Britney Spears forgets to wear a bra again

She's obviously not a big fan of underwear as Britney Spears has forgotten to wear a bra once again.

Wearing a tight v-neck sweater, the singer's curves were evident as she strolled from her hotel in Perth, Australia to an awaiting car.


Perhaps her mind was on more important issues - like her performance that night on her Circus world tour where she has been performing to packed arenas.

However some media reports suggest concert goers have been less than impressed with her lip-synching during the performance.

The Toxic star has already performed an impressive 83 dates in North America and Europe on her Circus would tour, but this is Britney's first foray touring Australia.


It comes ahead of her The Single Collection, set to hit shelves on November 23.

Two weeks ago, the song went straight in at number three in America's Billboard Hot 11 single charts.

Buying the right Windows 7 upgrade

When I wrote on Monday about the ins and outs of what counts as proper licensing of Windows 7, I was worried that it might turn into a flame war. But, instead, readers sent in a whole bunch of really good questions on the intricacies of licensing Windows 7 that went beyond the basics I had covered.

Things like dual-boot machines and systems with beta versions of the operating system raise all sorts of interesting licensing challenges.

Before we dive into the edge cases, though, here's a recap of the basics on Windows 7.

For those upgrading their PC, they can choose from Home Premium, Professional or Ultimate editions. There is also a family pack that includes three upgrade licenses for Windows 7 Home Premium.

Many people will have to do what is known as a custom or "clean" installation, which involves backing up one's data, installing Windows 7, then restoring the data and re-installing all applications.

All users of XP will have to go this route, as will those moving from a 32-bit version of Vista to a 64-bit version of Windows 7 (or vice versa), as well as those who are moving from a higher-end version of Windows Vista to a lower-end version of Windows 7.

Those moving from Windows Vista to the same version of Windows 7 (or to Ultimate) can do what is known as an "in-place" upgrade, which preserves files and applications.

Anyway, on to the tough cases. Here are some of the questions that readers sent me, as well as the answers I heard back from Microsoft.

Q: I installed the release candidate version of Windows 7 on a reformatted hard drive that previously had Windows Vista installed. Can I use the Windows 7 Home Premium Upgrade version to install a licensed copy?
A: Yes. You can do a custom installation ("clean install") to Windows 7 using the upgrade. The Windows 7 installer will detect you have the RC installed, enabling you to do this.

Q: Try as I might, I haven't been able to find any reliable information on whether I can upgrade from Vista Home Premium Edition (that came with my HP Laptop) straight to Windows 7 Professional/Ultimate, or whether it is only possible to upgrade from "Vista Home Premium" to "Windows 7 Home Premium."
A: You can do an in-place upgrade from Home Premium to Ultimate, provided you aren't switching from 32-bit to 64-bit or vice versa. Going from Home Premium to professional, however, requires a custom installation. (For a chart of which versions can be done via in-place upgrades, check out this Microsoft Web page.)

Q: I have Vista Basic on two computers and XP on the other one. So all I would have to do is use a Windows 7 upgrade disc on all three computers? Does one disc do one computer or will it do all three? I live in Canada, not the U.S.
A: In both the U.S. and Canada, your best bet is probably the Windows 7 family pack, which offers a license to upgrade up to three PCs.

Q: Can you use an upgrade disk to run XP (or Vista) in dual-boot (meaning that one partition or hard drive has the older operating system and the other partition or drive has Windows 7?

A: Microsoft treats a dual-boot machine as if it were two PCs, so you can only use the upgrade if you are installing over an existing Windows partition. So, unless you have two licenses already on that system, you will need a full copy of Windows 7.

Q: What about upgrading a Mac?
A: In order to qualify to use the upgrade version, Mac owners need to be running a previously licensed full copy of Windows (not just a beta version). That applies whether one they are using Windows in Boot Camp or using a virtualization product like Parallels or VMWare's Fusion.

Kris Allen's Time Is Running Out


t's no fancy-schmancy album cover art, but it sure is pretty.

American Idol champ Kris Allen has unveiled the music video for his first single, "Live Like We're Dying," and overall, it's pretty standard. A guitar-wielding Allen performs his song in the middle of the desert on a larger-than-life-size digital clock, while countless unexplained tattered and torn curtains blow in the wind around him.

You know, that old chestnut.

The former Idoler does what he can to turn up the heat on the small screen, at one point literally throwing what looks to be a gigantic fire ball.

On the other had, as videos of the coffeehouse varitey go, it's not too shabby.

SM Entertainment to give TVXQ a new contract?; TVXQ Releases “Toki Wo Tomete”

SM Entertainment CEO's Kim Young Min, who is involved in the ‘unfair contract’ dispute with his three members of TVXQ / DBSK / Tohoshinki, has recently announced a new contract policy, and that it will be put into action once it gets approved by the related authorities.


"Kim Young Min, who attended the press conference which was held on the 2nd of November 2009 at 63 Tower, has expressed, “We would collect all comments from music and entertainment industries, related government departments, cultural and tourism board, fair trade departments, educational circles and legislative bodies, based on the law to adjudicate a new contract policy. After the approval from the respective authorities, we would then put it into action. Then follow it (new contract policy) enthusiastically.”

Kim agreed, “If we are able to come out with a new exclusive contract policy based on the law, SM would like to re-contract with all current artistes based on it.”

Kim also expressed, “Under the new exclusive contract, from the moment it’s signed, it would be protected till the contract ended, if not the current situation would repeat over and over again in the future.”

“In order to prove what I have just said is nothing but the truth, we would first like to take the advice from the impartial committee,” he said.


But, everyone was not able to fully believe this announcement by SM Entertainment. Professor Lee from Korea Art University stated, “If SM do not wish to have what they have just said to turned into nothing, then they should assure them.” He continued, “Based on what SM have said, they do not wish to fully take on the advice from the impartial committee, but to forcefully come out with a new contract policy, which was questionable (their announcement).” Professor Lee ended, “If SM was really sincere about this, they should work on the new contract based on the advice and not vice versa, and then to get it approved by the representative authorities.”

We will have to see what the authorities in charge of the case do with this new contract. If the contract is fair in their judgment and if the boys will accept it, but this seems a bit promising.

TVXQ Releases “Toki Wo Tomete”

Despite all the ups and downs the came with the TVXQ vs. SM Entertainment issue, the boys are doing what they can to help their fans keep the faith.

They have released another Japanese single titled Toki Wo Tomete. This lovely ballad was featured on a CF for the cosmetics brand Menard back in August. Check out the snippet here:


The song was also previously featured on TOHOSHINKI THE LIVE 2009. Although the quality of the track is not as clean as we'd like, it will have to do for now. Hang tight with allkpop until a clearer version is released!

February 2013 - The date when Firefox could pass Internet Explorer

Mark this date in your diaries and on your calendars: February 2013. It’s my best guess date based on the data I have for when Firefox’s global market share will surpass that of Internet Explorer.

The other day I was asked an interesting question - when will Firefox’s market share pass that of Internet Explorer. Initially I shrugged off the question and answered it with a dismissive “dunno.” The question did, however, set me thinking.

Earlier today I took a trip over the the Net Applications site for a totally unrelated job, and pulled up the chart showing market share for the different browsers for the past two years. Then something struck me - the market share growth of Firefox and the decline of IE is almost linear.

Note: The data that I look at most often is Net Applications. This company draws browser and OS data based on 160 million visitors per month visiting client websites, whic means that the data is drawn from a variety of websites. I think that this is more representative than data drawn from a single website, or a group of websites on a similar subject.

Interesting.

I downloaded the data and plugged it all into Excel so I could take a closer look. I added a trendline for Firefox growth and IE’s decline and confirmed that the data fits well into a linear trendline.

Cool. So people are leaving IE for Firefox at a relatively steady rate.

So, I extended the trendlines for both Firefox and IE out by 42 months and looked for an intersection. And here it is:


The intersection of the two trendlines lies between January and February 2013.

How much confidence do I have in this data? Well, I wouldn’t bet the farm on the date. Plenty of factors could come into play here. However, given the organic growth of Firefox so far, I think that it’s quite possible that gains could become even more rapid that that predicted here.

Then again, Microsoft might be able to make using IE cool again and reverse the decline. Or other factors such as Apple Safari or Google Chrome might become more influential.

Nude portrait of Bond girl Eva Green who's 'not confident' with her body

Bond girl Eva Green insists she’s ‘not confident’ about her body – but you might beg to differ, given her latest sultry photoshoot.

The 29-year-old seemed to show no inhibitions when she posed naked for the latest edition of style bible Tatler, recreating a classic Seventies portrait of British actress Charlotte Rampling.


Sitting on a polished antique table in front of an ornately gilded mirror, the Casino Royale star has only a glass of wine for company as she mimics erotic photographer Helmut Newton’s 1973 memorable image.

One thing has changed through the decades, though – the pack of cigarettes behind Ms Rampling’s derriere has vanished, a nod to the fact smoking is no longer promoted as sexy.

Despite her protestations, this is not the first time Paris-born Ms Green has been naked in the line of duty.

Sex symbol: Charlotte Rampling's sultry pose in Helmut Newton's 1973 photo firmly sealed her reputation

Before starring as Vesper Lynd opposite Daniel Craig’s 007, she took a lead role in The Dreamers, a film by Last Tango In Paris director Bernardo Bertolucci that featured several explicit bedroom scenes.


Even though the role was her big-screen debut, Ms Green’s father and twin sister Joy refused to watch it.

The actress said: ‘They’re not in the business. They get confused.’

And she admitted: ‘I felt a bit ill when I saw it. I’m not confident with my body.’

But she seems to have conquered her coyness for Tatler. Another image shows her wearing only a mink coat – again echoing a familiar theme from the work of German-born Newton, who died in 2004.

His 1973 photograph of Ms Rampling for Vogue magazine – taken at the Hotel Nord Pinus II in Arles, near Marseilles, and titled The Sexiest Woman In The World – firmly sealed her reputation as a sex symbol.

Ms Green thinks she is unlikely to earn the same plaudits.

‘I opened a magazine the other day and they called me the worst-dressed person in the world,’ she said.

‘And I was like, “I like that dress.”’

Well, at least no one can criticise what she’s wearing in this latest picture ...

15th Singapore HIT Awards results

Best Producer for a Single: [Black White/Hei Bai] Edward Chan, Charles Lee, Khalil Fong

Best Local Lyricist: [Thinking of/Si Nian] Tanya Chua

Best Local Composer: [Ru Yan] Chen Jia Ming

Best Local Singer: JJ Lin

Best Performing Male Artist: Jam Hsiao

Best Performing Female Artist: A-mei Chang

Best Group: S.H.E

Best Band: Mayday

Best Songwriting-Artist: Sodagreen

Outstanding Debut Artistes (4 winners): Rachel Liang, Lala Hsu, Jing Huang, Zhang Yun Jing

Most Popular Male Artist: Jam Hsiao

Most Popular Female Artist: Rachel Liang

Most Popular Group: Mayday

Most Popular Newcomer: Rachel Liang

Y.E.S 93.3 FM Charts - Golden Song of the Year: [Heart Beat/Xin Tiao] Wang Lee Hom

Y.E.S 93.3 FM Charts - Shining Artiste: Mayday

Asia Media Recognition Award (Male Artist): Jay Chou

Asia Media Recognition Award (Female Artist): Tanya Chua

Asia Media Recognition Award (Band): Mayday

Asia Media Recognition Award (Group): S.H.E

Best Regional Singer (Mainland China): Bibi Zhou

Best Regional Singer (Hong Kong): Eason Chan

Best Regional Singer (Taiwan): S.H.E

Best Regional Singer (Malaysia): Fish Leong

Local Media Recognition Award for Inspiration: Kevin Tan

Best Local Musician Award: Tanya Chua

All-around Entertainer: S.H.E

Most Popular of the Year Award: Fahrenheit

COURTS MV Award: Kevin Tan

Charismatic Newcomer i-Award: Lala Hsu

Think The Droid Launch Was A Let Down? Not So Fast.

Yesterday I detailed my quest to find the throngs of Droid fans who had woken up at the crack of dawn to grab a place in line before Verizon unleashed the phone to the masses. Yet despite reports of lines elsewhere, I failed — the Verizon store in Palo Alto was a ghost town, as was the Best Buy down the street. Some commenters took my story and similar reports as an indication that the Droid’s launch had bombed, doomed to play out the same fate of the numerous supposed ‘iPhone killers’ before it. It looks like they may be wrong — that store sold over 70 Droids yesterday, according to one of its employees.

Today I returned to the Verizon store where yesterday’s quest began, looking to get my hands on one of the nifty docking stations that turns your Droid into a desktop clock/multimedia station. And while I expected a handful of other customers to be in the store, I was taken aback by just how crowded it was — each of the registers was busy ringing up a customer while others waited their turn, three people were standing in line just to touch the demo Droid unit, and I had to put my name on the list to talk to someone. When I asked one of the employees if they were selling a lot of Droids, his somewhat breathless response was “Yeah, a lot. Over 70 yesterday, we got a shipment of another 100 in today.” Oh, and they were out of both the dock I had come for and spare batteries. Maybe the lack of an early morning line wasn’t so damning after all.

Obviously this store represents a single data point, but so did my story yesterday. Here’s some more evidence that Droid might be doing pretty well, after all: last night Pandora CTO Tom Conrad tweeted,

“Just saw Pandora’s Android install numbers for the day. Wow! There may not be lines, but Droids are very much among us – and running Pandora”.

We followed up for more details, and while Conrad declined to give any exact stats for now, he did say that Pandora’s download rate tripled, going on to say “We were doing well on Android before though, so the increase is pretty amazing.”

If you’re an Android dev, let us know in the comments if you’ve seen a boost too. And if you’ve passed your local Verizon store, let us know how busy it was.

'A Christmas Carol' leads the box office with $9 mil on Friday

Jim Carrey, or rather a performance-capture CGI version of the actor, delivered enough holiday spirit to snatch the top spot at the box office on Friday, according to early estimates. Disney’s A Christmas Carol, director Robert Zemeckis’ animated adaptation of Charles Dickens’ classic novella, grossed $9 million on its first day. By comparison, the last major family film, Where the Wild Things Are, ate up $12.1 million its opening day, but Carol should have much sturdier legs in the upcoming weeks. Carol’s total is also slightly less than the opening gross of Zemeckis’ prior performance-capture flick, Beowulf, which slew $10 million back in 2007.

Second place went to the Milla Jovovich horror film The Fourth Kind, which abducted $5 million from moviegoers’ wallets. The Men Who Stare at Goats, the wacky war comedy starring George Clooney, earned $4.6 million — the best debut ever for a movie with “goat” in its title. Michael Jackson’s This Is It displayed some staying power, dropping a respectable 47 percent for $4.2 million. And fifth place was a tie between two horror movies: the new Cameron Diaz release The Box and the holdover phenomenon Paranormal Activity. Early figures had both films at $2.9 million.

In limited release, the Oscar-hopeful drama Precious grossed $585,000 from 18 theaters for an exceptional per-screen average of $32,500. Friday’s figures are below, and check back here on Sunday for the complete box office report.

1. A Christmas Carol — $9.0 mil
2. The Fourth Kind — $5.0 mil
3. The Men Who Stare at Goats — $4.6 mil
4. Michael Jackson’s This Is It — $4.2 mil
5. The Box — $2.9 mil
5. Paranormal Activity — $2.9 mil

SHINee's Onew confimed with Swine Flu

The curse of the swine flu seems to have struck SHINee. Having only just reported hours earlier that Jonghyun had recovered fully from swine flu, it was reported now that SHINee's leader, Onew has also been hit by it.

The announcement came at around 6pm on 7th November as it was reported that Onew had developed a gentle, mild fever last night. He was sent to the hospital today and tests have shown that he has contracted swine flu.

Onew has been prescribed Tamiflu and is now back home resting.

The other three SHINee members, Key, Minho and Taemin were also tested for precaution, and neither of them have shown any symptoms of the illness fortunately.

So despite welcoming Jonghyun back from illness, SHINee will perform as a 4-member group in Onew's absence on the 8th November episode of Inkigayo.

Updates:


Super Junior's Eeteuk will replace Onew on Shinee's Ring Ding Dong stage.

Onew started showing symptoms yesterday afternoon and was sent to the hospital for a check up; he tested positive for swine flu this afternoon and is now currently resting at home

Eeteuk will make a sudden appearance on the second half of Shinee's Ring Ding Dong stage on SBS Inkigayo tomorrow to show support to his juniors. Jonghyun will also be back tomorrow to perform with the rest of the members.

In addition, Minho, Key and Taemin have gone for check ups as precautionary measure and have tested negative for swine flu.

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