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Lindsay Lohan Shows Off Boobs in New Ad

8/05/2010 01:21:00 AM kenmouse , Posted in , , 0 Comments

Lindsay Lohan was sentenced to jail for skipping DUI classes -- but she managed to make time to appear in yet another racy ad campaign.


The actress, 24 -- who checked into rehab early Monday morning -- posed in panties and striped thigh-highs for Marc Ecko's "Muse" campaign. She also reveals her nearly-naked breasts as she lifts a shirt over her head.

TMZ.com reports Lohan secretly shot the ads in May -- around the same time Judge Marsha Revel sentenced her to 90 days in jail. She even wears a mask in several shots. See the top 10 bad movie babes.

Ecko chose Lohan because he wanted someone "who fascinated us -- for better or worse," TMZ reports.

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Avenged Sevenfold bumps Eminem to No. 2 on Billboard 200 albums chart

8/05/2010 01:21:00 AM kenmouse , Posted in , , , 0 Comments

Avenged Sevenfold Nightmare debuts at No. 1 this week on the Billboard 200 albums chart with 163,000 copies sold, ending Eminem‘s five-week run as the list’s leader. Now at No.2, Em’s Recovery moved 159,000 albums. Last week’s No. 2, Rick Ross’ Teflon Don, moves to No.3 with 63,000 copies sold. Justin Bieber’s My World 2.0 moves up two spots to No. 4 selling 38,000 sets.

At No. 5 with 34,000 copies sold is Drake’s Thank Me Later. It fell one spot. The Kidz Bop 18 collection falls one space to No. 6 moving 29,000 units.

Need You Now by Lady Antebellum jumps up two to No. 7 selling 27,000 copies. Sheryl Crow’s 100 Miles From Memphis drops five positions to No. 8 with 24,000 sets sold. Lady Gaga’s The Fame moves up one to No. 9 selling just under 24,000 albums. Rounding out the top 10 is the Now 34 compilation, falling two to No. 10 and selling 22,000 copies.

Android top selling smartphone platform in U.S. for Q2

8/05/2010 01:20:00 AM kenmouse , Posted in , , , , 0 Comments

Android is now the leading smartphone operating system in the U.S. in market share, according to a report released Wednesday by NPD Group.

Following a slew of new smartphones released in the second quarter, the Android operating system accounted for 33 percent of all smartphones sold in the U.S. consumer market. That number pushed it ahead of Research In Motion with 28 percent and Apple with 22 percent. It also marked the first time since the fourth quarter of 2007 that RIM dropped to second place, said NPD.

Among the top five Android phones, the Motorola Droid was the best-selling handset in the quarter, followed by the HTC Droid Incredible, the HTC Evo 4G, the HTC Hero, and finally the HTC Droid Eris. Though Android's surge has helped it overtake RIM in market share, the Google OS-based phones still need to compete with heavy consumer demand for Apple's new iPhone 4.

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72 percent of iPhone 4 users 'very satisfied'

8/05/2010 01:19:00 AM kenmouse , Posted in , , , 0 Comments

A new report released Wednesday by market research firm ChangeWave shows that 72 percent of iPhone 4 users are "very satisfied" with the new Apple device.

The report, which tallied the results of 213 iPhone 4 users in July, also said that 21 percent were somewhat satisfied with the device.



ChangeWave said that one third of iPhone 4 users surveyed said the device exceeded their expectations, while 50 percent said it met expectations. Taken together, the iPhone 4 numbers fall short of the satisfaction rating of the iPhone 3GS after its release: 82 percent reported being "very satisfied" while 17 percent said they were "somewhat satisfied."

Of course, the iPhone 4 had its issues as soon as it was released--namely the antenna problems that prompted Apple to hold a press conference and offer users a free case. ChangeWave asked iPhone 4 users how much of a problem the antenna issue was for them. Nearly two-thirds said they "hadn't experienced any problem" while 14 percent said it "wasn't much of a problem." But 1 in 5 said it was "somewhat of a problem" and 7 percent called it a "very big problem." However, the antenna issue did not top the list of the biggest dislikes of the iPhone 4--that distinction went to AT&T.

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Jackie Chan and Theresa Teng’s love story exposed

8/05/2010 01:19:00 AM kenmouse , Posted in , , 0 Comments

Former executive Du Huidong discloses the reason why the two ex-lovers did not end up together

Former studio executive Du Huidong has been making waves by exposing celebrity secrets in his new book.

Former superstars Brigitte Lin and Joey Wong were implicated and even the late Anita Mui was not spared.

Actor-director Jackie Chan's romance with the songbird Theresa Teng was a major talking point.

Theresa, who passed away in 1995, was one of the most prolific and loved singers in the 80s.

It was said that Jackie had met her when he was taking English lessons overseas and it was also there that their relationship started. However, things fell apart when Jackie's current wife, Joan Lin appeared.

In the book, Du seemed to imply that Joan had used underhanded means to force Theresa to give up on Jackie.

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Arashi's new album sells 275,000 copies on first day

8/05/2010 01:19:00 AM kenmouse , Posted in , , 0 Comments


Boy band Arashi released a new album on Wednesday, titled "Boku no Miteiru Fuukei." In its first day of sales, fans bought 275,000 copies, setting a new personal record for the group. Last year, their "All the BEST! 1999-2009" collection set their previous record with 261,000 copies in its first day. That album went on to sell 753,000 copies within the first week, so many are hoping to see "Boku no Miteiru Fuukei" break that record as well.

Arashi's last original album was "Dream A live" in 2008. Since then, they have released several hit singles, including "Monster" and "Troublemaker," which both sold more than half a million copies in their first weeks.

Poor Apple can't seem to catch a break

8/05/2010 01:18:00 AM kenmouse , Posted in , , 0 Comments

Most readers know that I tend to pick on Apple. Heck, I’ve even pretty much reserved Tuesday each week as the day I try to see if I can make little fanbois’ heads spin. This week, however, we have three pieces of news (two that even happen to be government-related) that almost make me feel sorry for the company. Almost.

First, Sam Diaz reported on an unconfirmed report that hackers are breaking into iPhones simply by virtue of users downloading a PDF file.

Next up, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes wrote a nice piece about how easy it is to jailbreak your iPhone. Now that it’s officially legal to do so, there’s even a Web-based application that makes the task almost ridiculously easy.

Next up, the fine folks at Wired are reporting their suspicions that the FTC is in the middle of an investigation into Apple, primarily because of Apple’s effective screwing of Adobe over the whole CS5 Flash thing.

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How Russell Brand Makes Katy Perry Feel Beautiful

8/05/2010 01:17:00 AM kenmouse , Posted in , , , 0 Comments

She may don her Daisy Dukes and bikini tops with pride, but Katy Perry still struggles with her self-image – and that's when she turns to her fiancé, comedian Russell Brand.

"I think he taught me a lot about inner beauty and confidence in myself," the singer, 25, tells Seventeen magazine in its September issue.

"I don't really feel pretty ever," she says. "Without makeup, I feel ugly. And so I would have to sleep with makeup on, or feel ugly and gross. He looks beyond all of that, which is such a win, because I've never felt that with anybody."

The couple may have their differences ("He's a very spiritual person, and I'm constantly struggling with the idea of being spiritual and material"), but Perry says their love is the real deal.

"He's in love with the person inside of me," she says, "and the outside of me is just a bonus."

And as the couple prepares to tie the knot, Perry stills remembers her initial attraction to Brand.

"He changed my mind about him the moment I met him," she says. "I said, 'You are a better person than how you are portrayed.'"

Five Windows 7 security features that businesses need to know about

8/05/2010 01:17:00 AM kenmouse , Posted in , , , 0 Comments

Windows 7 brings several security enhancements that don't sacrifice usability

The words Windows and security have not always been compatible. In the past, Microsoft's quest to make its operating system as easy to manage as possible for the "typical" user has often meant sacrificing adequate safeguards against intrusion and infection. Windows XP's notorious vulnerability to network worms stands as a recent example; Microsoft shipped the operating system with a firewall but initially left it turned off by default.

For all its flaws, real and perceived, Vista marked a huge step forward in Windows security. Windows 7 has continued that improvement, adding several new features and enhancing many others -- most obviously the User Account Control system, which proved so obnoxious in Vista that many users turned it off, leaving their systems vulnerable to intrusion in exchange for a less annoying experience. UAC has been revamped in Windows 7 to be less intrusive and more discerning about what constitutes a true threat, and therefore more effective.

Other Windows 7 security features are less apparent, especially those intended for businesses concerned with protecting not just one computer but an entire network. Among the most important new features are DirectAccess, a VPN replacement for computers on Windows networks; the Windows Biometric Framework, which standardizes the way fingerprints are used by scanners and biometric applications; and AppLocker, which improves on previous Windows versions' Software Restriction Policies to limit which software can be run on a machine.

Also key are BitLocker To Go, which extends the full-disk encryption of BitLocker to external hard drives, and a refined procedure for handling multiple firewall profiles so that the level of protection better matches the location from which a user connects to the Internet.

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Microsoft hopes WP 7 speech features surpass Android, iPhone

8/05/2010 01:16:00 AM kenmouse , Posted in , , , , , 0 Comments

Hoping to leapfrog over Google and Apple's successes in the smartphone market, Microsoft plans to use cloud-based speech recognition and natural language processing technology to offer user interface capabilities not found on the iPhone or Android devices.

"We believe speech is not a separate application. Rather it is an integral part of the user experience," said Zig Serafin, Microsoft unified communications general manager, before an audience at the SpeechTEK 2010 conference, being held this week in New York.

In order to boost Windows Phone 7's capabilities for understanding a voice command and delivering the requested result, the company plans to tie in Windows Phone 7 handsets with the company's Tellme cloud-based voice recognition and natural language processing service, said Serafin, in a subsequent interview with IDG News Service.

Microsoft purchased the company that created this service, Tellme Networks, in 2007.

Before the SpeechTEK audience, Serafin chastised the Android and iPhone operating systems for using icons as the chief form of interaction. "Most smartphones are a grid of icons, much like Windows 3.1," he said.

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