with another management agency.

It is now looking like SS501 will now turn into SS301, a group consisting of Kim Hyung Joon, Kim Kyu Jong and Heo Young Saeng that promoted during 2008 with U R Man.

It’s known that while Park Jung Min is showing interest in pursuing his acting career, the rest of the three members are prefering to stay as a group rather than having solo careers although they are also looking for a new agency.

Vicki Zhao: It will be a pity if I don't perform

The actress refutes rumours that she is back in showbiz for the cash

It's not for the money.

Or that's what Vicki Zhao claims.

The China-based actress had a brief stay in Singapore during her pregnancy - which was also where she gave birth to her daughter - to avoid media scrutiny.

After giving birth, the star was back in action, appearing at product launches and various events.

Due to this, rumours have been rife that Vicki has been working furiously as her husband, tycoon Huang You-long has dumped her.

Vicki was in Beijing as a product ambassador where she refuted the rumours.

"I'm not taking up any movie deals with Stephen Chow, neither am I filming Painted Skin 2. I do not wish to take on any more period movies."

For her future plans, Vicki revealed that she will be filming a new movie in two months' time and may be involved in movie directing in the future. She will also be on the panel of judges for the upcoming China Changchun Film Festival.

Wahlberg gets Walk of Fame star

Comedian Will Ferrell poked fun at Mark Wahlberg as he was honoured with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame - by pretending to confuse him with fellow action man Matt Damon.


Wahlberg was presented with the 2,414th star on the famous Hollywood Boulevard on Thursday in recognition of his longstanding career as a rapper, underwear model, actor and producer.

His The Other Guys co-star Ferrell was on hand to provide the chuckles at the ceremony when he jokingly praised Wahlberg for Damon's hit Jason Bourne franchise.

He told the audience, "I'm glad to be here. I first became a fan of Mark's when I bought his workout video. And I love all your Bourne movies."

'Angelina' Tell-All Paints Shocking Picture of Jolie's Troubled Childhood

Angelina Jolie has lived a life of contradictions. Now a goodwill ambassador and one of the world's most celebrated actresses, she's blessed with six beautiful children (and one Brad Pitt), but she was once also a heroin addict from a shattered home who went on to steal other women's husbands. This -- and so much more -- according to the forthcoming bombshell tell-all about the actress, 'Angelina: An Unauthorized Biography,' by the master of such celebrity dirt-fests, Andrew Morton.

Leaked excerpts from the book are fueling so much hype that publisher St. Martin's Press has moved up its release date from Aug. 3 to July 31, says USA Today.

Critics cite the lurid details of the 35-year-old star's childhood as the most compelling morsels Morton throws his readers.

An affair Jolie's famous father Jon Voight had with starlet Stacey Pickren when Jolie was only a few months old tore apart her family life and set her on a path of teenage rebellion, according to the book.

Her mother Marcheline Bertrand moved out of the posh Beverly Hills high-rise where baby Angelina lived with her dad and was taken care of by nannies. A bitter Bertrand rarely came to see her daughter during the first year of her life because Jolie reminded her too much of her philandering husband, Morton says.

Fox News: Apple Is The New Religion And The Pope Is Scared

Jesus. Maybe literally.

Fox News has a long and illustrious history of saying some fairly outrageous things. A story today on FoxNews.com may be one of the best yet — certainly from a tech perspective.

The post entitled “For Apple Followers, It’s a Matter of Faith, Academics Say” argues that while people may joke about Apple being a religion (JesusPhone, etc), to some, it may actually be a religion. Better, they wonder if Apple shouldn’t pursue that path. Here’s Fox News’ keys as to why Apple is similar to a religion:
  • Apple’s creation story epitomizes the humble garage origin of its technology — not unlike the humble manger of Jesus’ birth.
  • Apple CEO Steve Jobs is perceived as a messianic leader who was fired but rose again to save the company.
  • Apple has traditionally had an evil archenemy, the Devil, as represented first by Microsoft and now by Google.

Microsoft slates IE9 beta for September

Exec spells out beta ship date, but company mum on final schedule

MIcrosoft will ship a beta of Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) in September, a company executive said today.

If the timeline is accurate, the IE9 beta release will come a month later than earlier speculation, which had settled on August, a pick based in large part on PowerPoint slides purportedly from a Microsoft presentation that focused on Windows 8, the next iteration of the company's OS.

Today, Kevin Turner, Microsoft's chief operating officer, said that IE9 would reach beta this fall. "We're really excited about IE9, which will be beta and coming out in September," said Turner during the company's annual day-long presentation to Wall Street analysts.

Turner also boasted of Internet Explorer's recent turnaround, claiming that it had gained usage share the last two months.

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