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Update on “4 Stations Joint Media Award”: Joey Yung doesn’t have a chance to repeat her win this year

11/05/2010 10:50:00 AM kenmouse , Posted in , , , , 0 Comments

With the various music awards shows gearing up to start handing out this year’s results, there were reports out today that the highly contentious “4 Stations Joint Media Award” will be cancelled. According to a source, the 4 stations (RTHK, Commercial Radio, Metro Radio, and TVB) held a meeting the day before yesterday and with a vote of 2 to 1, decided to cancel the award this year. If true, then it means that last year’s winner – EEG’s Joey Yung – will not have an opportunity to win the award again this year. In addition, after the meeting, TVB decided to play hardball by delaying the official joint announcement of the award’s cancellation.

Due to the ongoing dispute between TVB and the big 4 record companies, last year’s JSG Awards Ceremony (TVB’s music awards show) did not give out any awards to the big 4 artists, causing artists such as Eason Chan, Kay Tse, Hacken Lee, etc. to become ‘sacrificial lambs’ of the dispute. The results of the JSG awards last year were highly contentious and sparked much debate from all sides. A few days ago, our paper was the first to reveal that the 4 stations held their first meeting back at the end of October to discuss whether the Media award should be cancelled this year. At that time, the organizer of the meeting – government station RTHK – suggested casting votes to decide the outcome. [TN: The results of that meeting were inconclusive.]

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Taylor Swift sets Hot 100 chart records

11/05/2010 01:58:00 AM kenmouse , Posted in , , 0 Comments

Taylor Swift‘s amazing week just keeps getting better. The latest edition of Billboard‘s Hot 100 chart features an incredible 11 appearances from Swift, all songs from her new album, Speak Now. This is a record on three counts.

First: Swift is the only female artist to have that many songs on the Hot 100 at once. Her only competition, per Billboard, comes from David Cook, who also notched 11 charting singles right after he won American Idol in May 2008, and the Beatles, who had 12 songs on the Hot 100 for two weeks in April 1964 and 14 charting songs for another week in the same month.

Second: The Beatles’ charting singles came from multiple projects (Please Please Me, With the Beatles, and the soon-to-be-released A Hard Day’s Night). Cook’s were individually sold tunes that he had sung on Idol. This makes Swift the first artist ever to have this many simultaneously charting singles all drawn from a single album.

Third: Cook didn’t write his Idol songs, and the Beatles’ record-setting weeks included a number of covers like “Twist and Shout” and “Roll Over Beethoven.” Swift famously wrote all the songs on Speak Now by herself. So she’s also the only artist to have this many Hot 100 appearances all of which were written by the artist in question.

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Miley Cyrus Goes “So Undercover”

11/05/2010 01:57:00 AM kenmouse , Posted in , , 0 Comments


Miley, The Action Star? She has signed on to play a P.I. in the new motion-picture comedy So Undercover, Variety has learned.

The Hannah Montana actress has been cast as a young woman who is hired by the FBI to go undercover at a college sorority, insiders tell the trade paper. Tom Vaughan, the lensman behind What Happens in Vegas, wll direct the comedy, which is based on a script by Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps writer Allan Loeb and Steven Pearl.

A release date has not yet been announced.

Samsung “confident” of one million Galaxy Tab sales in 2010

11/05/2010 01:57:00 AM kenmouse , Posted in , , , 0 Comments

Samsung mobile division chief JK Shin has outlined the company’s sales ambitions for the Samsung Galaxy Tab, telling reporters at the Korean launch that Samsung expect to sell one million of the Android slates by the end of 2010. The estimate falls well short of Apple’s sales success with the iPad, where one million of the iOS tablets were shipped in the first 28 days.

“Although the launching of Galaxy Tab has been delayed a little bit [in Korea], consumer responses in Europe and Asia have been quite good and we are confident of meeting one million sales mark this year” JK Shin, Samsung

Nonetheless, the iPad had the consumer tablet market much to itself when it launched – and of course the fashionable Apple brand to count on – helping it take an estimated 95-percent of tablet sales. The Galaxy Tab, meanwhile, is the first of Samsung’s Android slate range, which is expected to extend to multiple models through 2011.

Dell Inspiron Duo flips its lid on official video

11/05/2010 01:57:00 AM kenmouse , Posted in , , , 0 Comments


Blink really slowly and you might miss it. Seriously, though, Dell's 35-second Inspiron Duo teaser plays up the tablet angle for quite a bit -- even prominently showing off a JBL speaker dock -- before getting to the really awesome part. Oh, you know, where it totally flips its screen over and becomes a netbook. Coming soon, and last we heard it was by the end of the year, so that gives them around 57 days to make it happen. Video after the break.

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Barbie Hsu breaks down at third party accusations

11/05/2010 01:56:00 AM kenmouse , Posted in , , , , 0 Comments

After netizens unearthed news of Wang Xiaofei's alleged past with a woman named 'Kwan' and the payoff ex-girlfriend Kitty Zhang received from Wang's mother, a new slew of rumours speculating on Barbie Hsu's past as a third party surfaced.

Giving her the nickname "third party", netizens scrutinized Barbie's romantic past with Blue Lan and Vic Zhou and likened her intrusion in Wang's relationship with Chinese actress Kitty similar to that of Blue and his ex-girlfriend, and Vic's relationship with the late singer-actress Beatrice Xu.

According to the netizen, Barbie and Vic's relationship took a turn for the worse when she tried to force the unwilling actor into marriage. Her sudden engagement with Wang happened because the Chinese millionaire was forced into it by her relatives. He had plans to ask the host-actress to be his girlfriend and presented her with a ring. However, his plan was overridden by relatives who enthused that a wedding is approaching.

Behind her smiles and brave front at the airport yesterday, Barbie reportedly broke down on the flight to Shanghai after a few drinks. Her personal assistant, Dou Dou, turned livid when she heard of these rumours and cried out, "Crazy! Who said that? We won't be commenting on this."

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Lindsay Lohan Working on Fashion Line in Rehab

11/05/2010 01:56:00 AM kenmouse , Posted in , , 0 Comments

Taking time to focus on sobriety doesn't mean that Lindsay Lohan has given up her passion for fashion. Radar Online reports that the troubled actress has been overseeing the production of a new handbag line from her company 6126 while still in rehab.

Lohan's partner on the line, designer Paz Shakked, says that the starlet's time in jail and rehab hasn't slowed down their production schedule. Lohan, who is currently receiving treatment at the Betty Ford Center, has been keeping in touch with the designer via e-mail.

"We work around our schedules," says the designer. "We work together really well, we have a nice chemistry."

Shakked, who has worked for Tarina Tarantino and Dolce & Gabbana in the past, confirms that the actress is very much an active partner in the design process, saying, "I talk to her every chance I get ... Everything is approved by Lindsay."

The affordable handbag line, most of which will sell for under $150, is heavily influenced by Lohan's taste, from the weight of the pieces to their decorative adornments. Shakked says that Lohan is "very experienced in fashion" and calls the design "very beautiful."

"She knows fashion, that is for sure," says Shakked.

Skype 5 beta for Mac now available

11/05/2010 01:56:00 AM kenmouse , Posted in , , , 0 Comments


Skype 5.0 for Mac has gone into public beta, following its PC counterpart which was released midway through October. The new VoIP app supports group video calling and offline IMs, among other things, together with a reworked UI including a floating contacts bar and integration with the Mac Address Book.

The new calling bar now takes priority over all other windows, meaning there are fewer “can’t find the hang-up button” delays, while potentially more useful is the auto-reconnect feature that attempts to work around patchy connections.

You can download Skype 5.0 for Mac beta here. The group video chat functionality works with both the PC and Mac clients, though everybody involved will have to be running v5.0.

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Is MySpace About to Get Shut Down?

11/05/2010 01:55:00 AM kenmouse , Posted in , , 0 Comments


How bad is the situation for MySpace right now? Pretty bad: Not only is the social networking site losing tons of money, but the chief operating officer of its parent company wants it to rebound "in quarters, not in years."

Poor MySpace! It's hard not to feel bad for the bloated, ugly social networking site these days. While Facebook's membership rolls number around 500 million, MySpace counts its members in the tens of millions. And even with its new redesign, it's not clear it'll last long enough to improve those figures, reports USA Today:

"We've been clear that MySpace is a problem," [News Corp. COO Chase] Carey told Wall Street analysts in an earnings call. "The current losses are not acceptable or sustainable."

He says he's optimistic about MySpace's new focus on social entertainment.

But with traffic numbers that "are not going in the right direction," Carey wants to see "a clear path to profitability" on a timetable measured "in quarters, not in years."

Well! Uh, good luck, I guess.

[USA Today; AFP]

Rain’s gambling controversy worsens as allegations of foreign currency laundering arise

11/05/2010 01:54:00 AM kenmouse , Posted in , , , 0 Comments


Rain’s recent gambling controversy has taken a shocking turn, as more and more witnesses are surfacing to attest against the international star.

Sports Seoul was able to meet with “A”, an individual who was not only related to Rain’s concert activities, but also provided the star with some gambling funds. “A” was involved in Rain’s world tour concert activities in Las Vegas, Singapore, Malaysia, Australia, Thailand, Japan, and Los Angeles.

According to “A”, Rain went to play baccarat at the Bellagio Hotel during his Las Vegas concert in December 2006, and again before his June 2007 Los Angeles concert. At the time, Rain visited the casino with both his company and concert representatives, as well as staff members. Reportedly, the star also went up to the VIP room.

“A” stated, “Between the end of 2006 and June 2007, Rain went to Las Vegas about three times. Even Andrew Kim, the guy who brought up this issue, was with Rain during these times. The betting amount during 2006 initially was small. However, as time went by, large sums of money came and went.”

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